Bryan Schutmaat is a photographer based in Austin, Texas whose work has been widely exhibited and published. He has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Bryan’s prints are held in many collections, such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pier 24 Photography, Rijksmuseum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded the imprint, Trespasser. Read below for more.

Contact
schutmaat@gmail.com

Social
@bryanschutmaat

Galleries
Sasha Wolf, New York
info@sashawolf.com
+1 212 925 0025

Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
info@woutervanleeuwen.com
+31 6 52031540

The Kominek Gallery, Berlin
info@kominek-gallery.com
+49 30 44318436

Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles
info@marshallgallery.art
+1 310 413 3987

Books
County Road. Trespasser. Austin, 2023
Good Goddamn. Trespasser. Austin, 2017
Islands of the Blest. Edited with Ashlyn Davis. The Silas Finch Foundation. New York, 2014
Grays the Mountain Sends. The Silas Finch Foundation. New York, 2013

Partial Publication/Client List
(includes fine art press and commissions)
A+E Networks, Aesthetica, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, British Journal of Photography, Budweiser, Cowboys & Indians, CNN, Dear Dave, Dwell, Esquire Russia, Exit Magazine, Financial Times, The Guardian UK, Harper's, Hotshoe International, Houzz, Houston Chronicle, Huffington Post, Inc., Juxtapoz, Lucchese, M&C Saatchi, Monocle, Mr. Porter, MSNBC, The National Geographic, Natural Resource Defense Council, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, PBS, PDN, Popular Mechanics, ProPublica, Runner's World, Smithsonian Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, The Sunday Times Magazine, Telegraph UK, TIME, Timex, University of Texas, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Wire, among many others

Education
MFA in photography, University of Hartford, 2012
BA in history, University of Houston, 2009

Solo Exhibitions
County Road, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany, February – March 2024
Living Dry, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April – June 2023
River Sun, Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, December 2022 – February 2023
County Road, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January – February 2022
County Road, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, September – November 2020
Vessels, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February – March 2020
Grays the Mountain Sends, Museu Da Imagem Em Movimento, Leiria, Portugal, February – March 2020
El Oeste Oscuro, Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2019 – February 2020
Grays the Mountain Sends, Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal, September – October 2019
Good Goddamn, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2018 – January 2019
Good Goddamn, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany, September – October 2018
Grays the Mountain Sends, Sherrick and Paul Gallery, Nashville, TN, September – November 2015
Grays the Mountain Sends, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, NY, October – December 2014
Grays the Mountain Sends, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, April – May 2014
Grays the Mountain Sends, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, September – October 2013
Grays the Mountain Sends, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, May – June 2011

Group Exhibitions
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, April 2023 – July 2023
Walker Evans Revisited, Kunsthal Helmond, The Netherlands, October 2022 – March 2023
Visage, Face with a View, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC, February – May 2022
Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, September 2021 – January 2022
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, May 2021 – August 2021
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, September 2020 – January 2021
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September – October 2020
Walker Evans Revisited, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, February – April 2020
Between Art and Commerce, Port25, Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Germany, February – April 2020
Unlimited, The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, March – September 2019
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, December 2018 – February 2019
This Land, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, June 2018 – 2019
American Surfaces and the Photobook, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, November 2017 – March 2018
Land and Lens, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, September – December 2017
Paradise Out Front, The Southern, Charleston, SC, January – February 2017
The Absent State, Breda's Museum, The Netherlands, September – October 2016
California and the West, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, May – September 2016
You Are Here, The Wright Gallery at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April – June 2016
(In)visible, Prescott Gallery, Lincoln, NE, February 2016
The Smaller Exotics of Texas, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, September 2015
Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, June – September 2015
Dear Dave, Foley Gallery, New York, NY, April 2015
Picture Society, Space Gallery, Denver, CO, March 2015
New Visionaries, The School of Design at  Mount Ida College, Newton, MA, February – April 2015
Motor Chronicles, Farewell Books, Austin, TX, October – November 2014
Breaking Ground, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, October 2014
Songs from the Heart, BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, The Netherlands, September – October 2014
Blog Re-Blog, Big Medium, Austin, TX, May – June 2014
Flash Forward Boston, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA, May 2014
Hungry Still, Quad Gallery, Derby, England, March – May 2014
The Collaborative Photobook, SPE National Conference, Baltimore, MD March 2014
Slideluck Austin VI, Rosewood Collective, Austin, TX, March 2014
The New York Photo Awards, Powerhouse Arena, New York, NY, January – February 2014
Photo LA (Silas Finch Foundation), LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA, January 2014
Ctrl + P: Photography Taken Offline, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 2013 – January 2014
Unfolding Images, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, December 2013
Art Miami Basel (Aperture Foundation), Miami, FL, December 2013
Flash Forward 2013, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, October 2013
Annual Benefit Auction, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY, October 2013
These Rhythmic Seasons, The Metropolitan Building, New York, NY, September 2013
Musings, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA, August - September 2013
Blog Re-Blog, Signal, Brooklyn, New York, August 2013
The Curve: Choice Award Winners, Center, Santa Fe, NM, June – July 2013
Exposure 2013, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, June – July 2013
Home: Where We Live, Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, May – June, 2013
Blue Collar, Red Dust, One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, UK, March – May 2013
Slideluck London V, The Chocolate Theatre, London, UK, April 2013
No Culture Icons, Village Books, Leeds, UK, February 2013
What Happens When Your'e Lost, 25 CPW New York, NY, November 2012
What Happens When You're Lost, Joseloff Gallery, Univeristy of Hartford, CT, August 2012
Call and Response, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA, April – May 2012
The Wild and The Innocent, Clic NYC, New York, NY, March - April 2012
Annual Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, January – February 2012
Dawn Till Dusk, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, June – July 2011
Points of Departure, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, April – May 2011
Land Use Survey, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, July – August 2010
Lonesome Travelers, Art League Houston, Houston TX, July – August 2010
28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, July – August 2010
No Culture Icons, FotoFreo Fringe Festival, Fremantle, Australia, March 2010

Awards & Honors
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2020
Aaron Siskind Foundation, individual photographer’s fellowship, 2016
The New York Photo Awards, photobook category, winner, 2014
PDN's 30, selected, 2014
Joop Swart Masterclass, selected participant, 2014
Cassilhaus, artist in residence, 2014
Paris Photo/Aperture First Book Award, shortlisted, 2013
Aperture Portfolio Prize, winner, 2013
Daylight Photo Awards, winner, 2013
PRC's Exposure 2013 at Boston University, best in show, 2013
CENTER's (Santa Fe) Gallerist Choice Awards, first place, 2013
Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Emerging Photographers, selected, 2013
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize, finalist, 2012
Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, winner, 2011
Merit Scholarship, recipient, Hartford Art School, 2010

Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art
Cassilhaus Collection
Harvard Art Museums
The Hood Museum of Art
Middlebury College Museum of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pier 24 Photography
Rijksmuseum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Lectures & Artist Visits
Aperture Foundation
Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review
Corcoran College of Art &Design
Fotofilmic
Houston Center for Photography
Massey University
Medium Festival of Photography
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum of the Image
Newspace Center for Photography
Parsons The New School for Design
Photography Studies College
Pratt Institute
Project Basho
Royal Photographic Society
Syracuse University
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
Union University
Watkins College of Art & Design

Press, Publications, Interviews, Features, etc
Kuiper, Stefan. “Bryan Schutmaat fotografeerde een deur naar de eeuwigheid,” de Volkskrant, February 3, 2022
Metz, Tracy. “Texas-melancholie van Schutmaat,” NRC Handelsbald, February 2, 2022
Helton, Lucy and Aaron Stern. Ok, No Response. Twin Palms Publishers, 2021
Norman, Avery. “To photographer Bryan Schutmaat, the American West is a boundless muse,” Document Journal, May 28, 2021
Philips, Sandra. American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, Radius Books, 2021
Palting, Joaquín. “Interview: Bryan Schutmaat,” Float Magazine, November 30, 2020
Ford, Lauren Moya. “Bryan Schutmaat: County Road,” Sightlines, October 27, 2020
Barnes, Michael. “See this Austin art: Photos of a familiar yet unfamiliar Texas,” Austin American-Statesman, October 21, 2020
Zhengová, Linda. “Bryan Schutmaat: Vessels,” GUP Magazine, online, May 29, 2020
Filmer-Court, Charlie. “The desert looks best in black and white’: Bryan Schutmaat on his latest series Vessels,” It’s Nice That, March 4, 2020
England, Odette. Keeper of the Hearth. Schilt Publishing, pg 64, 2020
Filmer-Court, Charlie. “The desert looks best in black and white,” It’s Nice That, March 4, 2020
Photographers Looking at Photographs, 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation, Pier 24 Photography, 2019
Walker, David. “Fine-Art Careers: Bryan Schutmaat's Long Path Punctuated by Turning Points,” PDN, July 2019
Wolf, Sasha. PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Aperture, 2019
Feuerhelm, Brad. “Bryan Schutmaat: The Goddamn Interview,” ASX, October 29, 2019
Dijck, Rianne. “De kewtsbaarheid van dit moment,” NRC Handelsbald, in print, pg C20, December 6, 2018
"Favorite Photobooks of 2018", Lens Culture, online, December 2018
McLeod, Porter. “In Conversation: Bryan Schutmaat,” Ain’t Bad, online, November 25, 2018
Keijer, Kees. “Kris’ laatste uren in vrijhied,” Het Parool, in print, pg 21, November 23, 2018
"Last Nights," The Oxford American, online, October 16, 2018
Woodward, Richard. "This Land Review: Picturing America," The Wall Street Journal, in print, pg A13, September 4, 2018
Painting, Vicki. “Goodbye Freedom,” Black + White Photography Magazine, in print, pg 26–33, July 2018
Badger, Gerry. "Bryan Schutmaat: Good Goddamn," 1000 Words, online, issue 27, February 2018
Titchener, Robin. Good Goddamn Review, Photobook Store Magazine, February 2018
Soper, Forest. "Book of the Week,"  photo-eye Blog, online, December 18, 2017
Tchetchik , Daniel. "Days Before Entering Prison," Haaretz, online, December 2, 2017
"Portrait Job," British Journal of Photography, pg 76 - 77, in print, issue 7852, October 2016
Wray, Tara. "Doin’ Work, Flash Interviews with Contemporary Photographers: Bryan Schutmaat," Huffington Post, online, September 12, 2016
Ker, Anna. "A Meditation On Life In American Mountain Towns," iGNANT, online, February 26, 2016
Boetker-Smith, Daniel. “Grays the Mountain Sends,” Heavy: Volume One, in print, June 2015
McManus, Austin. "Bryan Schutmaat: The Photograph as Meditation," Juxtapoz, pg 24 - 29, in print, issue 172, May 2015
Bradley, Sarah. "Book Review: Grays the Mountain Send," photo-eye Blog, online, March 19, 2015
Conway, Richard. "See the Historic American Far West From a Fresh Angle," TIME Lightbox, online, February 24,  2015
Colberg, Jörg. "Photobook Reviews (W08/2015)," CPH Mag, online, February 19, 2015
Meyers, William. "Photo Review: Exhibitions of Nicholas Nixon, Eugène Atget and Bryan Schutmaat," The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2014
Laurent, Olivier. "Photographing TIME’s Person of the Year in Africa, Europe and the US," TIME Lightbox, online, December 11, 2014
Sotmat, Brian. "Rust Mountain," Haaretz, online, December 9, 2014
Ebony, David. "David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for November," Artnet News, online, November 21, 2014
Gopnik, Blake. "Bryan Schutmaat's Western Photos: Glorious, and Sad," Artnet News, online, November 11, 2014
Next #04, World Press Photo, pg 130-143, in print, November 2014
Mossless, Issue 3: The United States, in print, September 2014
Arena, Gianpaolo. "My Shepherd Will Supply My Needs," Landscape Stories, online, May 2014
Brown, Peter. "Singular Pursuit," Spot, pg 20 - 29, in print, Spring 2014
Lesley, Martin. "The Topography of the Soul," Ojodepez, pg 42-51, in print, March 2014
"Bryan Schutmaat," Dear Dave, pg 80-85, in print, Winter 2014
Heery, Meg Ryan. "Images of the Year," American Photo, pg 50-51, in print, January/February 2014
Grann, Nathaniel. "5 Best Photo Books of 2013," The Washington Post, pg E8, in print, November 24, 2013
Belgaux, Christian. "Breakout Stars of Paris Photo," Dazed, online, November 20, 2013
"Photobook Awards, 2013 Shortlist," The Photo Book Review, issue 5, in print, fall 2013
Byng, Louise. "Grays the Mountain Sends," Another Escape, in print, fall 2013
Oxford American, pg 4-5, in print, fall 2013
O'Hagan, Sean, "After the gold rush," The Guardian, online, September 17, 2013
Alter, Charlotte, "Poetic Views of the American West’s Darker Side," TIME Lightbox, online, September 13, 2013
”Grays the Mountain Sends,” Esquire Russia, pg 130 - 143, issue 91, September 2013
Robbins, Sarah, "Interview: Bryan Schutmaat," Dirty Laundry Magazine, issue 3, online, September 2013
Fredrickson, Lori, "Full Immersion," American Photo, pg 44-47, in print, July/August, 2013
Tsomondo, Dzana, "Prospecting the Cold Vein," PDN, pg 94-98, in print, July, 2013
Feeny, Mark, "Wide world of lives, living in annual ‘Exposure’ show," Boston Globe, online, June 11, 2013
"Small Towns, Big Country," The Sunday Times Magazine, in print, May 12, 2013
McDermott, Theodore. "The Minor Outsider," VICE, vol 20, no. 4, pg 116 - 122, in print, April 2013
Smithson, Aline. "Center Awards: Gallerist's Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat," Lenscratch, online, April 10, 2013
Schumann, Aaron. "In Conversation with Bryan Schutmaat," Hotshoe International, issue 182, pg 32-41, in print, February/March 2013
Tews, Catharina. "Getrübte Sicht: Bryan Schutmaat," Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, online, December 21, 2012
Zavos, Alison. "Contemplative Portraits and Landscapes Capture the American West," Feature Shoot, online, December 9, 2012
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. "The Land that Gives Birth to Freedom," The Great Leap Sideways, online, November 24, 2012
Storm, Christian. "Singing a Sad Song with Photographs," VICE, online, November 17, 2012
Siddall, Liv. "Bryan Schutmaat's moving series discovers the inner landscapes of ex-miners," It's Nice That, online, November 15, 2012
What Happens When You're Lost, publication of Hartford Art School's MFA photo class of '12 with an essay by Ron Jude, in print, November 2012
Russell, Lauren. "Beauty, Sorrow of American West," CNN, online, October 26, 2012
Saccardo, Nadia. "The Midwest Frieze," Smith Journal, vol. 02, pg 105-111 in print, Autumn 2012
"Documenting Quiet Spaces," Aesthetica, no. 45, pg 38 -45,  in print, February/March 2012
Teuton, Jeffrey. "Spotlight," Spot, pg 48, in print, Fall 2011
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. "An Essay on Bryan Schutmaat's Heartland," The Great Leap Sideways, online, September 2011
Points of Departure, publication of Hartford Art School's MFA photo class of '12, pg 10, in print, May 2011
Brubaker, Marc. "Bryan Schutmaat Mines the Rockies," Houston Press, online May 6, 2011
Dansby, Andrew. "Light, camera and the fading action of the past," Houston Chronicle, vol. 110, no. 204, pg f20-21, in print, May 5, 2011
Frieser, Hannah. "Shaping the Image," Spot, vol. 28, no. 2, pg 35, in print, Fall 2010
Identity Sucks, World Identity Lab, pg 92-93 and spine, in print, October 2010
"Heartland," Unless You Will, issue 10, online, October 2010
Fernández-Cañadas, Daniel. "Photo After 1980: Creer es Ver," Tendencias Fashion Mag, no.153, pg 82-85, in print, June 2010
"Heartland," Exit Magazine, volume 3, issue 22, pg 50-59, in print, Spring/Summer 2010