About US-American photographer Bryan SCHUTMAAT (b.1983, in Houston, Texas)

In 2009, Bryan SCHUTMAAT recieved his BA in history from University of Houston and his MFA in photography from University of Hartford in 2012. His work has been widely exhibited and published in the USA and overseas. He has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Center’s 2013 Galllerist’s Choice Awards, the 2013 Daylight Photo Awards, and the 2011 Carl Crow Memorial Fellowship, among many others. In 2014 Bryan was chosen to shoot the cover of TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year 2014 issue, as well as being selected for PDN’s 30 new photographers to watch; in 2013, Dazed Magazine named Bryan one of Paris Photo’s “breakout stars,” and he was chosen as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation. During his inaugural show at Sasha Wolf Gallery in the fall of 2014, his work was acquired by two notable institutions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Hood Museum of Art, and he received press coverage from the New Yorker, Collector Daily, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

Photo books by as well as works by  Bryan SCHUTMAAT

  • 'Grays the Mountain Sends' (2013, 2014); 'Islands of the Blest' (2014, 2016); 'Good Goddamn' (2017, 2018); 'County Road' (2023); 

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In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.
398,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Awards
  • 2013: Aperture Portfolio Prize, Aperture Foundation as well as shortlisted at 'Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, First Book Award for 'Grays the Mountain Sends';

    2014: The New York Photo Awards, photobook category for 'Grays the Mountain Sends';
    2020: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship;