Ernest Arthur Bryant III

Ernest Arthur Bryant III is an artist, critic, art teacher from the USA. He has a background in interdisciplinary art. In his work, he uses nature, video, image-making, history, positionality, theory and humor to examine the identity conflicts that arise during the encounter of different aesthetic and cultural values. He has held teaching positions in several institutions including RISD, Bard College, and Pratt Institute. From Fall 2022, he was appointed to the position of assistant professor of art at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. 
Early Life 
E. A. Bryant III was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended North Community High School in Minneapolis’s Northside. 
Career 
E. A. Bryant III began his artistic practice while a student at North High School, After graduating from North High School, he was active in the Minneapolis art scene. He participated in several artistic projects and some of his first exhibitions were in Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Minneapolis, Ordway Center of Performance Art, and Intermedia Arts and Juxtaposition Arts. He received critical attention from local publications including Insight News, the Star Tribune, The Minneapolis Liberator, and the City Pages. 
E. A. Bryant III earned a BFA from The Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and also an MFA from Yale University’s School of Art. At Yale, Bryant focused on critical theory, new media, and printmaking. While at Yale, he organized Black Film Friday, a celebration and discussion of Black film makers. Ernest was earned a second MFA in Art Writing & Criticism from the School of Visual arts in New York City.
He taught a class in prison, for Yale Prison Education Initiative, served as a resident critic and teaching fellow. Over the years he has taught mural painting, and studio art to teens. He worked for a non-profit Black arts organization: Obsidian Arts, as an independent exhibition curator. 
Ernest was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, did a self-designed residency in Santiago, Cuba, and was in at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, and as a guest critic, in Graphic Design, at Pratt Institute, and in Sculpture at RISD. Initiative, served as a resident critic and teaching fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, and in Sculpture at RISD. E.A. Bryant has lived and worked in several countries including Greece, China, and Cuba. From Fall 2022, he was appointed to the position of associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study 
List of Publications 
Surviving the next four to eight years in the United States of America 2017-2025, for sufferers of a recrudescent ideological KRISIS, 2017 ISBN 978-0-692-95511-6 
MFA 2018 “What is Criticism, 2.0” (essay contribution) ISBN 978-1-948891-00-4 
Thread, Exhibition Catalog for The College of New Jersey Art Gallery 
“Levels of Perception,” Julia Rooney, exhibition catalog essay and interview. 
Awards and Fellowships
Rhode Island School of Design, SEI Research Fellow (2020-2022)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, Maine (2005, 2021)
Teaching Fellowship Yale Norfolk, Yale Prison Education Initiative (2018, 2019) 
Critical Practice Research Fellowship, Yale University (2017)
Travel and Study Grant, Jerome Foundation: Shangyuan Art Scene Residency, Beijing, China 
Cuba Residency: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (2010–2011)
Jerome Foundation: Emerging Artist Fellowship Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007)
Bush Foundation: Artist Fellowship Minneapolis, Minnesota (2006)
https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/sei-faculty-fellow-ernest-bryant
https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/virtual-events-highlight-social-equity
https://www.art.yale.edu/ernest-bryant
https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/maep-ernest-bryant-iii-2
https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/eab9670.html
https://www.ernestbryant.com
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/51720/
https://www.juliarooneystudio.com/_files/ugd/39ff7e_0710f67279b048c6ac8621340cdcbd23.pdf
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