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04.12.2025
Visions of the Border: Bryan Schutmaat's American Mosaic
07.12.2025
Bryan Schutmaat is an American photographer based in Austin, Texas, known for his widely exhibited and published work. He has received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize , and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship.
His work is held in many prestigious collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Pier 24 Photography , the Rijksmuseum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . Additionally, Schutmaat is the co-founder and editor of Trespasser.
Schutmaat's published books include " Grays the Mountain Sends " (2013), winner of the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize; " Islands of the Blest " (2014); " Good Goddamn " (2017); and " County Road " (2023). He has also held solo exhibitions at international galleries, such as Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen in Amsterdam and Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica .
Bryan Schutmaat received an MFA in photography from the University of Hartford in 2012 and a BA in history from the University of Houston in 2009. His work has been published in notable platforms and magazines such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian UK, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine .
Bryan Schutmaat deeply explores the theme of the American experience, particularly in the context of the American WestHis work focuses on the relationship between the land and the people who inhabit it, with a particular focus on small towns and isolated rural areas.His first monograph, "Grays the Mountain Sends" (2013), explores the lives of residents of small mountain towns and mining communities, weaving a nostalgic narrative. This project was followed by "Good Goddamn" (2017), an intimate document of his friend's last days of freedom in rural Texas before serving a five-year prison sentence.
Schutmaat uses a large view camera , preferring to make invisible populations visible with a perspective that reduces the distance and geographical, temporal, and cultural differences between his subjects and the viewer. His artistic gaze is filled with curiosity and empathy, reminding us of our shared experience of human suffering and aspiration.
In his work, Bryan Schutmaat addresses themes such as the altered landscape and life on the margins of society, continuing his research and exploration in "Vessels," an ongoing series about drifters and hitchhikers traversing the deserts of the American Southwest.
His photographs, carefully controlled in both color palette and structure, evoke the wear and tear inflicted on the land, as well as on the psyches of the people who inhabit it, with little separation between the sense of individuality and the sense of place. Schutmaat's work is an artistic expression that condenses and encompasses emotions such as elation, celebration with concern, alarm and reproach, melancholy and exhaustion.
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