OVERVIEW | CV | PRESS | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Born 1982 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Lives and works in Portland, ME
EDUCATION
2008 Yale University School of Art, MFA, Photography
2005 The Art institute of Boston at Lesley University, BFA, Art History / Photography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Telepathic Jungle, Halsey McKay Gallery HMGP, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Telepathic Jungle, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2021Wavelengths, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2019 Landlines, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2018 Paradise Window, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2017 Debris of the Days, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 The Sun Room, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Moving Across the Interior, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2014 Prismatic Tracks, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Moving Across the Interior, ICA: Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2013 Broken Lattice, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Field Recordings, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Wildlife Analysis, Galerie Jonas Kleerup, Stockholm, Sweden
The Sun Room, The Gallery at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Wildlife Analysis, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
The Sun Room, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Wildlife Analysis, Wild Project, New York, NY
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015 Bryan Graf and Reveille Barnes, Peninsula Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Cole Caswell and Bryan Graf, Zero Station, Portland, ME
Glen Baldridge and Bryan Graf, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Ten Years, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2019 Painting With Light, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Interventions, Yancey Richardson Gallery,New York, NY
Swamp Thing, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 Light & Matter: The Photographic Object, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
A Matter of Memory: Photography As Object In The Digital Age, George Eastman House Museum, Rochester NY
2016 LUX: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2015 A Room of One’s Own, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2014 The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Ether Scrims, Dark Rooms & Calculative Planes, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Portland Museum of Art Biennial: Piece Work, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman LoebArt Center at Vassar College , Poughkeepsie, NY
2012 Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Swamp Thing, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
Light Matter, Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY
2011 From the Dark Towards the Light, Galleri Kleerup, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Young Curators New Ideas III, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
.Matrix, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
Blind Spot Lab, Issue 38, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY
2008, The Troposphere, The Hampshire House, New York, NY
Yale MFA Photography 2008, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
Danziger Projects, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show, The Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2005 Sweet Work: BFA Graduate Exhibition, A.I.B. Main Gallery, Boston, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bolen, Jeremy, Through A Glass Darkly, Burnaway, October 31, 2019
Scott, Ron, Debris of the Days, Detroit Art Review, November 15, 2017
Kraft, Coralie, Spotlight: The Sun Room, Lensculture, November 4, 2016
Landes, Jennifer, The Evolving Nature of Photography and Mechanical Reproduction, Bryan Graf and Ethan Greenbaum at Halsey McKay, East Hampton Star, July 30, 2015
Op-Art, The Plastic Forest, The New York Times, April 21, 2010
Long, Thomas G., Op-Ed, Chronicle of a Death We Can’t Accept, The New York Times, November 1, 2009
Blind Spot, Issue 38, November 2009
Yale MFA Photography 2008, Yale University Press, May 2008
Palimpsest, Volume 5, Issue 1, Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Spring 2007
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Debris of the Days, Conveyor Arts
2015 Broken Lattice, Sun System Press
2014 Prismatic Tracks, Conveyor Arts
2014 Moving Across the Interior, The ICA at Maine College of Art
2013 Wildlife Analysis, Conveyor Arts
2012 Swamp Thing, Sun System Press
2011 The Sun Room, Interchanges, B-Sides & Remixes, Sun System Press
2010 Bryan Graf & The Holster (3 zines), Fogelson & Lubliner
2008 Fall Yale MFA Photography 2008, Yale University Press
2007 Palimpsest, Volume 5, The McDougal Center
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
AWARDS
2019 Maine Arts Commission Project Grant
2015 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Award
2008 John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale University School of Art
2005 Regis DeSilva Photography Award, The Art institute of Boston
Purchase Award, Photography Department, The Art institute of Boston
RESIDENCIES
2019 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME, USA
2016 Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Eastside International Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015 Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, Doha, Qatar
ARTIST TALKS
2020 Boston University, Boston, MA
2017 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2016 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2015 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2014 The ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2013 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2012 Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2011 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT