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Linda Bryan is a native Vermonter whose work is rooted in the natural environment, familial spaces and personal experiences. Working across a range of photographic mediums—including film, digital, alternative processes, and photopolymer gravure etchings—Bryan ofen explores the interplay of place, memory, and longing. Bryan’s images carry a quiet, immersive narrative, inviting personal individual interpretation. 

Bryan earned a BFA in Studio Arts from Vermont State University and an MFA in Photography from Academy of Art University, has taught digital and darkroom photography at the college level, as well as workshops in digital, darkroom and alternative processes.  Between degrees, Bryan expanded her technical skills working at professional photographic labs.

Bryan has exhibited throughout New England and recently organized an exhibition of female identifying contemporary photographers using alternative and vintage processes AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.  Recent solo exhibitions, include Deeper than Blue at Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University, VT; Blue x2 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT; and Tarpentry at Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT.

Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH; Tethered Between at Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT; and Unique:Alternative Processes at A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, juried by Jill Enfield. Additionally, she participated in Summer Open at AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH, juried by Katherine Hart, Interim Director of the Hood Museum.

Bryan’s work has been featured in both print and online publications, including The Hand Magazine, Vermont Art Guild, Light Leaked, and Don’t Take Pictures.

Find more information about artistic process in project statements. 

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Photography

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts

Vermont State University, Johnson, VT

Selected Exhibitions

Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography 

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH 2024

Tethered Between

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT, 2023

Wavy Glass Windows – Solo

The Gallery, Central Vermont Medical Center 2022

Two Rivers Printmaking Studio: 20 Years

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH  2021 

Unique: Alternative Processes – Juror: Jill Enfield 

A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX  2020 

Deeper than Blue2 

The Gallery, Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin VT  2019 

Deeper than Blue – Solo

Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University, VT  2019 

Blue x2 – Solo

Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT  2018 

Connection: The Art of Coming Together 

Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, VT  2017 

ArtsConnect – Juror: Andrea Rosen  2016 

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT

Tarpentry – Solo

Studio Place Arts, Barre VT  2015  

Summer Open – Juror: Katherine Hart, Interim Director, Hood Museum

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH  2011 

Published

Newbury Portrait 

Linda Bryan and Chris Esten, Self-Published

Bibliography

The Hand Magazine - Issue 31 

Alternative/historic photographic processes/printmaking publication

Connections: The Art of Coming Together 

Vermont Art Guild Issue #5

Light Leaked – Portfolio Issue

Juror: Dr. Terry Barrett

Don’t Take Pictures – Photo of the Day   

Editor: Kat Kiernan

Professional Experience

Solo Proprietor, Artist/Photographer

Red House Studio, Newbury, VT

Studio Assistant 

Two Rivers Printmaking Studio

White River Junction, VT

Photo Lab Technician and Customer Service 

Professional Photographic Lab – Lightworks, Inc., Winooski, VT 

Commercial Photographic Lab – Photo Garden, Burlington, VT

Teaching

Adjunct Faculty 

Digital and Darkroom Photography

Vermont State University, Lyndon, VT

Create and facilitate workshops in subjecting including

Digital Photography, Analog Photography, 

B&W Film Developing and B&W Darkroom Printing,

Cyanotype, Polaroid Transfers, and Pinhole Photography.