Susan Bryant received her BA in painting from Indiana University and her MFA in photography from Indiana State University. She recently retired asProfessor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she taught photography for 38 years. She currently holds Professor Emerita status.
Her personal work includes gelatin silver prints, hand-colored gelatin silver prints, digital photographs, and most recently, the 19th century wet plate collodion process which yields glass negatives and positives, tintypes and ambrotypes. In her recent work, she integrates the 19th century wet plate process with 21st century digital technology.
Her work has been included in over 100 (selected) juried and invitational group exhibits and 30 (selected) solo exhibits across the United States. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in photography. She is the recipient of a Kodak scholarship for photographic educators through the Santa Fe Photographic workshop. She is the recipient of the Ovation Award for Individual Artist from the Center for Excellence in Creative Arts, APSU, Clarksville, TN. She is the recipient of two fellowship at the Hambidge Center Artist Residency, one fellowship at the Penland School of Craft, two residencies at A.I.R. Studio Paducah, KY and two residencies at The Orchard Keeper’s Residency in Cumberland Gap, TN.
Her work has been included in 5 of the past 6 (2012-2016) MANIFEST: INPHA: An Annual International Publication of Contemporary Photography, published by Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati. Two of her images were published in the 2017 Creative Quarterly 49, an International Journal of Art & Design and will be published in the 2020 Creative Quarterly 60. Her work is included in numerous public and corporate collections including the Tennessee State Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Vanderbilt Medical Center, The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. She was represented by the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville for 30 years until its closing in 2019.
Susan Bryant received her BA in painting from Indiana University and her MFA in photography from Indiana State University. She recently retired asProfessor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she taught photography for 38 years. She currently holds Professor Emerita status.
Her personal work includes gelatin silver prints, hand-colored gelatin silver prints, digital photographs, and most recently, the 19th century wet plate collodion process which yields glass negatives and positives, tintypes and ambrotypes. In her recent work, she integrates the 19th century wet plate process with 21st century digital technology.
Her work has been included in over 100 (selected) juried and invitational group exhibits and 30 (selected) solo exhibits across the United States. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in photography. She is the recipient of a Kodak scholarship for photographic educators through the Santa Fe Photographic workshop. She is the recipient of the Ovation Award for Individual Artist from the Center for Excellence in Creative Arts, APSU, Clarksville, TN. She is the recipient of two fellowship at the Hambidge Center Artist Residency, one fellowship at the Penland School of Craft, two residencies at A.I.R. Studio Paducah, KY and two residencies at The Orchard Keeper’s Residency in Cumberland Gap, TN.
Her work has been included in 5 of the past 6 (2012-2016) MANIFEST: INPHA: An Annual International Publication of Contemporary Photography, published by Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati. Two of her images were published in the 2017 Creative Quarterly 49, an International Journal of Art & Design and will be published in the 2020 Creative Quarterly 60. Her work is included in numerous public and corporate collections including the Tennessee State Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Vanderbilt Medical Center, The Photographic Archives, University of Louisville and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. She was represented by the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville for 30 years until its closing in 2019.
