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Bryan Ida was born in Palo Alto, California in 1962. He started his artistic journey using acrylic and transformed it through canvases. His art demonstrates memories and feelings he has towards certain places.

Accomplishments   1. Bakersfield Museum of Art- Solo retrospective “Bryan Ida: Life of change and retrospective” 09/28/2023-01/06/2024  2. de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University “con.Text” Solo show (January 2023)  3. 2017 Nov – LA Artcore, Little Tokyo LA-2 Person Show “Beauty Awash in a Sea of Bad News”  4. 2014 May – George Billis, New York Solo Show  5. 2005 Sept – Hang, San Francisco Solo show  6. 2004 Oct – Los Angeles Art Association, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica Solo show  7. 2002 April – Hang, Palo Alto Solo show  8. 1998 March – Theosophical University Library, Pasadena Solo show  9. 2021 February – de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University. Activities Program Board-Solo Online programming featuring “con.Text”  10. 2021 January – Helms Building, Culver City Arts Foundation “Projecting Possibilities” Solo show

Portraits One of Bryan’s unique talents is creating life size portraits in which the art itself is his handwriting. The texts he provides in these portraits are those of government documents and declarations. This is incredibly fascinating because it’s something that is so unique yet so well put together. The specific portraits relate to the historical events the person lived through, so in a way it’s telling the story of the person while displaying the person.

Meet the artist Bryan states he wouldn’t describe himself as an artist because it’s a broad description of who he thinks he is, he considers himself a painter. With various techniques and supplies he creates wonderful pieces that show his emotions. Bryan creates a show around twice a year, during these shows you can meet the painter as well as the pieces. Through these pieces you can see all the hard work and dedication that was put into every piece. He usually creates 10-15 pieces every six months and his art pieces range from 5,000 and up to 20,000.