SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 | SACRED WOUNDS | Salon Hex | Chicago IL
2023 | P A S S I N G | ARC Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | No. | Studio Nez Gallery | Oak Park IL
2021 | BOTTOM OF THE GLASS | Your Happy Place Gallery | Chicago IL
2016 | Debut Solo Exhibition | The GreenPoint Gallery | Brooklyn NY
EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Ivory & Ink | Fulton Street Art Collective | Hubbort Street Lofts | Chicago IL
2024 | Featured Artist | Sojourn Window Display | Chicago IL
2024 | All Decked Out | Curated by All American Trash | Chicago Distilling
2024 | NO COLOR | Jackson Junge Gallery | Chicago IL
2024 | Power of Place: 35 Years of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | The Merwin Gallery | Chicago IL
2024 | Feral | David L. Pearce Arts Center | Aurora IL
2023 | Small Print Exhibition | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2023 | DIBS | Seventh Corner Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | 7th Annual Parlour Trick Print Exchange | Art On The Terrace | Staten Island NY
2023 | Kitch & Kaboodle | Shockboxx Gallery | Las Angelas CA
2023 | A Halloween Group Art Show | Seventh Corner Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Halloween Art After Dark | Your Happy Place & BLNK Haus Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Howlin’ At The Moon | Dark Arts Gallery | Naperville Settlement | Naperville IL
2023 | Featured Local Artist Logan Square Immersive Arts Cooperative | Chicago IL
2023 | Dark Arts Exhibition | Seven Corner Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Meg Makes: Birthday Edition | Chicago Distilling | Chicago IL
2023 | Anything But Ordinary | Dragonfly Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Playin’ It Old School | Your Happy Place Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Summer Camp | ShockBoxx Gallery | Las Angelas CA
2023 | High Expectations | Curated by Megan Kind | Inside Town | Chicago IL
2023 | Not! An Art Fair | ShockBoxx Gallery | Hermosa Beach CA
2023 | Dope Art Show | June Pop Up Exhibition Curated by Liz Anne Cook & Birdmilk | Ludlow | Chicago IL
2023 | All Decked Out | Curated by Alejandro Martel & All-Star Press | Epiphany Center for Arts | Chicago IL
2023 | Inspirations | Exhibizone Exhibitions | Online Exhibition
2023 | Women’s Work | Seventh Corner Gallery | Chicago IL
2023 | Big Dark Love | Curated by BLNK HAUS Gallery | Your Happy Place | Chicago IL
2023 | Dope Art Show Keep It 100 | Avondale Bowl | Chicago IL
2022 | All American Trash | Group Skate Deck Show Curated by Alejandro Martel & Studio Nez | Chicago Distilling | Chicago IL
2022 | Small Prints | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2022 | 6 Year Anniversary Stocking Stuffer Group Show | Your Happy Place Gallery & Boutique | Chicago IL
2022 | Keep It 100 | A Dope Art Show | Group Pop-Up Show at El Che Chicago IL
2022 | IRL Fall Featured Artist | StudioYapp | Table, Donkey Stick | Chicago IL
2022 | DARK MODE | Group Exhibition | Studio Nez Gallery | oak Park IL
2022 | Nature Vs Nurture | Group Exhibition | The Art Center of Highland Park | Highland Park IL
2022 | A Dope Art Show | Group Halloween Pop-Up Show at LudLow Chicago IL
2022 | TWO OF A KIND | Group Collaboration Exhibition | BLNK HAUS & Your Happy Place | Chicago IL
2022 | All American Trash | Group Skate Deck Show Curated by Alejandro Martel | Reggies | Chicago IL
2022 | A Dope Art Show | October | Group Halloween Pop-Up Show at LudLow Chicago IL
2022 | ABSTRACTION | Group Abstract Exhibition | Curated by Cleveland Dean | The Art Center of Highland Park | Highland Park IL
2022 | Off The Wall: Invasion | Collaborative Group Exhibition | Curated by [rehs] | Your Happy Place | Chicago IL
2022 | Circus Maximus | Group Art Show Curated by Jason M. West | Chop Shop | Chicago IL
2021 | Keep It 100 | July | A Dope Art Show | Group Pop-Up Show at El Che Chicago IL
2022 | A Dope Art Show | June | Group Halloween Pop-Up Show at LudLow Chicago IL
2022 | Bad Babes Of BLNK | A Female Group Art Exhibition | BLNK HAUS | Chicago IL
2022 | Slap Stick Show | A Dope Art Show | Marz Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Facade | Online Mixed-Media Art exhibition | artstoheartsproject.com
2021 | Howlin’ At The Moon | Dark Arts Gallery | Naperville Settlement | Naperville IL
2021 | 5 Year Anniversary Stocking Stuffer Group Show | Your Happy Place Gallery & Boutique | Chicago IL
2021 | Small Prints | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2021 | Big Dark Love | [blnk] Haus Gallery | Chicago IL
2021 | Happy Place Group Show | Your Happy Place Chicago | Chicago IL
2020 | GALEX 54 National Juried Exhibition | Galesburg IL
2020 | The Intergalactic Open | Juried Group Exhibition | ShockBoxx Gallery | Hermosa Beach CA
2020 | Stocking Stuffer Group Show | Your Happy Place Gallery & Boutique | Chicago IL
2020 | Small Prints | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2020 | Featured Local Artists, Fall 2020 | Dry City Brew Works | Chicago IL
2020 | Main Wall Feature | Transistor Chicago | Chicago IL
2020 | Go!Figure | ShockBoxx Gallery | Hermosa Beach CA
2020 | Big Dark Love | [blnk] Haus Gallery | Chicago IL
2020 | Featured Local Artist, Winter 2020 | DryHop Brewer’s | Chicago IL
2019 | Small Prints Exhibition | Chicago Printmakers Collaboration | Chicago IL
2019 | Dark Arts ||| | Body & Sex Positive Art Exhibition with Non-Profit Our Music My Body | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2019 | The Oddities Flea | Curated by Ryan Mathew Cohn | Stan Mansion | Chicago IL
2019 | Dark Arts || | Metal Themed Art Exhibition | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2019 | Dark Arts | Metal Themed Art Exhibition | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2018 | A Very Harry Christmas Art Show | An Adam’s Art Box Exhibition | Chicago IL
2018 | Small Prints Exhibition | Chicago Printmakers Collaboration | Chicago IL
2018 | Scorched Tundra X Art Show | The Empty Bottle | Chicago IL
2018 | Impressed 2018 | Behind The Hedges | Art Gym Denver | Denver CO
2017 | Envision | A RAW Artists Collective Event | The Metro | Chicago IL
2017 | Courage - A Fine Art Exhibition | Hosted by Choose Courage Foundation | Proceeds Donated to SafeHaven of Tarrant County | Fort Worth | TX
2017 | The Dark Arts Exhibition | Royal Flesh Tattoo & Body Piercing | Chicago IL
2016 | Spring People's Choice Salon Show | The GreenPoint Gallery | Brooklyn NY
2016 | Rover 2016 | The StarrSpace Gallery | Brooklyn NY
2016 | NYC Fine Art Show | The SET LoveCraft Lower Gallery | New York NY
2015 | ForWind Films Presents Frames of Reference | DCTV | New York NY
2015 | The New York Society of Etchers 15th Anniversary Exhibition | The National Arts Club NY
2015 | Strange Girls Never Die | CO Exhibitions | Minneapolis MN
2015 | Hot Off The Press | The 27th Cooperative Exhibition | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2014 | Prints On Ice | The 26th Cooperative Exhibition | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2014 | SILVER | The 25th Cooperative Exhibition | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2013 | The 3rd National Exhibition of Intaglio Prints | The National Arts Club | New York NY
2013 | Interpretive Symbiosis: Expression Through a Spectral Lens | Larson Art Gallery | St. Paul MN
2013 | Art Galleray Partay | Uptown Vapor Shoppe | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Kaleidoscope | Katherine E. Nash Gallery | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Night Of Wands - Carnival of Saints & Sinners | Slam Factory | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Heart Show | The Friction Collective | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Treasured Trash | Hillel Gallery | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Visual Arts Scholarship Recipients Exhibition | Quarter Gallery | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Bohemian Press Art Show Fundraiser | LegUpStudio | Casket Arts | Minneapolis MN
2011 | Visual Arts Scholarship Recipients Exhibition | Quarter Gallery | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2010 | Bohemian Press Presents ART & MUSIC | 1419 & Love Power | Minneapoplis MN
2010 | Foot in the Door 4 | Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program | Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Minneapolis MN
2009 | BFI Fundraiser Art Show | Brilliant Future International | Independence MN
CURATORIAL WORK
2023 | Playin’ It Old School | Co-Curated with Jennifer Whitehead | Your Happy Place Gallery | Chicago IL
2022 | BLACKK MASS | A Group Dark Arts Exhibition Pop-Up | Kumas Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2022 | Cryptic Creations II | Halloween Themed Fine Arts & Crafts Event | Metropolitan Brewhouse | Chicago IL
2022 | Hollowed Hearts | Dark Valentines Themed Fine Arts & Crafts Event | Metropolitan Brewhouse | Chicago IL
2021 | Cryptic Creations | Halloween Themed Fine Arts & Crafts Event | Metropolitan Brewhouse | Chicago IL
2020 | Dry City Halloween Market | Dry City Brew Works | Wheaton IL
2019 | Dark Arts lll | Body & Sex Positive Art & Craft Sale with Non-Profit Our Music My Body | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2019 | Dark Arts ll | Metal Themed Art Exhibition & Craft Sale | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2019 | Dark Arts | Metal Themed Art Exhibition & Craft Sale | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2012 | Prints in the Dark | Committee of Made Up Holidays | Gamut Gallery | Minneapolis MN
2009 | BFI Fundraiser Art Show | Brilliant Future International | Independence MN
COMMISSIONS
2024 | Original Monotype Artwork Licensed for Set Decoration for The Bear | FX / Hulu | Los Angeles CA
2024 | Custom Font Titles for Synthesizer Music Video | Musician: De’Wayne | Label: Fearless Records | Los Angeles CA
2024 | Disingenuous Single Cover Art | Chicago IL
2023 | Regret | Album Cover Art for Bad Candy | Chicago IL
2023 | 2 T-Shirt Designs for DJUNAH | Chicago IL
2023 | Scorched Cardinal Design | Scorched Tundra | Chciago IL
2022 | Indoor Wall Mural | Mindful Baking Cafe | Chicago IL
2022 | Vending Machine Mural | Good Things Vending | Metropolitan Brewing | Chicago IL
2022 | Earth Covered Police Car Instalation | Collaboration with Olivia Love | Saopbox Collective | Chicago IL
2022 | Scorched Cardinal Design | Scorched Tundra | Chciago IL
2022 | Deep Echoes | Beer Label Design | Old Irving Brewing | Chicago IL
2022 | Installation Art | Pop Up Productions | Replay Lincoln Park | Chicago IL
2022 | Logo Design | Spirit Bored Hour | Chicago IL
2022 | Custom Weekly Episode Artwork | Heavy Hops Podcast | Chicago IL
2021 | Installation Art | Pop Up Productions | Replay Lincoln Park | Chicago IL
2021 | Imperial End Of Days | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | All That Doom Jazz | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Not Far From The Tree | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing & Right Bee Cider | Chicago IL
2021 | Colliding Worlds | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Magic Being | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Cryptic Bones | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Imperial Blood of the Unicorn | Custom Artwork for Beer Can Label | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2021 | Digital Drawing | Pie Pie My Darling, Scorched Tundra, Metropolitan Brewing, Palermo’s Foods, Marty&Joe Hot Sauce, & Vagabond Supper Club Collaboration | Chicago IL
2021 | Custom Weekly Episode Artwork | Heavy Hops Podcast | Chicago IL
2020 | Doom Jazz | Custom Artwork for Beer Can | Pipeworks Brewing | Chicago IL
2020 | Logo Design + Art Branding | Heavy Hops Podcast | Chicago IL
2020 | Original Dirty Bird Painting + Digital for Merch & Poster Re-Prints | Airstream Futures’ Cemetary Sparrow Single Release | Chicago IL
2019 | Insatiable Dreams | Digital Artwork for Kuma’s Corner & Hacienda Beer Collaboration | Chicago IL & Baileys Harbor WI
2019 | Tundra Turtle | Custom Copper Etching & Limited Edition Silkscreen Posters | Scorched Tundra X| | Chicago IL
2019 | Glistening Messenger | Digital Artwork for Kuma’s Corner & Hacienda Beer Collaboration | Chicago IL & Baileys Harbor WI
2018 | Limited Edition Silkscreen Posters | MONOLORD Band | Scorched Tundra X | Chicago IL
2018 | Digital Album Cover Design for Wasted Time’s debut Single | Lacerated | & EP | Fractured | Chicago IL
2018 | Limited Edition Poster for Kuma's Corner & Spiteful Brewing's Brown Ale Collaboration | Chicago IL
2017 | Custom Chalkboard Art for Kuma's Corner West Loop & Power Trip | Chicago IL
2017 | Custom Chalkboard Art for Kuma's Corner West Loop & Sleep | Chicago IL
2017 | Custom Chalkboard Art for Kuma's Too & Ledge | Chicago IL
2017 | Custom Chalkboard Art for Kuma's Too & Scorched Tundra's 9th Metal Music Festival | Chicago IL
2015 | Digital Album Cover Design | City Of Sound EP | Rebirth | Minneapolis MN
2015 | Miss Dirty Bird | Watercolor Painting | Dirty Bird Series | Commissioned by Theresa Panek Emerson | New York NY
2015 | Mono-Print Feather | T-Shirt Design | City Of Sound | Minneapolis MN
2015 | Hand Painted Glass Sign | LYN 65 Kitchen & Bar | Richfield MN
2015 | Drawings, Paintings, & Monotype Prints | Restaurant Interior Decor | LYN 65 Kitchen & Bar | Richfield MN
2015 | Interior Design Consultant | LYN 65 Kitchen & Bar | Richfield MN
2013 | Intaglio Print | Album Cover for Clementine’s debut EP | "What Is Broken..." | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Intaglio Print | Album Cover for City Of Sound's 2nd Album | Creatures | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Hand Drawn Graphics | Collaboration with Jesse Caffrey | iPad game | Zombie Retribution | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Five Hand Painted & Sewn Intaglio Album Sleeves | Clementine’s Pre-EP Release | Minneapolis MN
2011 | Silkscreen Posters | Old Wive's debut vinyl Release | Tidal Tales | Verona NJ
2011 | Silkscreen Patches | Commissioned by Chris Dignan & Rachel Gaulke | Participants in the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault Bike Race | Minneapolis MN
EXCHANGES
2022 | BAPTISM | Event Score featured in These Things Are Meant To Happen | A Farmhouse Art Collective Anthology | US
2022 | Vessel | Parlor Trick Print Exchange | New York NY
2020 | Quarantine Critter | 30/30 Portfolio Exchange | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 30th Anniversary Portfolio Exchange | Chicago IL
2020 | Sacred Bird | 2020 Calendar Print Exchange | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
TEACHING POSITIONS
2022 | Private Monotype Sessions | The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2022 | Feather Monotype Spring Workshop | The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Chicago IL
2020 | Drink & Print | Intro To Intaglio | Spit Bite Studio | Chicago IL
2019 | Relief Printing Instructor | Dark Arts Chapter || | Craft Market | Kuma’s Corner West Loop | Chicago IL
2016 | Guest Speaker | A History Of Printmaking | The Berkeley Carroll School | Brooklyn NY
2016 | Printmaking Workshop | Intro To Relief | The Berkeley Carroll School | Brooklyn NY
2015 | Printmaking Instructor & Youth Mentor | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2014 | Printmaking Instructor & Youth Mentor | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2014 | Educational Internship | HighPoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Youth Mentor | Fine Arts & Usable Crafts Instructor | Brilliant Future International | Tamale | Ghana | Africa
2012 | Teaching Assistant | Under Professor Jerald Krepps | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Art Mentor | Free Arts Minnesota | St. Joseph’s Home For Children | Minneapolis MN
2011 | Art Mentor, Free Arts Minnesota | St. Joseph’s Home For Children | Minneapolis MN
2011 | Teaching Assistant | Under Professor Jerald Krepps | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2009 | Youth Mentor | Fine Arts & Usable Crafts Instructor | Brilliant Future International | Tamale | Ghana | Africa
AWARDS | SCHOLARSHIPS
2016 | Best In Show | Cash Prize | Solo Exhibition Award | Spring People's Choice Salon Show | The GreenPoint Gallery | Brooklyn NY
2013 | Gay M. Grossman Memorial Scholarship | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2013 | Fine Arts Ceramics Scholarship | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Member of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars | | Minneapolis MN
2012 | Gay M Grossman Memorial Scholarship | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis MN
2011 | Dean’s List, University of Minnesota
2010 | Dean’s List, University of Minnesota
2009 | Dean’s List, University of Minnesota
EDUCATION
2013 | Bachelor of Fine Arts | Printmaking Focus | University of Minnesota
PRESS
2024 | Canvas Rebel Interview
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-bryn-gleason/
2024 | Chicago Gallery News: Featured Painting at Jackson Junge Gallery for No Color Group Exhibition
https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-color-group-exhibition
2021 | Making Art On Trauma, Love & Healing | Artist Of The Week Online Article | Arts To Hearts | artstoheartsproject.com
https://artstoheartsproject.com/making-art-on-trauma-love-healing-w-artist-bryn-gleason/
2020 | A Printmakers Journey | Podcast Interview | Heavy Hops Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ENn247YnXRoVhvAQxs0fE?si=AKzFvF1YTT-VsIde-XWUkw
2020 | Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Member Spotlight
https://cpc2.wpengine.com/bryn-gleason/
2019 | Scorched Tundra Metal Music Fest | About The Artists
https://scorchedtundra.com/scorched-tundra-countdown-the-artists/
2019 | OnlineMetals Featured Article
https://metalpress.onlinemetals.com/copper-etching-with-bryn-gleason/
2019 | Kuma’s Corner & Spiteful Brewing Collaboration
https://kumascorner.com/spiteful-brewing-kumas-corner-collab-beer-release/
2019 | Chicago Printmakers Promo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyP8WYEDZ8Y
2018 | Voyage Chicago
http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-bryn-gleason-bryn-r-gleason-lakeview/
2017 | RAW Artist’s Profile
https://rawartists.com/bryngleason
SHOP BRYN GLEASON PRINTS IN CHICAGO
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative | Cooperative Printmaking Studio & Fine Art Gallery | 4912 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60625
Sideshow Gallery | Fine Art & Oddities Gallery | 2219 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60647
Transistor | Art Gallery | Record Store | Gift Shop | 2154 W Roscoe St Chicago IL 60618
Wolfbait & B-girls | Local Arts & Gifts Retail Store | 3131 W Logan Blvd Chicago IL 60647
Your Happy Place | Art Gallery & Liquor Store | 2501 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL 60647
Good Things Vending | Metropolitan Brewing | 3057 N Rockwell St Chicago IL 60618