（USA, b. 1963)
Bryan Ida is an American artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles. As a master mixing acrylic paints, epoxy and polyester, Ida shows his talent by applying unique material on forming abstract landscapes as a great play of color, light and composition. His work has been featured in dozens of museums. Notable recent shows are at Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. His works is currently in Microsoft Corporate collection and Genencor International collection.
Japanese American Museum San Jose
While previously working with the notable abstract expressionist, Sam Francis, Ida has developed his own language in abstract painting by creating dimensionality of cities with rhythmic pattern. Applying the technique of layering 6-7 coats of epoxy resin with acrylic paint captured in its separate layer, the 2-dimensional work builds its own depth and space and leaves the boundaries unbound. Ida advances this idea by adopting polyester as new coating medium. The features of polyester are thin and transparent, which allows the work to contain more than 200 layers, therefore more thoughts and details can be integrated and interacted.
Ida’s second solo show “City Symphony” at Bluerider ART showcases his identified city portraiture and recent series "Littoral". Littoral is defined as the zone where the land and sea come together and also a meeting place of disparate worlds where opposites collide and interact. Ida has extended the expression on landscape in urban area further to a more sentimental topic which focuses on the interaction among city, human, and nature. It is an ongoing conversation in paint using the concept of layering and burying to explore the idea of recollection within a symbolic landscape. Like an archeologist that digs and reveals fragments of human history the layers represent the passage of time and the importance of memory. This idea conveys a sense of connectivity as each layer interacts with the previous, meanwhile there also exists the feeling of disconnect and isolation that is congruous with the notion of urban life. It is this exploration of color, composition and light that interweaves Ida's city symphony.
Education
1984-1986 Sonoma State University, Electronic Music composition
1986-1989 San Jose State University, Electronic Music composition
Solo, 2 Person Shows
2023 Bryan Ida Life of Change, Solo Retrspective, Bakerfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2023 con.Text, Solo show, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
2021 con.Text, Solo Online programming, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University Activities Program Board
2021 Projecting Possibilities, Solo show, Helms Building, Culver City Arts Foundation
2021 con.Text, Solo Show, Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
2020 con.Text, Solo show, Japanese American Museum San Jose
2020 con.Text ink portraits Solo show, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA. Dept of Student Services, Diversity, and Inclusion
2017 Beauty Awash in a Sea of Bad News, 2 Person Show, LA Artcore, Little Tokyo LA
2017 Echo and Line, Solo Show ,George Billis, LA,
2016 City Symphony, Solo Show, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei
2015 Littoral, Solo Show, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco
2014 Remnants, Solo Show, George Billis, Los Angeles
2014 Floating California, Solo Show, Bluerider Art, Taipei
2014 Placing Memory, 2 Person Show, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo
2013 LACA, Solo Show, Blue Whale, Los Angeles
2012 SoCal, Solo show, George Billis, Los Angeles
2007 Seed, Solo Show, Bandini Art, Los Angeles
2005 Solo Show, Hang, San Francisco
2004 City and Nature: Longing and Need, Solo Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2002 Solo Show, Hang, Palo Alto
2001 Solo Show, Paper Chase, Los Angeles
1998 Solo Show, Theosophical University Library, Pasadena
1997 Solo Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1997 2 Person Show, Gallery OBOY, San Francisco
1997 Solo Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1996 Solo Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1995 Solo Show, The Studio of Sam Francis, Venice
Group Shows
2023 Nomad II group show, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
2023 The Circle of Sam Francis: Experimenting in California, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2023 Collective Memory Installation Part of IlluminateLA, LA County Dept of Arts and Culture
2023 We the People featured artist Group billboard show, The Billboard Creative, LA
2023 Bridging the Pacific group show, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
2022 Transmogrified, Durden and Ray, LA
2022 Future Patchwork, Walter Maciel Gallery, LA
2022 Cityscape 12 Iconic, George Billis Gallery, LA
2022 Bronzeville: Modernity, Race and the Search to Belong, Casa 0101, Boyle Heights, CA
2022 Encounter: Executive Order 9066, DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara CA
2022 We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists , Union Station Passageway Gallery LA Metro/Metro Art, LA
2022 Black, White and Shades of Grey, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA
2021 Nomad,Torrance Art Museum
2021 Cityscape Show XI, George Billis Gallery
2020 Artist and Poems,Online show Durden and Ray, LA
2020 Cityscape show X: Concrete and Earth” George Billis Gallery, LA
2020 OCCCA@40, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
2020 We Are Here / Here We Are, Durden and Ray, LA
2020 6,Bluerider Art, Taipei Taiwan
2019 Okeanos, Hote Gallery, Alhambra
2019 Littoral, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
2019 Artropocene:iBiennale MMXIX, iBiennale, Honolulu, HI
2019 Santa Monica: Now and Then, bG Gallery, Santa Monica
2019 The Cityscape Show IX, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Floating Worlds, bG Gallery, Santa Monica
2019 Daily Sentiments, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei
2018 Selected Abstracts: Gallery & Guest Artists, George Billis Gallery
2018 Fantastic 4 Renai, Bluerider ART, Taipei
2018 Under Construction, Finishing Concepts, Monterey Park
2018 Spell Check, PØST Gallery, DTLA
2018 Cityscape Show, George Billis Galleey , LA
2017 Gimme 5 , Muzeumm, Los Angeles
2017 Gangbusters, Mike Kelley Gallery, Venice CA
2017 Blue” , POST Gallery, Los Angeles
2017 Bluerider Art, Art Central Hong Kong
2017 Shomberg Gallery
2017 “Mark-Making”, Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
2017 “f.u.topiia” , BLAM, Los Angeles
2017 Art Palm Springs
2017 Der Blaue Reiter, Bluerider ART, Taipei
2016 Cedarfest, Lancaster Museum of Art and History: Cedar, Lancaster
2016 Homing Pigeon, Forum Kortteli,Turku & Naantali Spa Gallery, Naantali
2016 UFOlogy, Outpost Projects, Yucca Valley
2016 Group Show, Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs
2016 MAS Attack 11, Fabrik Expo, Los Angeles
2015 The Landscape Show V. George Billis, Los Angeles
2015 Group Show, George Billis, New York
2015 Kachofugetsu:: Flowerbirdwindmoon, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2015 California Dreraming: An InternationalnPortrait of Southern California, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside
2015 Homing Pigeon Edition IV: Kyoto, Gallery Antenna, Kyoto
2014 MAS Attck VII, Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica
2014 California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside
2014 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami
2014 From the Dust Returns, Ichibeicho Gallery, Tokyo
2014 Real Surreal, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco
2014 MAS Attack VI, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
2014 The Cityscape Show IV, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Art Taichung, Taichung
2014 Art Tainan, Tainan
2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Maimi
2013 MAS Attack II, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
2013 Homing Pigeon: Edition 2, Gallery Lara, Tokyo
2013 Black and Blue Show, JAUS, Santa Monica
2013 Landscape Show III, George Billis, Los Angeles
2013 Huddle Up, Gallery 85, San Jose
2013 Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs
2012 Red Dot Art Fair, Maimi
2012 Landscape Show, George Billis, Los Angeles
2009 LACMA, Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Statewide Painting Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara
2006 Field and Form, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2006 Stars on Vine, Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2005 Speak Easy, UpSpace, Los Angeles
2005 Fresh: A Silent Auction of Emerging and Other Great Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2005 Art Auction, Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2005 California Vision Art Auction XI, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
2004 Holiday Show 2004, Shomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Homeland Security, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2004 Between One and Ten, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2003 The Art of Paint, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach
2003 50/50 show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2003 Make Yourself at Home, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2003 Peter Frank Selects, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 Pacifically Designed, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2002 Show stoppers, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach
2002 Wallworks, L. A . Artcore, The Brewery, Los Angeles
2002 Group Show, Digital Symphony, Burbank
2001 Southern California Open, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2001 Art Heals II, The Eyebeam Altelier, New York
2001 Art Heals, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica
2001 Suspending Detachment, The Hatch, Los Angeles
2001 The Drop-out Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
2001 Shooting Nowhere, The Hatch, Los Angeles
2000 Group Show, Hollywood Digital, Los Angeles
2000 Southern California Open, Juried show:1st Prize, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2000 Group Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1999 Group Show, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica
1999 Group Show, Hang Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Group Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
1999 Group Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1998 Group Show, Hang Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Group Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1998 Group Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
1998 Group Show, The Hatch, Los Angeles
1998 Group Show, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
Publications
2023 Artillery- Review
2023 Adilettante- Review
2023 Diversions LA- Review
2021 The Santa Clara- Review
2021 Metro San Jose- Review
2021 Psychological Perspectives the Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought “Healing Cultural Divides: A Jungian Approach”
2020 Centerpoint Now, Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations
2018 Fabrik
2017 Diversions LA- Review
2017 Artscene- Cover and Review
2017 Art and Cake-Studio Visit
2016 LA Weekly
2016 The Creators Project
2016 Fraction Magazine.com
2016 The Art Newspaper, UK
2015 Art Ltd.
2008 Falvorpill
2007 Artweek
2003 Ions Noetic Sciences Review
Collections
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Resnick Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Microsoft Corporate Collection
Genencor International Collection
Merril Corporation
LA Metro Collection
Bryan Ida Artist Video
Trailer：Bryan Ida Solo Exhibition “Floating California”
Bryan Ida Artist Video
