About Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant is an award-winning, creative and internationally collected artist whose main medium of expression is photography. As an accomplished artist his work includes Polaroid Transfers and sepia images captured with a Holga, a toy camera. His most recent creations combine his photography with Photoshop. The result is a meditative form of digital art.

He is an artist whose creations are consistently cited by notable arts organizations, are featured in respected publications and earn him entry into highly competitive juried art shows.

A native Southerner, Michael lived for a brief time in Kent in southeastern England. While living in Europe he was exposed to the rich history of art which inspired him to pick up a camera. He continues to experience this inspiration during his frequent travels to the great galleries, museums and other history rich sites in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Mexico and Canada.

Michael grew up in Albany, Georgia where he attended Albany State College. He later moved to Atlanta and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. After spending almost half of his life in the capital of the New South, Michael considers himself a native of Atlanta - a city that has the best of everything he loves.

As an artist Michael's goal is to create work that affects him and others. "When I look at a finished piece and for a split second, time stops and I hear my heart beating - I am unable to breathe and I am aware only of the piece and how it makes me feel. Then, I know that I succeeded."

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Michael Bryant was featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an article entitled, "Petal Power Rules for Festival Weekend," by Richard L. Eldredge

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Selected Awards

Dogwood Festival, Atlanta, GA
1998, 2001, 2002 & 2003 Poster Artist

Decatur Arts Alliance Exhibition, Decatur, GA
2003, 2006 Purchase Award

Disney Festival of the Masters, Orlando, FL
2002 Purchase Award
2002 2nd Place Photography
2007 Purchase Award

Gold Coast Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2006 1st Place Photography

Mainsail Art Festival, St Petersburg, FL
2003 Award of Distinction
2004 Award of Merit

Artscape, Baltimore, MD
2005 Best in Show

Midwest Salute to the Arts, Fairview Heights, IL
2004 Best in Category
2007 Best in Category

Historic Shaw Art Fair, St. Louis, MO
2004 4th Place in 2-D

Winter Park Sidewalk Art Fest, Winter Park, FL
2005 Award of Merit
2007 Award of Merit

Sandy Springs Festival, Sandy Springs, GA
2005 Best in Show, 2D

Bethesda Row Art Festival, Bethesda, MD
2005 Best in Category
2007 Best in Category

Bethesda Fine Arts Festival, Bethesda, MD
2006 Judges Choice Award 2-D

Inman Park Festival, Atlanta, GA
2007 Best of Show

Summer Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Best of Show - State St

Cain Park Arts Festival, Cleveland Heights, OH
2007 Judges Choice Award

Morning Glory Craft Fair, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Award of Excellence