Curriculum Vitae
| Bryan Leister | |
|---|---|
| Education | |
| 2006 | M.F.A. Digital Fine Arts, George Mason University, Graduate Student Award |
| 1985 | B.F.A Communication Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dean’s list |
| Professional Experience | |
| 2007-present | Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Colorado Denver, Denver CO |
| 1985-present | Illustrator – Clients include Fortune 500 corporate and many national/international magazines; specializing in covers, packaging and annual report illustrations |
| 1999-2011 | President, Foliofactory, Inc., a search engine and web marketing firm featuring thousands of artists and their illustrations online at Folioplanet.com |
| 2006-07 | Assistant Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University, Department of Computer Science, Washington DC |
| 2006 | Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Department of Visual Arts and Technology, Fairfax VA |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Uncategorized | real-time video installation, prints on paper | Ironton Gallery, Denver CO |
| 2010 | Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts | in transit, an interactive installation | Grand Rapids, MI |
| 2006 | EXHIBITIONspace, Fine Arts Gallery, Fairfax, VA |
| Bryan Leister, Gallery 233-ONE, Alexandria, VA | |
| 1998 | Illustrations, 929 Gallery, Baltimore MD |
| 1997 | The Art of Illustration, Barry Gallery, Marymount University, Arlington VA |
| Honors and Awards | |
| 2009 | The University & College Designers Association | 39th Annual Design Competition - Excellence Award magazine Cover illustration |
| Council for Advancement and Support of Education | cover of Pinnacle Magazine Gold Award, District IV, USA | |
| 2008 | The 27th Annual Black Maria Film Festival | Juror's Citation for P.R. | official selection for touring throughout the US, Jersey City, NJ |
| 2007 | Curator’s Incubator | co-curator anti-matter: recontextualizing the material exhibited at Maryland Art Place | Baltimore, MD |
| 2006 | It Moves, It Moves Me! Best in Show in a national juried exhibition for the Third Annual Visual Culture[s] Symposium at George Mason University exploring the latest critical thinking about time-based media |
| 2003 | Silver Award, American Society of Business Publication Editors |
| 1995 | Best in Show, Illustrators Club of Metropolitan Washington |
| 1994 | Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators, a national competition sponsored by the Museum of American Illustration in New York |
| 1990 | Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators, NY Silver Award, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington |
| 1989 | People, Places, Things: AIGA Best in Photography and Illustration 1984-89, a national competition exhibiting the best in design over the preceding 5 years |
| 1985 | First Place, Richmond Symphony Poster competition |
| 1985 | First Place, Virginia Museum Theater Design Competition |
| Juried Film Exhibitions | |
| 2010 | Festival Animator 2010 | film screening, Poznan, Poland |
| 34th Atlanta Film Festival | Indistinct Boundaries Movement 4 | official selection, Atlanta, GA | |
| 34th Atlanta Film Festival | Indistinct Boundaries Movement 2 | official selection, Atlanta GA | |
| 2009 | One Earth | One Dream Film Festival | drop | official selection, Laguna Beach, CA |
| 47th Ann Arbor International Film Festival | Official Selection for P.R. | Ann Arbor, MI | |
| 15th Sedona International Film Festival | drop | official selection, Sedona, AZ | |
| 2008 | The 27th Annual Black Maria Film Festival | Juror's Citation for P.R. | official selection for touring throughout the US, Jersey City, NJ |
| 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, Official Selection for P.R. and Drop , Brooklyn, NY | |
| Chicago Underground Film Festival, Official Selection for P.R., Chicago, IL | |
| 32nd Atlanta International Film Festival, an international festival receiving more than 1700 entries with fewer than 150 films selected, Atlanta, GA | |
| 15th New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY | |
| Globians Film Festival, an international festival focused on world and documentary films, Berlin, Germany | |
| IV 08, 12th International Conference Information Visualization digital art gallery, London, UK | |
| Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay, Australia | |
| 30th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL | |
| The 86Collective, a new media DVD showcase featuring four Denver artists sponsored by Rubi Rey, Denver, Chicago, Miami, USA | |
| Juried Art Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Message in a Bottle Installation | interactive installation, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids MI |
| 2010 | Toltec Totem | iPhone/iPad game/installation | Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO |
| 2009 | Digital Nature – a new media event | hypocenter installation | Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO |
| Design Clock Competition, Art Center Complex (ACT), Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2006 | Junctures, Gallery 123, Fairfax VA |
| New Art Examined, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA | |
| 2003 | Landscapes, Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria VA |
| 2000 | 51st Annual Art Directors Club Exhibition, Washington DC |
| 1999 | PRINT Regional Design Annual |
| 1998 | Communication Arts Illustration Annual |
| 1995 | PRINT Regional Design Annual |
| 1994 | 36th Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| 1994 | Text and Image, Target Gallery, Alexandria VA |
| 1993 | 35th Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
| PRINT Regional Design Annual | |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| 1992 | 34th Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
| 5th Annual Illustrators Club Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| Third Biennial AIGA Fifty, Design Exhibition | |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| PRINT Regional Design Annual | |
| 1991 | 33rd Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition, New York, NY |
| 42nd Annual Art Directors Club Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| PRINT Regional Design Annual | |
| Society of Publication Design Annual Show, New York, NY | |
| 1990 | Communication Arts Illustration Annual |
| Second Biennial AIGA Fifty Design Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| 41st Annual Art Directors Club Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| 3rd Annual Illustrators Club Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| 1989 | Communication Arts Illustration Annual |
| 1988 | 2nd Annual Illustrators Club Exhibition, Washington, DC |
| PRINT Regional Design Annual | |
| 39th Annual Art Directors Club Exhibition, Washington, DC | |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| 32nd Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition, New York, NY | |
| 1987 | American Illustration, Volume 6, New York, NY |
| Communication Arts Illustration Annual | |
| 1986 | American Illustration, Volume 5, New York, NY |
| PRINT Regional Design Annual | |
| 1985 | Society of Illustrators Annual Scholarship Competition, New York, NY |
| Performances | |
| 2012 | Pixels in the Closet performance Oct. 26-27 | interactive performance, dance collaboration : Atlas Center, Boulder CO |
| 2011 | Mouse of Amherst | game-based interactive | Kennedy Center Millenium Stage, Washington DC |
| 2010 | Mouse of Amherst | game-based interactive animations | Theatre on the Run, Arlington VA |
| Mouse of Amherst | game-based interactive animation | Theatre on the Run, Arlington VA | |
| Indistinct Boundaries | dance performance at The Woolly Mammoth Theater | Washington, DC | |
| 2009 | Proximity Politico | : performed at King Center, Denver CO |
| Indistinct Boundaries | dance performance at The Burke Theater Navy Memorial | Washington DC | |
| Indistinct Boundaries | dance performance at The Woolly Mammoth Theater | Washington, DC | |
| 2008 | Temporal Interference | : performed at Performatica, Pueblas Mexico |
| Temporal Interference | : Performed at the King Center, Denver, CO | |
| 2007 | such a pure force, premiere of a 20 minute 3D animation created for an original Steven Antosca composition, Corcoran Museum of Art, Contemporary Music Forum, Washington DC |
| Skating Still , an animation to accompany Gina Biver’s composition included in the 60X60 film festival | |
| Proximity Politico, live Theremin/interactive performance for MultimedialeDC, Provisions Gallery, Washington DC | |
| Temporal Interference, an interactive dance collaboration performed with Jane Franklin Dance Company at The Kennedy Center, Washington DC | |
| Electric Possible – duo, A live laptop concert as the Floating Lab duo networked computers, a theremin and video projection, George Washington University | |
| Protest on Demand, performance as part of the Floating Lab Collective, MultimedialeDC, Washington DC | |
| 2006 | Temporal Interference, premiere performance and installation at the Warehouse Gallery, Washington DC |
| Exhibitions (selected) | |
| 2013 | Luciferase | Walker Fine Art, Denver Colorado |
| BYOB Denver | Redline Gallery, Denver Colorado | |
| 2012 | Material Engagements | Redline Gallery, Denver Colorado |
| Mood Analyticator | Blacktop Festival, Denver Colorado | |
| Do You See What I See? | Freight Building, Denver Colorado | |
| Notes on Feeling | Redline Gallery, Denver Colorado | |
| 2011 | BYOB – Redline Gallery | : Redline, Denver CO |
| 2010 | Skating Still at 60X60 Dance! | FOFA Gallery | Montreal, Canada |
| 3 X 3 Magazine | The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, New York NY | |
| 2009 | Alumni Mix | hypocenter installation, School of the Arts Gallery, Fairfax, VA |
| Private Arts: A Designers Art Exhibition, Artery 717, Alexandria, VA | |
| Rupture, a 3 minute full dome format film screened at Dome 360, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver CO | |
| 2008 | 86 Collective, The Lab at Belmar, Denver, CO |
| Artist = Educator, Marriott Gallery, Denver, CO | |
| 2006 | Landscape and Memory, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA |
| Fluxus, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD | |
| Art as Social Action, Provisions Art Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| Print-Amore, Fine Arts Gallery, Fairfax, VA | |
| 2005 | Illustrator’s Cub Member show, Art Institute of Washington, Arlington VA |
| Southern Latitudes, Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs WV | |
| Graduate Student Exhibit, Mason Hall, Fairfax VA | |
| 1999 | Illustration, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design |
| 1992 | New Members Show, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY |
| Reviews and Interviews | |
| 2011 | The artificially natural art of Bryan Leister blurs borders – The Denver Post | Denver Post, Denver CO |
| 2010 | Out of Sorts: Typography and Print Culture | author Joseph A. Dane | University of Pennsylvania Press (November 5, 2010) |
| 2007 | Digital tools interview by Ron Chan, Unleash the potential of the art brush How to Wow with Illustrator |
| 2005 | Hope Gibbs, Interview, Evolution of an Artist Elan Magazine, Volume 7 |
| 2004 | Lisa Cyr, Profile, The Power of Collaboration , [un]coated, AIGA journal |
| 1996 | Interview, Sharing a Studio , Full Bleed Magazine, ADCMW |
| 1990 | Interview, New Illustrators , Sketches, Illustrator’s Club of Metropolitan Washington |
| Collections | |
| Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC,District of Columbia Historical Society, Washington DC,Blue Cross, Blue Shields, Washington DC,Systems Center, Sterling VA,James River Paper Co., Richmond VA,Celestial Seasonings, Boulder CO,Caffaro Baking Co., Seattle, WA,Kohler, Kohler, WI,Citicorp, New York, NY,American Society of Physical Therapists, Alexandria VA | |
| Selected Commissions: | |
| Cover Art: Businessweek, Forbes, The Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, The New Republic, PC Magazine, IBM Research, Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post Magazine, Washington Post Weekend, Insight Magazine, Nuclear Times, Harvard Business Review, New England Monthly, Eating Well, Der Speigel | |
| Annual Reports: Smuckers, Systems Center, Riggs National Bank, Blue Cross Blue Shield | |
| Portraits: Systems Center, Pierre L’Enfant for Washingtonian/District of Columbia Historical Society, James River Paper Company, Citibank, American Physical Therapy Association, Blue Cross/Blue Shields | |
| Lectures and Presentations | |
| 2012 | University of Denver Continuing Education Lecture | Digital Photography, University of Denver Continuing Education, Denver, CO |
| Creativity As A Tool for Social Progress Presentation | Creativity As A Tool for Social Progress , Denver CO | |
| 2008 | Media Matters Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO |
| 2007 | anti-matter: recontextualizing the material, co-authored an essay for the exhibition catalogue, Maryland Art Place, |
| 2006 | Digital Expo, George Washington University; animation festival and demonstration of motion capture techniques, electronics and robotics using Max/MSP/Jitter |
| Interactive and Kinetik Art, George Mason University; 5 interactive displays to introduce painters, sculptors and digital artists to incorporating Max/MSP/Jitter into installation works | |
| 3rd Annual Visual Culture[s] Symposium, George Mason | |
| Presentation: Lessig Remix | |
| 2005 | ICON4 The Illustration Conference, San Francisco CA |
| Session chair: Pixel Pushers, the Bay Area digital art scene, San Francisco CA | |
| Film presentation: Peripheral Visions artists working outside their normal field, San Francisco CA | |
| 2004 | The Switch from Traditional to Digital, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA |
| 2003 | ICON3 The Illustration Conference, Philadelphia PA |
| Session Producer: Animation for Illustrators, Illustrator as Entrepreneur, Surface Design and Product Licensing, Starbucks: Branding with Illustration | |
| Curator: Illustration Animation Festival, Philadelphia PA | |
| 2002 | Protecting your work on the Web, author, Illustrator’s News, Vol. 2, no. 1, 2002, 11. |
| 2001 | ICON2 The Illustration Conference, Santa Fe NM |
| Lecture: Incorporating New Technologies | |
| Panel discussion: Licensing, Choices and Challenges | |
| Competition and the Drunken Bird, author, Illustrator’s News, Vol. 1, no. 5, 2001, 5. | |
| Internet Marketing, The Illustrators Club of Washington, Washington DC | |
| 1999 | The First Illustration Conference, Santa Fe NM |
| Lecture: Web site Use and Design | |
| Panel discussion: Integrating the computer into your career | |
| Setting up a Searchable Web Catalog , author, Illustrator’s News, Vol. 1, no. 1, 1999 | |
| Illustration, American University, Washington DC | |
| 1998 | A career in illustration, Marymount University, Arlington VA |
| 1996 | Illustration, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria VA |
| 1995 | Running a Freelance Illustration Business, Marymount University, Arlington VA |
| 1994 | The Art of Promotion, The Illustrators Club of Washington, Washington DC |
| The art of illustration, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD | |
| Workshop: Creating an illustration for assignment | |
| 1993 | Workshop: Painting demonstration, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD |
| 1992 | A career in illustration, The Corcoran School of Art |
| Courses Taught | |
| 3D Motion Design, Cinema 4D for Digital Design, Computer Animation Design I, Computer Animation Design II, Computers in Creative Arts, Introduction to Digital Arts, Design for Human Experience, Design Studio II, Design Studio III, Design Studio IV, Interactive Design II, Issues of Interactivity, The Practice of Design, Thesis Prep, Typography | |
| University Service | |
| 2010 | Chancellor’s Task Force on Sustainability |
| Digital Design Instructor Search Committee | |
| 2009 | Visual Arts MFA Visualization Program Development | Visual Arts Department Committee |
| Web Planning Group | College of Arts and Media Committee | |
| 2008 | Visual Arts Search Committee | Visual Arts Department Committee |
| Chair, Medical Illustration Search Committee | Visual Arts Department Committee | |
| 2007 | UC Denver Sustainability Committee | University Committee |
| Professional Service | |
| 2003-05 | Board member, Treasurer, The Illustration Conference, San Francisco |
| 2001-03 | Board member, Technology Chair, The Illustration Conference, Philadelphia |
| 1999-02 | Board member, Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria VA |
| 1995 | Juror, Society of Illustrators student show, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Juror, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA |
| Professional Memberships | |
| American Institute of Graphic Arts | |
| Society of Illustrators | |
| Illustrators Partnership of America, Founding Member | |
| Illustrators Club of Metropolitan Washington | |
| College Art Association | |
| Other Scholarly Activities | |
| 2013 | Bonnier Publications | Bonnier Publications | Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland |
| Washington DC Historic preservation plan | DC Historic Preservation Office | Washington DC | |
| 2012 | Pierre L’Enfant on Discovery Channel | Discovery Channel | USA |
| Pierre L’Enfant exhibition | Virginia Center for Architecture | Alexandria, Virginia | |
| 2010 | Armed Forces Radio and Television Services | Pierre L'Enfant reproduction | Film House, Nashville TN |
| 2009 | The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode Ep. 4 | cover illustration for The New Republic reproduced on screen, USA |
| Secrets of America – Episode 1 | Pierre L'Enfant | a Discovery Channel documentary | |
| CAM Faculty Development/YUMPS Grant to attend Sedona International Film Festival | |
| CAM Faculty Development to attend Ann Arbor International Film Festival | |
| 2008 | Co-PI on a $48K Seed Grant Request submitted by Prof. Anu Rawaswami and awarded by the Denver Department of Environmental Health to develop and evaluate a delivery model for realtor-mediated energy efficiency retrofits offered at the time of sale. My contribution will be in the area of communications and marketing. |
| CAM Faculty Development/YUMPS Grant to perform/install at Performática in Pueblas, Mexico | |
| Faculty Advisor for a UROP grant awarded to Timothy Edens to create a dome immersive experience on UCD campus | |
| 2007 | CAM Faculty Development/YUMPS Grant for Map Incubator project in Baltimore, MD |
| 2006 | Graduate Travel Grant, to attend Scope II- Sites and Subject, held in Vienna, Austria |
| Teaching Activities | |
| 2012 | Colorado Creative Fair Workshop | Denver, CO |
| 2009 | Joan of Arc: a Constellation of Voices | immersive theater, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver CO |
| Digital Body – Kinetic Sculptures | kinetic sculptures, Teaching Gallery, Denver, CO | |
| Green It | Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver CO |