Draft:Bryan Ida

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Bryan Ida is a Japanese-American artist living and operating in Los Angeles, California. He went from a significant interest in music composition to a career as a portrait painter. Most of Ida's works comprise various paintings that have been showcased in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Early Life and Education

Ida was drawn to music as a child and played the French Horn in the EL Camino youth symphony and school orchestras. He gravitated to electronic music during his years attending high school. He attended Sonoma State University and studied Electronic Music composition from 1984 to 1986. He would then go on to attend San Jose State University for electronic music composition as well from 1986 to 1989.

Introduction to Art World

Ida went to work under Sam Francis in 1988, an abstract painter who helped branch his love for art further from music to visuals and painting. He would be invited by Francis to work as his assistant in the former's Palo Alto studio, where he would then paint a 20 ft x 40 ft mural commission for the United States government building located in Bonn, Germany. After a period, Ida was moved from the Palo Alto studio to Francis' studio in Venice, California, where had had free access to paint, paper, and canvas. Ida would then transition from writing music to frequenting painting, inspired by Francis' "freedom and release" imprinted in his works.

Exhibitions & Shows

Solo Shows:

• 2023 September 28 to 2023 January – Bakersfield Museum of Art “Bryan Ida: Life of Change a Retrospective”
• 2023 January – De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University “con.Text”
• 2021 February – de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University. Activities Program Board-Solo Online programming featuring “con.Text”
• 2021 January – Helms Building, Culver City Arts Foundation  “Projecting Possibilities”
• 2021 January – Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles “con.Text”
• 2020 August – Japanese American Museum San Jose “con.Text” ink portraits
• 2020 Feb – West Valley College, Saratoga, CA. Dept. of Student Services, Diversity, and Inclusion “con.Text”
• 2017 May – George Billis, LA “Echo and Line”
• 2016 Oct – Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan “City Symphony”
• 2015 Sept – Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco “Littoral”
• 2014 Nov – George Billis, LA “Remnants”
• 2014 June – Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan “Floating California”    
• 2014 May – George Billis, New York   
• 2013 March – Blue Whale “LACA,” Los Angeles  
• 2012 Sept – George Billis, Los Angeles   
• 2007 July – Bandini Art, Los Angeles   
• 2005 Sept – Hang, San Francisco   
• 2004 Oct – Los Angeles Art Association, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica  
• 2002 April – Hang, Palo Alto  
• 2001 April – Paper Chase, Los Angeles  
• 1998 March – Theosophical University Library, Pasadena

Group Shows:

• 2023 May – “The Circle of Sam Francis: Experimenting in California” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
• 2023 February –  “Collective Memory Installation” LA County Department of Arts and Culture, Part of Illuminate LA
• 2023 February – featured artist “We the People”  group billboard show  The Billboard Creative, LA
• 2023 January – “Bridging the Pacific” group show  Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• 2022 November – “Transmogrified”  Durden and Ray, LA
• 2022 July – “Future Patchwork” Walter Maciel Gallery, LA
• 2022 July – “Cityscape 12, Iconic” George Billis Gallery, LA
• 2022 April- “Bronzeville: Modernity, Race and the Search to Belong” Casa 0101, Boyle Heights, CA
• 2022 April – “Peregrinations” Moreman Gallery, Louisville KY
• 2022 January –  “Encounter: Executive Order 9066” DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
• 2022 January – “We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by LA Metro/Metro Art, LA Local Artists” Union Station Passageway Gallery
• 2022 January – “Black, White, and Shades of Grey”  Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
• 2021 August –  “Nomad”   Torrance Art Museum
• 2021 August –  “Cityscape Show XI”   George Billis Gallery
• 2020 October –  “Artist and Poems”  Durden and Ray, LA
• 2020 July –  “Cityscape show X: Concrete and Earth”   George Billis Gallery, LA
• 2020 June –  “OCCCA@40”    Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
• 2020 May –  “We Are Here / Here We Are”   Durden and Ray, LA
• 2020 Jan –  “6”   Bluerider Art, Taipei Taiwan
• 2019 Oct –  “California Dreaming”    Steps Gallery, Yokohama Japan
• 2019 Sep –  “Daily Sentiments”   Bluerider Art, Taipei Taiwan
• 2019 August –  “Late Summer”   Themes and Projects, San Francisco, CA
• 2019 August – “Ink and Clay 44” Jurors Choice Award and Jurors Choice Honorable Mention. Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, CA
• 2019 June –  “Okeanos” Hote Gallery, Alhambra
• 2019 April – “Littoral”   Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
• 2019 March –  “Artropocene:iBiennale MMXIX”   iBiennale, Honolulu, HI
• 2019 February – “Santa Monica: Now & Then”  BG Gallery, Santa Monica
• 2018  October –  “Wild Blue Yonder”  United Terminal, LAX
• 2018 September –  “Selected Abstracts”   George Billis, LA
• 2018 July –  “Under Construction”   Finishing Concepts, Monterey Park
• 2018 July – “Spell Check”   PØST Gallery, DTLA
• 2018 July – “Cityscape Show”  George Billis Gallery, LA
• 2017 Sept –  “Gimme 5”  Muzeumm, Los Angeles
• 2017 Sept –  “Gangbusters”  Mike Kelley Gallery, Venice, CA
• 2017 July –  “Blue”   POST Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2017 March –  Bluerider Art, Art Central Hong Kong
• 2017 February – Shomberg Gallery
• 2017 February –  “Mark-Making”  Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
• 2017  February –  “f.u.topiia”  BLAM, Los Angeles
• 2017  February –  Art Palm Springs
• 2016  December – “Billboard Show”  The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles
• 2016  November –  “MAS Attack 13” Torrance Art Museum
• 2016   October – Carlos Blanco Studio LaBo Por Venezuela , Bogota De Colombia
• 2016  August – Group Show La Estacion Arte Contemporaneous, Chihuahua, Mexico
• 2016 June – “Cedarfest”  Lancaster Museum of Art and History: Cedar
• 2016 May – “Homing Pigeon” Forum Kortteli,Turku & Naantali Spa Gallery , Naantali, Finland
• 2016  March – “UFOlogy”   Outpost Projects
• 2016 February – Group Show  Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
• 2016 January – “MAS Attack 11”  Fabric Art Fair
• 2015  July – ” The Landscape Show V”  George Billis, LA
• 2015 July – Group Show  George Billis, New York
• 2015 June – “Kachofugetsu:: Flowerbirdwindmoon”   Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
• 2015 May – “California Dreaming: An International  Portrait of Southern California”   Riverside Art Museum
• 2015  April – “Homing Pigeon Edition IV: Kyoto” Gallery Antenna, Kyoto
• 2014  December – “MAS Attack VII”   Santa Monica Studios
• 2014 December – “California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California”  Oceanside Museum of Art
• 2014  December – “Red Dot Art Fair” Miami, Florida Art Fair
• 2014  October – i23, “From the Dust Returns” Ichibeicho Gallery, Tokyo
• 2014 October – “Real Surreal”    Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco
• 2014 August – “MAS Attack VI”   Torrance Art Museum
• 2014 August – “The Cityscape Show IV”  George Billis Gallery,  Los Angeles
• 2014 July – “Art Taichung”    Taipei City, Taiwan Art Fair
• 2014 March –  “Art Tainan”    Taipei City, Taiwan Art Fair
• 2013 December –  “Red Dot Art Fair”   Maimi Art Fair
• 2013 October –  “MAS Attack II”   Torrance Art Museum
• 2013 October – “Homing Pigeon: Edition 2”  Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan
• 2013 August – “Black and Blue Show”   JAUS, Santa Monica
• 2013 July – “Landscape Show III”  George Billis, Los Angeles
• 2013 June – “Huddle Up”   Gallery 85  San Jose, CA
• 2013 February –  Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs
• 2012 December – “Red Dot Art Fair”    Maimi
• 2012 July – “Landscape Show”   George Billis  LA, Los Angeles
• 2009 March  – LACMA, Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2008 January – “Statewide Painting Competition  and Exhibition”   Triton Museum, Santa Clara
• 2006 September –  “Field and Form”  L A A A, Gallery 825,  Los Angeles
• 2006 June – “Stars on Vine”  Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2005 December –  “Open Show”  L A A A, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2005 November –  “Speak Easy”   UpSpace, Los Angeles
• 2005 June – “Fresh: A Silent Auction of Emerging and Other Great Artist”   Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• 2005 May –  Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA. Art Auction
• 2005 May –  “California Vision Art Auction XI”   Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
• 2004 December – “Holiday Show 2004″   Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2004 September – “Homeland Security”   LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2004 March – “Between One and Ten”   LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2003 November –  “The Art of Paint”   Gallery C, Hermosa Beach
• 2003 May –  “50/50 show” LAAA, Gallery 825,  Los Angeles
• 2003 April – “Make Yourself at Home”   LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2003 January  –  “Peter Frank Selects”  Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2002 August  –  “Pacifically Designed”   LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2002 August  –   “Show stoppers”   Long Beach Arts, Long Beach
• 2002 April  –  “Wallworks”  L. A . Artcore, The Brewery, Los Angeles
• 2002 February  –  Digital Symphony, Burbank
• 2001 December  –  “Southern California Open”   LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2001 December  –  “Art Heals II”   The Eyebeam Atelier, New York
• 2001 October  –   “Art Heals”   BGH Gallery, Santa Monica
• 2001 September  –   “Suspending Detachment”   The Hatch, Los Angeles
• 2001 May –  “The Drop-out Show”   The Hatch, Los Angeles
• 2001 February  –  “Shooting Nowhere”   The Hatch, Los Angeles  Photography Group Show
• 2000 December  –   Hollywood Digital, Los Angeles
• 2000 September –  “Southern California Open” Juried show:1st Prize. LAAA , Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 2000 February  –  The Hatch,  Los Angeles
• 1999 December –  BGH Gallery, Santa Monica
• 1999 December – Hang Gallery, San Francisco
• 1999 August  –  LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 1999 May –  The Hatch, Los Angeles
• 1998 November  –  Hang Gallery, San Francisco
• 1998 September  –  The Hatch, Los Angeles
• 1998 August  – LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
• 1998 May –  The Hatch, Los Angeles
• 1998 March –  LACMA, Los Angeles, Sales and Rental Gallery