Education
2020 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Art Writing and Criticism,
2018 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Printmaking and new media
2014 Tsinghua University, Beijing China, Chinese Language
2005 BFA, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2001-02 American College of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
studies in, modern Greek, political science, European history, and philosophy

Teaching
2022 — Present
Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York, NY

2020-2022
SEI Research Fellow/Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2021, 2023, 2025,
Faculty, Advisor/ Consultant, Bard Microcollege, 21, 24
(Brooklyn, Holyoke, Harlem)

2022-25
Bard Language & Thinking, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025’

2025
Guest Critic: NYU Steinhardt, Undergraduate Sculpture
Critic, Scholar in Residence, Silver Art Projects, 2025, 2025

2019-2023
Guest Critic: Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Illustration 2023,
Guest Critic: Rhode Island School of Design, Undergraduate Sculpture 2021, 2022
Guest Critic: Rhode Island School of Design, Undergraduate Textile dept, 2022

2021, 2024
Guest Critic: Yale University School of Art, Graduate, Painting and Printmaking department

2019
Guest Critic: Pratt Institute, Undergraduate Graphic Design, 2019

2019, 2022
Lecturer, Yale Summer Session, 2019
Lecturer, Yale School of Art, 2022
Instruction, Yale Norfolk, School of Art, 2019, 2022

2018
Instructor/ Manson Youth Institution, Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall and Yale School of Art

Solo Exhibitions/ performances
2025
Artist Roundtable, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2025
Spiritualtechnologyphantasmictalkback, [C+V-X], L.P.I. (performative lecture as Amenemhat III)
NEW BLACK MEDIA, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2024
The Affective Properties of Images Withing the Power of Play, Performance and Lecture, Colby
College, Waterville, ME L.P.I. (performative lecture as Frederick Douglas)

2008
Trick Baby, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, California
For Rent, Midway Contemporary Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2007
Trick Baby, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2004
<<KRASHART.COM>>, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2002
The Show, Acadia Café, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ernest Bryant, Level Music Café, Thessaloniki, Greece

1998
Krash Art, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Minneapolis, Minnesota    

Group Exhibitions
2025
Séance: Technology of the Spirit, 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Korea

2024
Strange Sensation, FOYER-LA, Los Angeles, CA

2018
Standing Still, Lying Down, As If, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
Heads/Tails, Next to nothing Gallery, New York, NY
Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Odds and Ends Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2011
(untitled), Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather New York, NY, NY

2010
(untitled), Rialto Theater, (Installation) Santiago de Cuba, Cuba


2009
Feast of Failure, Open Eye Figure Theater, Minneapolis, MN

2008
Soul on Ice, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

2007
MCAD/Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
2006
Only Human, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN

2005
Coming together, Abraham Lincoln School, Minneapolis, MN

2003
[FLASH MOB], Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
30th Anniversary Gala, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Awards/ Fellowships/ Residencies
2025-26
SeMA-HANNA Media Art Award, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul KOREA, 2025
apexart International Fellowship, New York, NY
The Lunder Institute for American Art, Senior Research Fellow, Waterville, ME
Silver Art Projects, Scholar in Residence, New York, NY (renewed)

2024-25,
NYU Gallatin, Jewish Studies Grant, New York, NY
Silver Art Projects, Scholar in Residence, New York, NY (inaugural)

2020-2022
Social Equity and Inclusion, Research Fellow, Rhode island School of Design, Providence, RI

2019
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 75th Anniversary, Skowhegan, ME

2011
Shangyuan Art Scene Residency, Beijing, China

2011
Jerome Travel & Study Grant, Minneapolis, MN

2010-11
Cuba Residency, (3 months self directed), Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

2007
MCAD/Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN

2006
Bush Foundation, Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN


2005
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Scholarship

Curatorial Experience
2025
Spiritualtechnologyphantasmictalkback, L.P.I. (performative lecture as Amenemhat III)
JANUS, Group exhibition, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2024
Crumples, Youngeun Sohn, Silver Art Projects, New York, NY (Criticism + Value)
Talk in the Dark, With Yougeun Sohn, Youngeun Sohn, NYU Gallatin New, York, NY (Criticism + Value)

2023
Criticism and Value IX, Julia Rooney, New York, NY

2020-2022
Criticism and Value I,II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII IX, X… (ongoing)

2021
Prototype I, IS A GALLERY, Shanghai, China

2008
Exploding Language, Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2006
AFROFUTURISM, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Original Exhibition traveled to include five artists from Cleveland Ohio

2005
AFROFUTURISM, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
This exhibition gave 28 national and international artists opportunity to examine, explore and question the tenets of Afrofuturism, the study of the impact of technology
on the physical, social, and spiritual lives of Africans and their descendants. Co-curated
with Suzanne Roberts of Obsidian Arts.

2003
[FLASH MOB], Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Flash Mob raised questions about the exclusive status of ‘high culture’—the traditional role of the museum, and its relevancy in post-modern discourse.

Commissions and Projects
2006-2007
Christo Rey Jesuit High School/ Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, Minneapolis, MN collaborated with artist, Seitu Jones, to create a 216 ft long permanent art installation. Responsible for Concept, design oversight of fabrication and installation. Additional information available upon request.

2006
Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
Commissioned to design and create an indoor mural work, which spans 5 floors in an art hotel




Employment
2011-14 The Learning Center, Beijing, China, Language and Visual Arts Instructor
2005-10 Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Independent Curator/ program director
2001-09 Sign Minds Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota
design, fabrication, and installation of industrial signs and promotional materials
1999-07 Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Youth Art Instructor, and Muralist

Publishing
2025
The Lunder institute, Summer Think Tank, Centering Performance Art in American Art, (Archive)
“Folding Into the Future, the Discarded Gift,” Youngeun Sohn (publication essay) March, Feb. 2025
“JANUS,” (exhibition essay)

2022
“Latent Voice—The Thread Between Civilization and Barbarism,” College of New Jersey (exhibition catalog essay)

2020
“Levels of Perception, Ernest A Bryant III, on Julia Rooney” (exhibition catalog essay)
“A Declaration” (essay)

2018
YALE MFA 2018, “What is Criticism, 2.0” (publication essay contribution)

2017
Surviving the next four to eight years in the United States of America 2017-2025, for sufferers of a recrudescent ideological KRISIS, 2017

Bibliography
2025
“No Right Time,” Editors’ Letter, e-flux Criticism, (September 2, 2025)

2024
Observer, Christa Terry, The World Trade Center Offers Case Studies in Making Space for Artists in Urban Centers (June 28)
Gallatin Today, A Collaboration That Elevates Art Discourse (Summer)

2021
RISD, Breaking with Convention, Simone Solondz (March 1, 2021)

2009
Art in America, Sourcebook to the art world, galleries museums artists. 2009 | Guide

2008
Fox 9 News, Beth McDonough, Minneapolis, Minnesota (September 14)
Art in America, Michael Fallon, Ernest A. Bryant III at Franklin Art Works, (April)
KFAI Radio, Al Mc Farlane, Conversations with Al, (March 4)
City Pages, Doryun Chong, Artists of the year, (January 8)

2007
www.thadeal.com, Jamal Denman (October 25)
Star & Tribune, Mary Abbe, More than meets the eye, (November 8)
Star & Tribune , Mary Abbe, Bryant's Artful Ragbag, (October 18)

2005
Star & Tribune Mary Abbe, Black to the Future, (October 14)
The Liberator, PENSOUL, Artist of the month, (October 20)

Affiliations
Silver Art Projects, Scholar in Residence
Essex Flowers Gallery, Resident Shareholder/ Stakeholder in Gallery
Criticism + Value
Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab

Institutional Service
—GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY
Interdisciplinary Arts Committee
Gallatin MA, Program Committee
Gallatin MA, RAW Forun
Gallatin MA, Works in Progress
Revitalizing the Gallatin Building, ENNEAD architect consultation
Silver Arts Project (resident fellow)
Graduate and Undergraduate art critique initiative with guests
Search Committee
Criticism + Value (forthcoming publication centering student writing about art) Spring 2025

—STEINHARDT
Search Committee
Undergraduate art critique initiative with guests

—BARD COLLEGE, Bard Microcollege, Brooklyn, Holyoke, Harlem
Publication Design

—Yale University School of Art (Sculpture dept)
MFA, Student advising
MFA, Recommendation