About the Artist

Sukey Bryan is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who creates work concerning the cycles of nature in paintings, prints and large-scale installations. She makes work that raises climate awareness and explores our spiritual connection with nature.

A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bryan was artist in residence in Denali National Park, Alaska, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco and Chargepoint Headquarters.

Bryan’s work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. at galleries, colleges and non-profit art spaces and internationally through the State Department Art in the Embassies program. Her work is held in many private and corporate collections.

Bryan graduated from Yale (BA in Fine Arts) and MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art - MFA). She lives and works on the Stanford campus.

Sukey Bryan is a full-time artist who creates internationally exhibiting work drawn from the cycles of nature.

For all inquiries, send a message through the contact page.

Explore Sukey’s Work

  • Paintings & Prints

    Paintings and prints inspired by nature and its cycles. Collections include explorations of sea water, wildfires, skies, and glaciers.

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  • Climate Installations

    Large-scale, immersive, public installations designed to engage, refresh, and explore the beauty of nature.

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Featured Project

Artist Residency in Denali National Park, Alaska

In 2008, Sukey was one of four artists selected for a fellowship to live and work in the park. This is just some of the work that came out of that experience.

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Tedx Talk: “Parts of a Whole”

In this TEDx talk, Sukey Bryan speaks about her experience spending 6 weeks alone in the wilds of Alaska to capture the natural beauty of the land and water.

She was inspired to create a series of paintings of rivers, ice, and sky that document the impact of climate change on this gorgeous and fragile environment.

Career Highlights

    • Selected artist in Fall 2020 show by ecoartspace - featuring 80 artists whose work answers the question “What does it mean to have an ecoconsciousness?” View online catalogue (page 69)

    • Artist in Residence, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 2018

    • Gold Artist Winner, “Blue Competition,” ArtAscent: International Call for Artists (feature article, pages 8 -9)

    • Artist in Residence, Denali National Park and Preserve, 2008

    • National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship, 1993-94

    • Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award in Painting, 1991

  • “The work of installation artist Sukey Bryan features basic elements—fire, water, earth, sky—which offer transcendent openings. She is interested, she says, in “the interaction and transformation of natural elements propelled by tidal, climatic, volcanic and tectonic forces.”

    – The Christian Century

  • Sukey is part of the U.S. Department of State – Art in the Embassies program

    Her work has been shown at the US embassies in Moscow, Russia; Suva, Fiji; Helsinki, Finland, and is on permanent display in Oslo, Norway.

Latest News:

The Ocean within, Stanford University, Encina Commons Moghadam Atrium, 2024, ongoing

  • Article about the exhibition:

New Art Installation Examines the Aesthetics and Academic Importance of the World’s Oceans,

Artwork by artist Sukey Bryan highlights the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to addressing complex issues like climate change.

By Melissa Morgan with photographs by Ari Chasnoff, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University.

Installation: “Hawk’s Home”, 2024-5, ongoing

Stanford University, O’Donohue Family Educational Farm

entrance through gates in Searsville parking lot

created to celebrate Rob Jackson’s book: “Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere”