Bryan Ida

🎉 The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery reopens Thursday, July 17 with COLA 2025 — design and visual artist exhibition — an exhibition honoring the design and visual arts recipients of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs' Independent Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP) 2025 Grant! Now in its 28th year, the COLA IMAP Grant Program celebrates the bold, original work of L.A.-based visual and design artists. This year's five grantees — Carmen Argote, Olivia Booth, Bryan Ida, Flora Kao, and Jemima Wyman — were selected by a panel of past grantees and community experts, and invited to debut new works that reflect their core artistic vision. 🗓 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 4–6 PM 🖼 Exhibition Dates: July 17 – August 30 Come celebrate the creative voices shaping Los Angeles!

I am honored and grateful to be a recipient of the Individual Support Grant from the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Their support is a meaningful reminder of why I keep showing up to do the work. Thank you for investing in artists and making it possible for us to continue our work with focus and integrity. @gottliebfoundation #gottliebfoundation #ArtistSupport #Gratitude #ArtistGrant

"Blue Wave" 30 x 40 acrylic on panel San Francisco Art Fair April 16-19 at Fort Mason Billis Williams Gallery Booth F06 DM if you want passes

Billis Williams Gallery Intersect Palm Springs Art + Design Fair February 12-16 Palm Springs Convention Center Palm Springs, California USA DM me if you need a pass

Bluerider ART is honored to announce the launch of "Pegasus," a special exhibition for the Year of the Horse. ”Pegasus” marks the beginning of 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse (Bingwu), symbolizing surging vitality and a fierce spirit of enterprise. Within the cycle of the Chinese Zodiac, the "Horse" has always been synonymous with masculinity, power, and speed, representing the primal drive to break free from shackles and forge ahead. The horse is not merely a traveler of the earth but a vessel for the soul; it is the medium connecting reality with ideals, and matter with spirit. In an era of rapid technological change, we crave this "Pegasus-like" courage—to refuse complacency, to shun well-trodden paths, and to reshape the world through imagination. These two works are up at Bluerider ART LA · Manhattan Beach 1030 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Opening Hours: Tue – Sun 10am – 6:30pm

Intersect Palm Springs welcomes @BillisWilliams.Gallery as a new exhibiting gallery at the 2026 fair. Woman-owned and painting-focused, Billis/Williams Gallery is known for a rigorous, technique-driven approach to contemporary abstraction and material exploration. At the fair, the gallery will present works by Bryan Ida, Danny Heller, Leslie Lewis Sigler, Gina Minichino, and Nina Tichava—artists whose practices emphasize process, surface, and the physical language of paint. Through layered mark-making, structural experimentation, and a commitment to craft, the presentation highlights painting as both material inquiry and conceptual practice. 🎟️ Support women shaping the art world — plan your visit via the link in bio. _ Bryan Ida, “Immersion,” 2017. Acrylic and resin on panel, 23 x 17 in. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery. Danny Heller, “Jaffe House Poolscape,” 2016. Oil on canvas, 36 x 84 in. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery. Leslie Lewis Sigler, “Love Language 28,” 2025. Oil on panel, 17 x 17 in. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery. Gina Minichino, “In And Out,” 2025. Oil on panel, 12 x 16 in. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery. Nina Tichava, “Creamy miles of quiet. Giant swoops of blue,” 2023. Acrylic, ink, charcoal, graphite, pen, paper collage and brass on panel, 16 x 60 in. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery. @ninatichava @bryanida @dannyhellerart @leslielewissigler_artist @ginaminichino #BillisWilliamsGallery #WomanOwned #IntersectArtFair #IntersectPalmSprings #WomenInArt

Geometric explorations of memory and time from Bryan Ida’s 2016-17 series on view at SCOPE Art Show in Miami. @bryanida @scopeartshow Bryan Ida’s work is a visually stunning tour de force incorporating elegant patterns, delicate marking-making overlaying intricate under-structures, and ranging from subtle nuanced colors to intense jewel-tones. Uniting the different bodies of work is a desire to capture a moment - sometimes it is the experience of a place, sometimes of a thought, sometimes an emotion. Ida explores the complicated relationships that are human existence and what it means to live in the world. He is visually exploring concepts such as time and memory, the experience of physical spaces, and the deeply fracturing social/political/environmental issues that exist in society. The paintings embody wonder and beauty and yet their messages are nuanced and complicated. There is a depth to the work physically in Ida’s layering process that reflects the multi-faceted depth of the human experience. Bryan Ida Immersion, 2017 acrylic and resin on panel 23x17 in. The Sound of Color, 2017 acrylic and resin on panel 17x23 in. #bryanida #scopeartshow #miamiartweek #billiswilliamsgallery

"She Buried Deep" 48 x 36 oil on canvas Renaissance Black Series 1997-1998 In 1997 I discovered a technique used during the renaissance where they used many layers of paint to build a transparent, luminous black instead of an opaque, flat black. The colors used were yellow ochre, burnt sienna, terre verte green, alizarin crimson, prussian blue and aureolin yellow. In order to learn more about glazing and building a luminous dark I reduced my palette to these 6 colors. You can see the luminosity coming from the back instead of light highlights painted over the top. Last week to see "Modulation: A 30 year Survey" Sept 6th thru Oct 4th, 2025 Billis Williams Gallery 2716 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles,, CA 90034 The show chronicles 30 years of my need to explore and learn materials and techniques as I seek personal forms and compositions.

"The Rose" 24x21 acrylic on panel 2025 "From Sea To Sky—The Blue Axis" Bluerider ART LA • Manhattan Beach Inaugural Exhibition Exhibition Dates: September 20 – November 23, 2025 Bluerider ART LA • Manhattan Beach 1030 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 am – 6:30 pm

"A Preference to be Entitled" 72x45 Oil on canvas 2006 From my “City or Nature; Longing and Need” (2004-2006) series where I juxtapose angular cityscapes with the curves of natural river rocks. The feeling of support contrasted with the appearance of instability. "Modulation: A 30 year Survey" Sept 6th thru Oct 4th, 2025 Billis Williams Gallery 2716 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles,, CA 90034 The show chronicles 30 years of my need to explore and learn materials and techniques as I seek personal forms and compositions.

@blueriderartusa held a fantastic grand opening today filled with stunning art in a beautiful, elegant, and inspiring setting in Manhattan Beach. Gorgeous art including lovely work from @bryanida and @rineboyer among so many fine artists - don’t miss! PART ONE

"Moment" 40 x 30 acrylic pn panel 2025 From the water series where I am inspired by my experiences while fishing up and down the west coast of North America. Mostly Mexico and California I have fished oceans, lakes, and waterways and created images and scenes that are inspired by my experiences. Water reveals its gifts to me with grace and dignity yet with unforgiving force it is an awe inspiring phenomenon of great beauty and power. "Modulation: A 30 year Survey" Sept 6th thru Oct 4th, 2025 Billis Williams Gallery 2716 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles,, CA 90034 The show chronicles 30 years of my need to explore and learn materials and techniques as I seek personal forms and compositions on my own terms.