Born in Stuttgart Arkansas, Justin Tyler Bryant received his BFA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and his MFA from the School of Art at Louisiana State University in 2018. Bryant attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University Residential College receiving the Emerging Visions Residency in 2019. His recent work centers notions of representation, fugitivity, and improvisation to create an expansive understanding of African diasporic identity. Bryant is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Philander Smith University.