Bryant Portwood is a contemporary figurative painter living and working out of Fredericksburg, VA. Bryant received his BA in Studio Art with an Art History minor from Centre College and his MFA in Painting with an Anatomy minor from the New York Academy of Art. He has exhibited work along the East coast from Sugarlift Gallery in New York City to the Miami Oriental as part of Miami Art Week. He was awarded Best Local Artist by Charlotte Magazine for their BOB (Best of the Best) awards in 2023 and 2024, and Bryant has had his work featured in Create Magazine, Buzzfeed, The Blue Review, The Wall Street Journal, Thinking With Paper, and This Quarantine Life: A Comic Anthology.