Biography
Bryan Raymundo is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Omaha, NE. Born in Wichita, KS, he spent much of his youth living in Durango, Mexico. Raymundo earned his B.F.A. in Printmaking from Wichita State University in 2019. He then advanced to graduate school where he earned is M.F.A. in Printmaking from Kansas State University in 2023, where he maintained a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. During this time, he earned the GSC Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence. Raymundo also served as the Visiting Assistant Professor and Area Head of Printmaking at Kansas State University for the 2023-2024 academic year. Raymundo is the founder of “Black Fragment Press” and “Butcher Cut Prints” located in Omaha, NE and established in 2024.
Raymundo’s work was reviewed by Samantha Friedman, Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, in 2025. Friedman writes, “Bodies and especially heads – form the basis of drawings by Bryan Raymundo, which harness the smudges and smears inherent to their media to suggest unstable identity or spinning psyches.
Statement
As a first-generation Mexican American, I often feel a sense of displacement between two cultures. I navigate a space of both connection and disconnection, shaped by the duality of my heritage and lived experience. This tension is at the core of my creative practice and is expressed through paintings, drawings, etchings, and woodcuts. These works draw from personal memories, emotions, and experiences that speak to a broader narrative of migration, family, and cultural identity.
Storytelling and symbolism are central to how I communicate visually. I create a symbolic language to express what words often cannot: feelings of belonging, fragmentation, resilience, and pride. My imagery reflects not only my own journey but also shared experiences within the Mexican American community. I’m interested in how individual stories connect to collective history, and how cultural memory is passed down, preserved, and transformed.
