I am pleased to announce an upcoming show at Bluerider Art in their Manhattan Beach gallery.
Bluerider ART LA•Manhattan Beach is honored to announce ‘Bryan Ida : Portrait Remix’, a 2026 solo exhibition by American artist Bryan Ida, opening September 19, 2026. This marks Ida’s solo at Bluerider ART after ten years — from Floating California (2014) and City Symphony (2016) to Portrait Remix today, a clear trajectory comes into focus: from urban landscape, to the ripple of natural water, and now, for the first time, his gaze narrows to the face — human and animal alike, held within a single unified logic of looking.
A portrait of my father based on a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange when she was commissioned by the War Relocation Authority to photograph the Internment of Japanese Americans residing on the west coast during WWII
The piece is rendered using the text from a declaration that was posted all over San Francisco ordering people of Japanese descent to evacuate the West Coast where they eventually ended up in internment camps inland of the coast.
I was lucky to find three photographs taken by Dorothea Lange of my father and his family in San Francisco when he was 17. He went on to enlist into the U.S. Army out of the Topaz Internment camp in Utah and served as an interrogator and interpreter in the Pacific theatre for the Military Intelligence Service.
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