Bryan E. Wheeler, Ph.D.

Bryan Wheeler is a scholar whose research centers on the Interwar Period in the United States. His current work is primarily focused on contextualizing modernization in the American Southwest through the first half of the twentieth century within other critical modernity studies. He has presented numerous papers on the art and modern history of Texas and the Southwest, Southwest Regionalism in the United States, Depression-era art, and New Deal art programs and Deweyan ethics. He has written a chapter, “Boom-shacks to Brick: The New Deal Built Environment in Borger,” for the forthcoming collected volume, The New Deal Built Environment in Texas, edited by George M. Cooper for The University of New Mexico Press. Dr. Wheeler holds a Ph.D. and M.F.A. from Texas Tech University, and a B.F.A. from the University of Montana.

In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Wheeler is a visual artist who has exhibited internationally in museums, commercial galleries, and alternative spaces over the past decades. His paintings, sculpture, photography, and digital works are often large-scale associative explorations of creation myths and cycles of creation and destruction, the uneven development of civilization, modernity's insistences, and identity and exceptionalism in post-Colonial Texas, vis-à-vis other post-Colonialisms, etc. He also regularly collaborates on artworks and projects with other renowned artists, including his brother Jeff Wheeler, Jack Massing, James Surls, Sharon Kopriva, Gary Sweeney, and Hills Snyder, to name a few.

Bryan is also a musician who has fronted the band Los Sonsabitches since 2001 and continues to write, record, produce, and perform.

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