Bio:

Dustin Brinkman is an artist and printmaker who uses printmaking, bookmaking, and papermaking to explore themes of identity, gender, and material resonance. Spending most of his life in the Midwest, Brinkman holds a BFA in printmaking from Bowling Green State University 2016 and an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio State University 2021. From 2024-2026, Brinkman served as the Vice President for the Mid America Print Council and currently holds the position of Instructional Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Mississippi.

Artist Statement:

My work is a collage of the fragmented landscape, boundless spaces that need mending. Through the repair and recontextualization of these displaced moments, I interrogate intersections of home, material resonance, gender, and identity. While carving a relief block or washing out a screen I am excavating the past, present, and future, navigating uncertain terrain through questioning and discovery. Upon this unearthing of what lies beneath the surface, I am presented with spaces, events, and truths that have been hidden, by me or from me. Together, each individual layer of information becomes a larger portion of the collective body, a vessel that delineates who, what, where, and why I am. They become a commingled history, a cosmic rhythm that aligns and retracts. These are the internal and external forces pulling and calling out in multiple directions, a thread between the tender and brutal moments of what is and what will become.