Bruce Myren

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Bruce Myren is a photographic artist who resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Myren's photographs have been featured in various publications such as the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Afterimage, and View Camera Magazine. His photographs are part of collections owned by Fidelity Investments, the Center for Creative Photography, the Library of Congress, and many private individuals.

His project, The Fortieth Parallel, has been included in critical/art historical essays by Katherine Palmers Albers and Kelly Dennis. He has also been showcased in numerous group exhibitions across the United States and displayed in distinguished art galleries such as the Phoenix Art Museum, RISD Museum's Chace Center, Houston Center of Photography, the William Benton Museum of Art, and Gallery Kayafas, where he is represented.

Aside from his artistic work, Myren is employed at the Boston Public Library's Digitization Lab, is the photographer at the Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnography at Harvard University, and owns Bee Digital Lab. He has taught photography at Fitchburg State University, Amherst College, Rhode Island School of Design, Art & Design at Lesley University, the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Northeastern University.

Myren is an active member of the artistic community, and he has received recognition for his work through a Cambridge Arts Council Grant; he is an alum of Review Santa Fe and served as a juror for the Griffin Museum of Photography and The Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. He has presented on panels at the College Art Association and the Society for Photographic Education national conferences. He was the Northeast Chapter of SPE Chair from 2010-2016.

  • Education
    • Massachusetts College of Art
    • University of Connecticut