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Bryan Hunt (1947– ) is an American sculptor whose work is engaged with natural forms and outer space, which are at the heart of his sculptures and paintings. Before beginning his career as a sculptor, Hunt studied architecture and operated as an engineering assistant at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This experience would inform his visual vocabulary. Hunt moved to New York City in 1972 and joined the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. In 1978, Hunt was part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Young American Artists. His work Big Twist, 1978, was installed in the Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden.

Hunt’s early commissioned sculpture was when Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. invited him to create a sculpture for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in western Pennsylvania. Another commission was at the Parc de Clot, Barcelona, Spain. Hunt had been in the Whitney Museum Biennials of 1979, 1981, and 1985 and was featured at the 1980 Venice Biennale. Hunt was represented by Blum-Helman Gallery in New York from 1978 to 1991.

Hunt has work in many international public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the LA County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum.