Biography

Bryan Scariano (b. 1984, New York) is a self-taught contemporary mixed media artist living and working in Florida. A background in finance and a career as a real estate broker gave him a daily fluency in contracts, ledgers, and the ambitions people attach to property and wealth, and his studio practice turns that world inside out. He builds surfaces from layers of collage, found paper, and vintage ephemera, then scrapes, sands, and reworks them until only traces remain. Recognizable forms like prices and property deeds surface and dissolve, so meaning shifts and the viewer is left to assemble their own reading.

His recent work centers on vintage 1980s Monopoly boards, the game that taught generations to buy, build, and bankrupt one another long before they owned a home. Scariano draws out its nostalgia and its sharper edges: the thrill of the deal, the luck of the roll, the thin line between Boardwalk and Go to Jail. For an artist who has spent his career inside real markets, the board becomes part memory, part critique, and part love letter to the gamble of ownership. His work has been exhibited at CONTEXT Art Miami, the LA Art Show, Affordable Art Fair New York, Art Palm Beach, and Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and he is represented by Steidel Contemporary.