After graduating college, he became an in-house Graphic Designer for Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA. After a couple years, and getting married, he and his wife relocated to Charlotte, NC, where he began teaching art at a public school and obtained his teaching credentials at University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
It was in 2012 that Bryan decided to take his painting, and picture making, ability to another level by pursuing his MFA in Drawing/Painting at the Academy of Art University where he graduated in 2015. Later, in 2020 he obtained his masters in arts administration to round out his knowledge base regards the arts as an industry and ecosystem. He is now exhibiting throughout the US and abroad alongside other distinguished artists.