Bryn Barnard is an award-winning author,artist, and teacher. His presentations focus on creativity, innovation, and the connections between history, technology, biology, and culture.  He has been a Fulbright fellow and a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.

Bryn has been a keynote speaker at the Environmental Council of States annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee; the Caring for Colorado annual public health conference in Denver; and the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC.  He has been a featured speaker at Kuwait University medical school; the International School Librarians conference in Doha, Qatar; the ICON illustration conference in Portland, Oregon; World Affairs Councils in New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Rock Island, Illinois; at Islamic centers and mosques in New York City, Boston, Washington DC; and the Islamic Society of North America annual conference in Chicago.  

As a Consulting Associate of the Universities Field Staff International, Bryn been a guest speaker at multiple American universities, including California State University, Fullerton;University of Missouri St. Louis and Kansas City; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Michigan State University, Lansing; University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee; Kansas City Art Institute; Art Institute of Southern California; and University of Utah, Logan.

Bryn has been a guest speaker and workshop leader at 36 international schools in the US, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Bryn has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington DC. His work is in the permanent collection of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Bryn’s illustration career spans thirty years, with clients that include NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scientific American and National Geographic. He is the author of four books published by Random House: Dangerous Planet - Natural Disasters That Changed History; Outbreak - Plagues That Changed History; The Genius of Islam -How Muslims Made the Modern World; and The New Ocean -The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea. This Changes Everything! The Promise and Problem of Inventions is forthcoming in 2025

Bryn has been an assistant professor in the department of Art at the University of Delaware, Newark; an adjunct professor in the department of Art at the University of Pittsburgh/Semester at Sea; a senior instructor in the department of Illustration at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; and a visiting professor in the department of Art at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. He has taught International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Visual Art and Theory of Knowledge at the American International School Kuwait; International School of Busan, Korea; and the Canadian International School, Singapore.

Bryn has a BA in Studio Art and Asian Studies from the University of California Berkeley. He studied illustration at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, shadow puppet theater at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His thesis, “Breaking With Tradition: Innovation in Malaysian Batik,” won the University of California Berkeley’s Kroeber Prize. He has international teaching certification from Cambridge University, and the European Council of International Schools.

He lives with his wife on Lopez Island,Washington