Hello, I’m Breanna. 

I am a multidisciplinary artist and art therapist based in Minnesota working in photography, mindful drawing, collage, and mixed media. My practice is informed by my work as an art therapist, where I support others in using creativity for reflection, expression, learning, and connection through inclusive, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches. I am particularly interested in creating spaces where people can explore their strengths, express themselves authentically, and discover new perspectives through the creative process.

My work—both personal and in community creative spaces—is rooted in curiosity, experimentation, attention, and allowing meaning to unfold over time. I am interested in how creativity can hold complexity, contradiction, humor, and the parts of ourselves that do not fit neatly into categories. I am drawn to the unexpected ways insight, change, and new perspectives can emerge through creative exploration, and to the ways art often mirrors life: requiring patience, risk-taking, adaptation, and a willingness to not always know the outcome.  

There is often a sense of “multiple directions at once” in how I work —different materials, ways of seeing, and ways of making that coexist rather than resolve into a single style. I tend to move across mediums rather than stay in one lane, following curiosity as it shifts and letting process guide what I make next.

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EDUCATION


Master’s in Adlerian Psychotherapy & Counseling with an emphasis in Art Therapy, Adler Graduate School, February 2021-December 2023

BFA in Photography, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 2013-2017


EXHIBITIONS

North Star Collage,  Boiler Room Coffee, Minneapolis, MN, 2024

The Shadow Aspect, International juried group exhibition, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2024

Start at Home, What The World Needs Now, Northern Spark Art Festival collaboration with Native Youth Arts Collective and Mini Oski Ain Dah Yung, 2023

The 2023 Love Exhibition, Lenscratch, 2023

2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs, Lenscratch, 2022

Too Tired Project Pop-Up Show, Canton, New York, 2019

Some Days Just Are: Bridget Badore and Breanna Bisek, 2018

The Floating Library, St. Paul, MN, 2018

Recent Works by MCAD Artists, Barnes & Thornburg Law Offices, Minneapolis, MN, 2018

Made at MCAD, Juried group exhibition, MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2017

Happy Camera, group exhibition, A-Mill Artist Lofts, Minneapolis, MN 2016

Focus: Black and White, Juried group exhibition, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016

Made at MCAD, Juried group exhibition, MCAD Main Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2016


EXPERIENCE

ATR-P (Art Therapist Provisional) and Pre-Licensed LPCC, Bloom Studios, June 2025-Present

Art Therapy Workshop Facilitator,  Minneapolis Institute of Art + Blue Cross + Boys and Girls Club, November-February 2025

Art Therapy Group Facilitator, Mino Oski Ain Dah Yung, March 2022-January 2023 and Present

Art Therapy Intern, Art Therapy of MN, February 2023-December 2023

Art Therapy Group Facilitator, Guild Services, 2022-2023

Teaching Assistant, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, August 2017-2018

Intern, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN, April 2016-2017

Freelance Portrait Photography, Breanna Bisek Photography, 2014-2017

Intern, Soth Studios, St. Paul, MN, January-August 2016

Intern, Cadence and Eli Photography, Minneapolis, MN, June-August 2015

Muralist, New Prague Area Community Center, New Prague, MN, 2013
© Breanna Bisek 2017-2025