Dylan Guest is an interdisciplinary artist from Baltimore, Maryland.  He attended the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology and then graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture.  

Dylan’s work includes paintings and drawings but his main focus is in sculpture where he explores a wide range of mediums to demonstrate his point of view.  A quiet child who rarely spoke due to learning disabilities, Guest found art-making to be a profound conduit for communication.  It was through his art that Guest credits his success and confidence during his early education.  

In his early work, Guest used light, color and space to create three-dimensional references to science, nature, and man’s role in the world.  A lot of his work has focused on the struggles and triumphs of the individual which, he feels, directly reflects his own experiences.

After receiving the VSA Kennedy Center Grand Prize Award, Sustaining/Creating in 2012 for his sculpture titled Holding His Own, his work was featured in the group exhibition which displayed at the Smithsonian’s Dillon S. Ripley Museum, toured the United States and made a European stop in St. Petersburg, Russia. His work is featured on the cover of the debut CD for the music recording group Lynchpyn based in London, England. Dylan’s work was exhibited at the 25/40 Celebration, Focus Forward, curated by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC and at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum. Dylan is the recipient of many additional awards including: 

• 2013 Young Arts finalist award

• The Northern Baltimore County Arts Foundation Scholarship Award (2012)

• The Pierians Incorporated Scholarship Award (2012)

• Ed Smith Art Scholarship Fund (2012) 

• The NAACP - ACTSO- National- Gold Medal for Sculpture (2012)

• The VSA-Kennedy Center and Volkswagon Group of America 2012 Sustaining/Creating Grand Prize Award 
  
  The Foundation is proud to honor Dylan Guest's exceptional artistic talents, and to present to him the National Project Award in support of his future endeavors as an aspiring young artist.