Brett Kallusky
Brett Kallusky is a photographer, educator, and arts leader based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Born in 1975 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he received his B.F.A. in photography from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and his M.F.A. in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Since 2007, he has taught photography full-time while maintaining an active studio practice, and currently serves as professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls.
Kallusky’s work examines landscape, memory, place, and the cultural and environmental traces embedded within contemporary life. His photographs have appeared in Aint-Bad Magazine and National Geographic Online. He is the author of Journey with Views/Viaggio con Vista (self-published, 2014) and Landfill: Elegy for the Santa Maria Valley (George Thompson Publishing, 2022).
A Fulbright Program Fellow to Italy, Kallusky has received three Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants and numerous Faculty Professional Development and Research Grants from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. He is also a two-time finalist for the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photography and Visual Arts.
Kallusky is actively involved with the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), where he serves on the national Board of Directors and multiple organizational committees, including the Executive Committee and Conference Committee. He also served as Chair of the SPE 2026 national conference in Atlanta, helping guide programming and professional exchange within the field of photographic education.
bkallusky@gmail.com