Bry Sharland (he/him) is an artist and art teacher. He is the creator of Pink Triangle Portraits, a quest to paint or draw a portrait of every photographed queer victim of the Nazi regime and Paragraph 175. These works give color and dignity to those that had it stripped away, and contain biographies about the victim researched by Bry. In high school he first started learning about the Nazi persecution of queer people, and by college he was starting to create artworks to highlight lesser known categories of people that were persecuted. His desire to tell these stories was driven by the fact that queer people continued to be denigrated and punished even after the fall of the Third Reich.  

The lack of recognition and justice for queer victims has inspired Bry to continue his artworks and continually search for new individuals to document. Through his work, he hopes people will stop and contemplate those who paved the way for our rights today, and understand just how tenuous those rights can be around the world.

Bry lives with his husband and dog Luna in Massachusetts.​