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Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan (b. 1984, Santa Monica, USA) creates sculptures in the palette of the American vernacular, drawings on trinkets, hobbies and leisure; the glory and rudimentary phenomena of nature; and the playground-cum-junkyard of abundance at that country’s heart. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Ryan has held institutional solo exhibitions at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA; and the Cc Foundation & Art Centre, Shanghai. Her work is held in public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Kathleen Ryan lives and works in New York.

Education

2014, MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles
2006, BA Studio Art and Anthropology, Pitzer College, Claremont

Solo Exhibitions

2024
(Forthcoming) Banquet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2023
Beachcomber, François Ghebaly, New York

2022
Red Rose, Josh Lilley, London

2021
Kathleen Ryan, Karma, New York

2020
Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano
Bad Fruit, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

2019
Kathleen Ryan,The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Cultivator, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge

2018
Seven Sculptures at Sunset, Josh Lilley, London
Man Made Moon, CC Foundation & Art Centre, Putuo District, Shanghai

2017
Pink Hook Iron Eyes, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
Bacchante, Theseus Temple Commission, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Weightless Again, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

2016
Kathleen Ryan, Josh Lilley, London

Group Exhibitions

2023
Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Spirit in the Land, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC Junkyard of Dreams, Bortolami, New York, NY

2022
Fruiting Bodies, Tanya Bonakdar, New York
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, New York
Strange Attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 3: Lost In Space, Organized by Bob Nickas, APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, Italy

2021
The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley, London
Bodywork: Discomfort and Existence, Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2020
50 Years of the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2019
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley, London
Desert X 2019, Coachella Valley, California
Bad Peach, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
Alternate Realities: Selection of Works from the Collection, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal

2018
Frieze London Sculpture Park, with Josh Lilley, London
I Had a Landscape in My Arms, Josh Lilley, London
Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah
Liquid Dreams, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Sculpture, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Spieltrieb, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Pine Barrens, Tanya Bonakdar, New York
Vision Valley, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale

2017
The Leftovers, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
L'Été plus vaste que l'Empire..., Wentrup Gallery, Berlin
Webutuk Vuitton, The Re Institute, Millerton
Gates of Hell, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles

2016
Water Biscuit, Josh Lilley, London
Flavr Savr*, The Pit, Los Angeles
Performing the Grid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles

2015
Frieze London Sculpture Park, with Francois Ghebaly Gallery and Josh Lilley
Jeff, Grice Bench, Los Angeles
SOGTFO, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles
71st Scripps Ceramics Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont

2014
Artificial Complexion, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
Control Lapse, Josh Lilley, London
2x2x2: Nevine Mahmoud & Kathleen Ryan, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles
The White Album, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
ck one daily, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
A Meerkat’s Whistle, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles
Temecula, Helmuth Projects, San Diego
MFA #3, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
Corporeal Impulse, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park