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b. 1965
Liza Ryan uses her work in photography, video, and mixed media to address a variety of intellectual pursuits. Her themes include the presentation and disruption of the visual narrative; the fluid psychological relationship between real and imagined spaces; processes of release, dispersal, and disappearance; and a fantastical, more intimate union between man and nature. She has been heavily influenced by the storytelling tradition of the American South, as well as years of research into psychology, feminism, and nature. This last subject she views not in terms of the peace and serenity with which urban and suburban dwellers so often associate it, but rather as a primal arena of power, ruthlessness, and survival – as well as a fertile ground for metaphor.
Liza Ryan was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1965. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She was one of three American artists (along with Julie Mehretu and Sharon Lockhart) selected to exhibit at the Biennale of Sydney (2006), for which she created the large-scale mixed media installation Something tells me she didn’t look back. Ryan has been included in museum exhibitions at The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Miami Art Museum. Most recently, Ryan had a solo exhibition at Reed College’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery in 2009 (for which a catalog was published). She has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts and Hollins University Art Gallery in Virginia. In 2009, The J. Paul Getty Museum announced its acquisition through a gift from Manfred and Hanna Heiting of a thirty-foot long multi-paneled photographic work. Her work is also held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris, among others. Ryan lives and works in Los Angeles.
Master of Fine Arts, California State University at Fullerton
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
"Fragment", Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins, University, Roanoke, Virginia
"Rare Bloom", Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica, California
"Exploded Moment", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica
"Spill", Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (catalog)
"New Work: Video and Photographs", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Motion Pictures", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California (catalog)
"Fluid", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
G-C Arts, Las Vegas, NV
William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Surface", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Weight of Light", Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Witness", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Hollins University Art Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia
"State of Mind: A California Invitational", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Biennale of Sydney: Zones of Contact, Australia
"Weather", William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Contemporary Photography from The Manfred Heiting Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
"Soft Machines", The Brewery, Los Angeles, California
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The NSM Vie Foundation and the MEP: Supporting Young Photography, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
Amerika-Europa, Ein kunslerischer Dialog, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Portretten & Stillevens: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Double Visions: Photographs from the Strauss Collection", University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
"Inhabiting", Galerie Lelong, New York
California Invitational, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
TCM at 12: Recent Acquisitions, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Summer Group Exhibition, Galerie Lelong, New York
"Self/Developed", Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Domestic Pleasures", Galerie Lelong, New York
"Threshold and Domestic Space", Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia
"Body/Language", SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
"Sig-alert", Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
"Degrees of Stillness: Images from the Manfred Heiting Collection", SSK Foundation - August Sander Archive, Cologne, Germany
"Personal Visions", Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
"Lightscapes", Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada
"Spread", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Luminous Code", Texas Fine Arts, Austin, Texas. Curated by Jennifer Blessing, curator at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Current Fictions: Work by Emerging Artists", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Documenta, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California
"Pursuing the Undocumentable", Los Angeles, California. Curated by Sue Spaid.
"P.L.A.N: Photography Los Angeles Now", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California