Frank J. Ryan

Education

2006 MFA, Painting and Drawing, UCLA
2002 BFA, Painting, Sonoma State University
2000 Academia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Lived Perspective, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Cloak, Iterations of a Draped Figure, SSU Library Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2013 Liminal View, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Circadian Rhythm, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Epoch, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 New Paintings, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (plus Cat House), Serious Topics, Los Angeles, CA
2018 L.A. Looking (or how to engage your stranger friends), LAVA Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Salon at the Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2015 We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles, Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2012 Frank Ryan, Ben Rivera, KM Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Art WMDs, LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lectures and Presentations

2024 Frank Ryan in Conversation with Patty Wickman, Track 16 Gallery, June 26, 2024
2016 – 2025 Guest Artist, Ryman Arts at OTIS College of Art and Design, October
2019, March 3, 2019, October 14, February 2018; April 23, 2017; November 13, 2016; March 6, 2016
2014 Mark Perlman in Conversation with Frank Ryan, Sonoma State University Library Gallery, October 30, 2014
2013 Guest Lecturer, UCLA Summer School for the Arts, July 10, 2013
2010-2014 Guest Lecturer, Sonoma State University Department of Visual Art, March 2, 2010; September 3, 2013; October 26, 2014 Demonstration, Advanced Painting, October 29, 2014

Residencies

2013 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, California

Publications

2017 New American Paintings #127: Pacific Coast Competition, Juror: Jarrett Gregory, Associate Curator, LACMA, Los Angeles
2007 New American Paintings #73: Pacific Coast Competition, Juror: Alma Ruiz, Senior Curator, MOCA, Los Angeles

Reviews

2024 Lawrence Gipe, “Frank Ryan’s Lived Perspective at Track 16,” Noah Becker’s White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, June 28, 2024
2012 Geoff Tuck, “Ben Rivera, Frank Ryan at Gallery KM,” Notes on Looking, May 24, 2012
2009 Leah Ollman, “Review: Frank Ryan at Walter Maciel Gallery”, Culture Monster, LA Times Blog, May 29, 2009
2006 Tom Christie and Holly Myers, “Afterschool Art, LA Weekly’s Annual Biennial,” LA Weekly, September 6, 2006.