Orb V - Limited Edition of 3 Photograph

Katharine Ryals b. 1988 Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Kat Ryals is a southerner who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. In 2015, she completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Brooklyn College, followed by a certificate in Museum Education in 2016. Ryals has shown her work nationally, and was included in recent group exhibitions with the Holocenter on Governor’s Island, Temporary Storage Gallery at Brooklyn Fireproof, Ortega Y Gasset, and the Wassaic Project. She has also completed several artist residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship in January 2018, the Wassaic Project in January 2019, and she has just returned from a residency at ChaNorth in August 2019. She is the cofounder of the curatorial project and art space, Paradice Palase, based out of Bushwick, Brooklyn. In recent years, she has been pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to her artistic practice where she creates lens based and digital works, 3D objects, wearables, and installations.