Michael Ryan

I am an American living and working for many years in the silvery light and rich artistic heritage of the Netherlands. In 2001 the Dutch government extended me citizenship on the basis of my cultural importance to the country.

Following four years of study at the National Academy and the Art Students League of NY on scholarship, an accidental meeting with a Dutchman in New York in 1980 led to a triple portrait commission in the Netherlands the following year. Together with three friends, these four sponsors helped launch my career in The Netherlands. From 1981-1983 I executed more than 50 portrait commissions in Holland, Belgium, England and the USA.Thereafter I began focusing more exclusively on my free work.

In 1983 I began showing with the Borzo
Gallery and the ING Bank began collecting my work for their prestigious collection. Borzo continues to represent me in their gallery in Amsterdam and has as well exhibited my work at the FIAC in Paris, the Armory in New York and the TEFAF in Maastricht. The ING Bank Collection has now amassed more than 140 pieces of my art. In America I have been represented by galleries in San Francisco CA, Boca Raton, FL, New York, NY, Westport CT, Charleston SC and Burlingame CA, The Netherland...

Memphis Academy of Art (Memphis TN)
National Academy of Design (New York, NY)
Art Student’s League (New York, NY)

Solo Exhibitions
. 2023 - De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, Netherlands
•. 2022 - De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, Netherlands
• 2016 - Art Traverse, De Bilt, The Netherlands
• 2014 - Borzo Modern and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
• 2010 - Kunstgalerie Geinhoeve, Broek in Waterland
• 2010 - Architectenbureau Jowa, Amsterdam
• 2010 - Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam
• 2009 - Open Atelier/Borzo Gallery
• 2008 - Open Atelier/Borzo Gallery
• 2007 - Dillon Gallery, New York, NY
• 2007 - Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam
• 2004 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 2004 - ING Bank, Geneva Switzerland-Overview Exhibition
• 2000 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 1999 - Dillon Gallery, New York, NY
• 1998 - Dillon Gallery, New York, NY
• 1995 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 1994 - Museum Markiezenhof
• 1989 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 1989 - Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1988 - Gallery den Breems, Westport, CT
• 1987 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 1986 - Gallery Lenten, The Netherlands
• 1984 - Kunsthandel Borzo, 's Hertogenbosch
• 1982 - Gallery de Stouwe

Museum exhibitions

• 2012 - Artist in Residence, Zuider Zee Museum, Enkhuizen
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