Kat Ryals

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.

2010 BFA, Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
2015 MFA, Fine Arts, Brooklyn College
2016 Adv. Certificate, Museum Education, Brooklyn College

2019
Drink Me, Taste Me, LIC-A, Queens, NY
ON SITE 2019, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ad Astra Per Aspera, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Shadow of the Gradient, Ortega Y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY
Now is the Future, Local Project Space, Queens, NY

2018
Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Witching Other, Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Change of State, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Artist Photonics, The Holocenter, New York, NY