Stephanie Ryan

My work is an investigation of the human psyche, as relates to dreams, memory, and reverie. I am interested also in family systems--their various forms and definitions--using techniques that include layering, fragmentation and appropriation to undermine familiar narratives relating to socially accepted views of the family and its functions.

I hope to raise questions on the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other types of psychological scarring that may result from war, forced relocation, imprisonment and violent conflict; specifically, how these events may mutate or infect subsequent generations, shaping the psychological underpinnings of the family system, that serve as the motivating factors, conscious or unconscious, of the human psyche.


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1997: MFA from University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
1991: BFA from Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri.

2023: Solo Exhibition; Fig Tree Gallery, Fresno, CA (upcoming in October)
2022: "7x7.LA: Selected Artist & Writer Collaborations," Beyond Baroque Mike Kelly Gallery, Venice, CA
2021: "Strained Separations: Reflections on a Pandemic," SUNY Brockport Tower Gallery, Brockport, NY
2018: "Stephanie J. Ryan", CCC Gallery, Clovis Community College, Clovis, CA.
"On Hysteria", Vernissage, Fresno, CA.
2017: "Figurative Introductions: Julia Field, Stephanie Ryan and Rachel Clark," Invitational exhibition, James Kaneko Gallery, ARC, Sacramento, CA.
2016: "Life. Death. Whatever." Group invitational exhibition, Sutton House, London.
2015: "Monte Dei Fiori Collective Award Exhibition" Galerie Métanoïa, Paris, France; featuring works by Sedi PAK, Tomoko SEKINO, Simona PETRAUSKAITE, Jacky KOOKEN, Pascale VINÉ, Valérie EGUCHI, SYLVAIN and Stephanie J. RYAN
"EXPO 34," juried exhibition, BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
2014: " A Single Grain of Rice", Group Exhibition, Galerie Métanoïa, Paris, France.
2013: "Breath of Spring," Pacific Art League Main Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

2012: "Figures & Faces," Pacific Art League Main Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

2007: Armenian Exchange; Gallery 25, Gyumri, Armenia.
California Prints: An Invitational Exhibition...