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ryan.christopherlh@gmail.com
@ryan.christopherlh

About

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Ryan Christopher (b. 1998, UK) is a London-based artist working across sculpture, sound, and text to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice draws on the formal and indexical properties of historical texts, architecture, and music, engaging diverse sources—including early Christian history (with a focus on North Africa, Ethiopia, and Asia Minor) and religious metaphysics—to survey paths of thought and experience. Historical religious texts that critique the dominant ideologies of their time are of particular interest, as are philosophical investigations into the relationship between immaterial entities and material forms, and the intermediaries or ‘pores’ through which such interactions may occur.

Collated experiences of the natural world, divine contact, absence, contradiction, and necessity are suggested through indexical materials such as blinds, printed texts, sound recordings, and plastic models of baptismal fonts. These function as indexes of historical inner workings, which are examined to establish connections and instances of shared experience. Adopting the form of fragments, they are arranged into concise narrative compositions shaped by slight, methodical gestures. At the core of this inquiry is a prevailing interest in how these historical experiences may relate to the present—how a distant voice might articulate the convictions and sensibilities of a human soul, and how, when assembled collectively, such voices may constitute a map of human needs and consolations.

Philosophical inquiry and historical experience thus constitute the basis of his practice, inviting viewers to engage with the complex and intangible phenomena that constitute both expansive and particular systems of relations.

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Education

2024-2025    Sculpture (MA) Royal College of Art, London

2022-2024     De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2018-2021     Fine Art (BA) Coventry University
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Solo & Two Person Exhibitions


2024

Eclogue, St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam 

2023

Queries within articles within questions within distinctions - Michele Bazzoli, Ryan Christopher, De Personeelskamer, Amsterdam

2022 

A morsel of curd, TG, Nottingham

Lyset peger mod vinden (The light points towards the wind) - Synnøve Kruse Serup, Ryan Christopher, Langkat 15, Amsterdam

London Arts Board, London

2021

365 States of a Reservoir - Lucy Grubb, Ryan Christopher, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry

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Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings

2025

SoAH Show: RCA2025, RCA Battersea, London

2024

Festus, The Hangar space, London 

Emami Art Experimental Film Festival, Kolkata

Cylinder, figure, Gem, Spectrum and Stone, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2023

De Ateliers Offspring 2023 - Raamvertelling, De Ateliers, Amsterdam

+1, Woonhuis, Amsterdam 

Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, Woonhuis, Amsterdam

2022

MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London

Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

2021

Hyper-possible, Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

House, Coventry Biennial, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry

Proof, Coventry Biennial, The Old Grammar School, Coventry


Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham

Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham

Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry

Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex

The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)

2020

Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

2019

IYP Bollards Project, Ikon Gallery

CWDT, Tottenham, London

You, me and those who came before, Friargate House, Coventry

You, me and those who came before, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
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Audio

Interview with Robert van Altena

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Selected texts

Slewe Gallery

Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas

London Arts Board

Recent Activity

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Teaching

Christopher has taught as a visiting lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Coventry University and on the Fine Art Mixed Media BA at the University of Westminster. He has also given a talk on the Fine Art BA at the Ruskin school of art, Oxford.  


Writing

2025

Jeano Edwards, In the Dark the Tides Shines Bright (Short story contribution)

2023

Solène Gün bio text 

2022

Jeano Edwards, In the Wake of a Glow, Exhibition Text

2021

Jeano Edwards - EverWonderful Introduction

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