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ryanclhart98@gmail.com
Video/Sound
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg 2022
HD video
5:55
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg 2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)
About
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Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an Amsterdam-based artist working through sculpture and video to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice is a process of amalgamation in which the formal and indexical properties of found materials—objects, images, text and sound—are brought into antinomic juxtapositions. Strands of theological anthropology, christian existentialism, and post-colonial theory are configured into sculptural narratives. Material juxtapositions appear compressed, succinct and as imperceptible as human gestures can be. An internal movement of faith, as a qualitative leap, can be succeeded by the turn of a head. Fluctuations can be subject to human depravity and grace or water can be left to evaporate.
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Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an Amsterdam-based artist working through sculpture and video to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice is a process of amalgamation in which the formal and indexical properties of found materials—objects, images, text and sound—are brought into antinomic juxtapositions. Strands of theological anthropology, christian existentialism, and post-colonial theory are configured into sculptural narratives. Material juxtapositions appear compressed, succinct and as imperceptible as human gestures can be. An internal movement of faith, as a qualitative leap, can be succeeded by the turn of a head. Fluctuations can be subject to human depravity and grace or water can be left to evaporate.
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Education
2022-2024 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2018-2021 Fine Art (BA) Coventry University
2017-2018 Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Coventry University
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Forthcoming
De Ateliers Offspring, Amsterdam, 2023
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Solo Shows
A morsel of curd, TG, Nottingham, 2022
London Arts Board, London, 2022
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Group Shows & Screenings
2022
Lyset peger mod vinden (The light points towards the wind), Duo show - Synnøve Kruse Serup, Ryan Christopher, Langkat 15, Amsterdam, 2022
MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London, 2022
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, 2022
2021
Hyper-possible, Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 2021
House, Coventry Biennial, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry, 2021
Proof, Coventry Biennial, The Old Grammar School, Coventry, 2021
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham, 2021
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham, 2021
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham, 2021
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, 2021
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London, 2021
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, 2021
The Molasses Gallery, London, 2021
Spatial Intervention, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, 2021
365 STATES OF A RESERVOIR (Joint Show) Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Black Future, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Online Showcase
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
A Space Between, Birmingham
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
To be Within, 2Tone Village, Coventry
Open Projections, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Coventry Drawing Prize, Classroom Gallery, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
International Women's Day, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
2018
Ryan Christopher & Smilo Mathias, The Box, Fargo Village, Coventry
CWDT, Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London
2017
CWDT, Tottenham, London
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Text
Coventry Biennial
London Arts Board
Tiwani Contemporary
Recent Activity
Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects Commission
Focal Point Gallery
Mutual Art
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I-D
Dazed
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Writing
2022
Jeano Edwards, In the Wake of a Glow, Exhibition Text
2021
Jeano Edwards - EverWonderful Introduction
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Awards
2020
Commended, Herbert Open
2019
Art Society Award, Rugby Open
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Education
2022-2024 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2018-2021 Fine Art (BA) Coventry University
2017-2018 Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Coventry University
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Forthcoming
De Ateliers Offspring, Amsterdam, 2023
.
Solo Shows
A morsel of curd, TG, Nottingham, 2022
London Arts Board, London, 2022
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Group Shows & Screenings
2022
Lyset peger mod vinden (The light points towards the wind), Duo show - Synnøve Kruse Serup, Ryan Christopher, Langkat 15, Amsterdam, 2022
MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London, 2022
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, 2022
2021
Hyper-possible, Coventry Biennial, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 2021
House, Coventry Biennial, The Hyper-Lab, Coventry, 2021
Proof, Coventry Biennial, The Old Grammar School, Coventry, 2021
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham, 2021
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham, 2021
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham, 2021
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, 2021
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London, 2021
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, 2021
The Molasses Gallery, London, 2021
Spatial Intervention, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, 2021
365 STATES OF A RESERVOIR (Joint Show) Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
The Mountain Garden, Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects (Online)
2020
Black Future, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Online Showcase
Herbert Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
2019
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
A Space Between, Birmingham
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
To be Within, 2Tone Village, Coventry
Open Projections, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Coventry Drawing Prize, Classroom Gallery, Coventry
International Refugee Week, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
International Women's Day, St. Marys Guildhall, Coventry
2018
Ryan Christopher & Smilo Mathias, The Box, Fargo Village, Coventry
CWDT, Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London
2017
CWDT, Tottenham, London
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Text
Coventry Biennial
London Arts Board
Tiwani Contemporary
Recent Activity
Herbert Art Gallery, Grain Projects Commission
Focal Point Gallery
Mutual Art
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I-D
Dazed
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Writing
2022
Jeano Edwards, In the Wake of a Glow, Exhibition Text
2021
Jeano Edwards - EverWonderful Introduction
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Awards
2020
Commended, Herbert Open
2019
Art Society Award, Rugby Open