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ryanclhart98@gmail.com
Selected Works
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2023
De Ateliers 2023 selected works (View)
De Ateliers 2023
selected works 1 (view)
Woonhuis Opening (View)
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2022
TG Nottingham (View)
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2023
De Ateliers 2023 selected works (View)
De Ateliers 2023
selected works 1 (view)
Woonhuis Opening (View)
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2022
TG Nottingham (View)
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Video/Sound
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel
2023
Silent Video
03:15
(View)
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Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
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Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel
2023
Silent Video
03:15
(View)
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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, sound 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 relations. Strands of christian existentialism, theological anthropology, cultural and religious history and religious metaphysics are configured into sculptural narratives that often think through paradoxes whilst addressing human relations to necessity and the natural world.
Material juxtapositions appear compressed, succinct and as imperceptible as movements 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 air pressure, or the changing distribution of light, and water can be left to evaporate.
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Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an Amsterdam-based artist working through sculpture, sound 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 relations. Strands of christian existentialism, theological anthropology, cultural and religious history and religious metaphysics are configured into sculptural narratives that often think through paradoxes whilst addressing human relations to necessity and the natural world.
Material juxtapositions appear compressed, succinct and as imperceptible as movements 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 air pressure, or the changing distribution of light, and 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 & Two Person Exhibitions
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
2023
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
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Molasses Gallery, London
Spatial Intervention, 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
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Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
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
2023
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
Home by Ronan Mckenzie - Finding Joy, Birmingham
Photocopies, Recent Activity, Birmingham
Birmingham by Night, Roundhouse Birmingham
Multiplicity of us, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Poetic Sustenance, Tiwani Contemporary, London
Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
The Molasses Gallery, London
Spatial Intervention, 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