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Selected Works / Shows

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Eclogue, St. Perpetua, Slewe Gallery

Selected Works, 2026

Selected Works, 2026 - Giant Contraction (1-6)

De Ateliers Offspring - Raamvertelling

Woonhuis Opening - Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Early Baptismal Fonts

Early Baptismal Fonts, Words Before Commas, Basilica Pacis

Woonhuis +1

Apparatus Notes, No Show Space

A Morsel of Curd (Solo) TG, Nottingham

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Video/Sound

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I. Hirtacus and St. Ephigenia ("Daphnae,”)
Looped Audio
2024
05:39
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II. The Death of St. Matthew (“I am Falling,”)
Looped Audio
2024
04:19
(View)

Peristalsis in Sheep Large Bowel (Eclogue)
Video
2024
03:00
(View)

Synnøve Reading/Perpetua, Augustine
2023
Audio
03:08
(View)

Ethiopian Evangelical Church in Gothenburg
2022
HD video
5:55
(View)
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About

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Ryan Christopher (b. 1998, UK) is a London-based artist working with sculpture, sound, and text. His work arranges subtle materials into narrative spatial compositions that examine relations and perception, often tracing parallels across formal, structural, historical, and philosophical registers.

He sources widely, from the philosophy of time to mystical accounts and marginal early Christian histories across North Africa, Asia Minor, Ethiopia, India, and Sri Lanka. These references are fragmented and spatially mapped, reflecting an overarching interest in narrative forms and historic transcultural relations.

Found or reworked materials, such as white greenhouse sheeting and blinds (intermediaries between external light and enclosure), text compositions, dust sheets, bird cognition apparatuses and field recordings of wind, form a quiet syntax. These materials configure conditions that render divine contact, natural phenomena, absence, and mortality equally subdued, invoking a logic in which contradictions merge.

His practice provides a spatial means of engaging with narratives and intangible phenomena within relational systems, whether extensive and universal across histories or quietly internal and particular, as in inner workings and transient thoughts.

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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

2025

Apparatus Notes, No Show Space, London

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

SoAH Show: RCA2025” — Exhibition text, Royal College of Art, London

Ryan Christopher interview with Raimundas Malašauskas

De Ateliers Offspring 2023 – Raamvertelling — Exhibition text, De Ateliers, Amsterdam

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Selected Writing

2025

In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright” — Short story contribution to Jeano Edwards: In the Dark, the Tides Shine Bright (Hardcover, April 2025)

2023

Text for Solène Gün, photographer biography

2021

Introduction— Text contribution to Jeano Edwards’ photobook EverWonderful (self-published, shortlisted Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook Award)

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Teaching

Christopher has taught as a Visiting Lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Coventry University and the BA Fine Art Mixed Media programme at the University of Westminster. He has also delivered an artist talk on the BA Fine Art programme at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

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