Liza Ryan
Liza Ryan is a contemporary American visual artist whose works consist of photography, video, and mixed media.Background
Ryan was born in 1965 in Norfolk, Virginia. Ryan earned a BFA at Dartmouth College, in 1987 and an MFA from California State University, Fullerton in 1994. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Ryan works in photography, video and mixed media. Her interest in the use of visual metaphor remains constant throughout her bodies of work. The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by Ryan.Exhibitions
- Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, Australia
- Spill, Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
- State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
- Liza Ryan: Fragment, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Publications
- Liza Ryan: the Effect of Surface Wind Speed on Familiar Objects. Venice, CA: Griffin, 1997. Mina Ryan.
- Liza Ryan: Works 1993–2000. Cinubia, 2000. With an essay by Charles Merewether.
- Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California. Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Nora Kabot. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 2000
- Degrees of Stillness: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Susanne Lange. Koln: Stiftung Kulture, 1999
- *Portretten & Stillevens: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection. Amsterdam: Waanders Uitgevers/Rijksmuseum, 2001
- Liza Ryan, Santa Monica, CA: Griffin, 2005. William Griffin.
- Double Vision: Photographs from the Strauss Collection. Exhibition Catalogue. Essays by Constance W. Glenn, Mary-Kay Lombino, and Arthur Ollman. Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University, College of the Arts, 2001.
- “Liza Ryan,” Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney. Exhibition Catalogue, 2006. Andrew Schulz.
- Liza Ryan, Spill. Portland, OR: Reed Institute, 2009. Stephanie Snyder.
