Ryder Ripps
Ryder Ripps is a conceptual artist and creative director living in New York City.Early life and education
Ripps' was born in New York to designer Helene Verin and painter Rodney Ripps. He is an alumnus of City As School, class of 2004. He graduated from The New School's New Media program in 2008.Career
Ripps is the creative director of OKFocus, a digital marketing and design agency. He has created several websites, including Internet Archeology, Dump.fm, and VFiles. In 2013, Ripps created the branding for Soylent, an open source meal replacement drink. In 2015 he co-produced 2 songs on Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. In 2018, Ripps began working with Kanye West as a part of DONDA. Together, Ripps and West worked as creative directors for the first annual Pornhub awards in Los Angeles.Exhibitions
Ripps' first solo exhibition took place in January 2015 at Postmasters Gallery in New York City, titled "HO". It featured large-scale oil painted portraits derived from the Instagram account of model Adrianne Ho. In 2016, Ripps exhibited "Barbara Lee", an installation featuring 50,000 images downloaded from the internet, at Steve Turner Gallery. In May 2017, Ripps premiered an installation in Venice during the Venice Biennale titled "Become a Slave" featuring two interactive works.
In 2018, Ripps, in collaboration with photographer Maggie West, exhibited Pornhub Nation, a large interactive installation sponsored by Pornhub. The exhibition depicts a future history of the porn site's own government. It provided parodied solutions to the topics of climate change, military occupation, governmental surveillance, and space exploration.
