Lives & works in New York City.
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
FST Studio Projects Grant 2022
PS122 Studio Residency - May 2022 - July 2023
77ART Residency - August, 2021
ARCHITECTURAL- Artrepreneur Prize, 2020
Working Artist Purchase Award, March/April 2018
I-Park Foundation Residency Fellowship, June 2016
NYFA Fellowship Grant, Sculpture/Crafts 2014
EFA Studio Program – May 2012 - Dec. 2014
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 WORLDS to GO, ZAZ10TS Corner Billboard, New York, NY
2022 Structural Integrity, C24 Gallery
2018 Terraforming, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Site Lines, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Parameters, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Kept, Outrageous Look Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED TWO PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
(De)Construct, 3-person exhibition, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Material Culture - Ed Bing Lee and Ryan Sarah Murphy, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2023
Scatter Terrain, Adelphi University - UC Gallery, Garden City, NY (touring)
Squaredance, Plug Gallery, Kansas City, MO
BUILT, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Scatter Terrain, Loyola University - Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD (touring)
When Thoughts Become Experience, curated by Soojung Hyun, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Invisible Attraction, curated by Michael Lee, Undercroft Gallery, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, NY
Scatter Terrain, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State, University Park, PA (touring)
Mind - be here present/be here now, Kingshill House, Gloustershire, UK
2021
Unsettled, THIS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
a Little Undefined, Lodger Gallery, Kansas City, MO
emerging.poetic, Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
Fire at the Opera House, 77Art Center, Rutland, VT
Scatter Terrain, John and June Allcott Gallery, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (touring)
Street Life, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Scatter Terrain, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA (touring 2021-23)
2020
Home As Situation, Boliver Art Gallery - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
The Space Between Us, Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, Pompano Beach, FL
Wavelength - Pandemic Projections #9, site specific public project, curated by Gianluca Bianchino & Jeanne Brasile
FUTURES, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
TEN, Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Input/Output, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Image_Object (The Visual and The Physical), Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2019
Press Play, Flat Files Featured Artist, ODETTA Gallery, New York, NY
Unlikely Materials and the Language of Art, Krasdale Galleries, Bronx, NY and White Plains, NY
pa.per, Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Pulp + Process: Making and Manipulating Paper, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Soft Grit, LoBo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Saturated Geometry, curated by Lucas Kelly, The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ
2018
Dwellings, Lobo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
At Hand, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, FL
Creative Climate Awards, Human Impacts Institute, Taipei Economic & Cultural Center, New York, NY
Folded: New Acquisitions to the Artspace Flatfile, Second Story Gallery & Workshop, New Haven, CT
Plus One, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
Abductions and Reconstructions, 3-person exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2017
Echoes, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Re:Constructed, curated by NYFA Curatorial, McKinsey & Co., New York, NY
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Fort Collins Museum of Art & Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO (traveling)
2016
Connections, curated by Peter Gynd, permanent exhibition, Foundation Center, New York, NY
Bauhaus Babies, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Elegant Simplicity, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, City University of New York, NY (traveling)
The Drawing Board, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
2015
Necessary Construct, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
de.con.struct, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY
Paper Constructions, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
on/of/about paper, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
Domestic Ideals: Nostalgia and the Home, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Spatial Intelligence, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Internal Dialogues, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2013
CONstruct/conSTRUCT: The Organizing Principle, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worchester, MA
Wrap Around One, curated by Renee Riccardo, ARENA @ Suite 806, New York, NY
Traces of Omnipresence, curated by Leslie Kerby, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2012
GroupShow: Artworks You Can Smuggle in Your Suitcase, Millenaris Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
This Is How My Brain Works, curated by Tamas Veszi, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY
Mix and Match, Exhibition II, Hampden Gallery, UMass-Amherst, MA
2011
One - Robert Strati, Ryan Sarah Murphy & Robert Walden, Exhibit 23, Valley Cottage, NY
Dialogues, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY
Mix and Match, Exhibition I, Atelier 030202, Bucharest, Romania
Reframings: i am not a good enough feminist, curated by Melanie Kress, Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
Urban/Urbane, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Pages: Book as Medium, Catalyst, Venue, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Gimme Shelter, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
2009
ReVisions: New Creations from Scrap, reMake Lounge, San Francisco, CA
Censored, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
Marking Places, Retracing Spaces, Multimedia Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT (touring 2008-2020)
2007
Bits & Pieces: The Collage Impulse, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Arrangements, Window Installation Project, Outrageous Look Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ARTIST TALKS
(De)Construct w/ Linda Lindroth, Keiko Narahashi & Ryan Sarah Murphy, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, April 14, 2024.
Structural Integrity- A Conversation with the Artist, David Terry and Deborah Oster Pannell, C24 Gallery, Sept. 14, 2022.
Stephen Maine & Ryan Sarah Murphy, Press Play Exhibition, ODETTA 1stdibs Gallery, July 27, 2019.
Saturated Geometry Exhibition Artist Panel, The Gallery at MCCC, February 6, 2019.
Artist panel webcast w/ Damien Hoar De Galvan, At Hand Exhibition, Univ. of Tampa, Sept. 28, 2018.
Bauhaus Babies exhibition, ODETTA Gallery, December 3, 2016.
A Conversation with the Artists of Spatial Intelligence, ODETTA Gallery, November 2, 2014.
ALS #22 (Artist Lecture Series) with Ryan Sarah Murphy & Peter Soriano, February 3, 2013.
COLLECTIONS
Foundation Center, New York, NY
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
FLAT FILE PROGRAMS
Peep Space (2020-2021), Tarrytown, NY
Artspace (2018-current), New Haven CT
Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Flat File Year 5 - 2018), Brooklyn, NY
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
2024
City Maps and Cardboard Dreams, Interview - Editor’s Pick, Mosaic Digest online.
2022
Ryan Sarah Murphy - Cardboard Whisperer, podcast (Episode 2) with INTERLOCUTOR, recorded Oct. 19, 2022.
Ryan Sarah Murphy Finds Stable Ground in Untethered Places, by Morgan Laurens, NOT REAL ART, 09/08.
Interview, Yale University Radio w/ Brainard Carey, recorded Sept. 3, 2022.
2021
Scatter Terrain, color exhibition catalogue, November 2021.
5 Questions for Artists, Lisa Kellner’s Interviews With Excellence Series, November 2021.
Interview, INTERLOCUTOR Magazine, Sept. 14.
Art: Ejecta Projects in Carlisle displays 'Scatter Terrain', Joseph & Barrie Ann George for The Sentinel, May 26.
2019
Ryan Sarah Murphy - Arriving at an Unknown Endpoint, interview with Etty Yaniv, Art Spiel Magazine, Feb. 19, 2019.
2018
Dwellings: An Inaugural Exhibition for a New Type of Gallery, Logan Hanley, Nov. 2018.
Carnegie Reporter Magazine (print), Shining A Light, Aruna D’Souza, Vol. 9/Number 3, Winter 2018, pg. 51.
Carnegie Reporter Magazine (online), Good Works Everywhere...Even the Office, Aruna D’Souza, Jan. 12, 2018.
2017
Markel Fine Arts Gallery Blog, In Conversation with Ryan Sarah Murphy, June 6, 2017.
Strange Fire, Q&A: Katie Knight Curator of Speaking Volumes, Transforming Hate, Hamidah Glasgow, January 17, 2017.
2016
Arts in Bushwick, Bauhaus Babies Spin at ODETTA, online review by Etty Yaniv, December 15, 2016.
Strictly Paper, Abstract Contemporary Collage Reliefs, online publication, November 22, 2016.
Maake Magazine, Featured Artist Gallery & Interview, online and print publication, March, 2016.
Tory Burch Daily, Meet the Artist - Ryan Sarah Murphy, Feb. 4, 2016.
2015
Embark Magazine, The Artist Profile, August/September 2015 Issue, pgs. 114-119.
ArtFCity, Waacking, Eating, Tweeting, Painting, Necessary Construct exhibition, Aug. 10th.
Things To Do in the Hudson Valley Aug. 16-22, artwork image from Matteawan Gallery exhibition, The New York Times, Aug. 13th.
Goldstein, Willow, The Art and Craft of Paper, Arts in Bushwick, May, 2015.
Reiner, Claire, Pioneer Square Gallery Recap, Vanguard Seattle, April 13, 2015.
Douglas Turner, Armory Week of Art Fairs-The Smartest Art I Found, The Architecture of Tomorrow, March, 13, 2015.
Watts Jr., James D., Living Arts of Tulsa Exhibit Shows Hate Turned into Art, Tulsa World, Jan. 2015.
Leslie Frenz, The Artsy Forager, Jan. 6, 2015.
2014
Gomez, Enrico, Abstraction in Brooklyn in November, WagMag Art Guide, Nov. 1, 2014.
Cut Out for Collage, color catalogue, published by Index Book, Spain, pgs. 102-105.
2013
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Inaugural Biennial 2013, color catalogue, pgs. 52-53, 2013.
2012
Thompson Gallery, Strange Glue- Collage at 100, Virtual Annex, color catalogue, pg. 33, 2012.
Kate Singleton, ArtHound, January 23, 2012.
Jeff Hamada, Booooooom, January 20, 2012.
Ani Tzenkova, Trendland, January 13, 2012.
Lari Washburn, April 24, 2012.
2011
Jocelyn Jane Cox, The Home Tome, October 19, 2011.
Notpaper, Artist Interview, Sept. 15, 2011.
Olson, Norma Smith. Urban/Urbane, Words and Pictures, Minnesota Women’s Press, Sept. 2011.
2008
Holter Museum of Art, Speaking Volumes, Transforming Hate – color exhibition catalogue, 2008.
Green, Elliott. Review – Solo Exhibition, ARTnews, April 2008, pg. 144.
2007
James Wagner, Ryan Sarah Murphy at Outrageous Look, April 7, 2007.
Genocchio, Benjamin. Collages Go To College and Behave Accordingly, New York Times, Dec. 2007.
Scheimler, Krystal. Art in Death: Ciudad Juarez Murders at SAC Gallery, The Stonybrook Statesman, Oct. 2007.