Will Ryman

Will Ryman is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Ryman uses material to elevate and amplify meaning in his sculpture, painting, and installations. His work gives physical shape to issues associated with industrialization, globalization, historical complexities, and political conundrums.

Ryman first began to investigate these topics in America (2013), his life-sized, gold-painted rendering of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood cabin. Utilizing resources that have driven our country's economy at various times, from corn and cotton to coal and bullets, the work is both a visual survey of capitalism in American history as well as a conceptual sculpture. The piece is in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art. His studio practice is influenced by his own writing experience, other historical affinities, and by his interest in playwrights such as Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

Ryman's work has been widely exhibited, including shows at 7 World Trade Center, New York; The Fairchild Botanic Gardens, Florida; The Flatiron Plaza, New York; The Park Avenue Malls, New York; The Saatchi Gallery, London; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; and PROSPECT3, New Orleans.

In September 2015, the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York presents a solo exhibition of Will Ryman's work.