EDUCATION
MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture and Extended Media
BFA Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Sculpture
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Taking Care,Lawndale Arts, Houston,TX
2020 Dead Warm, Sawyer Mills Gallery, Houston,TX
2019 Barely Fair, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, L
2019 Pit Fire, with Partial Sade, Austin,TX
2019 Extra Medium, Cloud Tree Gallery, Austin,TX
2018 MASS EXODUS, MASS GALLERY, Austin,TX
2018 MANATEE, TSA Gallery, Chicago,IL
2018 Subjective Perspective, Dude Ranch,
Austin,TX
2017 Cutting Corners and Other Weird Torture,
Solo show @ Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
2017 Monkey Riding Alligator, Hometown Gallery,
Brooklyn,NY
2017 Perversion of Form, 1708 Gallery,Richmond,VA
2017 Woven, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
2017 11 Strangers, Visual Arts Center, Austin,TX
2016 Slow Dimwitted Carnage, Coustofwaxman,
Manhattan,NY
2016 Re-Re Tasting of Slow Dimwitted Carnage@
Midnight Commercial, Brooklyn,NY
2014 JED EYE GED, Virginia Commonwealth
University FAB Gallery, Richmond,VA
2014 Mind the Gaps, Sediment Arts, Richmond,VA
2013 CISCO SYSCO SISQO, La Fonda Pavilion,
Rockaways,NY
2013 New Work- Recent VCU Alumnus, 299
Messerole, Brooklyn,NY
2012 In Tub And Wig Out, Solo show, Anderson
Gallery, Richmond,VA
2012 Suzanne, Artisphere Terrace, Roslyn,VA
2011 H’orderves, FAB Gallery, Richmond,VA
2011 Spit Shine, VCU MFA Candidacy Space,
Richmond,VA
2010 Hole Show,FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010 Scouting Foul, Solo show @ Reference Gallery,
Richmond,VA
2009 Beg, Borrow, Steal, La Montagne Gallery,
Boston,MA
2009 Human Drift, Fourth Wall Project, Boston,MA
AWARDS/ Residencies
2022 VSC/ Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, VT
2021-22 Lawndale Artist Residency Program,
Lawndale Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2017 Wayfarers Summer A.I.R residency,
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Arts Council Honorarium award
for Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2014 VMFA Professional Fellowship, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2012 Graduate Thesis Research Grant, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2010-12 Graduate Assistantship Award, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2007 Helen Blair Crosby Award, 1st Place, 3D
Department, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, MA
TEACHING / TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
2019-Present Rice University, Houston, TX, shop
manager and preparator
2018 University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX / Adjunct professor in
Sculpture and Extended Media,
Austin, TX
2012- 2016 Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA / Adjunct Professor
and Shop Technician for Sculpture
and Extended Media
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Nicole Disser, “You Can Slurp Booze Out of
all of the Art at Slow, Dimwitted, Carnage”
Bedford and Bowery, 4 November
2014 Vargo, Joseph, “Artist Ryan Crowley Paints
with Plaster.” RVA Magazine, 21 March 2014.
2012 Duffey, Owen, “Ryan Crowley,In Tub and Wig
Out”, MFA Thesis Catalogue Essay, Spring
2012
2009 McQuaid, Cate, “Energy in Many Forms.” The
Boston Globe,15 July 2009.
My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses,
March 2009, “Ryan
Crowley”,myloveforyou.typepad.(com)