MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture and Extended Media
BFA Massachuestts College of Art and Design, Sculpture
lives and works in Houston, TX
ryan.crowley5@gmail.com
SELECTED SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Dead Warm, with Ling-Lin Ku at Tank Space, Houston, TX
2017 Cutting Corners and Other Weird Torture,
Wayfarers Gallery, Broolyn NY
2012 In Tub And Wig Out, Anderson Gallery,
Richmond, VA
2010 Scouting Foul, Reference Gallery, Richmond,
VA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Barely Fair, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pit Fire, hosted by Partial Shade in Austin, TX
Extra Medium, Cloud Tree Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 MANATEE, TSA gallery, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Subjective Perspective, Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
Benefit Auction, Mass Gallery, Austin TX
2017
Monkey Riding Alligator, Hometown Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Perversion of Form, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Woven, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
11 Strangers, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2016 Slow Dimwitted Carnage,Coustofwaxman,
Manhattan, NY
Re-Re Tasting of Slow Dimwitted Carnage, Midnight Commercial, Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Brooklyn, NY
2014 JED EYE GED, Virginia Commonwealth
University FAB Gallery Richmond, VA
Mind The Gaps, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2013 CISCO SYSCO SISO, La Fonda Pavillion,
Rockaways, NY
New Work- Recent VCU Alumnus, 299
Messerole, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Suzanne, Artisphere Terrace Gallery, Roslyn, VA
2011 H’orderves, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
Spit Shine, VCU MFA Candidacy Space, Richmond, VA
2010 Hole Show, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Beg, Borrow, Steal, La Montagne Gallery,
Boston, MA
Human Drift, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
AWARDS
2014 VMFA Professional Fellowship, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2007 Helen Blair Crosby Award, 1st Place, 3D
Department, Massachusetts College of Art
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012- 2016 Adjunct Professor and Shop
Technician, Sculpture and
Extended Media, Virginia
Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Nicole Disser, “You Can Slurp Booze
Out of All of the Art at Slow,
Dimwitted, Carnage Bedford and
Bowery, 4 November 2016
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