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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)