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Paul Jonathan Ryan, born Leicester 1968, lives and works in London


Education
PhD at The University of the Arts, London 2006-9, AHRC: Peirce's Semeiotic and the Implications for Aesthetics in the Visual Arts: a Study of The Sketchbook and its Position in the Hierarchies of Making, Collecting and Exhibiting.


MA Fine Art Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London 2004, AHRB: Paper Video: The Status and Function of the Sketchbook in a Skeptical Environment


Selected One Person Exhibitions / Residencies
2008 AIAS Residency/Workshop, Emmerich, Germany
2007 REBOUND, Wellcome Trust, London (11-28th October)
What Are Feelings For?, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2006 Hospitalfield, ROSL Scholar's Residency, Arbroath, Scotland
2006 HMP Bronzefield, three month residency - portraits
2005-6 Drawing for Survival, Imperial War Museum, London
2005 New Shoots, Chaos Gallery, Belgrade
2005 Destination, Buckler’s Hard, Hampshire (and three month residency)
2003 Paper Video and One Thing Leads to Another, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia
2001 Five Quarters of an Orange, State Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2000 Codex, Contemporary Art Society, Economist Building, London
1999 Plastikk, Gallery 3, Bergen, Norway
1998 Blow Up, MK Ciurlionis State Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
Hardanger County Museum, Norway
Christopher Hull Gallery, London
1997 University of Bergen, Norway
1996 Horda Museum, Bergen, Norway
Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (also 1993 and 1991)
1995 Travel Scholarship exhibition, ROSL, London



Selected Group Exhibitions
* means both exhibitor and curator ** means curator
2008-9 Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust. The Imperial War Museum, London
2008 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art. Transport for London
Drawn Encounters. The Gallery at Wimbledon College of Art, London
Acts Actions, Cafe Gallery Projects Southwark Park London
2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
Chavi, Novas Gallery, London
Recognise, Contemporary Art Platform, London
Centre of the Creative Universe, Tate Liverpool - Collaboration with Jeremy Deller
No Gorgios, Novas Gallery, London**

Paranoia, Freud Museum, London
2006 Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Focal Point Southend
Drawing Breath, touring until 2008
2004 Question mark, Wait, Error Understood, Kaunas, Lithuania *
Line, Lion Lying, Center for Drawing, London *
Open Secret, Imperial War Museum, London
2003 Arrangement, Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London
False Impressions, University of Essex
2002 In Your Time, Percy Miller Gallery, London
Crossing the Border, London and Newbury, Berks *
2001 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham, Hull and London
Drawing Factions: 3 Artists at Greenham Common, Newbury, Berks *
2000 Size Immaterial, British Museum, London
1999 Asylum, Milch, London
1998 Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
1996 Royal Overseas League, London
1995 Art Forum, London
1991 Art for Equality, ICA London
1990 Mercury Gallery, London
1989 Cyril Gerber Gallery, Glasgow

Collections
British Museum
Imperial War Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum
National Gallery of Lithuania
Foundation 314, Norway
Royal Mint
Pearson Group
Wellcome Trust
Platform for Art

Principal Grants and Awards
2006-9 Arts and Humanities Research Council
2006 Paul Hamlyn Foundation - HMP Bronzefield
2005 British Council
2005 Arts Council England
2003 Arts & Humanities Research Board
2001 Jerwood Drawing Prize (prizewinner)
2000 London Arts Board
1999 Foundation 314, Norway (also 1998, 1997)
1995 London Arts Board
1992 Brian Ward Trust Fund, Leicester

Press & Bibliography
BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review 6.9.2008
Baker, D. (2008). 'Breaking Beyond the Local'. Third Text No. 92, Vol. 22, Issue 3. May 2008. pp407-415
Dillon, T. (Ed.). (2007). Platform for Art: Art on the Underground. Black Dog Publishing: London
Ossian Ward. Time Out. 29.8.2007
Ryan, P. and Newman A. (Ed.), (2007) The Centre for Drawing Project Space - Notes 01
Bateson, K. and Taylor, A. (2007). Drawing Breath
Baker, D. and Ryan, P. (2007). No Gorgios
Grunenberg, C. and Knifton, R. (2007). Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool & The Avant-Garde
Deller, J. and Ryan, P. (2007) Epstein's Liverpool.
Conrad, P. Paranoid? This lot really ought to be, The Observer 28.1.2007
Higgins, C. The Collaborator. The Guardian, 23.12.2006
Clark, R. The Guardian, 15.7.2006
Pajdic, P. , Pasolini, A. and Ryan, P. (Eds.). (2006) Paranoia (Shortlisted for AXA catalogue award)
The Jackdaw, 12.2005
Christiansen, R. The Daily Telegraph, 14.1.2004
Turner, P. and Taylor, A. (2003) Foundation Course, Drawing
Cork, R. The Times, 5.9.2001
Sorenen, B. Bergens Tidende, 12.9.1999
Petrauskaite, Z. Kauno Diena, 8.3.97 & 15.1.1998
Fasmer, H. D. Fanaposten, 14.1.1997
Brugger, K. Bergens Tidende, 10.1.1997
Berryman, L. Arts Review, 9.1991


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