Veronica Ryan OBE creates meticulously handcrafted work using a wide range of materials, including bronze, plaster, marble, textile, and found objects. Her sculptures and installations examine environmental concerns, personal narratives and memories, as well as the wider psychological implications of history, trauma and recovery.
Read MoreRyan's first one-person exhibition was at Arnolfini, Bristol in 1987. Other important one-person shows have been presented at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (1988); Camden Arts Centre (1995); Aldrich Museum (1996); Salena Gallery, Brooklyn (2005); Tate St Ives (2000, 2005 and 2017); The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2011); The Art House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (2017); and Spike Island, Bristol (2021). In June 2020, Hackney Council commissioned Ryan to create sculptures celebrating Hackney's Windrush Generation—the first permanent public artworks to do so in the UK—which were unveiled in October 2021. In 2022, Ryan was included in the Whitney Biennial and awarded the Turner Prize.
Her work is in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, Contemporary Art Society, Sainsbury's Collection, Tate Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, and the Weltkunst Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Ryan currently lives and works in both New York and the U.K.
Text courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery
