New York City-based artist. Born NYC, attended Carnegie Mellon University, The New School For Social Research / Eugene Lang College, The New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Conservatory Program. Prior to making artwork, Ethan engineered albums for Wu-Tang Clan, Masta Ace, Method Man, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and others. His art career began in 2011 when he was included in Serra Sabuncuoglu's group show, A Place To Which We Can Come, at the St. Cecilia Convent in Greenpoint and was selected for Tomorrow's Stars at the Verge art fair, Brooklyn. Since then, he has shown at DC Moore, Fridman Gallery, Locust Projects Miami, and in four iterations of the Brooklyn Rail's Singing in Unison exhibition. His ongoing Instagram piece, @titan_of_leisure, is available online with @ethanrymanstudio.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind, New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, Santa Fe
Subway Riders, Springs Projects, Brooklyn
Ethan Ryman: Four Years Built, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, New York
Beauty is a Blast: for Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Art Cake, Brooklyn
2024
Ethan Ryman, Gwenn Thomas, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Al Svoboda, Ford Bostwick, 57W57ARTS, New York
2023
Ethan Ryman: New Work, Cathouse Proper at 524 Projects, Brooklyn
2022
Singing in Unison | part 5, TOTAH, New York
Singing in Unison | part 4, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
Singing in Unison | part 3, Below Grand, New York
Singing in Unison | part 2, Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York
2021
Ethan Ryman: Still Lives and Dioramas, Art Cake, Brooklyn
Facts of Light, Cathouse Proper at 524 Projects, Brooklyn
2017
The Band: An Installation of Obstructivist Constructions and Related Photo-Sculptural Objects, 524 Project Space, Brooklyn
2014
A Particular Kind of Solitude, Elizabeth Street Garden, New York
Light³, Fridman Gallery, New York
2013
Summer Ceylon, SHOW ROOM, New York
Patterns of Interference, SHOW ROOM Gowanus, Brooklyn
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, The Brooklyn Rail / Industry City, Brooklyn
2012
Hat Trick, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Paved Paradise, DC Moore Gallery, New York
2011
A Place to Which We Can Come: An exhibition at the abandoned Convent of Saint Cecilia, Saint Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn
Social Photography II, Carriage Trade, New York
Ethan Ryman: Convergences, Pinecrest Gallery, Miami
Tomorrow’s Stars, Verge Art, Brooklyn
2010
In Synthesis: The 2010 Winter Salon, Björn Ressle Art Projects / Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Ethan Ryman, Pelle Unger, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Chambre d’Amis, K12 Project Space, Berlin
ARTIST’S TALKS
2023
“Ethan Ryman and Tom McGlynn in Conversation.” Cathouse Proper and Rick Wester Fine Art. New York. June 2, 2023.
2013
“Visiting Artist Series: Ethan Ryman.” Center for Art and Design, The College of Saint Rose. Albany, New York. March 20, 2013.
2012
“City as Muse: Rackstraw Downes, Joyce Kozloff, and Ethan Ryman in Conversation with Moderator John Zinsser at DC Moore Gallery.” DC Moore Gallery. New York. September 20, 2012.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
Ethan Ryman: Four Years Built Ekin Erkan, The Brooklyn Rail
2023
Painting as Model? Ethan Ryman at Cathouse Proper and Ben Godward at Transmitter Gwenaël Kerlidou, Tussle
Ethan Ryman: New Work Tom McGlynn, The Brooklyn Rail
2022
Singing in Unison Jonathan Goodman, Tussle
Singing in Unison: An ongoing Rail Curatorial Project Phong Bui and Cal McKeever, The Brooklyn Rail
Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail
Facts of Light Tim Maul, The Brooklyn Rail
2014
Ethan Ryman: Photo-Sculptural Objects David A. Willis, Essays on Artists, Come Together: Surviving Sandy, The Brooklyn Rail
Light³ Kelly Robbins, Studio International
‘Light³’ at Fridman Amanda Church, ARTnews
City as Muse: Rackstraw Downes, Joyce Kozloff, and Ethan Ryman in Conversation with Moderator John Zinsser at DC Moore Gallery DC Moore Gallery