PIP RYAN
Pip Ryan is an Australian artist based in Melbourne. Her practice explores themes of uncanny and absurd using drawing, installation, sculpture and video. She is interested in the abject nature of horror and humour and how these two states of consciousness can and often do overlap. She uses reconfigurations of everyday objects including toys to subvert the familiar.
Pip Ryan has completed her Masters of Fine Arts (research) at the Victorian College of the Arts with the assistance of an Australian Post Graduate Award (APA). Ryan has exhibited both nationally and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions.
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Fine Arts (research) Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors, 1st Class) VCA
2006 Diploma in Film and Television Footscray City College.
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing) VCA
2005 Master Class in Facial Reconstruction VCA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Pick it Till it Bleeds, Stockroom Kyneton
2018 Collaboratory, curated by Kent Wilson, Latrobe Art Institute, (The Ryan Sisters)
2017 Do Geese See God, Rubicon Ari
2017 Gruesome Twosome Nicholas Projects (The Ryan Sisters)
2016 1000 forms of fear – curated by Carollyn Kavanah, Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), Adelaide (The Ryan Sisters)
2015 The Horror Show, curated by The Ryan Sisters, Strange Neighbour
2013 Guess Who, c3 Abbotford Convent (The Ryan Sisters)
2013 Boggle Eyes, Slide Window, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space
2013 Slump, DUDSPACE - Kings, (The Ryan Sisters)
2012 Relive it Again, Daine Singer
2011 Collaborators and Saboteurs Mildura Palimpsest Biennale UniVARS
2011 VCA Masters Exhibition
2010 Collective Bad Luck, West Space Gallery
2010 Opticus, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Machine Compilation 15, The Melbourne Propaganda Windows, Michael Koro Gallery
2008 Going Around in Circles, Bus Gallery
2006 The Space in Between, MIR 11
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 28 Beasts curated by Ben Taranto and Jake Adam Tracey
2018 Up, Up and Away, QUT Art Museum, (The Ryan Sisters)
2018 The Dressing Room, BABESPACE,
2018 Clay Pest, Albert Street Gallery, Curated by MO
2017 As above so Below, Strange Neighbour Gallery
2017 Serious Work, Rearview gallery
2017 Disquiet (Off you) Dark MOFO (The Ryan Sisters)
2017 Maverick, curated by Reko Rennie, MCA artbar (The Ryan Sister)
2017 Soft meat/Tender edges, Brunswick apartment (The Ryan Sister)
2017 9x5 VCA 150 year group show, Margaret Lawrence Gallery (The Ryan Sisters)
2016 Melbourne Central Art Loop
2016 Play2 curated by Blindside projected at Fedsquare
2016 NotFair 2016, Sign of the times, curated by Kirsten Rann (The Ryan Sisters)
2016 Selected finalist in Rookwood Cemetery Outdoor Sculpture Prize Hidden 2016 (The Ryan Sisters)
2015 Displaced agency, Blindside, curated by Xanthe Dobbie and Anabelle Lacroix (Nite Art)
2014 DUMMY, Mailbox Artspace
2014 PLAY ME, Project Q.U.A.D,
2013 Wish you were here, SWARM collective, Linden contemporary, exhibiting under The Ryan Sisters
2013 Creep Show, Curated by Linsey Gosper and Ash Kerr, Strange Neighbour
2013 The Big East, Curated by Kiron Robinson
2013 One Hundred and Twenty Seconds, Fed Square
2013 Nite Art, Fed Square
2012 Locus of Control, Nellie Castan Gallery
2012 Hit me Baby One More Time, Linden Gallery
2011 Green Jelly, Fed Square
2011 The New Field, Dark Horse Experiment
2010 Swampland, Library Artspace
2009 AV Electundra Festival 09, Loop Bar, Curated by Michael Meneghetti
2009 Bene Gesserit House Nurseries, Curated by Sherry McLane, Library Artspace
2009 Seppuku, Lindberg Contemporary Art
2009 Sex, Death and Violence, Blindside Gallery,
2009 The Melbourne Connection, Curated by Sherry McLane, Museo de la ciudad de Leon, Mexico
2008 Prosthetic Animal, Curated by Veronica Kent, Cube 37 Glass studios projection space,
2007 Hungry like the Wolf, Student Gallery VCA
2007 Footscray Film & TV Grad Screening, ACMI
2006 Hatched 2006, National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Perth
2005 Sweatshop of Fantasy, VCA Student Gallery
2005 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA
2004 White Light-Witnessing Whiteness, Alliance Francaise
2003 Timing, George Paton Gallery
AWARDS
2018 Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence (April-May)
2017 Finalist in Darebin Art Prize 2017 (The Ryan Sisters)
2016 Winner of Nicholas Project Prize as part of NotFair 2016, (The Ryan Sisters)
2016 Finalist in Rookwood Cemetery Outdoor Sculpture Prize Hidden 2016 (The Ryan Sisters)
2015 Artist in residence at Steeple residency, WASPS residency, Newburgh, Fife Scotland
2015 Strange Neighbour artist in residence summer program (The Ryan Sisters)
2014 Signal Screen Commission 2014 - mentoring and collaborating with young media artist working towards major projection exhibition.
2011 National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Women’s Association Award.
2011 Daine Singer Award.
2010 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Victorian College of the Arts (MFA Scholarship)
2005 Proud Award, Best Photographic Print
2005 Best Contemporary Drawing Award, VCA
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Private collections in Australia
Artbank
Artbox commission