Contact: ryan@ryanpeter.com
Upcoming
Basel Social Club 2025 with The Green Gallery, June 15-21, 2025, Basel, Switzerland
Exhibitions
It only works if everyone believes it does, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, 2024
Winter Works On Paper, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, 2019/20
More Than 700 Years, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2019
Unearthing, Folding, and Burning, Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver, 2019
13 Ways to Summon Ghosts, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Gordon Smith Foundation, North Vancouver, 2018
Diviners, curated by Phillip McCrum and Marina Roy, AHVA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2017
Transmundane, curated by Jennifer Matotek, Blair Forwald, and Wendy Peart, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2017
Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016/17
Platforms 2016/17, Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, 2016
The Moon and Other Myths, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2016
Images That Speak, curated by Christopher Eamon, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, 2015, with Michele Abeles, Shannon Ebner, Ryan Foerster, Susanne Kriemann, Steve McQueen, Arthur Ou, Eileen Quinlan, Matt Saunders, and Stephen Waddell
SEDIMENT, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, September 10th to October 4th, 2014
Magenta wants to push physical reality to its leaky margins, curated by Ella Dawn McGeough, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, 2014, with Patrick Howlett, Maryse Larivière, Steve Lyons, Sandra Meigs
Art Toronto, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Toronto, 2013
Death and Objects II, curated by Eric Fredericksen and Jonathan Middleton, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 2013, with Emilie Halpern, Neil Goldberg, Jasmine Reimer
A Bunch of Radishes, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2012
Impossible But True, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, Lucky's Gallery, Vancouver, 2011
Some Paintings, curated by Sophie Brodovitch, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, 2011, with Ben Reeves, Etienne Zack, Rebecca Brewer, Monique Mouton, Nicholas Byrne, et al.
Alone in the Wilderness, with Scott Billings, Raymond Boisjoly, and Josh Hite, The VERA Project, Seattle, 2011
So Many Let Downs Before We Get Up..., curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, 2011, with Jo-Anne Balcaen, Maura Doyle, Glen Fogel, Kelly Mark, Jim Verburg, et al
SPACETIME!, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2010
Saturday Is The New Sunday, collaboration with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by Geoffrey Farmer and Arabella Campbell, Every Letter In The Alphabet, Vancouver, 2010
FAX, curated by Sophie Brodovitch for Joao Ribas’ FAX show (Drawing Center/ICI), Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, 2010
Snow, curated by Sophie Brodovitch, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, 2010
Group Show, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2010
THIS IS THE FUTURE, The Rest Is History, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by TARL, Seattle, 2009
Exercises In Seeing, collaboration with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by the Post Brothers, Queen's Nails Projects, San Francisco, 2009, with Jesse Ash, Nina Beier, Rosie Farrell, Snowden Snowden, Isola and Norzi, Brian Clifton, et al.
11th Annual RBC Painting Competition, Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, and The Power Plant, Toronto, 2009
Abceefhkortttuu, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC, 2009
extended periods of time. Occasional napping may be, collaborative exhibition with Abbas Akhavan, AMS Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2009
The Sooner The Better Late Than Never, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, 2008
Showroom, collaboration with Kristina Lee Podesva and Inge Roecker, curated by Makiko Hara, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A), Vancouver, 2008
Being There and Elsewhere, Organ Artist-Run Centre, Chongqing, China, 2008
Oh What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me, curated by Jacqueline Mabey, Kim Nguyen, Alison Rajah, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, 2007
Bibliography
Lindsay Lochman "Autograms–The Intersection of Drawing, Painting, and Photograph", Lenscratch, November 8, 2024
Randy Lee Cutler et al., Knowing and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2019
April Thompson, "Vancouver Special and the Issue with Local Surveys", Canadian Art Magazine, February 16, 2017
Marsha Lederman, "Coastal Disturbance: The Vancouver Art Gallery has launched a provocative triennial tribute to the city's artists", The Globe and Mail, December 2, 2016
Diana Augaitis and Jesse McKee et al., Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Black Dog Publishing, London, 2017
Rhiannon Herbert, "Capture Photography Festival Highlights, Part 1: Images That Speak", Black Flash, May, 2015
Sky Gooden, "Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography", Momus, April, 2015
Justin Ramsey, "Step into the Frame", Montecristo Magazine, April, 2015
Brian Lynch, "Vancouver's Capture festival features the new faces of photography", The Georgia Straight, April 1, 2015
Randy Lee Cutler, 'Chiggers', Open Wide: An Abecedarium for the Great Digestive System, Theory Island Press, Vancouver, 2014
"Issue 2: Invisiblity", Psychiana Magazine, New York, 2013
JJ Kegan McFadden, 'Ryan Peter', Haven't We Been Here Before?, PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, 2012
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, "Ryan Peter: A Bunch of Radishes", Galleries West, Fall/Winter, 2012
Jessica Powers, "Some Humans and Nature", Art Slant, August 7, 2011
Allison Collins, "Wine, Straightforward Meaninglessness, and Other Indecipherable Gestures", Art Slant, March 7, 2011
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Malcolm Parry, "Painted Ladies For A Celebrity Crowd", Vancouver Sun, February 13, 2010
Chris Fitzpatrick, "I'll Find It If You Stop Talking", Art Slant, December 29, 2009
Jen Graves, "TARL Is The Future", The Stranger, December 22, 2009
Leah Sandals. "Brush to Judgment", The National Post, October 26, 2009
RBC Painting Competition, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, 2009
Jacqueline Mabey, 'Touch Me I’m Sick', The Sooner The Better Late Than Never, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2008
Teaching and Guest Lectures
Lecturer, The Department of Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2022-2025
Adjunct Instructor, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, 2022-2026
Adjunct Professor II, Painting + Drawing and MFA Programs, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2019-2022
Instructor, Painting, Photography, and MFA Programs, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 2018-2019
Graduate Studio Practice Advisor, MFA Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2018 - 2019
Panel Discussion accompanying the exhbition Images That Speak, with Christopher Eamon, Susanne Kriemann, Aurther Ou, and Steven Waddell, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, 2015
Sessional Lecturer, Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2010 - 2015
Artist Talk (with Raymond Boisjoly), The Western Bridge, Seattle, 2009
Education
MFA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2008
BFA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2004
Awards