Ryan Michael



Info
Painting
Drawings + Prints 
Sculpture

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contact :
r_yanmichael
ryan.michael03@outlook.com














contact:

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ryanmichaelj.03@gmail.com
@r_yanmichael

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CV

Education
B.F.A. , Fashion Institute of Technology
May 2026

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Awards
Jerome and Simona Chazen Scholarship  (2024, 2025)
Kate Spade &  Co.  Scholarship
(2024, 2025)

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Group Exhibitions Making Ground:
Selected Works from the class of 2026
The Art and Design Gallery at  FIT
New York, New York,
June – September 2026

Surface Tension:
FIT  Fine Arts  Thesis Exhibition
John E. Reeves Great Hall at FIT
New York,  New York
May 2026

BORDERS
Pushup Gallery
Brooklyn, New York,
March – April 2026

One Thing Leads to Another
SUNY Global Center  
New York, New York,
February 2026  – 2027

SUNY Art at the Rockefeller Institute
Rockefeller Institute
Albany, New York,
November 2025 – 2026

Good Work for Bad People
Studio 45
Brooklyn, New York,
August 2025

The Fridge:  Art  as Preservation
Rabbit Hole BK
Brooklyn, New York,
April 2025

Projects
F.I.T.  X  Union Square Partnership University Place Sculptural Activation
New  York, New York
Unveiling June 2026

paintings



in the dark...oil on zinc plate in artist’s frame      
                                    18 x 12’”,  2025




     

american beauty
(Khalinah and Morgan)          oil on birch, 14 x 16”, 2025



nowhere oil on canvas, 20 x 20”, 2025


The Pit  with poem            oil on canvas, 30 x 24”, 2025
laser transparency, original poem
                 

afties? oil on canvas, 30 x 40”,  2025



go’n under  oil on canvas, 32 x 32”,  2025

           

  dialogue III
  “say something”               oil on birch panel
                     12 x 13”,  2025     

                   

dialogue II
“i’m here,  where are you?”                          oil on birch panel
                         29.5 x 16.5”,  2025    



 dialogue I
“what don’t you see in me?”
                        oil on birch panel
                             16.5 x 12”,  2025

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Life’s Not Fair (D.E.I.)    oil and acrylic screenprint on canvas                                                     30 x 40”,  2025

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everything
(Janice and Meon)
     oil and acrylic screenprint on canvas                                                      30 x 40”,  2025




junior prom
            oil on canvas, 30 x 40”,  2025

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the family
       oil on gessoed bristol, 18 x 24”,  2025                         


       

1719 laurelwood                         oil on gessoed bristol
                                          18 x 24”,  2025                                    
                                                                                                                                               
                           untitled
palette study                           oil on gessoed bristol
                                           18 x 24”,  2025

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untitled
                      oil on canvas, 30 x 40”,  2024


  

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© Ryan Michael 2027