Ryan Michael



Info
Painting
Drawings + Prints 
Sculpture

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contact :
r_yanmichael
ryanmichaeljstudio@gmail.com














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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
Bead Maze
: F.I.T.  X  Union Square Partnership University Place Sculptural Activation
New  York, New York
June 2026 – May 2027

Ryan Michael (b. Atlanta, Georgia) is currently pursuing his BFA in Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology. 
His work has been featured in the group exhibitions Good Work for Bad People and The Fridge: Art as Preservation (Brooklyn, NY, 2025). He is a recipient of the Jerome and Simona Chazen and Kate Spade and Company Scholarship. Working primarily across painting, printmaking, and sculpture, Michael examines the unconscious intimacies embedded in our performances of aesthetic humanness and varying processes of communication.

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