He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2006, and has exhibited and performed internationally. Ryan’s work has recently been included in Baltimore Contemporary Cross-Section (Silvermine Arts Center, Connecticut) and the WPA’s Select 2014 (Artisphere, Arlington, Va.) In the fall of 2014 he had a solo show, “Roughed In”, at the John Fonda Gallery in Baltimore. In the spring of 2015 he collaborated with James Bouché for Real Rocks Are Heavy and Hard To Find (Gallery Four, Baltimore, Md.), and was named a Sondheim Prize Finalist, with a concurrent exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.