Ryan Patrick Krueger
Spring 2024 Cycle Honorable Mention – Photography
Chicago, IL ryanpatrickkrueger.com
On Longing (Installation View)
Left: For My People (Semiotics #1) 2022. 45"x75" wood box, photocopies, pigment prints, newspaper, act up poster, red tie, book pages, black sand
Right: Dear David (Semiotics #2) 2022. 45"x75" wood box, vernacular photographs, envelopes, postage stamps, photocopies, black sand
Detail View. For My People (Semiotics #1) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, photocopies, pigment prints, newspaper, act up poster, red tie, book pages, black sand
Detail View. For My People (Semiotics #1) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, photocopies, pigment prints, newspaper, act up poster, red tie, book pages, black sand
Detail View. Dear David (Semiotics #2) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, vernacular photographs, envelopes, postage stamps, photocopies, black sand
Detail View. Dear David (Semiotics #2) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, vernacular photographs, envelopes, postage stamps, photocopies, black sand
On Longing (Installation View)
Left: Unknown Photographer, Unknown Subjects, Undated Negative (Lost Love) 2022. 50”x100”, Adhesive Pigment Prints, Taper Candle
Right: For My People (Semiotics #1) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, photocopies, pigment prints, newspaper, act up poster, red tie, book pages, black sand
Unknown Photographer, Unknown Subjects, Undated Negative (Lost Love) 2022. 50”x100”, Adhesive Pigment Prints, Taper Candle
Yearbooks, 1953-1964. 2022, 40"x231", Adhesive Pigment Prints, Taper Candles
Detail View. Yearbooks, 1953-1964. 40"x231", Adhesive Pigment Prints, Taper Candles
On Longing (Installation View)
Left: Unknown Photographer, Unknown Subjects, Undated Negative (Lost Love) 2022. 50”x100”, Adhesive Pigment Prints, Taper Candle
Center: For My People (Semiotics #1) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, photocopies, pigment prints, newspaper, act up poster, red tie, book pages, black sand
Right: Dear David (Semiotics #2) 2022. 45"x75", wood box, vernacular photographs, envelopes, postage stamps, photocopies, black sand
Artist Statement Biography
Ryan Patrick Krueger (b. 1992) is a lens-based artist whose work addresses themes of grief, loss, and desire through their process of collecting and appropriating vernacular photographs in order to consider the intersections of LGBTQ+ American history and photography. Krueger holds a BFA in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and is currently pursuing a MFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have exhibited nationally including solo presentations at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, and MONACO, St. Louis, among others and was also included in the 2022 Fotofest Biennial in Houston, TX. Krueger is a recipient of the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund by Aperture and Google. The work has been featured in national publications including Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Out Smart Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and Glasstire Magazine, to name a few. Krueger lives and works in Chicago, IL and is represented by Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, New York
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