Ryan Johnson is an artist based in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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Johnson was born in Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

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. He holds a BFA from Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 and an MFA from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Johnson makes sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

s of human figures from delicately manipulated sheets of paper which are built over previously-constructed wire frames.

Selected exhibitions

2009

On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, New York

2008

Watchman, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, New York

Imaginary Thing curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Art Museum

Aspen Art Museum

Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the historic mountain community of Aspen, Colorado....

, Aspen, Colorado

2007

Brainform curated by Johannes VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, New York

Capricci (possibilities of other worlds), Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain

Casino Luxembourg

The Casino Luxembourg is currently a forum for contemporary art which was adapted and renovated in 1995 to fit its new role of housing temporary exhibitions of Luxembourg art...

, Luxembourg

Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2006

2006 Untitled (For H.C. Westermann) curated by Michael Rooks, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Metaphysics of Youth, Artenova-Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy

Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York, New York

2005

Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, New York

Modern Human Animal, LFL Gallery, Project Room, New York, New York

2004

Pattern Play-Back, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida

Four-Ply, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York

Hung, Drawn, and Quartered curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, New York

2003

Pantone, Massimo Audiello, New York, New York

Burnt Orange Heresy, Space 101, Brooklyn, New York

External links

• Ryan Johnson on ArtFacts.net
• Further information from the Saatchi Gallery
• Ryan Johnson on ArtNet.com