Born in Atlanta, GA, Ryan Watkins-Hughes is a New Orleans & New York-based artist, web designer, and photographer. Ryan earned a BFA from Pratt Institute where he received the 2001 Pratt Institute Senior Travel Award. He was a recipient of the 2003 KBFUS Grant for travel to Belgium and a 2007 SIM Artist Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland. He is currently a MFA student at Tulane University of New Orleans in Digital Media. Recent exhibitions include the 13th Annual No Dead Artists exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, along with group exhibitions and a solo show at Heist Gallery, NY. In 2003, he created the Shopdropping project, which entails altering the packaging of goods before "shopdropping" them into stores. Watkins-Hughes exhibits throughout the Americas and Europe and has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The London Times Magazine, Folha de S.Paulo, CNN.COM, CBS NEWS, WNYC and NPR. The legal implications of Shopdropping have also been discussed in the Washington University Law Review. His work is featured in The Art of Rebellion 2 by Christian Hundertmark, and the documentary film To Be Seen by Alice Arnold. |
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Education
MFA, Digital Media. Tulane University of New Orleans, LA (expected 2010)
BFA, Honors Painting. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Selected Bibliography
“Triskaidekafolio; The 13th Annual No Dead Artists show unveils new work,” Gambit New Orleans
“Shopdropping and Exhibition Making: Ryan Watkins-Hughes returns to New York,” ArtCAL “Food Art!: Ryan Watkins-Hughes at Heist Gallery,” The L Magazine “Shopdropping in New York,” The New York Times “Anarchists in the Aisles?,” The New York Times “Shopdropping a Crime?”, The Los Angeles Times “Shopping Droppato?,” Vanity Fair, Italy “Artistry in Aisle Seven,” Metro New York “The Next Big Thing: Reverse Shoplifting,” The London Times Magazine “Artists Drop While They Shop,” CNN.com “The Great Wide Open,” The Public Art Review “Shop/Scaffali Pop,” D la Repubblica delle Donne, Italy “Shopdropping,” The Maariv Journal, Israel “Artistas Subvertem Consumo Com Cópias,” Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil “Shopdropping Becomes New Branch of Modern Street Art,” Pravda, Russia “Bearing Fruit: Shopdropping by Ryan Watkins-Hughes,” The Brooklyn Paper “Semiotic Disobedience,” Washington University Law Review CBS 5 News, San Francisco, CA (Interview) The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, New York (Interview) WFCR News, New England NPR affiliate (Interview) ABC News Radio, Seattle (Interview) WFCR News, KIRO Radio, Seattle (Interview) |