RYAN WATKINS-HUGHES

Born in Atlanta, GA 1979
Lives and works in New Orleans, LA

2009	Yes We Canned. Heist Gallery, New York, NY
2008	Nice is the little sister of shit. Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany

2009	Stored and Filtered: Technology, Time, and Landscape. Texas Firehouse Gallery, LIC, NY
	Everything Must Go. Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
	MFA Candidacy Exhibition. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
	Miles and More: Artists on Tour. Strumpfe, Mannheim, Germany
	SON-V Festival. Mondo Bizzaro, New Orleans, LA
	Airlift Benefit. Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2008	Papercut. Heist Gallery, New York, NY
	I’ll be your mirror...so you can break into endless shards. Heist Gallery, New York, NY
	Repressed. Gallery5, Richmond, VA
	Let’s Bolt Again. Rock Paper Scissors, Oakland, CA
2007	SIM Exhibition. Reykjavik, Iceland
	Just Another 3704558. Brooklyn, NY
	Let’s Bolt. CSV Center, New York, NY
	RIATS Festival. 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2006	Shopdropping. Maiden, Brooklyn, NY
	Point of Purchase. D.U.M.B.O Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
	Art In The Contested City. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
	Version Festival. Chicago, IL
2005	Grandma Take Me Home. Cavalier Art Fair, Miami, FL
	DIY: The Aesthetics of Life. InvisibleNYC, NY, NY
	The Symbolic Defeat of PHI SLAMMA JAMMA. Melody Weir, NY, NY
	prog:ME. Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
	Provflux. Cube2, Providence, RI
	Reclaiming Space. Space Arts Venue, Portland, ME
	Traces of Me or How I learned to Draw. Asterisk* Art Space. Brooklyn, NY
	Independent Arts Festival. Sztuka Fabryka Gallery, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
	See Something / Say Something. LeffertsSpace, Brooklyn, NY
	Hard Times. Halcyon, Brooklyn, NY
	BOLLOCKS: A Street Art Show. David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
2004	Highway Art Squats Skorch. Skorch, New York, NY
	The Interventionists; GBGC Open Call. Mass MOCA, Boston, MA
	Psy.Geo.Conflux. Participant Inc. , New York, NY
	Art Salon Laisle. Fundación Gugg und Chaim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002	Free Manifesta. Frankfurt, Germany
	LuminaCity. West End Gallery, Atlanta GA
2001	BFA Thesis Exhibition. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
	Panacademy Pandemonium. Cooper Union, New York, NY
2000	Night Of A Thousand Drawings. Artists Space, New York, NY
	Drawing. Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst Mass

MFA, Digital Media. Tulane University of New Orleans, LA (expected 2010)
BFA, Honors Painting. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Greetings for Shopdropping.net
2007 Just Another 3704558. Brooklyn, NY (with MetroColorCollision)
2006 Shopdropping. Maiden, Brooklyn, NY

“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
“Provflux; Lost and Found,” Art Fairs International
“Free Culture,” Crosswalk
“The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism” by Christian Hundertmark
To Be Seen, Documentary Film by Alice Arnold
“Semiotic Disobedience,” Washington University Law Review
CBS 5 News, San Francisco, CA
The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, New York
WFCR News, New England NPR affiliate
ABC News Radio, Seattle
WFCR News, KIRO Radio, Seattle

Graduate Summer Research Grant, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Full Scholarship & Teaching Fellowship, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Artist in Residence, SIM Gueststudio, Reykjavik, Iceland
KBFUS Cultural Exchange Grant, Brussels, Belgium
Artist in Residence, Republique of M, Miroslaweic, Poland
Pratt Institute Graduating Travel Scholarship, Class of 2001

Instructor of Record, Digital Media I, Tulane University, New Orleans
Teaching Assistant, Digital Media I, II, & Digital Photography, Tulane University, New Orleans
Assistant Artist in Residence, JCC New Orleans
Guest Artist/Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Guest Teacher, Eyebeam, New York, NY
Panelist & Speaker, Street Seen: Small Press Book Fair, New York, NY