Born in Atlanta, GA, Ryan Watkins-Hughes is a New Orleans-based artist & web designer.

Recent exhibitions include the Convenience Store exhibition at York University Gallery in Toronto, along with group exhibitions and a solo show at Heist Gallery, NYC. In 2003, he created the Shopdropping project, which entails altering the packaging of goods before "shopdropping" them into stores.

Solo Exhibitions

2011 TBD. Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 TBD. Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt, Germany
Convenience Store. York University, Toronto Canada
2009 Yes We Canned. Heist Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Nice is the little sister of shit. Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 First Annual Print Show. LA Artworks, New Orleans, LA
I Wish I Were Dead. Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 13th Annual No Dead Artists. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Stored and Filtered: Technology, Time, and Landscape. Texas Firehouse Gallery, NYC
Everything Must Go. Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Miles and More: Artists on Tour. Strumpfe, Mannheim, Germany
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
Let's Bolt. CSV Center, New York, NY
RIATS Festival. 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2006 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
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
BOLLOCKS: A Street Art Show. David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC
2004 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

Education

MFA, Digital Art. Tulane University of New Orleans, LA
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)

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