Ryan Watkins-Hughes is an Atlanta-based artist, interactive designer & developer.
Recent exhibitions include As Real As It Gets at apexart, Spaces at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, along with group exhibitions and a curatorial program at The Front. In 2003, he created the Shopdropping project, which entails altering the packaging of goods before "shopdropping" them into stores.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2009 Yes We Canned. Heist Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 Nice is the little sister of shit. Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2012
- As Real As It Gets. apexart, New York, NY
- Self Promotion. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- Spaces: Antenna, Good Children, The Front. Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
- 2011
- Work Makes the Work. Eisentrager Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
- 2010
- Prospect 1.5. Louisiana State Museum - Madame John's Legacy, New Orleans, LA
- Convenience Store. York University, Toronto Canada
- Adjunct +1. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- 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
Education
MFA, Digital Art. Tulane University of New Orleans, LA
BFA, Honors Painting. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
"Spaces"
Artforum, May 2012, pp. 314-315 Reviewed by Nick Stillmann
"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)