Virginia Ryan Visual Artist

2024

Infanzia In Guerra Installation in support of italian organisation Emergency.Pinacoteca di Trevi, November 2024

2023

'Gatherings' Nido Dell Aquila ,Todi during Todi Festival, curated by Alexia Petsinis for ArtEx Global. Texts by Petsinis and Silvioli.

'Bodies and Fictions' Fleurieu Arthouse, Maclaren Vale, Australia 

2022

 “Epifania- Presenza”/ Chiesa MADONNA del POZZO, OPUS & LIGHT” ideazione e progetto di STUDIO_A'87 – Con il Patrocinio del Comune di Spoleto , text by Davide Silvioli

The Sheltering Palace, Villa Fabri, Trevi  ( Valy,Lindgren, Ryan ) on occasion of AntiFestival.

~ Vernissage, Studio Arteria, Trevi, November 2022 with text by Davide Silvioli.

2021

'Personal Diffractions #2, text by Davide Silvioli, M.A.D. Museum (Museo del Arte e Design) Campello Sul Clitunno, Italy

2020

Praesentia , Melbourne,  Australia.

Selling Dreams ACTA International curated by Manuela De Leonardis, Rome Italy.

Personal Diffractions, curated by Manuela De Leonardis  for TODI OPEN DOORS, Palazzo Morghetti, Todi Italy.

'Biografia Plurale  di Una Comunita'  (100 potraits of Women from Trevi during the covid pandemic,  in association with JR 'Inside-Out' Project ) curated by Maurizio Coccia and Mara Predicatori, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary,  Trevi, Italy

2019

Virginia Ryan-IN_SITU  Balmoral Post Office Studio, Australia , February, on completion of #phase1 residency with the support of Regional Arts Victoria and Southern Grampians Shire.

'Atelier #4'  Open Studio/presentation Museum of Contemporary Art, Macro Asilo, Rome.

'Shift' Alchimie Sonori Festival , curated by Lara Caccia, Citta' di Davoli, Calabria, Italy.

'VOLTAR' curated by Anna Cochetti , 'Storie Contemporanee', Studio Poerio, Rome Italy. 

2018

'I Will Shield You' - Castello di Postignano, Italy  with soundwork produced by Tim Ryan (Trackdown Studios,Sydney)

Com-Plicit  Museo della Canapa, Sant'Anatolia di Narco, Italy (with Hamraz Darugar) 

2017

Biografia Plurale, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Italy curated by Ivan Bargna and Maurizio Coccia.

Selling Dreams  'Head On' International Photo Festival, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney Australia 

Selected Works  from 'I Will Shield You'  at the Tempio di Adriano/Temple of Hadrian, Rome  in collaboration with designer Monica Bi.

'Boucliers'  Virginia Ryan and Rene Pena curated by Mariateresa Setaro, director of TRIAD Foundation (London), as special project for AKKA Fair 2017, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris .

2016

I Will Shield You Gallery Montoro12, Rome, curated by Ursula Hawlitschka (catalogue texts Ursula Hawlitschka, Achille Bonito Oliva, Osei Bonsu)  

I Will Shield You Installation Pinacoteca di Trevi, Umbria.

2015 

Vous Etes Ici  Musee de La Patrimoine Culturel , Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast .

2014

Fluid Tales  Museo Pino Pascali, Italy, curated by Lia Del Venere, April-May.

Espace A' Louer Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Ivory Coast.

Bassam Jam Mondo Musique, Foligno (AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo) .

Shift/Rue Du Commerce ARTEDECO and Palazzo Eustachi curated by Franco Profili, Terni,Italy.

Emersioni' Trebisonda Centro Per L'Arte Contemporanea, curated by Alessandra Migliorati, Perugia, italy.

2013

Shift/Rue Du Commerce,  Cantiere Oberdan for LaMama Spoleto Open, Festival of Spoleto and St Stephens Cultural Centre Rome , Italy. Text by Manuela De Leonardis. 

I LOVE YOU  1OPERA Gallery Naples, curated by Tatafiore, Irpi and Ruffo. 

Surfacing, Freemocco House, Deruta,curated by Attilio Quintili. Texts by Antonella Pesola and Virginia Bruzzone. 

Castaways Project  Installation in the Museo Archeologico, Arezzo, Italy as part of ICASTICA.

2012' 

8 Peace Diamonds Showroom exhibit, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Abidjan.

2011

'Intransitu'  Dovecot Studios curated by G.Caroppo di Monterisi, Edinburgh,Scotland - in association with the Italian Cultural Institute.read here

Waiting for Something to Happen' Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Art, Trevi Umbria, curated by Mathilde Martinetti,

Layered/Lands Villa Montani Della Fargna,Poreta, Italy.

Transitions Castello di Poreta, Italy. curated by Anne Wood-Metelli.

InTransitu Installation in 'Pino Pascali-Ritorno a Venezia'. Palazzo Michael Brusa' - 54th International Biennale of Venice, Official Event sponsored by the Apulia region, curated By Giusy Caroppo di Monterisi and Achille Bonito Oliva.

2010

'WaterSpirit' Galerie Amani de Leon N'Guetta, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Surfacing' @Institut Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dak'art Senegal, invited by Yacouba Konaté on occasion of Dakar Biennal,  'Exposures-A White Woman in Africa'  Biennale of Malindi,Kenya, curated by Sarenco and Achille Bonito Oliva.

2009'

Floating Wastelands Installation Hotel Cerretani, Florence, Italy curated by Chiara Izzo.

Castaways Project and Topographies of The Dark Spazio Ottagoni, Rome, curated by Giuseppe Salerno.

Aerial Kyo Art Gallery,Viterbo, Italy, curated by Antonella Pissilli.

2008

Open Studio Hill Crescent Nima Accra ,Ghana in collaboration wirh FCA Ghana.

Still/Moving Sofitel, Bologna,Italy curated by Chiara Izzo.

Multiple Entries-Africa and Beyond  City Gallery of Modern Art ,Spoleto, Italy, in the 51° International Festival of Two Worlds curated by Cecilia Metelli with text by Achille Bonito Oliva.

2007

Topographies of the Dark  Alliance Francaise , Accra, Ghana.

The Castaways Project @ Whitworth Art Gallery at Manchester University, U.K.

Exposures  St Stephens Cultural Centre, Rome curated by Agnes Martin / School of Advanced Research (SAR) Santa Fe,New Mexico - Peck School of Art, Wisconsin, USA curated by Dick Blau.

2006

Blues For Charlie Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana.

Landing in Accra Palazzo Cassotto, Modena, Italy, curated by Oltrelab.

Awanwandain-Postcolonial Wunderkammerrn, Spello, Italy, curated by Franco Ottavianelli.

2005

The Loom Gallery, Accra, Ghana, June curated by Francis Ademola. 

Shorelines Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy, curated by Italo Tomassoni.

2004

Seven Steps from Anomabo  Dubois Centre for Pan African Culture, Accra curated by Prof, Joe Nkrumah.

Goldfield Alliance Francaise , Kumasi 

Living Go(l)d  Alliance Francaise, Enugu Nigeria, curated by PACA. (in The Nude Never Sleeps, Afrika Heritage).

2003

Europe paints Ghana National Theatre Exhibition Hall , Accra, Ghana. 

The Memory Room Shopafrik, Accra Ghana.

2002

Landing in Accra National Museum of Accra, Ghana - Alliance Francaise Gallery Kumasi, Ghana - Sala Uno, Rome, Italy - Palazzo Calabrese, Viterbo, Italy.

2001

'Cento Passi', ass. Culturale Futuro, Rome.

'Potrait of the Artist as an Atopian' Atelierart International, New York.

2000

Woman Looking at Woman Miralli Gallery, Viterbo, Italy curated by Alberto Miralli.

'Atopia', House of Art, University of Ankara, Turkey - Italian Cultural Institute, Istanbul and Italian Consulate, Izmir .

1999

Atopia Il Politecnico Gallery,curated by Massimo Scaringella, Rome

1998

Open Books Geografica Studio,  curated by Ken Sowerby Ausburg, Germany.

1996

Sosta Sale Clitunno, August , Trevi, Italy.

1995

Opere-In-Corso. Before/Departure Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh.

1994

Four Banners For Four Poems  in collaboration with Adrian Henri , Tron Kirk, Festival of Edinburgh.

Visionfest Picton Library,Central Library, Liverpool, England.

Floresta The View Gallery,Liverpool. 

Recent Works Norrie-Toch Studios, Gullane, Scotland.

Artist For a Week  The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.

1993

Home, Europe  Demarco Art Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland curated by Richard de Marco.

1992

Stealing Fire Tabula Rasa Cultural Association, Rome.

1990

Museum of Art of Joinville, Santa Caterina, Brazil.

Anita Malfatti Cultural Space, Curitiba, Brazil curated by Joao-Henrique Amaral.

1989

Chasing shadows, Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brazil.

1986

Graffiti-Now Atelier, Verona, Italy.

1985

Fantasia Istituto Italiano di Cultura Cairo, Egypt.

Costantine Cavafy Κωνσταντ?νοςΠ.Καβ?φης Cultural Space, Greek General Consulate, Alexandria, Egypt.

1983

L'Atelier, Alexandria, Egypt.

1982

Montmatre Gallery,Canberra,Australia.

1981 

Solander Gallery, Canberra,Australia.