Continuing the Spring 2025 Fine Arts Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Richard Ryan. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, March 19. 

Richard Ryan was born in London, England in 1950. He received his BA from Stanford Univeristy and his MFA from Yale University.

His work is represented in numerous collections including the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, CA; the Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond University, Richmond, VA and the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Ryan is a former Senior Critic at Brandeis University, American University, and Yale University; Artist-in-Residence, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Brandeis University, and University of Melbourne (Australia); visiting artist at numerous academic institutions nationwide. Richard has received many awards and grants including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2000) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant (1993). Solo and group exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Boston, among others.

He is currently Associate Professor of Painting at Boston University, Boston, MA.

 This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail courtesy of Richard Ryan