Educational History

 

 

Master of Fine Arts

New York Academy of Art

New York, NY

September 2013 – May 2015

Honors: Magna Cum Laude. 

Awards: NYAA Merit Scholarship, Academic Service Scholarship, The Michele & Timothy Barakett Scholarship. Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, BMoreArt Feature Story: Silent Interiors. Review of Things Forgotten, written by Matt Klos. Paintings published in Jet Fuel Review, Lewis University’s online literary journal. Woven Tale Press: Spotlight Vol. IV #10. Relics That Reflect Reality. Interview with Emily Jaeger, Published December 12, 2016. Or Does It Explode Magazine. Ryan Schroeder: A Conversation About Decay, Neglect, and What It Means to Be Forgotten. Interview with Tasha Mathew. Published June 4, 2016.

Study Abroad: Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. 

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore Maryland

September 2005 - August 2009

Honors: Magna Cum Laude.

Awards: Presidential Scholarship, National Art Honors Society Scholarship, Eichelberg Scholarship in Painting, Art History Scholarship, MICA Talent Grant, MICA Pre-College Scholarship.

Study Abroad: SACI, Florence, Italy.  

Internships: Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester Historical Society, Genesee Country Museum, John L. Wehle Gallery.

 

Exhibitions

 

2023

Imaginary Friends. Pearls Social and Billy Club, Brooklyn, NY

 

2022

White House Fellows Leadership Conference. Resident Artist. Willard Hotel, Washington DC. 

New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition juried by Clara Ha, Andrew Kreps, Michael Nevin, and Wallace Whitney, New York, NY

Fulbright 75 Virtual Art Exhibit

Spellbound: The Art of Mystery. Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

In a Different Light. Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

 

2021

Solo: A Child’s Rhyme Stuck in my Head, Paintings by Ryan Schroeder. Clemente Soto Cultural Center, New York, NY

Clio Art Fair, New York, NY

 

2019

Damaged Art Exhibition, Curated by Cheryl Georgette. 98 Orchard St Gallery, New York, NY

Parent Portraits, Curated by Robert Bunkin. Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY

Metamorphosis, Oxford Gallery. Rochester, NY

Solo: Residue of a Lived Experience. Doris Ulmann Galleries. Berea College. Berea, KY

Emerging Artist Juried Exhibitions. Limner Gallery, Hudson NY

 

2018

Solo: Changed Places. Ivyside Juried Exhibition. McLanahan Gallery. Penn State. Altoona, PA

Narcan Exhibit. (Traveling Exhibition). University of Rochester, SUNY Geneseo, University at Buffalo, NY

Mandarin Oriental: Real Men. Juried by Brooke Shields and David Kratz, Miami, FL

Massephase. SPRINK, Düsseldorf, Germany

Gleich Frucht Böden Voll Epischter Saat. Haus der Kunst Enniger, Münster, Germany

 

2017

Solo: Tell Yourselves Why You Were There New Work by Ryan Schroeder. 326 Gallery, New York, NY

Guttenberg Arts Foundation STAR Fellowship Exhibition. Guttenberg, NJ

Unnoticed: Recent Works by Ryan Schroeder and Jeff Feld. Curated by Alma Egger. Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Behind Narrative+Emerging Artists: Jennifer Young, Nick Gebhart, Thurston

Belmer, Bruno Perillo, Marshall Jones and Ryan M Schroeder. Curated by Diego Ponce and Daniel Giella, One Art Space. New York, NY

Emerging Artists. Art Mora, Curated by JeongHyun Park, and Sunny Shin. New York, NY

 

2016

Debitfair (Digital Exhibition at the Whitney Biennial). Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Tenth Annual Summer Exhibition. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

Two. ARTROOM, Fort Worth, TX

75th Regional Art Exhibition. Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

Art for Haiti. Saint Rock Haiti Foundation Fundraiser. ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

2015

Things Forgotten: Paintings by Ryan Schroeder and Andy Karnes. Galerie Françoise, Baltimore, MD

9th Annual Summer Exhibition. Curated by Leslie Dill, Matthew Flowers, and Martha Schwendener. Flowers Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2014

Forgotten Places, Richard Harrington, Matt Klos, and Ryan Schroeder. Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

Mutual Interest No.3. Ryan Schroeder, Dana Kotler, Tamalin Baumgarten and Arc Niles. Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. Shanghai, China

Artist­-in­-Residence, China, New York Academy of Art. New York, NY
 

Lectures and Publications

 

2022

Lecture on my work at the White House Fellows Conference, The Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. 

 

2017

MICA Profile: Interview with Yam Chew

 

2016

Woven Tale Press: Spotlight Vol. IV #10. Relics That Reflect Reality. Interview with Emily Jaeger, Published December 12, 2016

Or Does It Explode Magazine. Ryan Schroeder: A Conversation About Decay, Neglect, and What It Means to Be Forgotten. Interview with Tasha Mathew. Published June 4, 2016.

 

2015

BMoreArt Feature Story: Silent Interiors. Review of Things Forgotten, written by Matt Klos. 

 

2014

Conducted a lecture on Edwin Dickinson. New York Academy of Art. NY

 

2013

Paintings published in Jet Fuel Review, Lewis University’s online literary journal

 

Awards and Honors

 

 

Regional Finalist for the White House Fellowship (2023)

Resident Artist of the White House Fellowship Leadership Conference. Willard Hotel, Washington D.C.

Elizabeth Greenshields Grantee (2023)

City Artist’s Corps Grantee (2021)

Guest Artist, Museum Insel Hombroich (2018)

Fulbright Scholar (2017)

STAR Artist Fellow, Guttenberg Arts Foundation (2016)

Guest Artist, Museum Insel Hombroich (2016)

Elizabeth Greenshields Grantee (2015)

Artist-in-Residence, Shanghai University (2014)

Artist-in-Residence, Contemporary Art Center of Troy, NY (2013)

Artist-in-Residence, The Vermont Studio Center (2012)

 

                                                                                     Biography

                               

 

Ryan Schroeder is a professional artist and museum preparator from Rochester, New York. His body of work primarily focuses on cultural erasure, environmental destruction, and overlooked people in society through oil paintings. Ryan has won numerous art awards and grants, including two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants, and has been featured in various art publications. His art has been shown in over 20 exhibitions around the US, Asia, and Europe. Ryan was an artist-in-residence at Shanghai University in China and was twice the artist-in-residence of the Raketensation at the Insel Hombroich Foundation in Germany. He was also selected as a Fulbright Scholar for painting in Düsseldorf and Münster, Germany. Ryan has previously worked for Jeff Koons and at the Guggenheim Museum on retrospective exhibitions with artists such as Alex Katz that have been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors and featured in the New York Times and Vogue. In 2022, he was the Featured Artist for the White House Fellows Annual Leadership Conference. Ryan was the first in his family to receive a post-secondary degree, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Art Academy.