David Ryan

David Ryan

David Ryan is a visual artist and writer based in London and Cambridge, who is also actively involved in contemporary music. He studied at Liverpool and Coventry Polytechnics, and also on a travelling German Scholarship to Hamburg, Lubeck and Berlin. His extensive writing on art and music includes pieces on Jessica Stockholder, Bernard Frize, John Riddy, Shirley Kaneda, Fabian Marcaccio, Franz Ackermann, David Reed, Katherina Grosse, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Helmut Lachenmann and Jonathan Lasker for various art publications including Modern Painters, Dissonanz in Switzerland, Leonardo Music Journal, San Francisco, Art Papers USA, Contemporary Visual Arts, Contemporary, London, Artpress, Paris, and Tempo, and Art Monthly, London. Catalogue contributions include Hybrids for Tate Liverpool, and Jessica Stockholder/Fabian Marcaccio for Sammlung Goetz, Munich. He has given lectures on abstract painting including venues such as the UNAM (National University of Mexico), Mexico, Warwick Arts Centre, Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, Germany, Dahl Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland, and Tate Liverpool, UK. His publication Talking Painting: Dialogues with 12 Contemporary Abstract Painters (2002) is published by Routledge. He has lectured at Christies, Sothebys, and is currently a Research Fellow at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, as well as Senior lecturer in Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He has exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery (Open Exhibition), London, British Abstract Painters, Flowers West, Los Angeles, USA; Painting and Time at the Nunnery Gallery, London, British Abstract Painting 2001 at Flowers East, London, Surface Connections, Holden Gallery Manchester, Illuminate at Jasmine Studios, Hammersmith, London, Flux at London Bridge Tunnels, On the Way to Things at Churchill College, Cambridge, Lines of Enquiry at Kettles Yard, Cambridge, and Transfer at Keith Talent gallery, London.

As a performer Ryan has also been actively involved in contemporary music and performed for Danish Radio; Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival; New Music Marathon, Northwestern University, Chicago; The Barbican Art Centre, London (Cage Uncaged, 2004), Line-Point-Line, Los Angeles, and is Director of Dal Niente Projects which presents neglected modernist and contemporary experimental works in London. He has also collaborated with Italian composer Nicola Sani on Non tutte ie Isole…an ‘opera’ for three instrumentalists and sound projection in October 2003, presenting a three-part video projection. Other collaborations with Sani include AchaB 3 at the 2006 Synthese Festival, Bourges France (a 3 screen video). He has also composed Prelude/Postlude 2, part of Sonic Illuminations presented at the BFI, London in 2008. Ryan has had numerous awards including Arts Council of England, Jazz Services, Britten-Pears; Holst and Hinrichsen Foundations; Sonora, Rome, as well as Italian and American Government grants. He will be presented at the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with collaborations with Nicola Sani.

Awards

2007 Jazz Services Tour Grant (with Bruce Coates and John Edwards), Arts Council.

2004 Awards from Britten-Pears Foundation, Holst Foundation and Hinrichsen Foundation

2004 Award for Dal Niente 3, Arts Council of England.

2003 Jazz Services Award for a national tour (with John Edwards and Bruce Coates).

2002 Awards for projects, Hinrichsen Foundation, Holst Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, the American Government, Consejo Internaticionale artistes, Mexico, Japan Foundation, Italian Government (via Sonora, Rome), Jazz Services UK.

1999 Grant, US Government. External Activities 2007 Consultancy, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library.

2007 External Examiner, PhD, Goldsmiths College.

External Activities

2007 Consultancy, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library.

2007 External Examiner, PhD, Goldsmiths College.

2004 External Examiner in Visual and Performing Arts, University of Birmingham. External examiner, University of Lincoln. Recognition and Reviews

2002 Reviews in 'Bomb', New York, 'The Independent', 'Sunday Times', 'Guardian' newspapers, 'Art Monthly', 'The Wire', 'What's On in London'. Huddersfield and Cardew CD reviews in 'The Wire', 'Independent' and 'The Observer'.

Key Lectures/Talks

2007 Invitation to lecture at the Institute of Musicological Research, University of London.

2004 Invited talk: 2004 'Constructing the Immaterial' New Hall, Cambridge University (in association with Kettles Yard).

2003 Invited talk: 'Abstraction In and Out of Field', Dahl Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland.

2001 'Stille als Model for die Bilderden Kunst' at Forum Konkrete Kunst, Germany.

Exhibitions

2008 Video Installation with Nicola Sani, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

2007 Video Installation, the Malt Room, Suffolk

2006 Video Installation with Nicola Sani, AchaB, Synthese Festival, Bourges, France

Music

2008 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Sus den Sieben Tagen, Cut and Splice Destival, London

2008 ‘The Music of Earle Brown’ in collaboration with Trinity Guildhall, London, Kettles yard, Cambridge

2007 Ken Vandermark in London; organised for British Library, Conway hall, London

2007 David Ryan, Gianni Trovalescu, Alberto Popola, Leonardo di Milano, Rome, including performance of ‘Ligeia’ (composer: DR)

Publications

2009 'Christian Wolff: Changing the System' in Christian Wolff, ed. Phil Thomas, Ashgate Academic Press

2008/9 Forthcoming: ‘Experimental Music and the Visual Arts’ in The Ashgate Companion to Experimental Music, Ashgate Academic Press

2008 Luigi Nono: Promoteo, Art Monthly, June Issue

2008 Francois Morrelet, Art Monthly, May issue

2008 Chance and Contingency: Carolyn Brown, Art Monthly, April Issue

2007 Christian Wolff, British Library Publications Key Lectures/Talks

2008 Sonic Illuminations, BFI Southbank, London

2008 Between Categories 2: Music and the Moving Image, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2007 Between Categories: Music and the Moving Image, Arts Picturehouse / Kettles Yard, Cambridge

2007 Art Monthly Roadshow, Edinburgh Festival

2007 Tate Modern – ‘Long Weekend’ Discussion (broadcast on Resonance FM) with Mark Nash and Cecilia Wee