Jack Ryan is an artist and independent curator born in the Pacific Northwest and on faculty at The School of Visual Arts in NY and at The University of Oregon. His work has been screened or exhibited at The Hirshhorn Museum; The Philips Collection in Washington D.C.; The Memphis Brooks Museum; Athens Institute of Contemporary Art: Consolidated Works, Seattle; Syracuse University; MICA; PICA; as well as in Basel, Cairo, Dublin, Banff, Austin, New York and San Francisco.