ABOUT

Johanna Aenderl Ryan is a visual artist who works in a range of mediums including trace monotypes, textiles, and animation. She focuses on psychological and spiritual themes using a subtly surrealist approach. 

Her work embodies psychological processes and imagery: rumination, repetition, fragmented negative spaces. Her abstracted self-portraits attempt to understand a difficult reality; to come to grips with grief, loss, isolation, and anxiety. The effect is like looking at the sun: you can only look indirectly, but you still feel it is there.

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Johanna Aenderl Ryan (b. 1984, Saint Paul, MN) is based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2020. She has been a recipient of grants and scholarships through Penland School of Craft (2023), Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA (2023), New York Academy of Art (2017-2020). Solo exhibitions include: Chashama (Brooklyn, NY). Select group exhibitions include: Ethan Cohen KuBE, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Equity Gallery, ChaShaMa Space to Present, and Cape Cod Museum of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence at Voice x NYAA and ChaNorth.