Ryn Osbourne
Ryn is a Chicago based artist and educator.
She first gained photographic artistic training as a student at the College of Wooster studying darkroom film and digital photography, cyanotype and van dyke printing process, sculpture, and collage.
From 2015-2017 Ryn joined MINT Collective in Columbus, OH working and exhibiting with a collective of artists out of a former meat packing warehouse and experimenting with the cyanotype process. In 2016, she took part in a residency, "Dark Matter," at Port Gallery in New Orleans, and was strongly influenced by intuitive drawing exercises led by artist Heather Hansen. In 2020, she completed the Hyde Park Art Center's Bridge Program where she began writing short poetic texts corresponding with her prints at the encouragement of her artist mentor.
Ryn’s work is the result of deep inquiry into the processes of knowing and expressing the emotional self.
Through 9 years of developing her practice, Ryn has produced a body of work Tension in Ease Ryn’s current projects include:
Documentation as care: Ryn is creating a “Letter from the artist” catalogue style book documenting her work and corresponding poetic texts.
Personalized 1:1 audience engagement / commissioned prints capturing and commemorating stories shared by others.
In addition to her artistic practice, Ryn is literacy diverse learner teacher on the South West side. Ryn’s studio practice is based in Hyde Park.
Artist CV
B. 1993, Fremont, Ohio
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
Education:
2024 Master in Teaching, LBS1, Relay Graduate School of Education
2018 Master of Arts, Arts Administration, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, The College of Wooster
Residencies and Collectives
2016 Dark Matter, Port Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 - 2017 MINT Collective, Columbus, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2016 9 Minutes, City Center Gallery, Columbus, OH
Group Exhibitions / Programs
2023 Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Grace Jane, Chicago, IL
2022 Confluence, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Bridge Program Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 Meat Sink II, Mint Collective, Columbus, OH
2016 DeMaster, Satalite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
2016 Junk Dada Super Sunday, public installation and program facilitation, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Bibliography
Kerry Cardoza, “Fluid Forms: A Review of Confluence at Heaven Gallery,” New City, March 11, 2022: https://art.newcity.com/2022/03/11/fluid-forms-a-review-of-confluence-at-heaven-gallery/
Marisa Espe, “Get Found with Ryn Osbourne and Off the Grid,” The Wexner Center for the Arts Blog, February 28th, 2016: https://wexarts.org/blog/get-found-ryn-osbourne-and-grid
Jim Fisher, “Meat Sink: MINT Collective Member Exhibit,” Columbus Alive, March 31st, 2016
Liz Trapp, “Review: Remaking Tradition at MINT,” Columbus Underground, April 7th, 2016: https://columbusunderground.com/remaking-tradition-at-mint-lt1/
Jim Fisher, “Arts Preview: 9 Minutes at City Center Gallery,” Columbus Alive, June 30th, 2016: https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/06/30/arts-preview-9-minutes-at/23023726007/