EDUCATION

2003 M.F.A. Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

1997 B.A. Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2017- Present Associate Professor of Studio Art, Santa Clara University

2011-2017 Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Santa Clara University

2005-2010 Lecturer, Santa Clara University

2004-2005 Adjunct Lecturer, University of California Davis

2004-2005 Instructor, City College of San Francisco, Dept. of Continuing Education

2002-2003 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California Berkeley

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018

The Free Way, b sakata garo, Sacramento CA

2017

ebb and flow, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA

2016

Inhabited, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2015

Terrestrial, Ballinglen Art Center, Ireland

2014

O’Malia-Reynolds, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY

2013

Landscape Assembled, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA

2012

Continuum, Art Zone 461, San Francisco, CA

Shifting Landscapes: Chelsea James and Ryan Reynolds, Bakersfield Museum of Art, CA

OUTSIDE in, Susan Street Gallery, Solana Beach, CA

2011

Beyond Static, 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Everything is Electrified, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2009

(SUB)URBAN, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

2008

Minutes of the Earth, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2007

Landscapes and Figures, Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, CA

2006

Absorbed in Silence, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2004

Ryan Reynolds and Ron Bimrose, g2 Gallery Scottsdale, AZ

2000

The Past Three Years, Cabrillo College Aptos, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Art Auction Exhibition, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, Juried

For the Seventh Generation, Elizabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, Oregon

2018

El Grupo Espectáculo, b. sakata garo, Sacramento Ca.

Contemporary Landscape, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA Juror: Chester Arnold

2017

Waterlines, New Museum Los Gatos, CA

2016

Figures, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY

2015

Wetlands, Sebastopol Art Center, CA Juror: Chester Arnold

2013

Introductions, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY

artMRKT, San Francisco Contemporary Art Fair, Fort Mason Center

2012

Art Toronto, Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery, Canada

Blossoms and Roots, Art Zone 461, San Francisco, CA

artMRKT, San Francisco Contemporary Art Fair, Fort Mason Center

Why Paint A Landscape?, Art Zone 461, San Francisco, CA

2011

Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Self Portraits and Others, ArtZone 461, San Francisco, CA

Creative Growth, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

Statewide Painting Competition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara CA, Juried

Realists, New Recent and Historical Works, Art Zone 461, San Francisco, CA

2010

LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA

artMRKT, San Francisco Contemporary Art Fair, Fort Mason Center

Introductions, 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The California Landscape, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

The Figure, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2008 - 2007

The Little Show, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Experience Teaches, De Saisset Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Artists and Friends, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

Exemplary Contemporary, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz

Art in Embassies, Montevideo, Uruguay

Five Painters, Stellar Somerset Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2006

23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, CA

Grand Opening: New Works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2005

Galex 39, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL

2004

Introductions, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA

2003

Far Away – Nearby, Berkeley Art Museum, CA

Unbounded Vistas, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, CA

2002

Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, CA

2001

Full, University of California Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery, CA

2000

Contemporary Portraits, D.P. Fong Galleries San Jose, CA

PERMANENT COLLECTIIONS

Ballinglen Art Foundation, Irish National Art Collection

Bakersfield Museum of Art

Highland Hospital Acute Care Pavilion

Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art

Honors, Awards, Residencies, Grants

2014

Fellowship and Residency, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland

2013

Sustainable Resource Initiative Grant- for “Reduce Reuse Re-imagine”, Santa Clara University

2012

Alameda County Arts Commission- Highland Hospital Public Arts Program

2007

Seca Award Nomination, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2005

Tournesol Award Finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts, CA

Invited Artists’ Residency, I-Park East Haddam, CT.

Grand Award, Galex 39 Galesburg Civic Art Center

2003

Tournesol Award Finalist, Headlands Center for the Arts

J. Ruth Kelsey Traveling Merit Award, University of California Berkeley

2002

Eisner Award for the highest achievement in the Creative Arts, University of California Berkeley

2001

Full Tuition Grant, Department of Art Practice, University of California Berkeley

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sacramento Bee, Reynolds Explores Rush Hour as Art, Victoria Dalky, 2018

Sacramento Bee, Art Review: Ryan Reynold at b. sakata garo, Victoria Dalky, 2016

Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, National Edition, Volume 15: 2014

Contra Costa Times, “Urban landscape artist Ryan Reynolds at SMC's Hearst Gallery”, Lou Fancher, April, 2013

Alameda County Arts Commission. “Ryan Reynolds: County of Alameda’s Acute Tower Replacement Project, Public Art Program”, Online video clip. Youtube. Youtube, Aug.

Art ltd., “Ryan Reynolds: Continuum at ArtZone 461”, DeWitt Chang, July/August issue.

Hesa In Print, “Mystery/Arvoitus” Issue 21, October 2012. Print.

Nectar Magazine, "Most of Us Die”, Issue 2. Print, 2013

SF Museum Examiner, “Continuum, ArtZone 461”, Nancy Ewart, April 16, 2012

Cimarron Review, cover art, winter issue, 2012

Santa Clara Magazine, War and Peace, vol. 53 no.3

Obsession/Compulsion, Ink Well, vol. 5,

Creative Growth, Triton Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2011

The California Landscape, Natsoulas Press

New American Paintings Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, 2010

Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalogue, Montevideo Uruguay, 2007

San Jose Mercury News, “Surveying Our Landscapes”, Sara Wykes, August, 2007

The Wave Magazine, Vol. 7 Issue 2 “Space and Time”, Michael J. Vaughn, February, 2007 Artweek, Vol. 37 No.7 “Previews”, Debra Koppman, September, 2006

Sacramento News and Review “Get into’scape”, Saunthy Nicholson-Singh, September, 2006 Sacramento Bee “Critic’s Pick”, Victoria Dalkey, September 15, 2006

New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print. The Open Studios Press: Boston, Vol. No. 61, p. 114-117, 2005

Sacramento Bee “Critic's Pick”, Victoria Dalkey, July 4, 2004

Sacramento News and Review “Getting It”, Tim White, July 22, 2004

Berkeley Art Museum Catalogue, “Far Away-Nearby”, Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson, 2003

New American Paintings, The MFA Annual, The Open Studios Press: Boston, Vol. 7. pgs 130-131, 2002

Ryan Reynolds

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