Ryan McGiness was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1972 and studied at Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ryan McGinness currently lives and works in New York City, New York. McGinness is an artist who has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. By combining and remixing graphic vocabularies from a range of sources, his work makes strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. Ryan McGinness’ graphic vocabulary consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols in which originals do not exist. Ryan McGinness’ graphic signs and personal iconography are replicated, recontextualized, and materialized infinitely across a range of media—from paintings, prints, and installations, to skateboards, T-shirts, and videos. Ryan Mc Ginness’ art is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ryan McGinness’ work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, New York Magazine, Relax, Art Investor, Vogue, i-D, Wallpaper, Strength, Nylon, The Independent, Dazed and Confused, XLR8R, Tokion, and GQ, among others.
