Ryan Burns CV
2020-22 City of Portland: Public Art Roster
2018-20 City of Seattle: Public Art Roster
2017 Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Public Art Boot Camp
2014 Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant
2013 The Ford Family Foundation, Exhibition & Documentation Grant Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant
2011 Black Rock Arts Foundation, Artist Grant
2010 Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant
2009 Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council, Artist Focus Grant
2007 Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology, Artist-in-Residence
2005 Puffin Foundation Grant
2003 Puffin Foundation Grant.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Beacon, PDX Contemporary Gallery Window Project, Portland, OR
2018 Mourning Woods: The Capitalocene Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans,LA 2017 Dendrochronology: The Layers Within, Karl & Helen
Burger Gallery, Kean University, NJ
2015 Remembered Loss, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY Existential Ecologies,Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Tree Studies, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR,
Climate Proxies, Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA,
Augen Gallery, Portland,OR,
Drew University, Madison, NJ,
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
2009 Profane Relics, SEA Change Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Biodiscourse, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR, Considering Wilderness, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2006 Dendric Dialogues, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 Biodiscourse, Ronna & Eric Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
2004 Prototypes for Biodiscourse, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 Puzzles: Ecology & Survival Skills, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans
1999 The Ecology of Assemblages, Headwaters Environmental Center, Ashland, OR
1998 The Secret Nature of Debris, KOW Gallery, Portland, OR
JURIED and GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Prospect 6 Ford Building POP UP, New Orleans LA.
Group Show, Farrington Smith Gallery, New Orleans, Homage To
Trees, Crevasse22 I Riverhouse, St. Bernard,LA
2022 Surroundings: A Picture of the Land, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Works on Paper, The Long Beach Center for Art and Science, Long Beach
NJ, April in Paris, SCRAP Gallery, Cathedral City, CA
2017 Cut and Paste, Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Recycle, Brooklyn Waterfront Art Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Portland Biennial Salon Show, Disjecta Contemporary, Portland, OR
2015 Bellingham National Exhibition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Surf and Turf, Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
2014 Concerning Matter, Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Holistic Transformations, Art 4 All People Gallery, Malibu, CA
2011 Mulitspecies, City University New York, New York, NY,
Viande de Brousse, PLACE, Portland, OR
2010 Ethnographic Terminalia, American Anthropology Association, Barrister’s Gallery,New Orleans, LA, Multispecies, Ironwork, New Orleans, LA,
GREEN, Sculpture Park & Arts Center, Solomons, MDSculpture Park & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2009 Process Impact, Murray University, Murray, KY, Pacific Northwest Art Annual,University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2008 Biodiscourse, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR, Live Debris, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil &Beirut, Lebanon, Prospect 1, Saint Claude Collective, New Orleans, LA, Sitka Center Art Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
2007 30 Rooms, Milepost 5, Portland, OR, Forest Dreaming, Center for Contemporary Art & the Natural World, Devon,
2005 Global Warming, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa
Ana Hydriotaphia, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 Lenin Busted, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
PUBLIC ART
2017 Hibernacula: Batcall, Delridge Neighborhood Greenway, Seattle, WA
2014 Skate Stump, Cave Junction Skate Park, Cave Junction,OR EDUCATION
John Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University