Bio

Sarah Ryder* (b. 1978, Wales) lives and works in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2008; BA in Fine Art Painting at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, 2000.

Recent solo exhibitions Imperceivable (until it isn’t). Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen, 2024; Feet. Brain. Back Again. Galeri, Caernarfon, with second iteration in Cass Art Gallery, Manchester, both 2022. Recent group exhibitions: Caught In The Act, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, 2024; PLAY: The Movie!, Ty Pawb, Wrexham, 2023; BLINK Room Share 4, Safehouse 1, London, 2023; Maquette, No Show Space, London, 2023; Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Devon, 2022; Yellow Archangel Perceiving Anomalies, General Practice, Lincoln, 2021; ArtHouses, Whitley Bay, 2019.

Recipient of the overall award for Exeter Contemporary Open 2022.

*Exhibited as Sarah Bowker-Jones until 2020

CV

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024 Imperceivable (until it isn’t). Isotop Fellesatelier, Bergen, Norway
2024 Caught In The Act, Royal Society of Sculptors, London (invited artist as part of Madi Acharya-Baskerville’s exhibition)
2022 Feet. Brain. Back Again. Galeri, Caernarfon and Cass Art, Manchester
2014 You Never Fail Until You Stop Trying, York College Gallery, York
2014 We Are Not Friends (with David Orme), Platform 1 Gallery, London
2012 Temporary Surfaces (with Sarah Longworth-West), Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2010 Under That Big Thing in the Window, LEDGE, London
2009 Pondering in Low Light (with Mike Ryder), Crimes Town, London

Group Exhibitions

2024 F L O A T, CARN, Caernarfon
2024 MIXTAPE no.7, Cultivate, organthing.com
2023 BLINK Room Share 4, Safehouse 1, London
2023 Play: The Movie!, Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2023 Paper Cuts, 50MV, Liverpool
2023 Maquette, No Show Space, London
2022 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Devon
2021 Powltis, Studio Cybi, Online
2021 Yellow Archangel Perceiving Anomalies, General Practice, Lincoln
2020 Ty Pawb Open, Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2019 ArtHouses, Whitley Bay
2019 Sui Generis, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2018 John Street, LLAWN Festival, Llandudno
2017 Boobs – The Semiology of Breast, The Art Foundation, Greece, Athens
2016 LlanDada, CALL Freehaus Art School, Llandudno
2014 Stop Frame: BROADCAST! Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth
2014 STUFT all over again, RED Gallery, Hull
2013 «A«Tri»Lick», PEER, London
2013 Impulsive Structure, Project Space Hobin, Korea
2013 Uncle Vern’s Dog (curated with Mike Ryder), Gallery North, Newcastle
2012 COPY, Paper Gallery, Manchester
2012 Malerei: Painting as Object (curated with Natalie Gale and Sarah Kate Wilson), NewBridge Space, Newcastle and Transition Gallery, London
2011 Next to Nothing, Unit Space, The Light, Leeds and SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow
2011 Seven Sunsets (commissioned for Field Broadcast by Citizen Project and Bournemouth University)
2011 Field Broadcast, Field Trip, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex
2010 If You Can Hold Your Breath, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2010 Get on, Get in, Get out, Holster Projects, London
2010 MicroPerformance on Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery Cafe, London
2009 The Thing Things, Goth on Bus, London
2009 Mezzo Tempo, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
2009 The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, Woburn, London
2009 Interplay, Nolia’s Gallery, London
2009 Games People Play, Home Project, Milan
2009 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, The Bear, London
2008 Human Resources, V22 Wharf Project, London
2008 Clouds, Rhys and Hannah Present..., Bristol
2007 New Contemporaries, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Rochelle School, London, and Cornerhouse, Manchester
2007 House About That!, 27 Penrith Street, London
2007 Avalanche!!!!!! (Collaboration with Francesca Anfossi), Alsop’s Architect Space, London
2004 Bermondsey Open, Café Gallery Projects, London
2004 Stuft, Red Gallery, Hull
2002 5years, Red Gallery, Hull
2000 Graduates 2000, Eich Gallery, Hull
1998 Four Play, Red Gallery, Hull

Residencies

2016 Tidal Amnesia, Freehaus Art School, Culture Action Llandudno
2012 Figuring out what to do next, Construction Gallery, London
2009 Live Now or Later?, KUBE, Poole
2008 JBG15, Leeds Metropolitan, Leeds
2007 Peripatetic, Slade Research Centre,Woburn, London

Publications

2023 Maquette, project by Robert Moon, Catalogue
2022 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Catalogue
2021 Yellow Archangel Perceiving Anomalies, Catalogue
2013 Uncle Vern’s Dog, Catalogue and Review
2012 Temporary Surfaces, Review, a.n
2012 CAVE art fair, Catalogue
2011 SLUICE art fair, Catalogue
2011 Next to Nothing, Almanac
2010 If You Can Hold Your Breath, Review, a.n
2009 Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum and Phaidon Book
2009 Mezzo Tempo, Catalogue
2009 Pondering in Low Light, Catalogue
2008 Paint to Print, Slade Postgraduate Painting Book
2007 New Contemporaries 2007, Catalogue

Awards

2022 First prize, Exeter Contemporary Open
2022 Creative and Digital Colwyn Bursary, Conwy County Borough Council
2008 UCL Alumni Scholarship, UCL, London
2007 The Pocock Bursary, UCL, London

Teaching

2023 Guest Lecturer and Tutor, University of Derby
2022 My adventures of painting with foil, PechaKucha, Oriel Colwyn
2021 Crit, workshop, and talk, Portfolio, Mostyn, Llandudno
2021 Raising The Bar mentoring, Ruthin Craft Centre
2020 Remote workshops, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
2020 Introduction to my practice, PechaKucha, Oriel Colwyn
2016 Talk and panel member at FreeHaus Futures Symposium, FreeHaus, LLandudno
2016 Lecture at Creative Futures, Glyndwr University
2015 – 2017 Lecturer in Fine Art (painting dept), Lancaster University
2015 Lead artist running a series of 4 workshops, South London Gallery, London
2014 Guest Lecturer, York College
2012 Wellington Primary School residency and weekend family workshop, The Chisenhale Gallery, London
2009 – 2011 Lecturer, Canterbury School of Art
2008 Guest Lecturer and Tutor, Leeds Met
2007 Guest Lecturer, Hull School of Art and Design

Education

2008 MFA Fine Art, Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2000 BA (Hons.) Fine Art, Painting (First Class), University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull
1999 Three month Student exchange, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland
1997 Btec Diploma in Art and Design, Yale College of Art and Design, Wrexham