Vibrant Matter Art Exhibition

My creative work centers on dissolving the boundaries between the virtual and physical, inviting viewers to contemplate their interplay. My work meditates on the built environment, with a focus on the visual language of cultural artifacts and emerging technologies.

I employ various mediums such as sculpture, installation, kinetic and electronic works, collaboration, design, and digital fabrication. Drawing inspiration from literary science fiction, I use extrapolation and mimicry to investigate how cultural artifacts, in tandem with technology, embody and project desire within a global vernacular. These forms constitute a cultural composite, shaped by an abstract representation of value, making them adaptable to social change and capable of both sparking and reflecting cultural shifts.

As an artist, my role is to interpret these influential forces, which not only coexist with our world but actively shape it.

Ryan Rasmussen is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans practices in sculpture, installation, kinetic and electronic works, haptic installations, sonic environments, collaboration, design, two-dimensional media, video and things that have mass or do not. Ryan has exhibited work nationally and internationally in such venues as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar; CICA Museum of South Korea; Kyoto Cultural House, Kyoto, Japan; Art Space in the Bay area of CA; the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago, IL; the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery in Midland-Odessa, TX; and Clough Hansen in Memphis, TN. In 2022, Ryan’s work was featured in the Wrong Biennial. Ryan received his MFA from the University of Iowa and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Intermedia at Elon University. Ryan previously served as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.