Ryan Cullen

ryancullenryancullen@gmail.com

 

Mess

The Ecstasy of Discipline

The Authoritarian Personality

Objects and Activities

Bigger Human Mankind Problem

 

works ↓

 

The Farmer's Daughter, 2024


ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ (I’m looking for a man), 2023
Oil on canvas
118 x 155 cm


Incorporate, differentiate, manage, 2023
Oil on canvas
118 x 146 cm


Global Security, 2023
Oil on canvas
110 x 80 cm



Gold leaf above the entrance to the cave where Gautama starved himself for six years, 2023
framed C-Print
35 x 25 cm



Revisionist Western, 2023
oil on linen
70 x 100 cm


History Painting i, 2023
Oil on canvas
55 x 70 cm
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam


History Painting ii, 2023
Oil on canvas
55 x 70 cm
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam


Installation view of Le Voeu Du Faisan, at Michiel Simons Gallery, Amsterdam
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam


Empire (a), 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam

Empire (c), 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam




Well, you see, it's a cultural process (AL), (VAL), (ROBERT), 2022
Fireplaces, oil on canvas


Well, you see, it's a cultural process (AL), 2022
Stone fireplace, oil on canvas
(Front)

Well, you see, it's a cultural process (AL), 2022
Stone fireplace, oil on canvas
(Back)


Well, you see, it's a cultural process (VAL), 2022
Wood fireplace, oil on canvas
(Front)

Well, you see, it's a cultural process (VAL), 2022
Wood fireplace, oil on canvas
(Back)


Well, you see, it's a cultural process (ROBERT), 2022
Stone fireplace, oil on canvas
(Front)


Well, you see, it's a cultural process (ROBERT), 2022
Stone fireplace, oil on canvas
(Back)




Start to plan for the future, 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm


The Milton Model (Cena en los Andes y el milagro de Chile), 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm



Scenery is here, wish you were beautiful, 2022
MDF, epoxy resin, work socks
60 x 90 cm


Montreal/Paris/London/New York/Berlin/Chicago/Seoul/Amsterdam/Mexico City/Tokyo/Vancouver/Los Angeles, 2022
steel, teak wood, bolts
38 x 75 x 6 cm

San Francisco/Toronto/Baltimore/Eugene/Houston/Burlington/Denver/Osaka/Santa Cruz/Calgary/Tel Aviv/Seattle/Cleveland, 2022
steel, padauk wood, bolts
46 x 85 x 6 cm

Oslo/Cairo/Prague/Lagos/Washington/Bangkok/Dhaka/Berlin/Sao Paulo/Hong Kong/Atlanta/Vienna, 2022
steel, cherry wood, bolts
56 x 60 x 6 cm

Stockholm/Manila/Antwerp/Shanghai/Madrid/Boston/Moscow/Basel/Jakarta/Marseille/Melbourne, 2022
steel, teak wood, bolts
42 x 80 x 6 cm

Vancouver/Beijing/Rome/Delhi/Copenhagen/Dubai/Rio de Janeiro/Sydney/Athens/Barcelona/Istanbul, 2022
steel, birch wood, bolts
40 x 100 x 6 cm

Milan/Brussels/Saint Petersburg/Santiago/Miami/Zürich/Taipei/Caracas/Dublin/Singapore/Warsaw, 2022
steel, padauk wood, bolts
40 x 80 x 6 cm


Semio, 2022
Oil on linen
70 x 120 cm



Our Bondsman (latex, rubber, sleepsack wearing), 2022
Oil on linen
100 x 80 cm



Our Lord (Moonlight,Sleepy Joe, bathtub), 2022
Oil on linen
110 x 80 cm



Reflexive Deletion, 2022
Oil on linen
60 x 80 cm



Hence, the stoic gaze of an emperor defiled, 2021
Oil on linen
60 x 80 cm



Leaning in, 2022
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm




An Eternal Present, 2022
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm


Men in the Cities, 2021
Oil on linen, wood frame
150 x 120 cm


Beige Suit Ruined By Ketchup, 2021
Oil on linen, wood frame
130 x 100 cm


Guillotines in Love, 2021
Public sculpture in Puurs, Belgium
wood, steel, rope


North American Interiority (Madhyamaka de Stijl), 2021
Pillow, vinyl flooring, MDF, paint, vinyl clapboard siding cast in aquaresin
140 x 34 x 34 cm


Image-Made Flesh, 2021
Reclining chair, vinyl clapboard siding cast in aquaresin
100 x 50 x 94 cm


The Irreducibility of the Exterior, 2021
Ikea wooden dresser, paint, vinyl clapboard siding cast in aquaresin
128 x 79 x 39 cm


Real New Transparency, 2021
Pillow, vinyl clapboard siding cast in aquaresin
40 x 50 x 50 cm


Mess
Situations, New York

 

The Ecstasy of Discipline
The Meeting, New York

 

Self-Portrait as a Feudal Serf, 2020
Oil on linen, wood frame
106 x 140 cm


Feudal Serf Carrying Rocks, 2020
Oil on linen
200 x 135 cm


Greta Garbo Stand Up Sighs, China Eastern Airlines (Bette Davis Eyes), 2020
Oil on linen
220 x 95 cm


Air France, Air France, Douce France, 2020
Oil on linen
125 x 165 cm


Logical Conclusions V, 2020
Oil on canvas
110 x 130 cm


Logical Conclusions IV, 2020
Oil on canvas, wood frame
110 x 155 cm


Logical Conclusions III, 2020
Oil on canvas, wood frame
110 x 155 cm


Logical Conclusions II, 2020
Oil on canvas, wood frame
125 x 165 cm


Logical Conclusions I, 2019
Oil on canvas, wood frame
122 x 182 cm


Gagged and Bound Court Order II, 2020
Oil on linen
40 x 60 cm


True Colours Shining Through Your Unsustainably Manic Reflection in the Duane-Reade Benjaminian Storefront Plate Glass (New Arcades), 2020
Oil on linen
50 x 70 cm

Parasite, 2020
Oil on canvas


The Seventh Angel of Signification (Carl), 2020
Oil on canvas
120 x 240 cm


The Fourth Angel of Signification (Kevin), 2019
Oil on canvas
120 x 240 cm

 

The Third Angel of Signification (Gary), 2019
Oil on canvas
120 x 240 cm

 

The Sixth Angel of Signification (Brian), 2019
Oil on canvas
120 x 240 cm

 

The Fifth Angel of Signification (Jason), 2019
Oil on canvas
120 x 240 cm

 

The Authoritarian Personality
Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels

 

Objects and Activities
Studio Picknick, Berlin

 

Installation view of Rinnzekete bee bee nnz krr müü, 2018
at Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

The Reason All My Friends Are Depressed, 2018
Acrylic on MDF

 

On Civility, 2017
Fiberglass, epoxy resin, steel, plaster, polyurethane foam, paint, auto body filler, shoes

 

 

 

 

 

_________________________________

 

T.I.N.A. #1-7, 2016
Acrylic on canvas, wood, MDF, plastic, broomsticks, painting poles, clamps

installation view of representative representative, London, 2017 . with Isabel Alicia Baptista, Tom Krol, Malte Zenses

Meeting New People, 2017
Fiberglass, epoxy resin, autobody filler, steel

T.I.N.A, installation view of representative representative, London, 2017

 

_________________________________

 

 

The things it was necessary for them to know, 2016
candles, steel, synthetic hair, scrunchies

 

 

 

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

Regional Painting, 2016
Wood, formica, steel, ceramic, steel, rubber, paint

 

 

 

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

Sci-Fi Youth Violence (A dinner party, destroyed), 2016
Steel, flocked wood

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

About a Blowjob, 2016
2 channel synced HD video

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

Bliss, Bliss, Ignorant Bliss, 2016
Drywall, wood, paint, 2 channel HD video

 

_____________________

 

 

Histories of Decapitation, 2016
wood, plaster, paint

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

My Oven, disrupted, 2015
Plaster, wood, steel, rope, resin (w/ George Rayson)

 

 

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

Five governors in a room yelling, 2015
Steel, wood, drywall, mouldable plastic, broomsticks, PVC pipe, painting pole, telescoping painting pole, hammer, paint brush, paint scraper, tape, paint

 

 

_________________________________

 

 

Save the clouds ride a steamboat, 2015
Wood, steel, styrofoam, mouldable plastic, broom, door jambs, tape, paint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_________________________________

_________________________________

_________________________________