EDUCATION
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2005 Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
PUBLIC ARTWORK
2024 Gather, Grounding and Thank you & Goodbye, Public Art for Washington State Convention Center Addition, Seattle, WA. Commissioned by Washington State Convention Center.
2023 Biologic Ethos, Public Art for USBC Building, Seattle, WA
2022 Schema, Public artwork for CitizenM, Pioneer Square Location, Seattle, WA
2021 Inhabitance, Public Art for Portland International Airport, Portland, OR Commissioned by the Port of Portland and Regional Arts and Culture Council.
2021 Mini-Tahoma, Public Art for Commerce Street Waterwall, Tacoma, WA. Commissioned by Pierce Transit and the City of Tacoma.
2020 Antecedents, Public Art for UW Population Health Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Commissioned by the Washington State Arts Commission. Project partners; University of Washington and the Gates Foundation.
2019 Synecdoche, Interior Public Art Mural, New Burke Museum, Seattle, WA. Commissioned by the New Burke Museum.
2019 Nexus, Permanent Public Art for Prairie Line Trail, City of Tacoma, Tacoma, WA. Commissioned by the Office of Cultural Vitality Tacoma.
COMMISSIONED WORK
2022 Little Turns, Installation for High Desert Museum Creations of Spirit exhibition, Bend, OR
2020 Waterways, Temporary Public Art for Ship Canal Water Quality Project, Seattle, WA
2019 Coyote Now: Messing About with Whale, Ocean Fest, Foss Waterway, Tacoma, WA
2019 Aura, Artist Trust Benefit Gala, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA
2018 Squeeze, Bellwether Arts Festival, Bellevue Art Museum and City of Bellevue, WA
2017 Happenings, Spaceworks, Tacoma, WA
2016 Reclining Figure, Seattle Mini Maker Faire, Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA
2016 White Out, Put Art In Parks, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2015 900* Horses, Spokane Arts, Spokane, WA
2015 Coyote Now, Northwest Native Celebration, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2015 Sky River, Annual Gala, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2011 Bumber By Number, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
2010 Creative Feast, Henry Benefit Gala, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 RYAN! Feddersen: Coyote Now, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2024 Seeking Visions for a Better World, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2023 Signal Traces, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2022 Remains, Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA
2022 Black Snake Rising, Denison Museum, Granville, OH
2019 Seeking Visions for a Better World, Alternator Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC, CAN
2018 Coyote Now, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
2018 Phantom Lands, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA
2018 Stomping Ground, MAC Gallery, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
2017 RYAN! Feddersen: Artist in Residence, Busted Knuckle Gallery, Eighth Generation, Seattle, WA
2016 Resistance, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2015 Disconnected Towers, Seattle Municipal Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 TAG! You’re it, Joe Bar. Seattle, WA
2009 Glitter Porn, Grey Gallery & Lounge, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Woman, Artist, Catalyst…, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA.
2024 Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Bridgetown, Barbados
2023 Walk The Block, Wa Na Wari, Seattle, WA
2023 Forest for the Trees, Railspur, Seattle, WA
2023 Art + Flight, Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA
2023 Native Influence: Tony Jojola’s Life of Impact, Travers Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Indigenous Strength and Wellness, Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA
2023 here / now and everywhere after, Behnke Family Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2022 Land Acknowledgement, Gonzaga University Urban Art Center, Spokane, WA
2022 Self-Determined, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2022 XO Seattle, 419 Occidental, Seattle, WA
2021 The First Water Is the Body, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2021 Longhouses at 25, The Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, WA
2021 Ancestors of the Future’s Past, Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, WA
2020 In The Spirit, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
2020 SUM Artists, Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2020 Audubon / RYAN! The Naturalist and The Trickster, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2020 Paint, Pixels and Print, Leonor R. Fuller Gallery, South Puget Sound University, Olympia, WA
2019 Citizen Artists, Gallery360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2019 Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Bayside, NY
2019 Citizen Artists, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
2019 In the Spirit, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
2019 Joe Bar 100, Joe Bar, Seattle, WA
2019 Artist Trust Benefit Gala, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA
2019 Yəhaw̓, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2018 Bellwether Arts Festival, Bellevue Art Museum and City of Bellevue, WA
2018 Post Human Archive, (Double Exposure Education Space), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2018 Artist Trust Benefit Gala, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA
2018 Generations, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2018 Wildlife, Pattern and Identity: Contemporary Native American Work from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, upcoming, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Ucross, WY
2018 Origins, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
2018 In the Spirit, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
2018 Fav Fav Fav, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2017 Borderlands, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2017 Tears of Duk’WibahL, The Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, WA
2017 Rogue Nellies, President’s Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2017 20th Anniversary Show, Joe Bar, Seattle, WA
2017 Out of Sight, Seattle, WA
2017 Land Trust, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2017 In the Spirit, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
2017 And Not Or, Hedreen Gallery with Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2017 LISTEN, Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA
2017 Reservation X, Richmond Art Collective Gallery, Spokane, WA
2017 Echo, Echo, Project Diana, The Alice, Seattle, WA
2016 Standing Rock Benefit, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
2016 Protect the Sacred, Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2016 We Are Still Here, Hatch, Spokane, WA
2016 Contemporary Native American Film and Art Festival, One Heart, Spokane, WA
2016 Artist Trust 30th Birthday Exhibition, V2 Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 Sgwigwial?txw@20: Building Upon the Past, Visioning Into the Future, The Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, WA
2016 Contemporary & Traditional Works, The Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2016 Coyote Now: Connecting with Nature, Healing Through Art, Peacehealth St Joseph Medical, Bellingham, WA
2016 Not Vanishing: Ever-Present Indigenous Art 1977-2015, Heritage University, Toppenish, WA
2016 Not Vanishing, Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2015 Terrain: Plateau Native Art & Poetry, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2015 Not Vanishing, Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2014 Extended Terrain, The Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, WA
2013 Staff Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Alumni Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Joe Bar Retrospective, Joe Bar, Seattle, WA
2012 Strange Coupling, Object Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Emerging Indigenous Voices, San Francisco University, San Francisco, CA
2010 Confluence of Red Nations, AIR Residency, Basin, MT
2009 Suspension of Disbelief, Cairo Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 CCA Alumni Exhibition, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
2009 BFA Exhibition, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2008 Fire at the Dell, Youngstown Arts & Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
2007 Roll Call, Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle, WA
2006 Red Shirt Art Project, Red Shirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Winter Annual, Institute of American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, NM
2003 Members Exhibit, Gallery 76. Wenatchee, WA
AWARD
2023 Radical Imagination Artist Grant, NDN Collective, Rapid City, SD
2019 Native Creative Development Project Grant, Evergreen Longhouse, Olympia, WA
2019 Tacoma Artists Initiative Program Grant, Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality, Tacoma, WA
2018 Public Art Network Year in Review, Borderlands, Americans for the Arts, Washington D.C.
2018 Visual Artist Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle WA
2018 Honoring Innovation Award, In the Spirit Awards, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
2018 National Fellowship, Visual Art, Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, Vancouver, WA
2017 Art Project Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2017 Honoring Innovation Award, In the Spirit Awards, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
2016 GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2016 Native Creative Development Project Grant, Evergreen Longhouse, Olympia, WA
2008 Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, Cornish College of Arts.
2007-08 Krielshiemer Award, Cornish College of the Arts.
2007-08 Presidents Art Scholar, Cornish College of the Arts.
2005 President’s Scholar, Institute of American Indian Arts.
RESIDENCY
2022 Artist in Residence, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Contingencies of Care, organized by York University, Emily Carr, OCAD, BUSH Gallery+ UBCO, and Toronto Biennial of Art, Virtual, CAN
2019 Artist in Residence, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2019 Summer Indigenous Intensive Residency, upcoming, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, CAN
2019 Truth & Reconciliation Residency, upcoming, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Summer Indigenous Intensive Residency, upcoming, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, CAN
2017 Artist in Residence, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, WA
2017 Tears of DukwibahL, Gathering of International Indigenous Visual Artists, Evergreen Longhouse, Olympia, WA
2017 Artist Residency, Eighth Generation, Seattle, WA
2016 Artist Research Residency, Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2016 Artist-In-Residence Workshop with Denise Wallace at OCAC, Evergreen Longhouse, Olympia, WA / Portland, OR
2011 Emerging Indigenous Voices Residency, Kua’ainaa Assoc, San Francisco, CA
2010 American Indian Artist Residency, Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, MT
COLLECTION
2021 Vibrant Bison Skulls, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2021 Bison Stack Crane, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Disconnected Bison Stack, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2020 Coyote Restored in Starlight, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2019 Bison Stack Crane and Coyote Bones, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA
2019 Feddersen’s Indian Art, New Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2017 Micro Spills, In the Spirit Acquisition, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA,
2014 Terrain: Plateau Native Art & Poetry. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA, Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2011 Indigenous Voices Collaborative Mural for School of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
2009 Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection, Cornish College of the Art, Seattle, WA.
ROSTERS
2019-21 Public Artist Roster, ARTSWA, Washington State Arts Commission, WA
2017-20 Public Art Roster, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2016-19 Oregon Art in Public Places, Regional Art & Cultural Council, OR
2016-19 Public Artist Roster, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA
2015-18 Public Artist Roster, ARTSWA, Washington State Arts Commission, WA
2014-15 Emerging Public Artist Roster, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS
2022 The First Water Is the Body, curation and essay by Maria Hupfield including poetry by Natalie Diaz. Published by the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
2016 RYAN! Feddersen: Resistance, Published by the Missoula Art Museum with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
2016 “Hang Them All”: George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858, Donald L. Cutler (Author), Laurie Arnold (forward) University of Oklahoma Press; 1 edition (July 28, 2016)
2011 Ink on Paper: The Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection at Cornish College of the Arts, Edited by Kathleen Rabel
PRESS
2024 Bijutsu Techo, International, Profile by Machiko Harada, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Vol.76 NO.1102, July 2024
2021 The Bear Magazine, National, Kristen Rogers Brown and Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, The Bear: A/Part featuring RYAN! Feddersen, Issue No. 38, Spring 2021.
2020 First American Art Magazine, National, Jean Merz-Edwards, RYAN! Feddersen: Okanogan/Arrow Lakes Installation Artist, Cover Feature, Issue No. 26, Spring 2020
2020 The Weekly Volcano, Tacoma, WA, Alec Clayton, The Naturalist & the Trickster: Differing perceptions of nature.
2019 The Seattle Times, Seattle, WA, Alan Berner, New Burke Museum will have a striking and symbolic work of art.
2019 Oregon Arts Watch, Portland, OR, Stephanie Littlebird, Resilience and Strength in Glass.
2018 Crosscut, Seattle, WA, Brangien Davis, “Artist RYAN! Feddersen flips the script on Native American Stereotypes”
2018 Good Times, Santa Cruz, CA, Georgia Johnson, “Santa Cruz Leaves its Mark on MAH’s interactive Coyote Now”
2018 Seattle Magazine, Seattle, WA, Gwendolyn Elliot, “Seattle Artists and Tacoma’s Homegrown Creatives are Growing a Buzzworthy South Sound Arts Scene”
2018 City Arts, Seattle, WA, “RYAN! Feddersen: Trickster for Good”
2017 Indian Country Today, National, “IAIA Announces Artist-in-Residence Lineup”
2017 The Stranger, Seattle, WA, Emily Pothast, “BorderLands Crosses Boundaries at King Street Station”
2017 HyperAllergic, National, Christen Clifford, “Breaking the “Buckskin Ceiling”
2017 Westword, Denver, CO. Lila Thulin, “The 48 Hour Summit Brings Socially Engaged Art to RedLine”
2017 The Missoulian, Missoula, MT. Cory Walsh, “Fifth-graders go contemporary at the Missoula Art Museum”
2017 Montana Kaimin, Missoula, MT, Brooke Beighle,” ‘Resistance’ Exhibit shows Activism with Art”
2017 Art & Politics Now, Seattle, WA Susan S Platt. Ph.D., “The Spirit of Standing Rock”
2015 Aljazeera America, National, Kevin Taylor, N”ative American artist brings 900 horses back to life in Spokane”
2015 The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, Carolyn Lamberson, “Mural project honors tribes, slaughtered horses”
2015 Pacific Northwest Inlander, Spokane, WA Mike Bookey, “Community Commemoration”
2012 OFF PAPER, The Project Space, Seattle, WA, “Quest(ion) What’s the First Thing You Ever Made, Ryan Feddersen?”
2011 Seattle Weekly, Seattle, WA, Brian Miller, “Triumph of Crowd-Sourcing”
2011 The Stranger, Seattle, WA Jen Graves, “Touch The Untouchable”
2011 BoingBoing, National, David Pescovitz, “Artists Alter Paint by Number for Exhibit”
2010 Missoula Independent, Missoula, MT Skylar Browning, “Postcard from Basin: The future of American Indian Art”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Curator, Kamiak Permanent Collection, ARTSWA, Kamiak Elementary School, Pullman, WA
2018-19 Advisor, Jeffery Gibson Exhibition Committee, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2019 Guest Curator, Luminaries, Northwest Native Art, New Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2018 Guest Curator, Not Fragile, Portland Art Museum Center for Contemporary Native Arts, Portland, OR
2018 Guest Curator, In Red Ink, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2018 Lead Artist, Public Art: Public Action, Socially Engaged Practicum, Office of Arts & Cultural Vitality, Tacoma, WA
2018 Making the Invisible Visible, Presenter & Workshop Leader, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle, WA
2018 Temporary and Participatory Projects, Public Art Bootcamp Instructor, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2017 Crossroads+Art and Indigenous Feminisms, The Problematics of Making Art While Native and Female, Led by Andrea Carlson, The Feminist Project: Rutgers / College Art Association, New York City, NY
2017 Artist Trust Fellowship, Panelist, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2016 Temporary and Participatory Projects, Public Art Bootcamp Instructor, Office of Arts and Culture, Seattle, WA
2016 Building an Artist Website, Artist Trust, Spokane/ Seattle, WA
2014-16 Public Art Administrative Specialist, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2010-14 Art Department Coordinator, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2006–10 Studio Assistant, Norie Sato, Seattle, WA