Untitled
2023
Ryan Leitner
New Orleans, Louisiana
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Ryan Leitner
Ryan Leitner is a collage artist, with an artistic inquiry towards the visualization of queerness and his communities’ cultural heritages. Assembling his works through a layering of painting and photographed sculptures, his two-dimensional pieces on canvas create otherworldly body-scapes and atmospheres that are molded and stacked together through photo manipulation and print transferring. Since receiving his MFA from The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Leitner has studied at Skowhegan School for Painting and Photography, and received grants and fellowships from the The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, Antenna’s Platform Fund, and The Museum of Fine Arts. He has exhibited at The Plumbing Museum, Area Gallery, and Magnum Photo Foundation, and The Front Gallery.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2024
Website / Social Links
Drawing inspiration from my queer activism and research, I look towards the queer experience as if our communities were given another realm to live in, with the ability to see and experience the world in our own way. Collecting interviews, archival materials, and experiences along the way, my studio practice becomes a daydream of a queer life that’s imagined and historicized.”
