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ABOUT

Ryan Standfest is an artist and publisher who lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. In 2020, the Detroit-based Simone DeSousa Gallery (now Matéria) published a monograph of his work. Standfest’s public mural Supply & Demand can be seen on Michigan Avenue in Southwest Detroit. In 2010, he founded the small publishing house Rotland Press, for which he has edited a collection of comic strips by artist and filmmaker David Lynch, two volumes of political prints by Sue Coe, and a collection of early satirical cartoons by Swiss artist H.R. Giger. The press has been recognized in Art In America, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and PRINT. As an arts writer, Standfest has authored arts criticism and essays, appearing in numerous art and culture journals. He contributed a chapter to the book Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik (Penn State University Press, 2022). Standfest earned an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Wayne State University in Detroit. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

CV

RYAN STANDFEST

ryan.standfest@gmail.com

ryanstandfest.com (studio)

rotlandpress.com (publishing)

NOTE: An unabridged CV is available on my studio website.

EDUCATION

2006 MFA in Printmaking, School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2002 BFA in Printmaking, Department of Art & Art History, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo and Two-Person

• 2025 As then there was no then, so there is none now., Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (forthcoming)

• 2024 The Tyranny of Small Decisions: Ryan Standfest/Jeanette Strezinski, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI (forthcoming)

• 2024 From Stope to Spoil Tip, Wigley-Fleming Fine Arts Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA

• 2022-2023 When Day Is Done, Galerie Camille/Papier Galerie, Detroit, MI

• 2022 There's Nothing So Bad That It Can't Grow Worse, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI

• 2022 Dumpster Fire, Southeastern Community College, Burlington, IA

• 2020 I Went to Work but I Did Not Get There, Simone DeSousa EDITION, Detroit, MI

• 2018 This Must Not Be the Place You Thought It Would Be, Art Department Gallery, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI

• 2017 Random Negotiations Toward an Unreasonable Happiness, Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI

Group

• 2026 (untitled three-person show), Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

• 2025 The Contemporary Print 2025, The Art Galleries at Austin Community College, Austin, TX

• 2024 Slight of Hand, curated by Mepaintsme, mepaintsme.com (online)

• 2024 95th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

• 2022-2023 Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

• 2020 Art @the Max VII, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, MI

• 2019 Worlds Apart, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE

• 2019 Portray, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI

• 2018 EDITION 2018, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

• 2018 A Conspiracy of Accidents, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI

• 2018 Vitrine, Eastern Michigan Univ., Ypsilanti, MI

• 2018 The Contemporary Print 2018, O2 Gallery, Austin, TX

• 2018 The Supplies of Viable Living, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose Univ., Davenport, IA

• 2017 Printwork 2017, Artists Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

• 2017 Punk House, Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

• 2017 Kabinet d'Estampes 2: Yellow Bridge, Le Kabinet, Brussels, Belgium

• 2017 Text/Image, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

• 2016 à l’arrache 5, Association Les Abattoirs, Riom, France

• 2015 Signs of the Times, North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND

• 2014 Substrate: Printed Matter from the Rust Belt, Scene Metrospace, Lansing, MI

• 2014 I’m Your Man, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY

• 2014 Publisher! Publisher!, Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL

RESIDENCIES

• 2024 Residency: Luther College Department of Art, Decorah, IA

• 2023 Residency: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

• 2021 Residency: Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY

• 2018 Residency: Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Library, Chicago, IL

• Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Prints and Photographs Department, Paris, France

• Columbia Univ. Library, New York, NY

• The Detroit Institute of Arts, Prints, Drawings & Photographs Collection, Detroit, MI

• Ecole d’Arts Plastiques de Riom, Riom, France

• Harvard Library, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library, Special Collections, New York, NY

• The Univ. of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL

• The Univ. of Iowa, School of Art and Art History Collection, Iowa City, IA

• The Univ. of Mississippi, Southern Graphics Council Archives, Oxford, MS

• The Univ. of Northern Illinois, DeKalb, IL

• Washington Univ., Modern Graphic History Library, St. Louis, MO