Ryan Kuo

RYAN KUO lives and works in New York City. His works are process-based and diagrammatic and often invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument. He has used videogame engines, chatbots, web and UX design, productivity software, and writing to produce circuitous and unresolved movements in which objects are lost and found in white escape routes.

His recent and upcoming projects include a hateful little thing whose body fills up white space out of both resentment and necessity; a computer terminal that enforces the Ninth Amendment of the Bill of Rights; an experimental comic book about farming automation, in collaboration with Most Ancient; and an artist’s book about aspirational workflows, File: A User’s Manual, modeled after software guides for power users.

His work is distributed online at left gallery, has appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Queens Museum (NYC), bitforms gallery (NYC), TRANSFER (LA), Stroom Den Haag (The Hague), Goethe-Institut China (Beijing), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Copperfield Gallery (London), Goldsmiths (London), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge), and MIT Media Lab (Cambridge), and has been published in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, and Rhizome. He has been in residence at Pioneer Works (NYC) and the Queens Museum Studio Program (NYC).

He holds a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT.

He is not a programmer.