BIO
RYAN DEWEY works in sculpture, research, and land art, looking at connections between people, places, and land use to produce a kind of ecological dreaming. Donna Haraway has called his work one of her favorite examples of art about the anthropocene in her book Staying With The Trouble. His archive is housed at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. He has lived on several islands, in several jungles, in one desert, on one mountain, and on two of the five Great Lakes. He is a member of the American Society of Polar Philatelists and has received residencies at ACRE (Chicago), the Alps Art Academy (Switzerland), and the Montello Foundation (Nevada), as well as serving two appointments as visiting researcher in cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University where he wrote the open-access book Hack the Experience: New Tools for Artists from Cognitive Science (Punctum Books, 2018).
SCENES FROM PAST FIELDWORK EXPEDITIONS:
First research expedition, Papua New Guinea, 2001
Flying over Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, 2001
Propagating sound in a fissure between Limestone & Dolomite, Great Lakes, 2015
Fieldwork expeditions, Nigeria, 2004
Exhibition research trip into the salt mines under Lake Erie in 2015
Fieldwork expeditions, Nigeria, 2005
Working on Kelleys Island, Lake Erie, Great Lakes, 2020
Working in the montane forests of Switzerland, 2018