Biography
The scribble represents a spontaneous artistic gesture that occurs at the inception of an idea. I love the idea of freezing the gesture, in a way memorializing it, as a constant reminder of what's possible.
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Ryan Coleman’s work combines gestural drawing and painting with carefully rendered elements inspired by classic comics and animation. Intertwining bold shapes, scribbled gestures and vivid color schemes, he reimagines entirely new compositions in his own distinctive form. Coleman specializes in large-scale custom murals in addition to studio work including paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Coleman grew up in Jacksonville, FL, and received a BFA in Painting from the Atlanta College of Art in 2001. He honed his artistic talents as a street muralist throughout early adulthood and was heavily influenced artistically by traditional cartoon animation, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Ryan Coleman worked briefly in animation at Cartoon Network after graduation and before moving to New York City where he served as a studio assistant to renowned pop artist Jeff Koons from 2003-2011. Currently, he lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
His work is included in notable international collections at the High Museum of Art, Seaport Science Center (Boston), 20th Century Fox Television, Canopy by Hilton, W Hotels, Coca-Cola Corporate Headquarters, the Ritz-Carlton, NCR Global Headquarters, SCAD, Northside Hospital, among numerous other private and public collections.
Interview, Turning Art blog 2023: https://blog.turningart.com/in-studio/ryan-coleman
Interior Design Magazine 2017 - 15 Simply Amazing Murals
Georgia Trend Magazine Mural Feature 2018
Outdoor Sculpture, private collection. Seaport District Boston, 2023
Lexington, MA 2020
Atlanta, 2019 - Photo: Jason Moale Photography
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b. 1975
Education
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1999 AICAD New York Studio Residency Program, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Solo exhibition/Residency - Sugarlift x High Line Gallery, NYC
2018
October - ‘A Beautiful Symmetry’, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015
‘Pareidolia’, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
January - Group Show, Longview Gallery, Washington DC
2018
November - ‘Little Things’, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017
July - 'Summer Thunder', Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
April 17th - July 13th - 'Black & White' - Gallery Walk Terminus, Atlanta, GA
2016
‘Little Things Mean A Lot’, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
‘Abstraction Today’, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
Invitational Burnaway Art Crush Auction, Atlanta, GA
2015
'Sprawl: Drawing Outside the Lines' - High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
‘Summer Salon’, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Invitational Burnaway Art Crush Auction, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2014
'Little Things Mean A Lot', Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2013
'Ballads & Anthems', Borderline Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012
'Living Color', Poem88 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
‘SK8R Die! V’, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010
‘Team Work‘, Allan Nederpelt Fine Arts Intl, Brooklyn, NY
2007
‘Skinning’, Windows Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2006
‘Invitational Alumni Exhibition’, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL
2002
‘Coded Language’, City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Selected Collections
High Museum of Art: Atlanta, GA
Coca Cola Corporate Collection: Atlanta, GA
Ritz-Carlton: Washington DC
BuzziSpace: Antwerp, Belgium
Fairmont Empress Hotel: Victoria, British Columbia
Hilton Conrad Suites: Chicago, IL
Capital One: Atlanta, GA
Golden Entertainment: Las Vegas, NV