NICOLE RENEE RYAN
724-301-4846
209 South Pit St Mercer PA 16137
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
VCCA – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship February 2015
The Art Student’s League of New York Residency at Vytlacil January 2015
BA in Psychology, Washington & Jefferson College 2007 graduated cum laudewith a minor in Professional Writing
AWARDS
2016Juror’s Choice - Cain Park Arts Festival
2016Three River’s Honors – Three River’s Arts Festival
2015Pittsburgh Emerging Artist of the Year nominee for 2016
20152nd Place – Cain Park Arts Festival – Cleveland PA
20141st Place – A Fair in the Park – Pittsburgh, PA
2014Notable Achievement – Art at the Glen – Glenview Illinois
2014Notable Achievement – Chicago Gold Coast Art Festival
2014Best in Painting Award – East Lansing Art Festival
2013Juror’s Merit Award – Three Rivers Arts Festival
2012Second place: Buhl Day Art Show Hermitage PA – Camel Commodification
2012Second place: Art of Legends, Wyld Chyld Tattoo Pittsburgh, PA - Persephone
2012All Women Art Competition: Special recognition painting category – Jamal and Thunder
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Upcoming in November at Crary Art Gallery –Warren PA
2016Upcoming in October at Undercroft Gallery
2016Upcoming three person show in September at 4049 Penn Ave
2014Solo Show October – Weather and Mood at Sans MOCA
2014Solo Show March – Deja Vu at Grove City Artworks
2013Solo show at Gateway Lodge – Cooks Forest, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition
2016Outside the Frame – Pittsburgh Watercolor Society
2015Aqueous Open – International Watercolor Exhibit – Spinning Plate Gallery Pittsburgh PA
2015Century Inn Art Show Invitational - 4 person show – Scenery Hill, PA
2014Aqueous Open October 2014 – International Watercolor Exhibit – at Spinning Plate Gallery
2014PSA Internationally Inspired at 3rd Street Gallery – Carnegie, PA
2013PSA Annual – Father Ryan Arts Center – Pittsburgh PA
2013New Collective – All Pittsburgh Guild Show at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts – Pittsburgh, PA
2013Aqueous Open – International Watercolor Show – Third Street Gallery Pittsburgh PA
2012Westmoreland Art Nationals Juried Exhibition – Westmoreland, PA
201239th Hoyt Regional Juried Art Exhibition – The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts New Castle, PA
201274th Area Annual Artists Annual Juried Exhibition – The Butler Institute of American Art
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2016Series of two murals in the strip district 18th St. between Smallman and Penn
2016 Sidewall Mural – Bloomfield PA January
2015Mercer Mural September
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh -Juried in Fall 2012
Pittsburgh Society of Artists Guild - Treasurer in Spring 2012 Juried in Fall of 2011
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society - Juried in Spring 2013
Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators– Spring 2012
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council - Joined Fall 2011
Mercer Arts Collective – founding member Fall 2014
Grove City Arts Council – Member Winter 2011, Treasurer Spring 2015
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015More Art on The Way – Record Argus Oct 22nd 2015
2015WFMJ Youngstown TV Interview Mercer Mural September 21st 2015
2015Art on the Wall, Mural Highlights Local History– The Sharon Herald September 28th 2015
2015Mercer Art Collective Choses Subject for Mural – Record Argus September 2015
2015Revised Mural Back on Track – Allied News September 2015
2015North Light Books - Splash 16: Texture – Till It Be Morrow – released June 2015
2015Pittsburgh Post Gazette, March 7, 2015 – Home & Garden Show designers find inspiration in art.
2015Record Argus, April 16, 2015 – Upcoming Mural Just Part of Group’s Efforts to Bolster, Beautify Mercer
2014PlayDay – March 5, 2014 – Grove City Artworks Presents Nicole Renee Ryan
2013Record Argus – Sept 28, 2013 – Mercer Artist Awaits Bigger, Better Challenges for Her Work
2012Featured in an article in the Sharon Harold