EDUCATION

1981-83

The School of Oriental and African Studies, London University

1978-80

The Slade School of Art, University College, London

1975-78

Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court

1974-75

St. Albans College of Art and Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Along a Spectrum, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2019

The Weather Inside, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2018

Virginia Woolf: Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St. Ives & Tour

The Sculpture Collections Exhibition, Leeds Gallery Henry Moore Institute, Leeds,

England

In My Shoes: Art & The Self since the 1990s, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture

Park, Arts Council Touring Exhibition

2017

The Hepworth Museum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Salvage, The Art House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

2011

The Weather Inside, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA

2005

Archaeology of the Black Sun 1956-2002, Musings After Kristeva, Salena Gallery, Long

Island University, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Archaeology of the Black Sun 1956-2002, Salena Gallery, Long Island University,

Brooklyn, New York

2000

Veronica Ryan: Artist in Residence, Tate, St. Ives, Cornwall, England

1995

Veronica Ryan, Angel Row Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

Compartments Apartments, Camden Arts Centre, London and Angel Row, Nottingham,

England

1993

Veronica Ryan, Wood Street Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

1988

Veronica Ryan, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, England

Riverside Studios, London, England

1987

Veronica Ryan, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, England

Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

1984

Drawings and Sculpture, The Tom Allen Centre, London, England

Drawings, South of the Border Restaurant, London, England

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Ghosts from the Recent Past, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK

Portable Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire

Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK. Travelling to Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts,

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; The Levinsky Gallery, The Art

Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK; and

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

2020

Natural Encounters, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

Sarah Charlesworth, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, Walid Raad, Veronica Ryan,

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities,

Whitechapel Archive Gallery, London, UK

Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday (online exhibition), Courtauld Institute of Art,

Somerset House, London, UK

2019

No Particular Place to Go?, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

The Weather Garden, Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art

Gallery, Eastbourne

2017

The Place Is Here, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England

2015

Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986, Arts Council Collection Tour

2009

Drawings, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England

2007

Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York

2006

Site Specific, The Carriage House Museum, Islip, NY

2005

Tate Modern, London, England

2001

Open Studios, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

2000

Confluence, Five Myles, Curated by Marian Griffiths, Brooklyn, NY

Modern British Art, Tate Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

1999

Five Myles, Curated by Marian Griffiths, Brooklyn, NY

1998

Artists' Projects, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, England

Caribbean Contemporary Art, MEIAC, Badajoz. Tour to: Madrid, Casa de America; Paris, Maison de 1'Amerigne Latine; Berlin, Hans den Welt

1997

Transforming the Crown: African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966-1996,

Bronx Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Drawing Exhibition, Selena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1996

Landscape Reclaimed, Curated by Harry Philbrick, Aldrich Museum, CT

British Abstract Art, Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East Gallery, London

Sculpture, Jesus College, Cambridge, England

Swinging the Lead, Lead Works, Bristol, England

Petrona Morrison and Veronica Ryan: Sculptural Works, The Bronx Museum,

New York

1995

Six Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

Weltkunst Foundation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Body as Metaphor, Bard College, New York

Natural Settings, Chelsea Physic Garden, London, England

British Abstract Art Part 2: Sculpture, Flowers East Gallery, London, England

1994

Trophies from the Civil Wars, Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

1993

Natural Order, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England. Arts Council Touring Exhibition

1992

Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London, England

Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Arts Gallery, Rochdale, England

1991

Open Studio, Pietrasanta Fine Arts, New York

Virtual Realities, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition

Centenary Exhibition, Goldsmiths' College, London, England

1990

Sculpture Triennale, Budapest, Hungary

Sculptors' Drawing Exhibition, The New York Studio School, New York

River, selected by John Maine, Goldsmiths' College, London, England

A New Necessity, First Tyne International, Newcastle, England

Garden Festival: 'A New Necessity', Gateshead, England

The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland

Leeds City Gallery, Leeds, England

Hayward Gallery, London, England

1989

New York Contemporaries, ICA, London, England

Contemporary Art Fair, Covent Garden, London, England

1988

Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, England

Dislocations, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

Inside Out, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England

1987

Vessels, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

A System for Support, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

1986

Blond Fine Art, London, England

From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

Interim Art, London, England

The Minories, Colchester, Essex, England

Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicester Museums and Art Galleries, England

Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Coloured Sculpture, Stoke-on-Tent Museum and Art Gallery, England

1985

The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

Relics in the Pillow of Dreams, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

Beyond Appearances: Sculpture for the Visually Handicapped and Sighted to Share,

Castle Museum, Nottingham and Arts Touring

1984

The Mappin Gallery, Sheffield and tour, England

Sculptors and Modellers, Tate Gallery, London

Christmas Show, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

1983

Black Women Artists, The Africa Centre, London

6th Cleveland (UK) International Drawing Biennale and tour

Creation for Liberation, Brixton, London

1982

Fine Art Staff Show, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, England

1981

Third World Show, London School of Economics

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020

Recipient of the Windrush Commission, Hackney, London (unveiling in 2021)

2019

Pollock Krasner Grant

2018

Freelands Award, for 2021 exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

2017

Artist Fellowship, Inc.

2016

Artist Fellowship, Inc.

2012

American Arts and Letters

2006

Artist Fellowship

2004

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

2002

Wheeler Foundation

1987

Henry Moore Foundation

1985

Greater London Arts Association Award

1983

Greater London Arts Association Award, Second Prize Winner, Cleveland (UK)

International Drawing Biennale

Prize Winner, Cleveland (UK) International Drawing Biennale

1980

Boise Traveling Scholarship