Ryan Cherewaty

audiovisual - conceptual - video - digital technology

Ryan Cherewaty is a media artist from Toronto Canada currently based in Rotterdam. He works mainly in video, CGI and installation. His work is informed by the potential provided by technology in its possibility for celebrating and critiquing contemporary experience. He engages with the relationship of digital media to individual consciousness and social and cultural memory, and how this ecology affects our physical reality. Persistent themes include the paradoxes of modernity, tech as myth and magic, and the dissolving boundaries between the virtual and the real.

  • Portfolio
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    • v2 Rotterdam Summer Sessions

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-08-2017 t/m 01-10-2017
    • In collaboration with: v2,
    • Location: Gallery Arquivo 237, Lisbon
    • v2.nl

    AADK Spain

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-08-2020 t/m 31-10-2020
    • Location: Murcia, Spain, Murcia
    • aadk.es

    International Film Festival Rotterdam - Wait & See Art Program

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-01-2020 t/m 02-02-2022
    • In collaboration with: Curated by Edwin Carels
    • Location: IFFR, Rotterdam
    • A VR project that blurs the boundaries between the corporeal sense of your body and the environment surrounding you. This project was developed at v2_ summer sessions, and was selected as part of the art program at IFFR 2020.
    • https://vimeo.com/384337325/d6a1f21a99

    Virtually Real Bodies

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-03-2019 t/m 04-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: Chuxi Guo, Juyi Mao, Ryan Cherewaty, Sam Nandan He, Sal Privitera, Wenkai Li, Yuan Tang
    • Location: Chameleon Gallery, New York City
    • Chameleon Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Virtually Real Bodies. With the implementation of various digital media, from virtual reality to augmented reality, artists explore the relationship between subjects and objects formally, conceptually, and socially. Presented artworks speculated the digital mediation of human bodies, and the experiences of corporeal virtualization are highlighted through the utilization of immersive media.
    • https://www.chameleongallery.net/virtually-real-bodies.html

    In Loving Memory 2018 0.8°C

    Exhibition / presentation

    Append and Merge

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 04-05-2020 t/m 08-07-2020
    • In collaboration with: Valentina Gal
    • Location: Show Off Space, Rotterdam
    • Group show featuring up and coming Dutch artists who deal with the subject matter of the post-internet age.

    David and Goliath

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-03-2019 t/m 02-04-2019
    • In collaboration with: Willum Geerts, Ehsan Ul Haq, Pendar Nabipour, Philipp Schmidt, Luuk Smits, Fraser Stewart, Kubilay Mert Ural, Tom van Veen
    • Location: The Pharmacy, Amsterdam
    • The story of David and Goliath could be seen as a predicament and source of inspiration for this group show that includes video, paintings, sculpture and performance. David versus Goliath has become common shorthand for unlikely victory. It denotes an underdog situation, a contest where a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary.
    • http://kunstplatformdeapotheek.blogspot.com/2019/02/u-bent-van-harte-uitgenodigd-voor-de.html

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund Work Contribution Young Talent

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam R&D Grant

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Creative Industries Fund NL

    • 2020