2007 BFA, Northern Illinois University

Solo and two-person exhibitions

2020
BANG BANG PLAY, Galleria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain

HERE COMES THE ROOSTER, Over the Influence, Central Hong Kong

2019
DANGER IS MY MAIDEN NAME, Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York, NY

BIG BALDY ETC, Arsham/Feig Gallery, New York, NY

2018
I'm Picking Up Where the California Raisins Left Off, Richard Geller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2017

This Shit is for the Birdies, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

Joakim Ojanen and Ryan Travis Christian, The Hole, New York, NY

2015
Ryan Travis Christian & T.L. Solien, Left Field, San Luis Obispo, CA

2014
Check please!, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

That Ain’t Jazz, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Well, Here We Aren't Again, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC

American Landscapes and Stuff, Trailer Park Proyects, Puerto Rico

2012
The Second Banana, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

Something Something Black Something, Halsey McKay, East Hampton NY

John Riepenhoff Experience Presents - RTC Collaborates, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles CA

It Ain't Conceptual, CooperCole, Toronto ON

2011
River Rats/RTC Collaborates, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

Sad Sacks, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010
Well, Time Makes Fools of Us All, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Work, POVEvolving, Los Angeles, CA

Antexspagna, EBERSMOORE, Chicago, IL

WEED DEMON, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020
ZOO, MIMA Museum, Brussels, Belgium

1988, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL

We Used to Gather, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

2019
Digital Print Show, Washington Art Association & Gallery, Washington Depot, CT

With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

Paper View, The Hole, New York, NY

ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 5, Galerie Droste, Paris, France

2018
SWEET, Golden and Delicious, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL

ALIVE WITH PLEASURE!, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY

Art Fair, The Porch Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Immersion, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2017
Hide And Go Chic, Rover Gallery, Chicago, IL

Unapologetic Drawing. Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL

Heatwave, Granite City Art and Design District (G-CADD), Granite City, IL

Zing Zam Blunder, Harbinger Projects, Reykjavik, Iceland

Fake News, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Underlying system is not known, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show in 5 Parts, curated by Matt Distel and Bill Thelen, The Carnegie, Covington, KY

Periscope, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME

Ocotillio, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA

2016
Em Kettner, Kyle Breitenbach, and Ryan Travis Christian, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford NJ

Quiet Please, The Inn Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Velvet Ropes, GIFC Worldwide, New York NY

LTD Wear, LVL3, Chicago IL

Thick As Paper Thin, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn NY Geo Necro, Ada Gallery, Richmond VA

6/2016, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

2015
Gatherings & Conversations, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

White House Black Market, Kimberly-Klark, Queens, NY

Mysterious Muck, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Fence, Threewalls, Chicago IL

Happily Until Their Deaths, Narwhal Contemporary, Toronto ON

Who Me?, curated by Daniel Albrigo, Atak Gallery, San Francisco, CA

IRVINGVARIETY, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selfie, curated by HuskMitNavn, Gallery Steinsland Berliner (GSB), Stockholm, Sweden

The Nothing That Is – a drawing show in five parts, curated by Bill Thelen. CAM Raleigh, NC. “That’s My Trip”, curated by Andrea Shoultz, Joshua Liner Gallery

Inaugural Group Show, Left Field, San Luis Obispo, CA

PRTY PPL Curated by Josh Reames, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Group Show, ChinaTown Project, San Francisco CA

Interface, Water Street Studios, Aurora IL

Potshop, Tusk, Chicago IL

Jug Life, Park Life, San Francisco CA

2014
Deluxe Projects LA/CHI presents: Pareidolia, Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Rocket Run: Abstraction from Chicago. Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

I'm Jealous Of Your Failure, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal IL

We do what we like and we like what we do, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

HEAD, Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL

Buying Friends, UICA, Grand Rapids MI

Ghooost Show IV, Imagination Giants, Milwaukee WI

If They Mated, The Honey Hole, Chicago IL

Home At Last, Andres Guerrero Project, San Francisco CA

We Do What We Like and We Like What We Do, Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL

Juxtapoz Psychedelic Release Party, The Well, Los Angeles CA

Welp, Bowbarr, Carrboro NC

2013
TELL THEM I HATE THEM. Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

These Friends, Finale, THIS Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Milestone #1, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas TX

2012
Pig Party 8.3, curated by Gina Beavers, Bowery, New York NY

Black Foliage 2.0, Nudashank, Baltimore MD

Black Foliage, Chinatown Arcade, NYC NY

Gin & Juice, Ivory & Black, London UK

Still Here Now, Mohs Exhibit, Copenhagen DN

Cigarettes, Phone Cards, & Hip Hop Clothing, FFDG, San Francisco CA

Living By Example, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago IL

2011
Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA

Double Breaks, Double Break, San Diego CA

Art We Like, Deer Run, Cambria CA

This Place In Time, Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto ON

Club Nutz @ Art Since the Summer of 69' New York NY

Domestic Goods, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton NY- curated by Ryan Wallace New Chicagoans, Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago IL

Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston MA

Territories, Marwen, Chicago IL

SweatBoxing, MAMA Rotterdam, NE

Objectivity, Cornish College for the Arts, Seattle WA

Heads on Poles, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2010
AH! Wilderness, EbersMoore, Chicago, IL

Wreck The Walls, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA

A Guide to Salvation, Space 1026, Philadelphia PA curated by Hilary Pecis

Weed Demon, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Paper! Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Projects, San Francisco, CA

Inaugural Exhibition, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Diverse Chorus, SCOOP, Charleston SC

2009
Infinity, Scion Installation, Los Angeles, CA

East of Eden, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, CA

Enigmatic Shadow, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, CA

CaBoom, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Titanium Expose, FFDG, San Francisco, CA

Chimera Frontiera, Junc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

NFO XPO/Version Fest, Chicago

2007
Mutation Nation, D.I.Y. Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Brown River, Roots & Culture Contemporary Arts Center, Chicago, IL

KlusterCrusts, Butcher Shop/Dogmatic, Chicago, IL

2006
Where All the D*cks Hang Out, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX

2019
Juxtapoz. Sasha Bogojev, “Ryan Travis Christian neé Danger.” August 14, 2019.

Hypebeast. Staff, “Ryan Travis Christian Unveils Latest Series of Artworks at Arsham/Fieg Gallery.” March 12, 2019.

2018
Deep Color. Joseph Hart, “Ryan Travis Christian- Episode 41.” December 2, 2018.

2017
Artspace. Loney Abrams, “7 Favorites from Untitled, Miami Beach 2017.” December 7, 2017.

Artsy. Scott Indrisek, “10 Emerging Artists to Discover at Untitled, Miami Beach.” December 5, 2017. Ravelin Magazine. Alec Coiro, “Joakim Ojanen and Ryan Travis Christian at The Hole.” June 2017. Juxtapoz. Evan Pricco, “Ryan Travis Christian Throwing the Birds Some Shade.” May 2017.

Puzzle Time. Morgan Blair, “Interview with Ryan Travis Christian.” April 2017.

Chicago Magazine. Jason Foumberg, “Ryan Travis Christian Pays Homage to 1930s Satire.” February 28, 2017.

2015
frieze. Mimi Luse, "The Nothing That Is - A Drawing Show in Five Parts." Issue 175: November- December 2015.

under the gum tree: July 2015. Visual Art by Ryan Travis Christian. Publisher: ThinkHouse Collective, Sacramento, California.

Inside/Within. "Ryan Travis Christian’s Patterned Obscurity." January 2015

2014
ArtNews.com. John Chiaverina, "Duck Yourself: On Ryan Travis Christian’s Very Democratic Group Show About, Well, Ducks." November 4, 2014.

Opening Ceremony. Cecilia Salama, "What the Duck? A Greenpoint Art Show Gets Quacky." October 27, 2014.

Strange Plants. Zio Baritaux, Zioxla publishing, 2014.

The Hundreds. Zio, "Ryan Travis Christian :: Check Please!" May 15, 2014

DAZED. Francesca Gavin, “Top ten artists working with monochrome.” April 23, 2014. Land and Sea #20. “Overview,” February 2014.

Juxtapoz Psychedelic. Hannah Stouffer. Hard cover, pgs. 170-180: February 2014.

2013
New York Times: Travel. Travis Dove, “Old Warehouses Go Beyond Storage in Raleigh, N.C.” April 14, 2019.

Art Papers. Lilly Lampe, "Ryan Travis Christian." May/June 2013.

Indy Week. Chris Vitiello, “At CAM Raleigh, flattened raindrops and googly eyes.” March 6, 2013. Associated Press. “Art, an Act of Creation, Can Involve Destruction.” (video). February 22, 2013. Associated Press. Allen Breed, "In Artist's Show, Creation Merges with Destruction." February 22, 2013.

Lodown Magazine. Allister Lee. "Black Is Beautiful." Issue 84, pgs 164-165: December/January/February 2013.

2012
Ion Magazine. Aleeza Khan, “Ones to Watch | Ryan Travis Christian.” December 28, 2012. Juxtapoz. Issue 144, pgs. 64- 75: December 2012.

NewCity Art. Staff, “Art 50: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists.” September 19, 2012.

New American Paintings. Midwest Issue #101: pgs. 164-167. August 2012.

LVL3. Vincent Uribe, "Artist of the Week: Ryan Travis Christian." May 7, 2012. Frieze. "Ryan Travis Christian @ Western Exhibitions." Issue 145: March 2012.

2011
New American Paintings Blog. Josh Reames, "Ryan Travis Christian at Western Exhibitions." December 2, 2011.

art ltd. Caroline Picard, "Ryan Travis Christian." November/December 2011.

New City. Stabler, Bert. "Ryan Travis Christian" (review). October 25, 2011

Daily Serving. Seth Curcio, “Sad Sacks: An Interview with Ryan Travis Christian.” March 29, 2011. Lumpen Magazine. "Black + White." Volume 19, No. 116, Issue #2, pg.30: March 2011.

2010
AFA. Anneliis Beadnell, "Cosmic Puns ll, Eric Yahnker and Ryan Travis Christian in Conversation." November 12, 2010.

New City. Jason Foumberg, "2010 Breakout Artists: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers." April 29, 2010.

Fecalface.com. (interview) online

New City. Julia V. Hendrickson, "Ryan Travis Christian." February 22, 2010.

2009
Beautiful Decay. Book 2, “What A Mess!” (profile) Infinity. Scion (exhibition catalogue) (profile)

2008
The Comics Journal. “Yeah, but is it Comics?” Issue #291, pg.145. July 2008.

2007
The Chicago Reader. “KlusterCRUSTS” Issue No. 119, pg, 75 (Exhibition Catalogue) June 2007.

Artist Book Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

Artist Book Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL.

Jager Collection, Amsterdam

McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL

Soho House Chicago