Ryan Josey is a Nova Scotian visual artist from Dartmouth and Kwimue’katik. Since graduating NSCAD University in 2015, his multi-disciplinary work has featured in exhibitions across Canada, Turkey, New York and Finland.

Josey’s philosophically inflected pieces stem from ongoing explorations in observational drawing and writing. His drawings, paintings and large-scale installations circulate belonging and queer the tools, systems and languages that encode identity into place. Often, Josey’s works show an interplay between digital and analog ways of seeing. Often, they foreground the act of their making as part of their meaning.

Josey has been awarded multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia. He has participated in residencies internationally, including the New York Arts Practicum (New York); the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax); the Arteles Centre (Finland); the Summer Institute at Plug In ICA led by DIS.art (Winnipeg); Eastern Edge (St. John’s); and Taidetila Muijala (Finland).

Josey lives and works in Halifax.

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