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Nov 21, 2026 – Mar 28, 2027 artport: A History of Internet Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
since 2026 [WIP]
since 2018 File: A User’s Manual
since 2023 ASK (Autonomous System of Knowledge)
Oct 24 – Nov 24 Fish in the Net, 2026: LIGHT, Shisanwu, Queens, NY
Oct 20 Placeholder note (delete me).
Oct 12
Oct 5 Placeholder sketchbook note (delete me).
Sep 30 – Dec 18 3ETV, Living Systems (M+), Somerset House Studios, Online
2026 Puzzle
Sep 28 Placeholder progress note on ASK (delete me).
Jun 6 – Aug 2 Sites of Assembly, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Apr 30 – Oct 25 Open Systems 3: Prototypes for Alternative Power, Singapore Art Museum, Online
Lumen Prize 2026, Systems & Structures Award finalist
Oct 2 Objects + Methods Lecture Series, VCUarts, Richmond, VA
Jun 4 Studio DEMO: Worlds as Medium, with Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Darla Migan and Nouf Aljowaysir, DEMO2025, NEW INC, New York, NY
Jun Triangle DUMBO Residency, Triangle Arts Association, New York, NY
Apr 5 – May 25 Intercession, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2025 Faith
"ASK (Autonomous System of Knowledge)" (forthcoming), DATA browser 09: Indexing Imaginaries, Open Humanities Press
Dec Graphical User Interference, David Caterini, Afterimage
Oct Visiting artist, Agential Worldbuilding, School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY
Jul 21 Visiting artist, Instructional Intimacies, School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY
Apr 22 One to Zero (with Viktor Timofeev), Feral File, Online
2024 Downtime
Mar 5 Visiting artist, Visiting Designer Lecture Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
AI Gods and Girlfriends, Alice Scope, The Lab Mag
Collected by KADIST, San Francisco, CA
Jul 13 Real Milk (with Veronica Graham), Most Ancient
2023 Real Milk
Apr 20 "Artist Profile: American Artist", Rhizome, Rhizome
Apr 9 Programmable Life: Artist Ryan Kuo in Conversation, Kerry Doran, Kate Gu, and Ryan Kuo, M+ Magazine
Mar 10 Family Atlas, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, M+ Magazine
Feb 2 Office Hours : Puzzle with Ryan Kuo and Tommy Martinez, livestream with Celine Wong Katzman, Rhizome, New York, NY
Jan 25 "Doc 091", Interlude Docs, Interlude Docs
Collected by SFMOMA Library, San Francisco, CA
Oct 27 Visiting artist, Studio Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Oct 24 M+, Kowloon, Hong Kong
2022 Puzzle
Oct 17 The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Iowa City, IA
Oct 5 Ryan Kuo – Hateful Little Thing, Neural
Aug 6 – Nov 13 Conceptions of White, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Aug 6 – Nov 19 Creation Stories, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Jul 4 – Aug 30 Shall Make, Shall Be, Federal Hall National Memorial, New York, NY
2021–2022 Father Figure
Jun 10 Ryan Kuo & Zach Gage, Zach Gage and Ryan Kuo, Outland
Jun 2 HOLO 3, HOLO
2022 The Truth of the Matter
Apr 20 Visiting artist, Spring Graphic Design Speaker Series + RISD Code Lab, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Mar 2 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL
Mar Walking Along an Undulating Horizon, Theodor Ussay, 回歸線 (Re-Turn)
Feb 1 "Artist Profile: Nathalie Lawhead", Rhizome, Rhizome
Jan 13 Triggering the Troll Bots, podcast with Tommy Martinez and Lee Tusman, Artists and Hackers, New York, NY
A Poetics of the Glaze, Darla Migan, Shift Space
Dec 21 Collected by Rhizome / ArtBase, New York, NY
Oct 27 – May 24, 2022 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2021 Hateful Little Thing
Sep 16 Sequencing, Fulcrum Arts
2021 Square Hole
Sep 1 On Platform Design, Part II: On RSS and the Theory of Communicative Labour, Yin Aiwen, so-far
Jul 26 radio broadcast, Montez Press Radio, New York, NY
2021 Talks
Jun 9 The Forum, with DeForrest Brown, Jr., The Lab, San Francisco, CA
May 4 NFT Aesthetics, moderated by Michael Connor, Rhizome, New York, NY
Apr 1 Pieces of Me, Transfer Gallery x left gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mar 8 Message Received, Boston Cyberarts, Boston, MA
2021 OK2
Feb 27 Exhaust, moderated by Murtaza Vali and invited by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collected by The Whitney Museum of American Art / artport, New York, NY
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Turing's Lover, Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, China
w/Ryan Kuo, Kit Son Lee, CTRL SHIFT
Dec 18 Visiting artist, MFA Visiting Artist Series, Parsons Fine Arts, New York, NY
Nov 11 A Conversation with Ryan Kuo, Brett Wallace, Conversation Project NYC
Oct 15 Plicnik Space Initiative, D02.2, London, England
2020 Dumb Desire
Jun 24 It's going to cost you a little
Jun Visiting artist, Artist Statement: A User Guide, School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY
May 8 "Keep Trollin'", Software for Artists Book: Building Better Realities, Pioneer Works Press
Apr 4 Well Now WTF?, Silicon Valet, San Francisco, CA
2020 Love Your Box
Feb 27 Interview with Ryan Kuo, Laurel Schwulst, Fruitful School
Feb 24 Queens International 2018 site update
Feb 13 Salon Night: Virtual Beings, with Stephanie Dinkins and Nora Khan, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 4 Jigsaw x Rhizome, New York, NY
2020 Baby Faith
Keep Trollin’, Tommy Martinez and Ryan Kuo, Pioneer Works Broadcast
Dec 1 The Artists' Artists, DeForrest Brown, Jr., Artforum
Nov 17 – Feb 16, 2020 Virtual Beings, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Faith
Nov 15 Code Kitchen, with Angeline Meitzler, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Oct 19 Faith demo at Pioneer Works
Sep 24 – Nov 2 Olaph the Oxman, Copperfield Gallery, London, England
2019 Alibi
Sep 7 – Oct 20 left gallery: rite of access, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Sep 1 Whiteness and Software, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Ryan Kuo, Art in America
Jul 20 Whatever Works, Whatever It Takes, Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, China
May 9 Visiting artist, Language Pieces, Bard at Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
May 7 Visiting critic, ITP Thesis Review, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Feb 25 Visiting instructor, Interferences workshop, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH
Jan 11 Pioneer Works Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Dec 17 Visiting critic, Art, Culture and Technology final review, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Dec 9 Yes, or else then, Art Contemporary Club, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 Enterlope
Dec 8 Access and Agency, with Nora Khan, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Oct 27 Living Content Live, with Luciana Solano, Times Square Space, New York, NY
Oct 24 A Non-thematic Just Celebrating Digital Diversity Online Exhibition.html, OUTPUT, Shanghai, China
Jul 26 Black Stroke White Fill, with American Artist, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
Jul 25 Queens International 2018: Volumes, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2018–2019 Volumes
Jul 18 Alien and Sedition: Ryan Kuo Interviewed by Kent Szlauderbach, Kent Szlauderbach, BOMB
Jun 20 – 24 Rencontres Internationales: Fiction Machines, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Jun 7 – Aug 5 The Pointer, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
Jun 7 The Pointer
2018 File: A Primer
2018 I Don't See It
2018–2019 OK.
Apr 11 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Apr 8 The Family Dynamic, Presented in a Never-Ending Series of Pop-Up Windows, Drew Millard, The Outline
Mar 28 Visiting artist lecture, Integrated Digital Media, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
Feb 20 Salon #1: Identity, The Current Museum, New York, NY
2017–2018 Family Maker
Feb 1 Queens Museum Studio Program, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Collected by The Current Museum, New York, NY
How Does a Museum Collect Software?, Ben Fino-Radin and Lorena Ramírez López, The Current Museum on Drip
Rhizome Microgrant for Net Art, Rhizome, New York, NY
Dec 15 Humanity and Technology Collide in Collapse of Vision at Equity Gallery, Audra Lambert, Huffington Post
Nov 30 Artist Profile: Ryan Kuo, Celine Katzman, Rhizome.org
Nov 30 – Dec 16 Collapse of Vision, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2017 The Way I See It
NEA Art Works Residency, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
Ryan Kuo, David Wolinsky, Don't Die
Tables for Days, Levi Rubeck, Unwinnable
"In Submission", “Tables of Content”, and “Building a Table”, Art Journal Open, Art Journal Open
2017 In Submission
2017 Tables of Content
Dec 2 Ryan and Panoramical, podcast with Tevis Thompson, Close Playing, Online
May 14 – Jun 26 Grounded, Boston Cyberarts, Boston, MA
Apr Neo Future, Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
Apr [image here], Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
Mar 4 – 23 Formats, Industry Lab, Cambridge, MA
2016 Exit Assembly
Are You Sure, Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
Dual 3, Dual Club, Burgos, Spain
Left Gallery Summer Selection, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, Germany
Speeding and Braking: Navigating Acceleration, Goldsmiths, London, England
The Future of the Left, Spike Art Quarterly at Yvonne Lambert, Berlin, Germany
What's in a Rave, Nora Khan, POSTmatter
After Aesthetics, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
California Imaginary, Industry Lab, Cambridge, MA
2016 Death Driver
2016 File
2016 1/2
2016 Nouns
Changes, Industry Lab, Cambridge, MA
6TH SENSE, MINIBAR, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Don't Go There
2013–2015 The End
Apr Visiting artist, Process: In Medias Res workshop, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
Apr Process: In Medias Res, lecture-performance, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2013–2014 Example
Public Space? Lost & Found, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
2014 Fuckface (It's Your Birthday)
2014 Materializing the Hole
Something Very Specific, 328 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
2013 Readability
2013 Separation
2012 Diagram
2012 On and On and On
Jun 3 – Jul 3 MISC Video and Performance, N.Y. Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Mutes I-V
LOOP Barcelona, LOOP Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2007 2007-
2007 Rm 6