Born in New York in 1983, Ryan Sullivan graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. His works are created in response to the physicality of painting materials such as viscosity and fluidity, emerging as a contemporary variation which are spiritually similar to artists of Tachisme, Abstract Expressionism, and Color Field paintings in the 1950s. Contrary to the expression which evokes the imagination of intense emotions, Sullivan’s creative process is filled with intellectual and experimental spirit. In his atelier, canvases are placed horizontally to make the most of the materiality of paints and resin. His paintings are always under his rational control as he creates works on the assumption of various physical phenomena. He extracts visual imagery from the physical reactions that occur during the production process and discards them before they take on meaning or symbolism. Apart from the solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in 2015, Sullivan has also participated in exhibitions at P.S.1 (NY), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (NY), the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), and the Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, Colorado), etc. His works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (NY), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum (LA), and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), etc.