Education
2012
2011
2000
MFA Film & Video, California Institute of the Arts / CalArts Valencia, CA
Media und Kunst, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
BFA Studio Art, Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR
Teaching
current
2016
2015
2014
California Institute of the Arts, School of Critical Studies
California State University Long Beach, School of Art, Photography Program
University California Los Angeles, New Genres Program
Syracuse University, Film Program, Department of Transmedia,
Exhibitions and Screenings
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
KI-Camp 2023, Berlin, Germany
Transmediale Berlin, Germany
Freiraum Festival Art Box & Goethe Institute, Germany/Greece
Economy Metakino International
Finance and Fictions Conference California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
Say Shibboleth! On Visible and Invisible Borders Jewish Museum Munich, Germany
Say Shibboleth! On Visible and Invisible Borders Jewish Museum Hohenems, Austria
Rosebuds: Hidden Stories of Media Objects D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany
The Dutch Savannah Museum De Domijnen Sittard, Netherlands
Unwalking the West Hollywood Theatre Portland, OR
4th European Conference for Science Journalists Copenhagen, Denmark
WHAP! Program of Aesthetics & Politics Calarts West Hollywood Public Library Los Angeles, CA
WIFI, Connectivity & Digital Utopianism Nieuwevide Haarlem, Netherlands
Reflektor M Munich, Germany
Utopian Union Berlin, Germany
FIDMarseille International Film Festival Marseille, France
Independiente Festival de Cine Lima, Peru
Climate & Infrastructure Human Resources Los Angeles, CA
The European Society for Literature Science & Arts Conference Stockholm, Sweden
EMAF European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, Germany
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive Los Angeles, CA
le Chemin des Ondes La Gaîté lyrique Paris, France
Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine
Museum of Contemporary Arts Minsk, Belarus
Kulturni Lift / Cultural Elevator Zagreb, Croatia
Holiday After the Fall, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Rijecka, Croatia
Post Screen Festival Lisbon, Portugal
Das Arrangement Museum für Fotographie Berlin, Germany
Urlaub nach dem Fall / Holiday After the Fall NGBK Galeire Berlin, Germany
El Matadero Center for Contemporary Art Madrid, Spain
EMAF European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, Germany
Zinema Luasanne, Switzerland
Years Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected Works Optica Festival Madrid, Spain
TBA: Time Based Arts Festival Portland, OR
Independent Exposure Houston TX/San Francisco, CA
Local Sightings NW Film Forum Seattle, WA USA
PDX Gallery Portland, OR USA
International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium
Festival Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Canada
Olympia Film Festival Olympia, WA
Best of the NW Bumbershoot Festival Seattle, WA
How We Investigate TBA: Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, OR
Micro-cosmos NW Film Center Portland, OR
Portland International Film Festival Portland, OR
NW Film + Video Festival Portland, OR
Peripheral Produce Film Festival Portland, OR
Writing + Selected Publications
Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Eds. Frederik Tygstrup, Torsten Andreasen, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nick Huber. Goldsmiths Press (2024)
Ryan S. Jeffery “What Are Your Moves” Boundary 2 Journal (March, 2024)
Ryan S. Jeffery “Jenny Yurshansky: Rinsing the Bones” Prospect Art (December, 2023)
Ryan S. Jeffery “In the Style Of” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly The Dash April 4, 2023
Ryan S. Jeffery “Counting Hands: an incomplete guide to working images” Michala Paludan Open Shut exhibition catalog Counting, CC3 Fall 2022
Ryan S. Jeffery “Democracy is a Long Shot” Cabinet Magazine Kiosk February 3, 2021
Ryan S. Jeffery “What Preservation Takes” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly The Dash February 26, 2020
Ryan S. Jeffery “The Keys to Observation: To Make a Picture and to Take a Landscape” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Summer, 2019
Quinn Slobodian & Ryan S. Jeffery “The Walls of the WTO” Verso Books Blog 2018
De Boever, Arne, Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis Fordham University Press (2017)
Morten Søndergaard "On Para-logic Practices" e-flux Architecture August 2017
Boaz Levin & Ryan S. Jeffery “Video Essay: All That is Solid Melts into Data” Boundary 2 - Bernard Stiegler: Amateur Philosophy Duke University Press January (2017)
Ryan S. Jeffery “The Privacy of The Pleasure Network: The Arroyo Seco Parkway and the American Highway” Overcrossings (2017)
Boaz Levin & Ryan S. Jeffery “Lost in the Cloud: The Representation of Networked Infrastructure and its Discontents Spheres Journal (2016)
“In conversation: Paul Adler & Ryan S Jeffery” The Distance Plan Issue # 2 (2015)
Micheal Pattison “Medium Lengths Over Fragmented Landscapes” Filmmaker Magazine July 2015
Lectures and Talks
School of The Arts Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Artist Talk SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Artist Talk Department of Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University, Denmark
MA Program of Aesthetics & Politics Calarts, Los Angeles
Artist Talk, Wellesley University Wellesley, MA
Artist Talk, California Institute of the Arts, School of Critical Studies Valencia, CA
Artist Talk, University of Irvine California / Media Studies Program Irvine, CA
The Data Center: Public Library Public Utility, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Paneled Discussion: Theory of Film & Architecture Lauba Gallery, Zagreb Croatia
Memories Can’t Wait International Center for Photography / Bard College New York, NY
Artist Talk, Syracuse University / Department Design and Politics of Public Space New York University, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York, NY
Preoccupied Conference, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany