Anthony Michael Ryder

Artist Statement

Anthony Michael Ryder (Ojibwe, Saulte Tribe of Chippewa Indians descendent) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oregon whose work navigates the entanglement and often transformations of personal trauma into collective calls for accountability, care, and reparation. Ryder’s practice explores how vulnerability can be a tool and technology for reauthoring power building towards one's own rescue. Ryder's programing often blends connection by building communal spaces of reciprocal witnessing. Ryder is a grant recipient of the Community Inclusion Grant from The University of Oregon, Southern Vermont Arts Center through NEA funding, and the Emergency Fulcrum Fund from 516 Arts through the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2021-2022 Ryder participated in Andy Warhol’s curatorial fellow Ric Kasini Kadour’s Art Meets History. An initiative of Kasini House that works to build connections between contemporary art and history-focused organizations. With this work, became the development of exhibitions, curatorial projects, and publications. He is now focused on how language revitalization and narrative offers togetherness and healing for many dispersed populations. His work has been exhibited and featured in film festivals, music festivals, non-profits, NBC, People Magazine, KSL, and internationally including at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) in South Korea, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, The Santa Fe Film Festival, The Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, WET Productions in the United Kingdom, and others.