Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan is curator who specializes in art from the 1960s to the present day, with a focus on the uses of new media technologies.
​She holds five degrees in art history, including a BA from Harvard and PhD from Columbia.

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Curator

In May 2017, Dr. Ryan became an Assistant Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Previously, she was a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on a half-dozen shows, including the major retrospective Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms​ (Spring 2017) and a  postwar survey upcoming in Fall 2017. Before joining The Met, she held internships at MoMA PS1, the New Museum, and the ICA Boston, among other institutions; her writing has been commissioned for catalog essays and research projects by The Met, the Walker Art Center, and the Tate.

Critic

Beginning in 2013, Dr. Ryan worked as a critic, focusing on emerging new media artists and writing primarily for Artforum. The artists whose shows she has reviewed include Pipilotti Rist, Simon Denny, Clement Valla, Stan Douglas, and Zak Kitnick. Other texts, including interviews, obituaries, and essays, have appeared in Art in America, Even, and Document.

Historian

Dr. Ryan's research has appeared in academic journals (such as Art Journal​ and Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media​), as well as in anthologies from university presses. She has presented her work at the annual conferences of the College Art Association and Modernist Studies Association; at professional conferences in Canada and Germany; and at graduate student conferences from Los Angeles to Toronto. In the 2016-17 academic year, she gave invited lectures at the University of Notre Dame, NYU, and the University of St. Andrews. ​Her first book project, “McLuhan’s Bulbs: Light Art and the Dawn of New Media,” examines the light art of the 1960s as a fulcrum between the discourses of “medium"​ and “media” in postwar art.

Educator and Public Speaker

An experienced educator, Dr. Ryan has developed courses on contemporary art for Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, and the Museum of Modern Art. As a professional public speaker, she has offered lectures on art to adults in more than thirty cities across the country. She also lectures at corporate and social events. For private bookings, please contact her agent, Cassidy & Fishman.