Ryan Standfest
Visual Arts
Detroit, MI
Ryan Standfest is an artist and publisher who lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. He has exhibited at the Simone DeSousa Gallery (now Matéria, Detroit), which also published a monograph on his work in 2020, Wasserman Projects (Detroit), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), The Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, among others. In 2010, he founded the small publishing house Rotland Press, for which he has edited a collection of comic strips by artist and filmmaker David Lynch, two volumes of political prints by Sue Coe, and a collection of early satirical cartoons by Swiss artist H.R. Giger. As an arts writer, Standfest has authored arts criticism and essays, appearing in numerous art and culture journals. He contributed a chapter to the book Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik (Penn State University Press, 2022). Standfest has been an artist-in-residence at Jentel Foundation (Banner, WY), Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE), and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA). His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, PRINT, Art in American and The New York Times. His work has been written about in Art in America, FRIEZE, Hyperallergic, The New York Times , and PRINT. Standfest earned an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Wayne State University in Detroit.