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Ryan Patrick Krueger | |
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| Born | 1992 |
| Nationality | American |
| Style | Photography, Collage, Installation |
| Website | www |
'Ryan Patrick Krueger (b.1992) is an American visual artist and independent curator working in photography based in Chicago, IL.[1] [2]
Early life and education
[edit]Krueger grew up in New Jersey. As a teenager, he dropped out of high school and taught himself photography before later receiving a BFA in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2016 and an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025.[3]
Krueger's early career began in music photography, working as a freelance photographer for Alternative Press and AMP Magazine from 2006 to 2010. Krueger was involved as a photographer during the third wave emo explosion of New Jersey's DIY music scene. Between 2005 and 2010, he photographed numerous influential bands, including My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Saves the Day, Blink-182, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Weezer becoming a published photographer at the age of thirteen before turning to fine art at the age of eighteen.[4] [5]
Work
[edit]Krueger makes photographic and collage based works that utilize memory, collective and individual, to recover a lost visual history of queer intimacy. Krueger sources photographs, everyday objects, and queer publications, both pre- and post-Stonewall, to memorialize implied and overt moments of connection. Krueger has exhibited nationally including solo presentations at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, Tiger Strikes Asteroid , Brooklyn, NY, and MONACO, St. Louis, and was also included in the 2022 Fotofest Biennial in Houston, TX alongside Dorothea Lange and Laura Aguilar. Krueger has been featured in national publications including Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Out Smart Magazine, Photo Vogue, Sixty Inches From Center, and Glasstire Magazine. Krueger has lectured publicly at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Princeton University, Parsons School of Art & Design, and Syracuse University.[6]
During Krueger's time at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, he developed his project, Documents from the Closet, exploring LGBTQ+ history through a personal archive of vernacular photographs, ephemera, and mixed-media collages. Since 2011, Krueger has collected vintage images depicting intimate moments between men, reflecting themes of love, friendship, and identity. His work incorporates historical materials, eBay receipts, and clippings from LGBTQ+ publications, presented in large-scale wooden structures resembling monuments or coffins. Documents from the Closet pays homage to LGBTQ+ activists and artists while highlighting the community's resilience. Documents from the Closet serves as both a historical archive and a contemporary reflection on queer identity.[7]
Krueger is also active as a curator, having organized exhibitions such as Not Gay (co-curated with Jonathan David Katz) at SUNY Fredonia, Queer Moments: Selections from the Light Work Collection at Light Work in Syracuse, New York, and the *50th Anniversary Exhibition* for Light Work at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.[8] [9]
Awards
[edit]In 2023, Krueger received the Creator Labs Photo Fund from Aperture and Google and the New Artist Society Scholarship by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[10]
Selected exhibitions
[edit]- 2023 Documents from the Closet, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
- 2023 Documents from the Closet, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
- 2023 keep a place for me, Clifford Prince King & Ryan P Krueger, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo NY
- 2022 FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had A Hammer, Silver Street Studios, Houston, TX
- 2022 On Longing, MONACO, St. Louis, MO
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.rivalryprojects.com/ryan-patrick-krueger
- ^ "Two Hundred Pounds of Desire: Ryan Patrick Krueger at Monaco". 11 May 2022.
- ^ "MFA Students | School of the Art Institute of Chicago".
- ^ "Front Row Center: Sunny Day Real Estate". Alternative Press.
- ^ "AP's Blink-182 Archive". Alternative Press.
- ^ "Ryan Patrick Krueger".
- ^ "NY / Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet".
- ^ "Marion Art Gallery opens season with 'Not Gay' | Fredonia.edu".
- ^ "Queer Moments: Selections from the Light Work Collection – Light Work". 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund". 26 September 2023.