Born 1978, Fort Knox, KT
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2004 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001 PB San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2000 BFA University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Project Series 29: Machine Project Guide to the Natural Sciences and Cultural History, collaboration with Cheyenne Weaver, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
A Rhetoric of Ills: The Oekologie of Ornament in the Causatum of Stillness, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (with Sean Alward)
In Search of a Myopics Leitmotif, collaboration with Cheyenne Weaver,
Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Transient Concretions, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Witch From Whose Head The Ropes Hang Like Hair, Mint Gallery, Cal-Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 The Post-Hobbyist Depravation, Mint Gallery, Cal-Arts, Valencia, CA
Group Exhibitions
2005 Terra Nullius, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 NADA Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL
SUPERSONIC, collaboration with Patrick Marcoux, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Field Trip, Swell Gallery S.F.A.I, San Francisco, CA
Historecital, Santa Clarita Historical Society, Santa Clarita, CA
2003 Lodged In, The Big Oaks Lodge, Los Angeles State Park, Canyon Country, CA
Immergence, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2001 The Farallon Occupation, in collaboration with Cheyenne Weaver, Detour Project Space,
San Francisco, CA
S.F.A.I Group Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
15 Untitled Works In Deer Feed, Marfa, TX
2000 A Night To Remember,Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lights Out, The Roxy Theater, San Francisco, CA
The Way, Slipe Gallery, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT
Bibliography
Miles, Christopher. "Ryan Taber," ArtForum, November 2006, p. 307
Allen, Ken D. “From Machine to Museum Project: An Interview with Mark Allen, Founder of Machine Project,” X-TRA, Fall 2006, Volume 9 Number 1, pp. 4-13, illus. p. 7.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. The New Romantics, ARTnews, February 2006.
Pagel, David. ’Beetles in the Midst of Oddly Fab Forum,’ The Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2005.
Schmidt, J. ’The Lone and Level Sands’ ZYZZYA XX.3, November, 2004 (images)
Deegan, Patrick W. ’Super-California,’ Artnet.com, August 18, 2004.
Pagel, David. ’Time and Space in Compression,’ The Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2004, p. E27.