Ryan Kuo

Ryan Kuo is an artist and writer in New York City. He makes diagrammatic and conceptual systems that are process-based and often invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument. His works have taken form as recursive scripts and circular narratives, self-playing game environments, desktop interfaces, business dashboards, technical documentation, slideshow animations, performance-lectures, and experimental publications.

His projects have been commissioned and shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), M+ (Hong Kong), Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson), Queens Museum (NYC), bitforms gallery (NYC), and TRANSFER (LA); and have been published in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, and Rhizome. He was a 2022 Knight Arts + Tech Fellow and a resident at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (Iowa City), Pioneer Works (NYC), and the Queens Museum Studio Program (NYC). He is currently developing an artist's book about aspirational workflows, File: A User's Manual, modeled after software guides for power users. He is not a programmer.