| BA , Douglass College, Rutgers University; MA and PhD in art history from the University of Michigan. Research Assistant at Yale University for three years.Ryan specializes in modern and contemporary art and new media art history and theory. She has produced and curated two exhibitions at the LSU School of Art Gallery: Dream-Work: Robert Indiana Prints (1997) and The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video at LSU (1999; with Professor Adelaide Russo). She recently worked with Professor Darius Spieth on a major exhibition of contemporary art, Beyond East and West, shown at the LSU Museum of Art in 2004.She has written two books, both of which have focused on artists' autobiographical practices: she assembled, edited, and annotated American painter Marsden Hartley's autobiography (Somehow a Past, MIT Press, 1996 and 1998), and wrote Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (Yale University Press, 2000). She has published in numerous journals and catalogs and online. She is currently doing research on the changing nature of art practices and creative self images among artists working in digital and web-based formats.At LSU she directed the Baton Rouge Video Project for three years (1999-2003). Since 2002 she has been a member of the Steering Committee for the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts and Technologies (part of LSU Capital).Susan has been the faculty since 1993. She is currently an Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory and is also a member of the faculties of the Women and Gender Studies and Audio-Visual Arts departments. |
