b. 1991. Lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm.

Ryan Hoffmann is an artist currently based in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia. He completed his MFA between the National Art School of Australia and the Glasgow School of Art in 2014. He has lived and worked in Sydney, Glasgow, Berlin, and Melbourne.

His work deals with ideas of light, atmosphere, place and, memory. A material language referencing painting traditions is manipulated to create forms and shaped supports that explore these ideas through surface, colour, material and light. The ever-shifting quality of his work is present in the sculptural forms and surfaces interacting with their environment. 

The titles reference time, personal anecdotes, and specific locations. This creates a cohesive catalogue within an ongoing process. A continuation that more broadly explores temporality and impermanence.


EDUCATION


2014
MFA, National Art School, Sydney / Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

2012
BFA (HONOURS), National Art School, Sydney


CONTACT





RYAN HOFFMANN STUDIO © 2025 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED




SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Be Water
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Melbourne,
Australia

2023
Don’t Change, Beautiful Boy
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2022
A White Flower Can Also Be A Ghost
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Melbourne, Australia

2021
Notes on Falling
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2021
SORA
Tambaran 2 Gallery
New York City, USA

2020
52°33.261′N 13°26.347′E
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney Australia

2019
ASH/RUST/DUST
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia


2018
Orchid
Broken Hill Art Exchange
Broken Hill, Australia

2018
Drift
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2017
AIR
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2015
Third Person
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2014
Mark Henry Cain Memorial Prize Residency exhibition
Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow, Scotland


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Sydney, Australia (Off-site)

Winter Exhibition
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Melbourne, Australia

2022  
Showcase by New Assemblage, Melbourne Design Week 2022 Oigall Projects
Melbourne, Australia


Primavera
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia


2021
Quarantine Art Fair
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Melbourne, Australia (Off-site)

Gallery Artists
Sophie Gannon Gallery
Melbourne, Australia

2019
Far Off
Tambaran 2 Gallery
New York City, USA

Minimal Lines
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2018
'We've boundless plains to share', (Flack Studio-Rigg Design Prize entry)
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia


3x3
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2016
Future form
Hoff Space, National Art School
Sydney, Australia

Settin' the Pace
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia

2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia (Off-site)

James and Jaqui Erskine Collection
Drill Hall Gallery
Canberra, Australia

Grace Cossington Smith Prize
Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
Wahroonga, Australia

2014
The InterGalactic Image Factory
Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia
                             
2013
Redlands Konika Minolta Art Prize Exhibition
The National Art School Gallery
Sydney, Australia

Anonymous and Film Stills
The Conductors Project
Sydney, Australia

2012
Think Twice
Gallery eight
Sydney, Australia

Topographic 3
Gallery eight project space
Sydney, Australia

AWARDS & PRIZES

2022
Mossman Art Prize, Mossmann Art Gallery (FInalist)

2018
Rigg Design Prize, National Gallery Victoria (Flack Studio-Rigg Design Prize)

Fleurieu Biennle (Finalist)

2015
Chippendale Art Prize (Finalist)
Grace Cossington Smith Prize  (Finalist)

2014
Chippendale Art Prize (Finalist)

2013
Redland Konika Minolta Art Prize (Finalist)

2012
Mark Henry Cain Memorial Prize (Winner)

2010
Chroma Archival Oils Prize (Winner)


RESIDENCIES


2018
Broken Hill Art Exchange Artist Residency

2014
Mark Henry Cain Memorial Prize Residency, Scotland


PUBLICATIONS

2025

Collecting: Living with Art, written by Kym Elphinstone, Thames and Hudson, Australia


2024

Assemblage: The Art of the Room, by Shannon McGrath, Annie Reid and Marcus Piper, Thames and Hudson, Australia

“Little Red”, Domain Review, July 24,  2024

Gillian Serisier, Habitus Living Magazine, Issue 61

Art Edit Magazine, Swee Lim Design, photo Shannon McGrath

Be Water, Artist Book (self-published)


2023

Gillian Serisier, “3 young artists exploring memory, light and colour”, Habitus Living

“Studio Visit”, The Design Files


“Ryan Hoffmann, Don’t change, beautiful boy”, Mutual Art



2022

“A white flower can also be a ghost”, Art Collector Magazine

“Artist Q and A”, Carr

A white flower can also be a ghost, Artist Book (self-published)

“Ryan Hoffmann: The Relationship Between Nature and Art”, Isabella Pocock, Kings College London



2021

Notes on Falling, Artist Book (self-published)


2020

52° 33' 26.1 " N, Artist Book (self-published)


2019

“New Horizons”, Inprint Magazine

ASH/RUST/DUST, Artist Book (self-published)

ARTEMIS Magazine, Newcastle Art Gallery

2018

Feature: Artist in Residence, The Broken Hill Times
Drift, Artist Book (self-published)

2017

Air, Artist Book (self-published)

2015

James and Jaqui Erskine Collection, White Buffalo publishing

2014

Jane O’Sullivan, “Dealer’s Hand”, Art Collector, Issue 68, Apri-Jun 2014, p103

Sharne Wolff, “The InterGalactic Image Factory”,The ArtLife, 7th February 2014

“Open Gallery – The InterGalactic Image Factory”, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1st February

Redlands Konika Minolta art prize, Exhibition program

Emporio Armani National Art school, Exhibition program

Chroma Archival oil prize, Online publication/Art profile


COLLECTIONS

QT, Newcastle

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Newcastle Art Gallery Permanent Collection, Newcastle

PwC Collection, Canberra

Baker McKenzie Collection

Allens / Linklaters, Australia

National Art School Collection, Sydney

Private Collections in Australia, USA, Hong Kong, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, and Switzerland