ABSTRACT
Ryann is an artist, historian, educator and curator. As an artist, she is interested in the expansive use of a wide variety of media and materials and how they relate to the human experience of feeling grief and loss in different manifestations. The types of thematic curation she is interested in are the work of artists responding to grief, loss, trauma and memory. The first exhibition she curated focused on these themes, which align with similar ideas in the work she creates. The exhibition dealt with the Holocaust, institutional slavery and indigenous genocide in our country. The art world has as much inequality as anywhere else.” Kong Nai first encountered alternative photography in 2013, and she holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees in photography. She has been a junior curator on several exhibitions and has been part of several group exhibitions herself in her own burgeoning artistic career.
