Ryan Kuo

Ryan Kuo (b. 1982, Elkins, WV) is an artist and writer based in New York City. His work uses digital systems and sequences to invoke a person or people arguing. The intention is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument. His projects have been commissioned and shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), M+ (Hong Kong), Queens Museum (NYC), bitforms gallery (NYC), and TRANSFER (LA), and has 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 has been 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.