Background
Trecartin, Ryan was born in 1981 in Webster, Texas, United States.
Trecartin, Ryan was born in 1981 in Webster, Texas, United States.
He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004.
Trecartin has since lived and worked in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami. In 2006, the Wall Street Journal included Trecartin in a selection of ten top emerging United States artists including Dash Snow, Rosson Crow, Zane Lewis, and Keegan McHargue. His work is featured in the Saatchi Gallery collection and has appeared in many museum exhibitions including The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at The New Museum in New York, Queer Voice at the International Cooperation Administration in Philadelphia, Between Two Deaths at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, as well as in recent solo exhibitions at The Power Plant in Toronto, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others