Ryan Henel lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Education
2014, MFA, Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico
2004, BAFA, University of New Mexico
Employment
2023 –present Research Lecturer III, Centerfor Environmental Art and Humanities, University of New Mexico
2018- 2023 Lead Artist, Harwood ArtCenter’s Apprenticeship for Art & Social Justice
2012- 2023 Field Coordinator/ResearchLecturer III, Land Arts of the American West, Art + Ecology, University of New Mexico
2010- 2014 Teaching Assistant,University of New Mexico
2007- 2010 Exhibit Developer, Explora Science Center
Exhibitions/Commissions/Engagements
2022
MEAnder, Lanbd Arts Generator Initiative - Modern Elder Academy comission for a large-scale earthwork installation in the Galisteo Valley, NM. (Construction set for 2024)
Camino, Phase II, public art installation for Harwood Art Center’s Apprenticeship for Art & Social Justice, Mesa Verde Park, Albuquerque, NM
2021
Camino, Phase I, public art installation for Harwood Art Center’s Apprenticeship for Art & Social Justice, Mesa Verde Park, Albuquerque, NM
2020
Mentor, OUTPUT - Art After Fire, pilot project, South East Arts, Australia
Cambio Bench, public art installation for Harwood Art Center’s Apprenticeship for Art & Social Justice, Mesa Verde Park, Albuquerque, NM
2019
Cetacea Populus, Currents Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Unidos, public art installation for Harwood Art Center’s Apprenticeship for Art & Social Justice, Mesa Verde Park, Albuquerque, NM
Finalist, NewMexico Arts Large Purchase Initiative
2018
Who Are These Invisible Clouds, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
NeoRio: Roots ~Raices, Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument, Wild Rivers, NM
2017
Rock Wall, collaborative erosion control project with Borderlands Restoration Network, Patagonia,AZ
2016
Tributaries: Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights group show and performance
Finalist, NewMexico Arts purchase initiative
Stories Out/InPlace, Center for Fine Arts Downtown, Albuquerque, NM
2015
All Over the Map: The Ongoing Dialogue of Public Art, Albuquerque Museum
Finalist, Big Ideas Competition, Albuquerque Public Art Program
Art and Infrastructure: exhibition of Land Arts Mobile ResearchPost-MFA Grant, George Pearl Hall, Albuquerque, NM
Symposium:Invisibility, Uncertainty, Art and Landscape, City Lab, Albuquerque, NM Symposium: HABITAT, Exploring Climate Change through the Arts, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2014
Boundless Horizons, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
Watershed Bounding, Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center, NM
Boundless Horizons Mira Costa College, San Diego, CA
Mellon Foundation funded Land Arts Mobile Research Laboratory Post-MFA Grant recipient, Art & Infrastructure
Manzano Rock, permanent public art installation, Wilson Park, Albuquerque, NM
2013
Student Selectioncommittee member for public art, University of New Mexico
Pattern Recognition, Fine Arts Library
2012
Commission for permanent sculpture installation, Wilson Park, City of Albuquerque Public Art Program, Albuquerque, NM
Reasons, Excuses, Alibis & Non Sequiturs, Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Finalist, site-specific work for Spaceport America, New Mexico Arts
2011
Cabin-Specific, Press Club, Albuquerque, NM
Land Arts of the American West Exhibit, SCA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2010
New Mexico Arts Temporary installation, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
At First Sight, AC2, Albuquerque, NM
Finalist, Santa Fe Community College public art project, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Dispersal/Return, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Sculpture as Analogy to Landscape, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
Finalist, Land art project for the City of Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center, Albuquerque, NM
2008
Given Take, The Land/An art site, Mountainair, NM
Take Back, The Land/Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Presenter for New Mexico Arts, Americans for the Arts Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Selected artist, New Mexico Arts, Villanueva State Park temporary installation, NM
2007
Selection Committee, Temporary Installations Made for the Environment, NMarts
Finalist, New Mexico Arts, Public art installation for the Western Heritage Museum, Hobbs, NM
2006
Landmines, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Panel Discussion CCA Land Art
2005
New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME), Migration Series, El Camino Real International Heritage Center, Socorro, NM
Temporary installation, American for the Arts Conference, Austin Green Art, Austin, TX
2004
Art in Public Places, ¡Magnifico!, Albuquerque, NM
Converse, Albuquerque Glass Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Land Arts of the American West 2003, Creative Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2003
Land Arts of the American West 2003, John Sommers Gallery at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Mappings, Colomo, Marfa, TX
Exhibit A, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Station, The Walls, Albuquerque, NM
2002
ASA student show, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Device, Johnson Gallery at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Space Until Dark, PNM Building, Albuquerque, NM
Public Collections
Cambioat Mesa Verde Park, Albuquerque, NM Unidos at Mesa VerdePark, Albuquerque, NM
Manzano Rock at Wilson Park,Albuquerque, NM
recovered at the Walter GerrellsPerforming Arts and Exhibition Centre, Carlsbad, NM
Center for Art +Environment archive at the Nevada Museum of Art
Publications
Eleonora Edreva, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Ryan Henel. A Garden: A Living Room. Seedbroadcast: agri-Culture Journal, 17th Edition, Fall2021
Excerpts published in Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: Art in Community and Environment, Bill Gilbert and Annica Cox, Routledge Press, 2018
Featured artist in "Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas,"Vol. V, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, 2012
Work published in Lessons for Architecture: Land Arts of the American West, Landscape within Architecture, PrincetonArchitectural Press, Sept 2004
Work published in Land Arts of the American West, Bill Gilbert and Chris Taylor, University of Texas Press, 2009
Residencies
2013 Studio Residency, UcrossFoundation, Wyoming