Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen
Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen have been working together for the past five years. Their idea-based practice fuses history, fiction, and artistic commentary into a wide variety of material works: poster projects, sculpture, and multi-media installations, to video jokes, indexes and performative lectures. Their work often focuses on the activities of reading and writing, drawing extensively from literature, philosophy and philology without neglecting other forms of knowledge such as those acquired from watching youtube or from talking to the cashier at the corner store.
Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at The Marylhurst Art Gym, PDX Contemporary Art, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, Oregon, at Locust Projects in Miami, and at Botkyrka konsthall in Tumba, Sweden. The pair currently live and work in Portland, Oregon where they are represented by PDX Contemporary Art. They each hold a BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University.