Killian John Ryan is a French-British multidisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, installation, painting, film and sound, he constructs immersive environments where architecture, objects and cinematic language become tools for shaping psychological spaces. Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, his works evoke the fragile relationship between memory, absence and the passage of time. Through handcrafted worlds that oscillate between intimacy and nostalgia, he invites viewers to experience memory not as a fixed archive, but as something continually reconstructed through perception, imagination and emotion.
Education
2021-2023: Master’s degree ENSAV La Cambre Painting (Brussels, Belgium). Completed degree with jury distinction
2018-2021: Bachelor’s degree EESAB Installation/Volume (Brest, France). Completed degree with jury congratulations
2017-2018: Preparatory class in applied arts LISAA (Rennes, France)
Residencies
2025-2026: Kult XL (Ixelles, Belgium)
2023-2024: Fondation Carrefour des Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
July 2022: Visual Arts Forum (Ramallah, Palestine)
Exhibitions
2025: Alumnis Manibus, collective exhibition, ENSAV la Cambre (Brussels, Belgium)
2024: Happy Endings, end of residency exhibition, Fondation Carrefour des Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
2023: Everything Must Go, collective exhibition Master 2 Painting, ENSAV la Cambre (Brussels, Belgium)
2023: Chôra, collective exhibition, La part du Feu gallery (Brussels, Belgium)
2022: Ich bin das Problem, collective exhibition (Brussels, Belgium)
2021: Take my Brest Away, collective exhibition (Brest, France)
Other
2024: Featured press article Collect & Show: Gwendolyn Grolig, Sabato magazine, edition 23.11.24
2023: Special Prize, Les Amis de La Cambre
2023: End-of-studies memoir Crossing Through Space
2023: Press article Sans Frontières, Ouest Magazine, edition n°17