VICTORIA RYAN | Curator of Visual Art

Victoria Ryan has pursued the life of a professional photographer for the past 28 years. She has been the director of the photography program at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts for the past 16 years. She has also taught at Loyola University and Dillard University.

Victoria’s fine art work is represented by John Stevenson Gallery, New York; Kathleen Ewing, Washington, DC; George Billis, Los Angeles; and Samantha Richter, Nashville.

She believes the camera is a wonderful tool that allows her to expand reality by stripping away superfluous details, thus revealing information that unveils the secret of the moment. She looks at things and tries to understand what they can teach us and what insights she can extract to share their beauty and mystery.

Victoria’s work as been published in many formats and in many collections worldwide.