Education
2013 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Fellow
2011 MFA University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Art, LA, CA
2006 BFA Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY, NY
Awards
2014 Smack Mellon Hot Pick
2011 Best Documentary Short (History Minor) – Chicago Underground Film Festival
2010 Fotokem International Film Grant
2009 USC Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship
2006 Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust Prize
2005 Benjamin Menschel Foundation Fellowship
2002 Full Tuition Scholarship, Cooper Union School of Art
2000 Young Chicago Authors Scholarship
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2014
Equitable Trust
Equitable Trust Building, Los Angeles, CA
(Solo Exhibition organized by Ellie Lee)
2013
Ora Serrata: The Boundary Between the Retina and the Ciliary Body
chashama, NY, NY
(Group Exhibition organized by Lea Cetera and Alexandra Lerman)
The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition
Temp Gallery, NY, NY
2012
of the Relative Frequency of Occurrence of the Causes of Breaking Plate Glass Windows
Various Small Fires Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by Olivian Cha
History Minor
Berkshires International Film Festival, MA
(Screening)
History Minor
New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
(Screening)
2011
Vexations
Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(Solo Exhibition)
History Minor
Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
(Screening)
History Minor
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
(Screening)
History Minor
Migrating Forms, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
(Screening)
History Minor
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
(Screening)
2010
TIMES
Roski MFA Gallery, LA, CA
(Solo Exhibition)
Causes & Errors
STATION Gallery, LA, CA
(Solo Exhibition)
2009
Things to Remember
New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY
(Screening)
Things to Remember
Peripheral Produce PDX Festival, Portland, OR
(Screening)
Things to Remember
Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville, FL
(Screening)
2008
Paper Weights
Canapa Gallery, NY, NY
(Solo Exhibition)
2007
Free Space Video Program
Lower East Side Free Space, NY, NY
(Screening in program organized by James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
Drawings
Great Hall Gallery, NY, NY
(Group Exhibition)
2006
Plain Sight
Great Hall Gallery, NY, NY
(Exhibition with Lyndsay Bloom and Eugene Wasserman)
2005
Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Foundation Exhibition
Cooper Union, NY, NY
(Group Exhibition)
The Sights in Town
Hewitt Auditorium, NY, NY
(Group Screening)
2004
Dear Center Point of the World
Great Hall Gallery, NY, NY
(Solo Exhibition)
Collaborative/Curatorial
2008
The Only Possible City
Film/Video Program for the New York Underground Film Festival
Co-organized with Michael Crane and Edward Kihn
Pertinent Employment
2014
Adjunct Faculty – “Techniques in After Effects,” The Cooper Union School of Art, NY, NY
2013 – Present
Editor, Daily Show/Colbert Report, Comedy Central, NY, NY
Adjunct Faculty – “The Moving Image for Photographers,” New York Film Academy, NY, NY
2012-2013
Assistant Editor, The Yes Men are Revolting (forthcoming feature documentary), NY, NY and LA, CA
2012
Exhibitions Technician, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, CA
2011-2012
Videographer/Editor, Acadia Summer Arts Program, Bar Harbor, ME
2010-2011
Teaching Assistant to Robbert Flick – Introduction to Photo, Roski School of Fine Arts, USC, LA, CA
2009-2010
Teaching Assist to Shannon Ebner – Intermediate and Advanced Photo, Roski School of Fine Arts, USC, LA, CA
2007-2009
Studio Assistant to Walid Raad, NY, NY
2007-2008
Interdisciplinary Seminar Archivist, Cooper Union, NY, NY
Press
Walquist, Grant. “RYAN GARRETT | MICHAEL PARKER,” Arthood.com, 20 Sept 2010. http://www.arthood.com/profiles/blogs/ryan-garrett-michael-parker.
“The 18th Chicago Underground Film Festival Announces 2011 Awards,” http://www.ifpchicago.org/18th-chicago-underground-film-festival-announces-2011-awards/.
LEF Article on Chicago Underground Film Festival, lef-foundation.org, 10 June 2011, http://lef-foundation.org/NewEngland/Blog/tabid/193/EntryId/47/Chicago-Underground-Film-Festival.aspx.
References (available upon request)