About Me
With a professional career spanning over 4 decades, New Mexico painter Victoria Ryan has produced an evolving body of work that has been continuously exhibited and has gained accolades and placement in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Victoria lived much of her life in California, having studied at Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute and ultimately earning a BFA in Painting and Drawing from California State University at Long Beach. Her early work in soft pastel was noted immediately for its crossover themes from representation into abstraction. In 1984, just two years out of college her entry into The International Art Competition, an exhibition held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, earned her a Silver Medal for her abstract pastel drawings. Acceptance into museum exhibitions followed including The Julia Morgan Memorial Exhibition of California Women Artists at The Riverside Art Museum. Victoria weaves together thoughtful patterns of color, light, line and texture to create visual stories that are powerful and beautiful. Her empathic ability to incorporate a psychological and spiritual viewpoint into her abstract landscapes is both palpable and relatable. Now living and painting in Northern New MEXICO her most spiritous and introspective work is being realized.