Michael Ryder, Some Were Damaged Some Had Delirium (installation view)
Michael Ryder is an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Salt Lake City, Utah. Ryder has works both in public and private collections across the United States. His work revolves around 2/3D self portraiture with graphite, paper, sculpture, motion + still imagery. Ryder uses expressionism and blatant symbolism in his works that rely on themes of trauma, childhood adversary, memory, and remnants from his personal life and the contemporary world around him.