10 Facts About Will Ryman

Will Ryman is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures and public art projects.

Will Ryman was born on December 29,1969, in New York City in family of Robert Ryman.

For twelve years, Will Ryman wrote his own plays while working a series of jobs as a script reader, a prep chef, and a line cook.

Will Ryman developed an ambitious large-scale sculpture practice using materials as varied as coal, steel, computer parts, paper towels, bullets, and bronze.

In 2010, Will Ryman created The Dinner Party, a larger-than-life dinner scene evoking Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper made of steel, wood, epoxy resin, nails, tile, aluminum, flock, wire, resin, plastic, glass, and chain.

Will Ryman installed thirty-eight sculptures of roses towering as high as twenty-five feet and twenty individual scattered petals in the medians along Park Avenue.

Also in 2013, Will Ryman produced America, a recreation of Abraham Lincoln's childhood log cabin, which examines the origins of capitalism and its complexities within the scope of American history.

Will Ryman's sculpture blended two iconic American brands: one, a post-war symbol of luxury, class, and power, and the other, a mass-produced disposable product.

Will Ryman deliberately reduced the dramatic narrative to its elemental parts.

Will Ryman's first public art project in Europe was a three-part installation created for Parc de la Villette, Paris.