Tina Rivers Ryan

Early life and education Tina Rivers Ryan attended Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami for high school. She has a BA degree from Harvard University, She worked as a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also been involved in the study and research of digital art preservation, including NFTs.

Ryan and co-curator organized the 2021 exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art at the gallery. The Difference Machines exhibition features 17 artists and has a hybrid display design featuring interactivity, the artwork is technical but also accessible to people without technical knowledge, and it exists as a learning space. A review in The Brooklyn Rail discussed the exhibition's themes of "the use of digital technologies for passive (but not always effective) surveillance, how identities are shaped by technology, the erasure of marginalized communities, and the active reassertion of control."

Other exhibitions at Albright-Knox she has co-curated include Tony Conrad: A Retrospective (2018), and We The People: New Art from the Collection (2018–2019).

In March 2024, Ryan was named the editor-in-chief of Artforum magazine, succeeding David Velasco. Velasco was fired from his role due to supporting Palestinian causes, which sparked a boycott and criticism of Ryan for taking the role. In February 2026, Artforum announced that Ryan will be stepping down as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. Daniel Wenger, a current Artforum editor, and Rachel Wetzler, the magazine’s executive editor, will replace her in the role.

Publications

Co-authored or contributed

Hearst, A., Kholeif, O., Ryan, T. R., Suler, J. R., & Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, host institution. (2023). I’ll be your mirror : art and the digital screen. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Exhibition-related