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Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects

Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents more than a hundred sculptures, textiles, works on paper, and objects by Veronica Ryan, emphasizing the artist’s concern with personal and cultural significance embedded in everyday objects.

Veronica Ryan, Collective Moments V, 2022. Plaster, hairnet and plastic bags, 4 x 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (10 x 9 x 16 cm). © Veronica Ryan, OBE RA. Courtesy Alison Jacques, London

Installation view of Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, March 7–July 27, 2025. © Veronica Ryan, OBE, Photograph by Alise O'Brien Photography. © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

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Curated by Tamara H. Schenkenberg, with Molly Moog as curatorial assistant, Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects explores themes of transformation, memory, and care through materials in a poetic way.

The exhibition spans several decades of Ryan’s career, showcasing her engagement with organic forms such as seeds, pods, and fruits—symbols of growth, migration, and renewal. Her works often combine handmade, found, and natural elements, encouraging viewers to reflect on the personal and cultural significance embedded in everyday objects. Throughout the exhibition, Ryan reimagines familiar materials—including lead, textiles, plastic bottles, bronze casts, and food packaging—into sculptures that evoke themes of healing, displacement, and continuity.

Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects is on view until July 27, 2025.

Pulitzer Arts Foundation Museum
3716 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
United States

pulitzerarts.org

Veronica Ryan, Momento Mori I, 2022, Bronze, reconfigured medical pillow, 5 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches, (15 x 30 x 40 cm). © Veronica Ryan, OBE RA. Courtesy Alison Jacques, London

Veronica Ryan, Sweet Dreams are Made of These (2021) Installed in Still Lives at The Hepworth Wakefied, March 2024–March 2025. Glazed ceramic stoneware, jute mat, 5 7/8 × 83 7/8 × 83 7/8 inches (14.9 × 213 × 213 cm). © Veronica Ryan, Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through its Special Partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation, supported by Cathy Wills, 2022/23. Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield), Photo: George Baggaley

Veronica Ryan, Untitled, 1985. Tate, presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Howard Karshan to mark his term as Chairman of the Patrons of New Art (1993-1997) 2009. © Veronica Ryan. Photo: © Tate

Veronica Ryan, Territories, 1986. Oil and graphite on paper, 21 4/15 x 29 2/15 inches (54.0 x 74.0 cm) [VR 1]. © Veronica Ryan. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery. Photo: Kettle’s Yard

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