Ryan Mosley England, b. 1980

Lives and works in Sheffield, UK.

He studied at Huddersfield University and did an MA in Painting at the Royal College of

Art in London. He has received the Grand Arts Residency, Kansas, MO; the Basil H. Alkazzi Award, New York; and the Visual Arts Travel Scholarship, Australia.

Mosley's main interest is portraiture, his work depicts a surreal world with imaginary characters and rituals. His instinctive and colorful approach to painting isspontaneous since he paints directly on the canvas without carrying out a previous study.

Some of his individual exhibitions have been at Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig / Berlin; Alison Jacques Gallery, London; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Tim van laere Gallery, Antwerp; and Regina Gallery, Moscow.

His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Aston Hall Museum, Birmingham;

Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany; Saatchi Gallery, London; Galerie Mikael

Andersen, Copenhagen; Modem Museum, Hungary; and at the Royal Academy of Arts,

London, among other places.

Mosley's work is part of the collections of the Arts Council Collection, The United Saatchi Collection, London and the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg; between others.