Ryan Walters is a painter currently based in Seattle, WA.

Ryan Walters is an artist from southern Tennessee currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Washington. Working across painting, installation, and digital media, his practice examines spectacle, institutional language, and the emotional residue of contemporary digital life. Drawing from internet culture, mass entertainment, and art historical references, Walters’s work often embraces humor, excess, and deliberate awkwardness as a way to destabilize authority and sincerity.