Ryan Frigillana (he/him), b. Iligan City, Philippines, is a New York-based visual artist working with photography and bookmaking. Drawing from collective memory and a heavy religious upbringing, his work explores notions of faith, loss, and home in the Filipinx diaspora primarily viewed through a familial lens.
Select Awards
2024 Penumbra Foundation Workspace Program
2023 Aperture & Google Creator Labs Photo Fund
2023 En Foco Photography Fellowship
2021 NYFA/JGS Fellowship for Photography
2021 Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency
Education
2020 BFA Photography and Related Media, Fashion Institute of Technology
Artist Interviews:
Press / Features:
Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
NYFA / JGS Fellowship for Photography
Pomegranate Press (2022)
Pomegranate Press (2020)
Select Commissions:
The New Yorker (Jul. 2023)
The New Yorker (Jan. 2023)
The New York Times (2022)
The New Yorker (2022)
The New Yorker (2020)