Biography
Ryan Frigillana (b. Iligan City, Philippines) is a visual artist working in photography and bookmaking. He explores intergenerational themes of myth, faith, and grief through a diasporic and allegorical lens. Using books as a medium, his work reimagines archives from popular media, family histories, and biblical sources to activate new ways of seeing around his subjects.
He is based out of Long Island, New York.
Contact
Email: rfphoto@ryanfrigillana.com
Instagram: @frigggy
CV (PDF)
Recent Press / Features
Houston Center for Photography, Pandemic Made
Portland Monthly, Manong exhibition review
Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Manong
Penumbra Foundation Workspace Program
PhMuseum, 2024 Photography Grant
Der Greif, Guest Room
Aperture Foundation, 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund
Vogue, 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund
En Foco Inc, 2023 Fellowship Exhibition
Fraction Magazine, Visions of Eden
ZERO.NINE Magazine, Visions of Eden
Palm Studios, Artist Feature
NYFA / JGS Fellowship for Photography
Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency
Paper Journal
Nowhere Diary
The Heavy Collective
Musée Magazine, The Weight of Slumber
Float Magazine, Visions of Eden
Booooooom, Visions of Eden
Pearl Press, Issue No. 3: High Seas
Oranbeg Press, Fade / Fail / Flow
Pomegranate Press, Nothing Left but Healing (2022)
Pomegranate Press, You, Me, and the Moments (2020)
Goldenrod Editions, Goldenrod Zine Issue 02
Soft Lightning Studio, a labor of love
ISO Magazine, ISO Spring 2020: Etcetera
A New Nothing, with Sadie Cook
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
Select Artist Interviews
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)