Ryan Frigillana

Biography

Ryan Frigillana (b. Iligan City, Philippines) is a photographer and lens-based artist working between Long Island, New York, and Southaven, Mississippi. Through artist’s books and photo installations, he brings his photographs into dialogue with reworked materials—print media, family and historical archives, and biblical illustrations from his childhood—to explore how lived experience is mediated by images, systems, and ideologies. Drawing from his Adventist and migratory upbringing, he approaches photography as a form of evidence, allegory, and prayer—proving, personifying, and confessing.

Frigillana is a recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography (‘25), the JGS Fellowship for Photography (‘21, ‘25), the Penumbra Workspace Program (‘24), the Aperture & Google Creator Labs Photo Fund (‘23), the En Foco Photography Fellowship (‘23), and the Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency (‘21). His work has been published or exhibited at Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Houston Center for Photography, Light Work, Aperture, Candela Gallery, Atlanta Center for Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, Booooooom, PhMuseum, Der Greif, Musée Magazine, and The New Yorker among others.

For all inquiries, commissions, and list of available works:

Contact

• Email: rfphoto@ryanfrigillana.com

• Instagram: @ryan.frigillana

• CV: PDF