Photo courtesy of Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Biography
Ryan Frigillana was born in Iligan City, Philippines, and immigrated with his family to Long Island, New York, in the early 1990s, where he continues to reside. His work explores intergenerational themes of grief, myth, and spirituality through a diasporic and allegorical lens. Drawing on his religious and acculturated upbringing, he engages with popular media, family histories, and biblical sources to contemplate photography as equal parts evidence, faith, and prayer. He splits his time working on projects between Long Island and Southaven, Mississippi.
Frigillana’s publications are held in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, Getty Research Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston among others. Select awards include the Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency (2021), the NYFA/JGS Fellowship for Photography (2021), the En Foco Photography Fellowship (2023), the Aperture & Google Creator Labs Photo Fund (2023), and the Penumbra Workspace Program (2024). Most recently, in October 2024, Frigillana held his first solo exhibition, Manong, at Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, Oregon.
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 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)