Ryan Frigillana

Biography

Ryan Frigillana (b. Iligan City, Philippines) is a lens-based artist working between Long Island, New York, and Southaven, Mississippi. Through books and installations, he brings photographs into dialogue with reworked materials—print media, family and historical archives, and biblical illustrations from his childhood—to describe the tensions and continuities of diaspora and faith. Drawing from an upbringing shaped by migration and belief, he approaches photography as a form of evidence, allegory, and prayer—as record, symbol, and confession.

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 exhibited at Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Houston Center for Photography, Light Work, and Candela Photographic Arts, and has been published by Aperture, Atlanta Center for Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, Booooooom, PhMuseum, Der Greif, Musée Magazine, and The New Yorker among others.

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Contact

• Email: rfphoto@ryanfrigillana.com

• Instagram: @ryan.frigillana

• CV: PDF