Janita Ryan CV

Educational Background

2003-06
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) VCA, University of Melbourne

2002                 
Diploma of Visual Art (Painting) Victoria University of Technology

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Epic Failure/Before and After/ True and False…..Ending in an Unwanted Conclusion
Toot Artspace, St Kilda

2018
Mapping the Assassin 
Trocadero Art Space, Footscray

2017
Imaging the Filmic Gloriana/ The Mask of Elizabeth 1 
45 Downstairs, Melbourne
Skating on Thin Ice The Gallery 
St Kilda Town Hall 

2008
There Ain’t no such Thing as a Sanity Claus
 
Anita Traverso Gallery Richmond

Group Exhibitions

2025-26
World of the Book
State Library of Victoria

2024                 
Petit Miniature Textiles 2024
Wangaratta Art Gallery

2022                 
Snapping to the Pause: Pixels to Paper
City Library Gallery Melbourne

2021                 
Albert Park Art Walk
Victoria Avenue Albert Park

2020                 
Covid Quilt Project
Instagram

2019                 
Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios: Selected Works 
Carlisle Street Art Space, St Kilda

2018                 
The Shape of Things 
The Artist’s Guild Dockland
Selected Works 
Carlisle Street Art Space, St Kilda 

2017                 
Burrinja Climate Change Biennale 
Burrinja Upwey

2015                 
All Things Nice 
Trocadero Art Space Footscray

2014                 
Without a shadow of a Dao 
Anita Traverso Gallery Richmond

2013
Creative Sustainability 
St Kilda Town Hall
Regurgitate 
Library Art Space North Fitzroy

2012
The Art of Collecting MU Student Union LTD Art Collect
George Paton Gallery University of Melbourne

2010                 
Connect10 
Level 17 Art Space, Melbourne

2008                 
Linden Postcard Show 
Linden Gallery St Kilda

2007               
There Ain’t no such Thing as a Sanity Claus 
Platform Artist Space

2006                 
VCA Graduate Show 2006 
Victorian college of the Arts
Exploration 
Flinders Lane Gallery
Memento 
Victoria Park Gallery, Abbotsford
New Artists at Span 
Span Gallery
Lexicon 
City Library Gallery

2005                 
VCA Painting Department Show 
Victorian College of the Arts

2004                 
White Light 
Alliance Française Victoria
Dreamtracing 
69 Smith st, Collingwood

2002                 
VUT Art, Design and Multimedia Graduate Exhibition 
Span Gallery
Visuals 
Victorian Department of Education and Training

2022
Snapping to the Pause
City Library Gallery

Collaborations

2012
Victoria University Summer Residency 
Melbourne

Residencies

2002
The Fiona Myer Award 
Victoria University of Technology

Awards

Collections

Melbourne University Student Union Collection

Wangaratta Gallery of Art

State Library of Victoria