SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Scattered Grounds, Palangi Gallery, Surry Hills
2024 New Contemporaries, Graduate Exhibition, SCA Gallery, The University of Sydney
2024 The Enchanted Loom, solo show, SCA Project Space, Sydney
2019 Defiant Acts, SCA Galleries, Kirkbride, Sydney
2019 Annual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2019 Printmaking Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2019 Group Show, test space, Sydney College of the Arts, Kirkbride, Sydney
2018 Printmaking Show, Factory 49, Sydney
2016 Delirium, Roger Crawford & Lana Ryles, Rayner Hoff Project Space, Sydney
2014 Solo Show, The Victory Project Space, Blue Mountains
2012 Solo Show, Edwards & Co, Sydney
2011 Life Drawn, solo exhibition, William Wright // Artists’ Projects, Sydney
2010 Post Graduate Show, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2010 Lana Ryles MFA Solo Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2009 Drawcard, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2007 Academy of Light, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2006 Drawcard, Cell Block, Sydney
2006 Framing the Urban, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
2005 Honours Show, Cell Block, National Art School, Sydney
2004 Banque Up Art, Art Banque, Adelaide
2004 Eloquence, Blank Space, Sydney
2004 Love Lives, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
2003 ASX Reuters Charity Auction, Cell Block, NAS, Sydney
2002 Cheltenham Studio Exchange, Cheltenham Art School, UK
2002 Art & About, City of Sydney, AMP Building, Sydney Town Hall
2002 Discipline, NAS Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
2000 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist
2000 Group show, Bondi Spice Gallery, Sydney
2000 Drawing Week, National Art School, Sydney
1997 Red Hot: Ceramics & Sculpture, Stangate House Heritage Garden, Adelaide
PRIZES & AWARDS
2023 USYD, The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Doctoral Research Travel Grant Scheme
2023 USYD, The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Travel Scholarship
2020 Thomas Walker Student Award
2003 FONAS Graduate Prize for Drawing Excellence (highest overall mark-BFA graduates)
2002 AMP, City of Sydney Council, Art and About
2002 John Olsen Drawing Prize (highly commended)
2000 Waverley Art Prize, finalist
EDUCATION
2024 PhD (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2014 Dip. LIS, Sydney Institute
2012 Study Tour - Croatia, Barcelona
2010 Master of Fine Art (Research), National Art School, Sydney
2005 BFA Honours, National Art School, Sydney
2003 Study Tour - New York, London, Paris, Madrid
2002 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney
1997 Certificate in Art Practice, TAFE Mt Barker, Adelaide
RESIDENCIES
2017 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, June
2015 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, December
2014 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, April
2014 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, October
2013 Bryants Butchery, Hill End, National Art School, June
COMMERCIAL & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
City of Sydney
White City Residential, Paddington, NSW
Private collections
CONFERENCES
Ryles, Lana, Threads of Light: neural networks of vision, Retro-futuristic Visions:
Looking Back to Look Forward: The 2nd International Academic Conference of
Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, 25-27 October 2023. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.yoobee.ac.nz/article/events/retro-futuristic-visions
Ryles, Lana, The Enchanted Loom: numinous-like-auras explored through painting, Media, Culture, and Society: The Inaugural International Academic Conference of UP Education, 14-16 December, 2022. Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.yoobee.ac.nz/article/events/up-education-conference
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Solimiya Sywak, Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, Memo Review, 5 December 2024
https://mass.memoreview.net/2024/sydney-college-of-the-arts-by-solomiya-sywak
Greig, Dr Ian Art knowledge and the spiritual: a hermeneutical perspective, ACUADS Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 2015, 24-25 September.
http://acuads.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Greig.pdf
Ryles, Lana, Delirium: Roger Crawford & Lana Ryles (exhibition catalogue), 15-23 September 2016. https://issuu.com/lanaryles/docs/delirium_catalogue_fa3
CATALOGUE ESSAY: Greig, Dr Ian, Musing on Delirium, pp.3-10, September 2016
https://www.academia.edu/38330876/Musing_on_Delirium
Ryles, Lana, A Representation of an Internalised Perceptual Experience, MFA exegesis, 2010
Dyer, Katie, Postgraduate Degree Show, National Art School, Sydney 2010, p.141
Academy of Light, Beijing, China, 2007, pp.121-122
Honours Show, National Art School, Sydney 2005, p.21
The Degree Show, National Art School Sydney, 2010, p.52
Art & About: the city as a canvas, exhibition catalogue,16-29 September 2002, p.19
https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1981505
EMAIL: lanaryles@gmail.com