Ryan Oh is a visual artist whose work investigates the evolving relationship between image-making, technology, and cultural identity. While his practice has long explored the intersections of traditional photography and emerging technologies—utilizing custom-built imaging devices, computer vision algorithms, and generative processes—his recent work turns toward the material and symbolic presence of land, questioning how spaces hold memory and shape our understanding of belonging.

Through photography, installation, and experimental image-making, Ryan examines how landscapes are perceived, altered, and remembered. His work considers the ways in which land is not just inhabited but also mediated through images, technology, and historical narratives. By employing digital manipulation, machine vision techniques, and unconventional photographic processes, he interrogates the ways in which technological tools shape our connection to place and identity.

Ryan’s practice navigates the tension between presence and displacement, permanence and erasure. Drawing from personal and collective histories, his work critically engages with the politics of visibility—how certain spaces, bodies, and narratives are framed, excluded, or reconstructed through visual representation. By blending analog and digital techniques, he challenges the boundaries between documentation and abstraction, offering a new way to consider the landscapes we inhabit and the systems that define them.

Email:

r2oh@ucsd.edu

Website:

https://ryan5h.art/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/21ry_5h/