Biography
Ryan Dodd is a PhD Candidate in Fine Art photography at the University for the Creative Arts. Dodd's research centres on the weird in order to develop new photographic methods to represent the lost futures of Portsmouth, England. By drawing on the weird literary fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard, and the image-text works of W.G Sebald and Laura Ford, Dodd's transdisciplinary practice-based research combines speculative fiction with photography, moving image, collage and xerox art. Dodd's work has been exhibited widely, including the Mall Galleries in London, the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Dodd previously graduated with an MA in Photography at the University of Portsmouth, and a BSc in Web Science at the University of Southampton.
Exhibitions
About Time, Redcar Contemporary Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK. 2025
Wish You Were Here, Chapel Art Studios, Andover, UK. 2025
World within Worlds, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK. 2023
Art Advent Calendar, Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, UK. 2022
We Called Yesterday Today, Cupola gallery, Sheffield, UK. 2022
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK. 2022
Oxmarket Open, Oxmarket Contemporary gallery, Chichester, UK. 2022
World within Worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK. 2022
What does culture mean to you?, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK. 2022.
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2021
Post-Industrialism, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2021
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2020
Silent Cities, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2020
WeBelieve, PortsmouthCreates, Portsmouth, England. 2020
TimeSpecific, 6 Feet, Radion Louweswag 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2020
Isolation. Living apart, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2020
Cruthachadh international photography exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland. 2019
The Fronteer Open 2019, Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, England. 2019
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2019
Photographic Exploration Project, Planet Flow, Berlin, Germany. 2019
Turning the Tide, The Explosion Museum, Gosport, England. 2019
Publications
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2023
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2022
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2021
Source Graduate Photography MA Phase, Online. 2021
Photograd, Photography Degree show MA, Online. 2021
The Pictorial List, Feature #138, Online. 2021
The Flux Review, Q & A Interview, Online. 2021
Photograd, Online Gallery. 2021
Caustic Frolic, Vol.5 Issue 4 ⋅Spring, New York University. 2020
Vocalesk Magazine – Vol 1: Street Architecture, Toronto, Canada. 2020
Wotisart Magazine Portfolio #25. 2019
Average Art Magazine, Portfolio #34. 2019
A5 Magazine Portfolio #26. 2019
Education
MA, Photography - University of Portsmouth (Distinction) - 2021
BSc, Web Science, Social Sciences - University of Southampton (2:1) - 2018