Kat Ryals (b. 1988 in Jonesboro, AR) is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and photographer. Ryals received a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA & Adv. Certificate in Museum Education from Brooklyn College. She has shown her work nationally, including in a solo booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in 2020 and 2022, a collaborative two person show at Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2023, a two person show at Ortega Y Gasset Projects in 2022, and in recent group exhibitions with ChaShaMa, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, and The Wassaic Project. Ryals has also completed several artist residencies, including the Wassaic Project (2017, 2019, 2022), ChaNorth (2019), the Peter Bullough Foundation (2021), and a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2018). Ryals will also be an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in M ...