Abbey Ryan was born and raised at the Jersey Shore.  She completed undergraduate work in both science and art (BFA in Painting and BA in Scientific/Pre-medical illustration) at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA; graduate work in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Baltimore, MD; painting study with David A. Leffel at the Art Students League of New York, NYC; As a student, Abbey traveled to the North Pacific to Pohnpei, Micronesia to do volunteer work at the Marine and Environmental Research Institute (MERIP) and Pohnpei Agriculture and Trade School (PATS).  She worked as a scientific illustrator at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Plant Biology at Stanford University.

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Abbey Ryan was born and raised at the Jersey Shore.  She completed undergraduate work in both science and art (BFA in Painting and BA in Scientific/Pre-medical illustration) at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA; graduate work in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Baltimore, MD; painting study with David A. Leffel at the Art Students League of New York, NYC; As a student, Abbey traveled to the North Pacific to Pohnpei, Micronesia to do volunteer work at the Marine and Environmental Research Institute (MERIP) and Pohnpei Agriculture and Trade School (PATS).  She worked as a scientific illustrator at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Plant Biology at Stanford University. 

Ryan’s painting work has been written about in dozens of print and web publications including Seth Godin’s most recent bestseller, Linchpin: Are you Indispensible?, and posts about her “A Painting a Day” project.  In conjunction with this project, Ryan’s work is in hundreds of private and public collections all over the world. 

Ryan’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout theUnited States and Europe.  Her work has been featured at Artists Space, NYC; blutenweiss gallery, Berlin, Germany; Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; and many others.

In addition to working full time in her studio inPhiladelphia, Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Art atArcadiaUniversity. 

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