Ricky Yanas

Ricky Yanas is a Texas-born artist, educator, and curator living in Philadelphia. Working within a pragmatic tradition of problem finding, his work extends through a variety of disciplines (photography, documentary film, installation and archival investigation) with the aim to create inter-sectional/inter-historical spaces of inquiry, mutual engagement, and collaboration through collective art-making and ideological exploration.

In 2016, Yanas co-founded Ulises Books with Nerissa Cooney, Lauren Downing, Joel Evey, Kayla Romberger and Gee Wesley. His projects include “Extension or Communication: Puerto Rico” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery Philadelphia and Taller Puertorriqueno, and “The Green Sun”, a collaboration with artist Kristen Neville-Taylor that brings together practitioners from environmental and creative sectors to re-envision the role of energy in our lives—past, present and future. Most recently, he co-curated “An Exchange of Shifting Atmospheres” with Leslie Moody Castro at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philly.