Rylan Steele

About Rylan

Rylan Steele is an established artist teaching as a tenure track faculty in photography at Columbus State University. Rylan received an A.S. in Photographic Technology from the Southeastern Center for Photographic Studies at DBCC, a B.F.A. in Photography from Florida International University, and a M.F.A in Photography from the University of Georgia. Rylan has exhibited photographs in numerous exhibition spaces over the last few years, both regionally and nationally. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, the Light Factory in Charlotte, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Detroit Center for Photography. Mostly recently, he installed a solo exhibition of his series Ave Maria at George Mason University and was included in Southern Exposure: Photographs From the Do Good Fund Collection��at the Lagrange Museum. In the past few years his work has appeared in traditional and online publications, including:��Fraction, Oneonethousand, Wired, the Oxford American, and Newsweek. Rylan has participated in artist residencies at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, with master artist Thomas Struth, and the Hungarian Multicultural Foundation in Budapest. Additionally, he has been active in photography portfolio review events including FotoFest in Houston, PhotoNola in New Orleans and most recently secured a position at the 2015 Photolucida reviews in Portland, Oregon. Rylan is currently working on a new group of photographs that explore Ave Maria, a catholic inspired community in a remote area of southern Florida.�� These photographs are an investigation of the infrastructure that supports the founders�۪ utopian vision.�� Rylan enjoys traveling and landscape photography and his first series of travel photographs came about after a trip to Haiti during his college years. Since then, Rylan has visited and photographed the unique landscapes and cultures of England, Hungary, Italy, Austria and regions across the United States.��