Ryat Yezbick

Ryat Yezbick is a visual artist who uses their training in cultural anthropology to inform the issues they tackle as a maker. Yezbick investigates technology's impact on group identity, morals, and collective memory through public archives and collaborations. Figuring their lived experience in their work, they address a complex set of questions around security, gender, home, family, love, violence, power, and responsibility in the era of digital surveillance and decentralized global conflict. They work in a variety of mediums – notably live performance, experimental documentary, installation and new media – that have garnered support from audiences and curators internationally. 

They are a published author, multi-time grant recipient, art and technology consultant, and academic in the Narrative and Emerging Media (NEM) Program at Arizona State University (ASU). In 2016, Yezbick began their career in emerging digital media as a manager and assistant curator for the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, they have designed and curated future-oriented programming for notable institutions and philanthropic foundations including The Music Center, the Guild of Future Architects, the Doris Duke Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the Omidyar Network and more. Today, they help manage and run the NEM program at ASU’s downtown Los Angeles campus where they also work as a faculty member teaching classes on various topics in art, technology, XR, AI and ethics.

Yezbick's prolific art career includes solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Glasgow, and Athens, and in notable group exhibitions and performances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Los Angeles), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Materials & Applications (Los Angeles), Human Resources (Los Angeles), The Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Glasgow International 2018 (Glasgow), The Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (Banff), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Space One (Seoul), the Bangkok Biennial MAHA Pavilion (Bangkok), LAXART (Los Angeles), Craft Contemporary Museum (Los Angeles), the Queer Biennial (Los Angeles), and TRIBECA Immersive 2025 (New York).