Ryan Cosbert 🇭🇹🇬🇾

Meditative and deliberate, artist @bcosryan gives us an inside look at her studio and her new paintings offered in our upcoming selling exhibition, Arrangements in Black. Featuring 21 contemporary artists who have created 40 unique works of art specifically for the show, #PhillipsArrangementsinBlack explores each artist’s response to the color black. The show will be on view at 432 Park Avenue from 27 July to 19 August.

I am honored & thankful to be in Cultured Mag’s winter Youth issue! Special thanks to Charles Moore for writing this article on me & Darin Cooper for taking my portrait. (Repost caption from @cultured_mag ) At just 22 years old, Ryan Cosbert has carved out a remarkable niche as a painter of history, the present and abstraction. Recently graduated from @svanyc , she is now developing her style: a grid or “tiled” format designed to evenly distribute the texture of her canvases, providing crucial organization and infusing each piece with a geometric complexity that not only adds dimension to the work in question, but pays homage to her childhood home. For Cultured's winter Youth issue, @champagneandvitamins catches up with the young Brooklyn-born talent.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in @cultured_mag bio or grab a physical copy. Portrait of Cosbert by @inacoop

Join us for an evening with current residents Ryan Cosbert @bcosryan + Delvin Lugo @delvinlugo at Open Studios @ BOLSTERARTS, Friday, April 24, 5–8 PM, 139 Canal St, RM 406, Link in Bio to RSVP (optional) — Ryan Cosbert builds layered, grid-based paintings that move between control and disruption, using color, material, and embedded elements to explore history, perception, and the lived realities of the African diaspora. Delvin Lugo works through intimacy, identity, and domestic space, painting on home linens that carry a lived-in, bodily presence, where image and object begin to collapse into one another. — Come see what they’ve been working on, spend time in the studio, and catch the work at a moment when it’s still shifting. bring a friend, stay awhile, come through anytime #openstudios #artwork #contemporaryart #bolsterarts

I’m honored to be a part of “Ascendancy” curated by @samsonprojects @mattatuck_museum on view until June 21, 2026! This exhibition features over 100 contemporary work spanning paintings, prints, photographs, textiles, and sculpture by women artists! I’m grateful to be alongside such incredible artists and to witness the works in person. ❤️

We are excited to announce our participation in Frieze Los Angeles for the 4th consecutive year. The fair takes place at the Santa Monica Airport, February 26-March 1, 2026. Our stand includes an intergenerational presentation anchored by Carl E. Hazlewood’s totemic wall works. Our stand also includes work by Antonio Carreńo, Debra Cartwright, Ryan Cosbert, King David, Grace Lynne Haynes and Na’ye Perez. Themes in our presentation revolve around remembrance and recollection, world building and the story of resilience contained in the African folktale about Anansi the Spider. If you’re in LA, visit us at Booth D-12 in the galleries section. We look forward to engaging with you during and after the fair. #welancora #friezelosangeles #friezeofficial #friezeweek #frieze

We’re excited to announce Cohort 04: Delvin Lugo @delvinlugo and Ryan Cosbert @bcosryan , selected by jurors Jessica Hong (Chief Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art), Damien Davis (Artist, Educator, and Curator), and Carla Forbes (Assistant Curator, Brooklyn Museum, Center for Feminist Art). Delvin Lugo is a New York City–based artist working through narrative figurative painting to examine home, intimacy, and identity. His use of found vintage embroidered linens brings a lived-in material history into the work, collapsing portraiture and domestic space. Lugo is a 2024 Bronx Museum AIM Fellow, an LMCC Workspace resident, and a recipient of the 2025 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant from PAAM. His work has appeared in New American Painting and ESSE Magazine and is held in the Microsoft and Fidelity art collections. His work is currently on view in the 7th AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum of Art in 2026. Ryan Cosbert is a first-generation African American conceptual artist of Haitian and Guyanese descent. Her practice engages political histories, personal narrative, and the African diaspora through abstraction and material experimentation. Using grid-based compositions and layered “tiles,” Cosbert builds paintings that balance structure, color, and embedded objects, creating works that are both formally rigorous and historically grounded. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2021. We’re excited to follow Ryan and Delvin’s work over the next four months. Stay tuned for what’s ahead. #BolsterArts #ContemporaryArt #NYCArtists #ArtistResidency Image slides 2-4: Delvin Lugo, Brothers and Cousins, 2025, oil on found vintage embroidered tablecloth, 46 x 24 x 4 inches
Delvin Lugo, Country to City/Town to City, 2025, oil on found vintage embroidered tablecloth, 48 x 60 inches
Delvin Lugo, Interior Livingroom, 2024, oil on found vintage embroidered linen, 14 x 18 x 3 inches Image slides 5-7:
Ryan Cosbert, L.A.S. 1, 2022, acrylic, seashells, and cowrie shells on canvas, 78 x 78 inches
Ryan Cosbert, Strawberry Swing, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Ryan Cosbert, “Peace Talks” An Ode to DR Congo, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 36 inches

02/1/26 What a great way to start BHM! ❤️🖤💚 It was an honor to be part of “Pay it Forward: The Curated Art Table Series” by @carterfineart where @alteroncegumby was honored and truly embodied the spirit of paying it forward by sharing space/conversation with me! This was such a beautiful experience. I am thankful for the connections and everyone I had the pleasure of meeting. Photos by @suavesoldier 📸

“An Ode to Assata Shakur”
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 in
2022

Celebrating 5 years of doing what I love most! I’m thankful for everyone who I have met and worked with through this journey. ❤️

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“L.A.S. 1” Acrylic, seashells, and cowrie shells on canvas 78 x 78 inches 2022