Ryan Hubbard grew up in Northern Virginia, outside D.C. He studied philosophy and psychology at George Mason University and, after graduation, received a Fulbright Grant to study Critical Theory in Frankfurt am Main.  While in Germany, he visited the Documenta exhibition, which deepened his interest in the power of art.  He then attended graduate school at Syracuse University, where he wrote his PhD dissertation on normative theory. 

Hubbard’s training in philosophy forms the backdrop of his artistic practice.  Philosophy is constrained by discursive methodology and the conceptual. Art, however, offers access to the ineffable dimensions of human experience, unmediated by conceptual thought. Hubbard’s artistic practice attempts to engage with these non-discursive, non-conceptual aspects of our inner world.  Stylistically, he is interested in stretching the bounds of realism.