Ryder LeVieux

Ryder LeVieux (b. 2001, San Francisco, CA) creates work that explores how memory becomes embedded within architecture and material. Using crochet, plaster, concrete, paint, and photographic transfer, she transforms architectural imagery into surfaces that blur distinctions between soft and rigid, image and object.

Photographic fragments drawn from archival family images are transferred, painted, and interwoven into the surfaces of the work. Memory is not represented from a distance, but physically constructed—stitched into the material, partially obscured, and held within layers of weight and texture. Reproduction and fragmentation remain central to her process, creating surfaces that behave like fragmented architectures: spaces that carry traces of domestic history, lived environments, and personal memory.

Through this layered process, inherently inorganic materials begin to take on a bodily and living presence. LeVieux’s work questions how environments shape what we remember, how memory can be built and eroded over time, and what traces of life remain embedded within the surfaces we inhabit.

2024 — Aggregate, solo exhibition and Jury Honors Award, Paris College of Art.