BIO
Ryan Dewey is an artist, researcher, and founder of GEOCOG, a research and advisory practice focused on terrain, operations, and the systems of information they generate. His art practice is grounded in sustained field observation, producing sculpture, moving-image works, expeditions, archives, and landscape-scale projects that make the histories and processes of places perceptible.
His artist archive is held by the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and his work has been engaged by Donna Haraway, Warren Ellis, Nicola Twilley, and Virginia Burrus. Through GEOCOG, Dewey applies the same observational discipline to land stewardship, industrial and environmental systems, spatial data, and complex decision environments, working with public agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, organizations, and private principals to uncover patterns, constraints, and opportunities that conventional analysis can miss. GEOCOG was awarded a 2026 Morgan Startup Grant through Case Western Reserve University.
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