MALCOLM RYDER

Virginia native Ryder came to Oakland, CA, by way of Norfolk, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco. He was born into a family of activist artists and university professors. After becoming one of the first Black graduates of the elite Westminster Schools in Atlanta, he pioneered and completed a new degree of his own design in Visual Arts at Princeton, becoming one of its first photography graduates... Beginning in the mid-1970s, he co-founded a student-run theater at Princeton, exhibited as a member of the City Without Walls artists collective in Newark, then later he developed and ran the jurying system used for making grants directly to visual artists by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, and the NY Foundation for the Arts. In the Bay area he joined boards for the Julia Morgan Arts Center and the Center for Critical Architecture... Malcolm Ryder Photography is the launch point for Ryder's portfolio, projects, and engagement with..