Ryan Foerster (b. 1983, Newmarket, Canada) is a Canadian visual artist recognized for his zines, photographs, videos, and sculptural installations which frequently incorporate found objects, salvaged materials, and natural elements. The artist’s reuse of discarded materials to create new artworks is a generative process of discovery and transformation integral to Foerster’s practice as well as a reaction to excessive waste.

Foerster is a recipient of the Artadia and New Art Dealers Alliance Award, Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts awards. Foerster has widely exhibited internationally, at such spaces as Kerry Schuss, Printed Matter Inc., White Columns, Martos Gallery, Swiss Institute, New York, USA; CLEARING, Brussels, Belgium; Art Metropole, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada; Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China; amongst many others. His work can be found in collections such as MoMa Library, Yale Library, Whitney Library, Brooklyn Museum Library, SFMoMa Library, New York Public Library, Carnegie Mellon University Library, Oxford University Library, Celine Paris, Rubell Museum. and Southeastern Community College Iowa. Foerster currently lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, USA.