Logan Cryer is a curator based in Philadelphia with a penchant for local art histories. They currently serve as the Co-Curator of Icebox Project Space. Logan is an alum of Moore College of Art & Design, where they acquired a BFA in Fine Arts and minored in Curatorial Studies. Logan attended Headlong Performance Institute in the Fall of 2017 and has orbited experimental performance and dance spaces ever since. Since 2020, Logan has been a part of Television, a service that provides low cost technology rentals to curators, activists, and organizers in Philadelphia. In 2021, Logan launched SNAIL Gallery, an online curatorial experiment. SNAIL consists of exhibitions that are posted temporarily to Instagram and are subsequently archived through an essay, an artist talk, and the sharing of artist quotes. Logan is a contributor to Artblog and one of the hosts for Artblog Radio. They like to rewatch documentaries.
Education
Moore College of Art & Design, BFA in Fine Arts, Minor in Curatorial Studies, 2019
Headlong Performance Institute, 2017
Curation
Grapefruit Fantasy, SNAIL Gallery, Instagram, 2022
Now, One With Everyone!, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2022
Dark Sousveillance, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, 2021
Ecology and Collage, SNAIL Gallery, Instagram, 2021
Anger Knot, SNAIL Gallery, Instagram, 2021
Ritual and Rhythm, SNAIL Gallery, Instagram, 2021
Influence and Deconsecration, SNAIL Gallery, Instagram, 2021
Attenuate, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2018
Perspective by Surroundings, At Attic, Philadelphia PA, 2018
Defer to-, Surge Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Theres no time left…, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Now One With Everyone, Human Fest, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Night of Performance: Moore Edition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Group Shows
Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations, The Galleries At Moore, Philadelphia PA 2022
Now, One With Everyone!, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2022
Open Diaries, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, 2019
20th Annual 5 into 1 Exhibition, Green Hallway Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2019
Keystone Clay: East, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, 2019
Surround, the front, New Orleans LA, 2018
Vacation in November, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Residency
Glen Foerd, Philadelphia PA, 2021
Producer
Killjoy’s Kastle, lesbian feminist haunted house by Allyson Mitchell and Deirde Logue, 2019
Kinematic Workshop, movement-based workshop series at Icebox Project Space, 2018
Queer Genius, film by Chet Pancake, 2018
Passionfruit Dances, performance series by Shreshth Khilani, 2017
Arts Administration
Co-Curator, Icebox Project Space, 2022 - present
Grant Program Coordinator, Temple Contemporary, 2022
Convenings Manager, Blood Baby, Summer 2021
Studio Manager, Amber Art and Design, 2020 - 2021
Continuing Education Administrator, Moore College of Art and Design, 2019-2020
Project Manager, Killjoy’s Kastle Philadelphia, 2019
Grants and Administrative Intern, Leeway Foundation, 2018-2019
Exhibitions Coordinator, Icebox Project Space, 2017-2018
Press
S.N.A.I.L. Gallery is making space for slow art on Instagram - WHYY
Art for Change: The Arts and Culture Archivist - The Philadelphia Citizen
How Logan Cryer ’19 is Getting Moore Out of a Season of Stillness - Moore College Alumni Stories