Fiona Ryder is an artist based in Southern California. She was born in Chile to a native social worker and an American sea captain who was working alongside the Chilean navy in Viña del Mar to recover toxic waste from the ocean. Her childhood was spent with her mother in the Atacama Desert, the driest desert on earth, where she experienced the rare "flowering desert". At age 11 she went to live with her father in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The beautiful beaches, light and wildlife deeply sparked her creativity. Her dynamic upbringing provided her with vivid memories of overcoming hardship, a coming of age for the books and a rich imagination. This led her on a journey of self-discovery and growth in which the creation of art has been a major component.  

When she turned 18, she drove across the country to California in pursuit of her dreams.
At 19 the "Coachella Valley Art Scene" gallery invited her to host her first solo show. A famous Hollywood director/screenwriter became her first serious collector during the opening and the one month show was a hit. When she was 20 she lived in Joshua Tree and hosted a monthly mini-festival called "Dreamhouse" centered around highlighting local and traveling musicians/bands, artists, designers, poets and other creatives. 
By age 21, she launched her own pop-up gallery named "Art Pop" on the world famous Palm Canyon Drive in the Palm Springs Design District. The most valuable artwork in the exhibit was sold during the grand opening and the project was a major success.
Fiona received press recognition for her accomplishments in the California Desert from Locale Magazine, Coachella Magazine, Desert Magazine, Hi- Desert Star newspaper and KCOD radio.

She has also shown her work in other galleries and venues in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Joshua Tree, Hollywood, Laguna Beach and Cape Cod. She was accepted into the XI Florence Biennial in Italy, themed "eARTh : creativity and sustainability". Fiona now lives and creates in Los Angeles, CA.

STATEMENT

“My work is a symbolization of past experiences and personal insights, a journey involving psychological growth. These paintings are ideas coded into shapes and forms meant to be given a new meaning by viewers. The greatest intention in my work is to create something out of nothing, to transmute pain into wisdom, and to simply bring beauty into the world.”