Ryan Gdovin (she/her) is a Pennsylvania-born artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice functions as a hard copy of her body-a means of understanding what it means to inhabit it. Through collecting, preserving, and recontextualizing bodily remnants, she challenges inherited ideas of purity, waste, and value. Her work occupies the space between beauty and disgust, using vulnerability and the passage of time as primary materials. Used bandages are transformed into glass, disposable syringes are encased in beaded sleeves, and the process of hormone replacement therapy is brought into full view.

Gdovin received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, where she studied under artists including Jacob Olmedo, Richard Haines, and Adi Gil. Her background in fashion informs her understanding of the body as both material and site, shaping a practice that examines the politics of embodiment through intimate, handcrafted objects. As a trans woman, she approaches artmaking as both a responsibility and a spiritual practice—a way to preserve lived experience while creating space for visibility, care, and transformation.