New York-based artist Veronica Ryan (born 1956) was born in Monserrat, West Indies. She studied in the U.K. at St. Albans, Bath Academy of Art, the Slade School of Art and the School for Oriental and African Studies. Ryan has won numerous awards including the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale in 1983 and a Henry Moore Foundation Award in 1988. She has exhibited extensively worldwide including the Tate Modern, London and her work can be found in the collections of Tate Gallery, London and Arts Council Collection, London.