Artist Name: Ross Myren
Residency Dates: September – October 2025
Born: 1998
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Lives & Works: New York City, NY
URL: scatterpractice.com
Education:
2023 – Master of Architecture, Parsons School of Design
2021 – Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design with a minor in Sustainable Cities, Parsons School of Design
Bio/Statement:
Ross Myren is a NYC-based artist and educator concentrated on addressing social precarity through exploring innovative approaches to resource use and ecological stewardship. Myren’s work prioritizes what already exists; utilizing reclaimed materials to produce new assemblies that re-assert the value of mundane objects and their embodied histories. Exploring the structural properties of these connections informs his perspective about the built environment that urges a certain architectural restraint; how to do more with less, how to repair rather than destroy. Through spatial interventions and adaptive operations, Myren blends his desire for deep material understanding with new sensibilities around creative reuse for a planet in crisis. Myren instructs undergraduate Architectural Representation & Analysis and co-leads the Design/Build project at Parsons. Concurrently he instructs a Design/Build architecture studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, focused on the 1:1 hand-crafting of material assemblies for urban public spaces throughout Newark, NJ.
Myren is one-half of Scatter Practice, a design collaborative founded with Maya McGlynn in 2023, which shares the belief that ones’ relationship to the built environment (and those who inhabit it) is a sensitive one. Through focused research, hand drawing, physical modeling, and exploratory fabrication, seemingly disparate or scattered works reveal and question enmeshed networks of material flows, systems of care, and hyper-local conditions to create small-scale projects with the potential for broader social impact. Myren’s work has most recently been included in the group exhibitions “Art Handlers” at Bullet Space (2025), and “Poots” at Citygroup (2024), both in New York City. He has also contributed works to the exhibition “AIDS at The New School: What is Remembered?” at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (2025). In 2023, Myren won a design competition with Scatter Practice for the 13th international iteration of the “Contemporary& Center of Unfinished Business” reading room which was installed at The New School’s University Center in NYC.
Together with Maya McGlynn, Ross Myren will develop the Dialog by Design Program in September and October 2025 at the RU House on Governors Island, dedicated to the development of four workshops supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
The 2025 Dialog by Design program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
