Ryan Parteka (1975) is an artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Parteka studied at the University of Akron earning a BFA in 2002, and completed the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2005. Parteka’s work has shown internationally at galleries, museums, and festivals including the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, BAK Contemporary Art Centre in Utrecht, Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam, Kling & Bang Gallerí in Reykjavik, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His work is featured in several prominent collections including Koninklijke Ahrend in Amsterdam.

Ryan Parteka’s work is somewhere between horror and science reality; a dystopia drawn from our history of progress. In a world that is ever increasingly binary, Parteka explores the liminal space in between. The narrative sculpture and environments that Parteka constructs are a cross over of many disciplines; including custom electronics and fluid pumps, multi-channel sound, drawing and etching, and traditional sculptural casting of select materials: pharmaceutical-starch, sea-salt, and surgical-steel to name a few, underline the principle of everything imploding into biology. His time-based work uses real-time geological information. For example, several pieces in The Netherlands are based on real-time tidal information; while a piece in Reykjavik uses one thousand years of the sun's position, and another tectonic plate movements. Parteka refers to these as films, since the essence of these pieces are light moving in time.