Ryan Danny Owen (they/him/her) is a visual artist, author, and queer historian based in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7/ Calgary, Alberta. Their work explores intergenerational queer identity, gender, loss, and sexuality through objects, the archive, automatic writing, and performance. Questioning the body through liminality, queer nostalgia, and the disassembling and recontextualizing of loaded material to explore fantasy, memory, and queer absence. They received their BFA in Drawing from The Alberta College Of Art and Design (Presently, AUARTS). They are also the co-creator of an ongoing graphic novel series, Pass Me By, published by Renegade Arts Entertainment. Book two, Pass Me By: Electric Vice, was awarded Graphic Novel of the Year in 2022 by the Alberta Book Publishers Association. They were also nominated for the Doug Wright Literary Award for Emerging Talent in 2022 and received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts to support the development of new work.