Ryan Preciado, born in 1989 in El Monte, California, lives and works in Los Angeles. His practice engages the social and material histories of his communities, treating design and construction as a process of assembling visual references, artistic influences, and lived experience into functional objects rich with metaphor. Preciado’s signature Chumash chair reinterprets Børge Mogensen’s iconic Spanish chair in domestic white oak, incorporating arm forms derived from paddles used to pilot the tomol, a traditional canoe of his Indigenous ancestors. Influenced by California car culture, he often employs brightly colored automotive paint as a surface treatment. Through approachable forms that invite everyday use, Preciado embeds histories of material culture into sculpture. His work has been shown at major institutions and is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.