 |
|
Ruth Root (American, 1967)
|
 |
Ruth Root
Orange
|
|
 |
Ruth Root
Untitled 2004
|
|
 |
Ruth Root
Untitled 2004
|
|
 |
Ruth Root
Untitled 2004
|
|
 |
Ruth Root
Untitled 2007
|
|
 |
Ruth Root
Untitled 2007-2008
|
|
|
Biography |
|
|
1967 |
|
Born in Chicago, USA |
|
|
1990 |
|
Brown University |
|
|
1993 |
|
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - M.F.A. |
|
|
1994 |
|
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
|
|
|
|
Lives and works in New York City |
|
|
|
|
Awards |
|
|
|
|
1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting |
|
|
|
|
1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting |
|
|
|
|
Lectures |
|
|
|
|
2001 Conversations with Contemporary Artists, MoMA, New York, USA. |
|
|
Exhibitions |
|
|
2009 |
|
Maureen Paley, London, UK (solo) |
|
|
2008 |
|
Gallery Minmin, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
|
|
2008 |
|
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
|
|
2008 |
|
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain (solo) |
|
|
2008 |
|
Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland |
|
|
2008 |
|
Take Me There Show Me The Way, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA |
|
|
2007 |
|
Bushels, Bundles & Barrels, Superfund Investment Center, New York, USA |
|
|
2007 |
|
Don’t Look, Contemporary Drawings from an Alumni’s Collection Martina Yamin, class of 1958, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA |
|
|
2007 |
|
The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK |
|
|
2006 |
|
it is, “what is it”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
2006 |
|
Ruth Root, Alex Brown, Cameron Martin, Sally Ross, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan |
|
|
2005 |
|
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria (solo) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA |
|
|
2005 |
|
Trade, White Columns, New York, USA |
|
|
2004 |
|
City Maps, ArtPace, San Antonio, USA |
|
|
2004 |
|
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK (solo) |
|
|
2004 |
|
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
Statements, Art Basel, Miami, USA (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
|
|
2003 |
|
The ContemporaryArtProject, Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA |
|
|
2003 |
|
Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria |
|
|
2003 |
|
20th Anniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Corp., New York, USA |
|
|
2003 |
|
Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
Emotional Rescue: the ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
Jump, curated by Ross Neher, The Painting Center, New York, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
I-Beam, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Rocket Gallery, London, UK |
|
|
2002 |
|
Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
State of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
2002 |
|
Sam collect - contemporary art project, Seattle Art Museum, USA |
|
|
2001 |
|
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
|
|
2001 |
|
The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France |
|
|
2001 |
|
Painting show, curated by Laura Owens, Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, USA |
|
|
2000 |
|
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy (solo) |
|
|
2000 |
|
Greater New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Laura Hoptman, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, U.S.A |
|
|
2000 |
|
Fuel Serve, curated by Kenny Schachter, Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York, USA |
|
|
2000 |
|
Salty Salute, West Wing Art Space, Toronto, Canada |
|
|
2000 |
|
Perfidy -Exhausted Embrace, curated by Martyn Simpson and Daniel Sturgis, Convent Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Eveux, France |
|
|
2000 |
|
Kosmobiologie, curated by Nancy Chaikin, Bellwether Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1999 |
|
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Fifteen, Deutsche Bank, Curated by Walter Robinson, New York, USA |
|
|
1999 |
|
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1998 |
|
Home and Away, curated by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Corp., New York, USA |
|
|
1998 |
|
Son-of-a-Guston, curated by Nina Bovasso, Clementine Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1998 |
|
Cambio, Part 2, curated by Kenny Schachter, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico |
|
|
1998 |
|
Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1998 |
|
New Museum Benefit Auction, Pierogi 2000 Portfolios, New York, USA |
|
|
1998 |
|
Superfreaks: Part II, Odyssey, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1997 |
|
Ruth Root; Abstract Paintings for Beds, AAA Gallery, New York, USA (solo) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Wesleyan College, Macon, USA (solo) |
|
|
1997 |
|
Cambio, curated by Kenny Schachter, 526 West 26th St., New York, USA |
|
|
1997 |
|
Wrong Place, Right Time, curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, Temporary Space, New York, USA |
|
|
1997 |
|
Vague Pop, curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, View room, New York, USA |
|
|
1996 |
|
The Experimenters, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, USA |
|
|
1996 |
|
Taking Stock, curated by Kenny Schachter, 25 Broad Street, New York, USA |
|
|
1996 |
|
Texas Meets New York, curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, USA |
|
|
1996 |
|
Bump, The Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York, USA |
|
|
1996 |
|
The Death of the Death of Painting, curated by Kenny Schachter, USA |
|
|
1995 |
|
Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Good, 450 Gallery, New York, USA |
|
|
1995 |
|
Eat or Be Eaten/ Painting, Not Painting, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo. New York, USA |
|
|
1995 |
|
X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA |
|
|
1994 |
|
Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA |
|
|
Literature |
|
|
2008 |
|
Ruth Root, The New Yorker, 3 March 2008 |
|
|
2008 |
|
Rosenburg, Karen, Ruth Root, The New York Times, 22 February 2008, p.22 |
|
|
2007 |
|
Januszczak, Waldemar, Art: The Painting Show, Sunday Times Culture, 18 February 2007 |
|
|
2005 |
|
AC, Ruth Root: Maureen Paley. Modern Painters, May |
|
|
2005 |
|
Schneider, Claire and Grachos, Louis. Extreme Abstraction. Albright Knox Gallery (cat.) |
|
|
2005 |
|
Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Reddy Young, Tara (cat.) |
|
|
2004 |
|
Campagnola, Sonia. Ruth Root. Flash Art. Summer |
|
|
2004 |
|
Campagnola, Sonia, Ruth Root, Flash Art, Summer 2004 |
|
|
2004 |
|
Pozuelo, Abel H., Ruth Root, El Cultural, May 2004 |
|
|
2004 |
|
Carpio, Francisco, Ruth Root, ABC Cultural, June 2004 |
|
|
2004 |
|
Pardo, Tania, "Ruth Root', Exit Express, June 2004 |
|
|
2004 |
|
Boyce, Roger, “Ruth Root at Andrew Kreps Gallery,” Art in America, February 2004 |
|
|
2003 |
|
Richard, Frances, “Ruth Root: Andrew Kreps Gallery,” Artforum, September 2003 |
|
|
2003 |
|
Kerr, Merrily, “New York New York: Art Fragments from the Big Apple” Flash Art, July-Sept. 2003 |
|
|
2003 |
|
Burton, Johanna, “Ruth Root” Time Out New York, May 15-22, 2003 |
|
|
2003 |
|
“Ruth Root” www.flavorpill.com, May 10, 2003 |
|
|
2003 |
|
Smith, Roberta. “Ruth Root” The New York Times, May 9, 2003 |
|
|
2002 |
|
Pagel, David. “Some Things Old, Some Things New,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2002 |
|
|
2002 |
|
Sam Collects Contemporary Art Projects. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA (cat.) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Dailey, Meghan and Gingeras, Alison M. The Approximative. Mink Ranch Productions. Paris, France (cat.) |
|
|
2001 |
|
Isé, Claudine. “Coughlan, Reeder, Root, Weatherford,” Tema Celeste, September/October 2001 |
|
|
2001 |
|
Schmerler, Sarah. “Gallery Beat,” Art on Paper, July-August, 2001 |
|
|
2001 |
|
Johnson, Ken. “Ruth Root,” The New York Times, April 27, 2001 |
|
|
2001 |
|
Mahoney, Robert. “Ruth Root,” Time Out New York, May 10-17, 2001 |
|
|
2001 |
|
Naves, Mario. “These Paintings Are Watching You,” The New York Observer, May 7, 2001 |
|
|
2001 |
|
Wehr, Anne. “Cigarette break,” Time Out New York, April 19-26, 2001 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Cibulski, Dana Mouton. “New York,” Art Papers Magazine, November / December 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Conti, Tiziana. “Ruth Root,” Tema Celeste, November 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Dault, Gary Michael. “Salty Salute at the West Wing Art Space,” The Globe and Mail,September 30, 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Orange, Mark. “Greater New York,” Untitled, Autumn, 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Kino, Carol. “The Emergent Factor,” Art in America, July 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Hunt, David. “Kosmobiologie,” Time Out New York, July 27, 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Shave, Stuart. “Man Made,” i-D, April 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Sumpter, Helen. “Ruth Root,” Hot Tickets, March 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Cook, Mark. “Ruth Root,” The Big Issue, March 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Cotter, Holland. “New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways,” The New York Times, March 6, 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Turner, Grady. “Beautiful Dreamers,” Flash Art, January-February 2000 |
|
|
2000 |
|
Groom, Simon. Perfidy: Surviving Modernism. Kettle’s Yard. Cambridge (cat.) |
|
|
1999 |
|
European Galleries. Art Forum Berlin. Berlin, Germany (cat.) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Swenson, Susan (ed.). Pierogi Press. vol. 3, New York, NY (cat.) |
|
|
1999 |
|
Cotter, Holland. “Ruth Root,” Art in Review, The New York Times, March 1999 |
|
|
1999 |
|
Pinchbeck, Daniel. “Ruth Root”, The Newspaper of New York, March 1999 |
|
|
1999 |
|
Schmerler, Sarah. “Ruth Root,” Time Out New York, March 1999 |
|
|
1999 |
|
Spaid, Sue. “Met Life,” The Village Voice, March 1999 |
|
|
1999 |
|
Turner, Grady. “Son of a Guston,” Flash Art, January, 1999 |
|
|
1997 |
|
Schachter, Kenny. Cambio. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. New York, NY (cat.) |
|
|
1995 |
|
“Eclectic Exhibition Opens at the Anderson Gallery,” Metro Weekend, November 1995 |
|
|
1995 |
|
Huntington, Richard. “The Expected and Unexpected - A Fun Mix From Near and Far,” The Buffalo News, July 1995 |
|
|
1995 |
|
Huntington, Richard. “Nasty at Times,” The Buffalo News, December 1995 |
|
|
1995 |
|
Victor, Mathieu. “Eat or Be Eaten,” Artvoice, November, 1995 |
|
|
|
|
return to artnet.com