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Ruth Root Biography
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1967 |
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Born in Chicago, USA
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MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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1994 |
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School of painting and sulpture
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1996 |
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NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
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1996 |
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National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant
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BA, Art - Semiotics, Brown University Providence, RI
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Lives and works in New York City
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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David Reed Studio, New York, NY (group)
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2008
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Ruth Root, Maureen Paley, London, Londo, U.K. (solo)
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2008
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Ruth Rooth, The Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K. (solo)
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2008
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Ruth Root, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid (solo)
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2008
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Ruth Root, Gallery Minmin, Japan (solo)
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2008
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Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC (solo)
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2008
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Unique Act. Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland
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2008
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Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland
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2007
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Don’t Look, Contemporary Drawings from an Alumni’s Collection Martina Yamin, class of 1958, Davis Museum at Wellesley Collage, Wellesley, U.S.A.
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2007
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Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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2007
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Bushels, Bundles & Barrels, Superfund Investment Center, New York, U.S.A. (group)
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2007
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The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry, England (group)
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2005
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The Early Show, White Columns, New York, NY (group)
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2005
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Trade, White Columns, New York, NY (group)
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2005
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Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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2005
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Ruth Root, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
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2004
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Ruth Root, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London (solo)
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2004
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Ruth Root, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid (solo)
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2004
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City Maps, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
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2004
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Painting & Sculpture, MARK MOORE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA (group)
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2003
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Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (group)
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2003
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20th Anniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Corp., New York, NY (group)
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2003
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Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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2003
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The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
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2003
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Ruth Root, Statements, Art Basel, Miami (solo)
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2003
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Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC (solo)
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2002
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Emotional Rescue: the ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
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2001
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Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC (solo)
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2000
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Greater New York, Duplex solo installation, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Laura Hoptman, MOMA/PS1, LIC, NY
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2000
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Ruth Root, Galleria Franco Noero Torino, Italy (solo)
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2000
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Ruth Root, Nylon Gallery London, England (solo)
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2000
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Greater New York. Curators: K. Biesenbach & L. Hopman, MoMA/PS1, LIC (Duplex solo installation) New York
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1999
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Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery New York, NY (solo)
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1999
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Fifteen. Curator: Walter Robinson, Deutsche Bank New York, NY
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1999
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Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery New York, NY
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1998
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Home and Away. Curator: Kirsty Bell, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Corp. New York, NY
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1998
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Son-of-a-Guston. Curator: Nina Bovasso, Clementine Gallery New York, NY
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1998
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Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery New York, NY
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1997
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Cambio. Curator: Kenny Schachter, , 526 West 26th Street New York, NY
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1997
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Ruth Root, Abstract Painting for Beds, AAA Gallery New York, NY (solo)
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1997
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Ruth Root, Wesleyan College Macon, GA (solo)
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1996
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The Experiments. Curator: Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2008
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Ruth Root. The New Yorker. March 3
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2005
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Flynn, Barbara. Exhibition round-up: New York. Artforum. p. 546
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2005
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Coles, Alex. Ruth Root. Modern Painters. May, p.112
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2005
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Schneider, Claire and Grachos, Louis. Extreme Abstraction. Albright Knox Gallery (cat.)
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2005
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Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Reddy Young, Tara (cat.)
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2004
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Campagnola, Sonia. Ruth Root. Flash Art. Summer
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2002
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Sam Collects Contemporary Art Projects. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA (cat.)
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2001
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Dailey, Meghan and Gingeras, Alison M. The Approximative. Mink Ranch Productions. Paris, France (cat.)
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2000
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Groom, Simon. Perfidy: Surviving Modernism. Kettle’s Yard. Cambridge (cat.)
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1999
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European Galleries. Art Forum Berlin. Berlin, Germany (cat.)
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1999
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Swenson, Susan (ed.). Pierogi Press. vol. 3, New York, NY (cat.)
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1997
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Schachter, Kenny. Cambio. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. New York, NY (cat.)
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