Ryan McGinley was born in Ramsey, USA in 1977. Lives and works in New York. He graduated from B.F.A. in Graphic Design, Parsons School of Design, New York. He has shown his works in a vast number of exhibitions in the world. His major solo exhibitions include “The Kids Are Alright”(The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2003), “New Photographs”(MOMA PS1, New York, 2004), “Laboratorio 987: Entre Nosotros”(Museo de Arte Contemporá neo de Castilla y León, Spain, 2005), “Project Space”(Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria, 2006), “Magic Magnifier: Photographs 1998 to 2013”(Daelim Museum, Seoul, 2013), “Ryan McGinley: BODY LOUD!”(Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2016) and “The Four Seasons”(Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, 2016). Tomio Koyama Gallery and 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery concurrently held his solo exhibitions in 2012, his first in Japan. His works are included in numerous public collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington D.C., USA) .
For more information on the artist, please see the following URL.
http://ryanmcginley.com/
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 | “I can’t, We can” Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA |
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2018 | “Mirror, Mirror” Team Gallery, New York, NY “MY NY” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo “Paradiso” Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA |
2017 | “Early” Team Gallery, New York, NY “The Kids Were Alright” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO “Yearbook” La Termica, Málaga, Spain |
2016 | “Ryan McGinley: BODY LOUD!” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “The Four Seasons” Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy |
2015 | “Fall” Team Gallery, New York, NY “Winter” Team, Los Angeles, CA “Ryan McGinley exhibition, Photographs 1999-2015” Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands |
2014 | “YEARBOOK” Team Gallery, New York, NY “Vertical Color of Sound” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong |
2013 | “Magic Magnifier: Photographs 1998 to 2013” Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea “Body Loud” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France “Running Water, What Are You Running From?” Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt, Germany |
2012 | “Animals” Team Gallery, New York, NY “Grids” Team Gallery, New York, NY “Reach Out, I'm Right Here” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Animals” 8/ ART GALLEY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | “Wandering Coma” Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK “Somewhere Place” Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2010 | “Life Adjustment Center” Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” Team Gallery, New York, NY “Crooked Aisles” The Breeder, Athens, Greece |
2009 | “Moonmilk” Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK |
2008 | “Spring and By Summer Fall” Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA “I Know Where The Summer Goes” Team Gallery, New York, NY |
2007 | “Ryan McGinley” FOAM Fotagrafiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Irregular Regulars” Team Gallery, New York, NY |
2006 | “Project Space” Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria “Sun and Health” agnes b. galerie du jour, Paris, France |
2005 | “Laboratorio 987: Entre Nosotros” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain “Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie” Arles, France |
2004 | “New Photographs” MoMA PS1, New York, NY “PA” The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
2003 | “Providence” The Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, RI “The Kids Are Alright” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada |
2002 | MC Magma, Milano, Italy “Ryan McGinley: Photographien” Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany |
2000 | “The Kids are Alright” 420 W. B'way, New York, NY |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 | “Can You Dream It? (Yes I Can.)” Kristen Lorello, NY |
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2016 | “Give Me Yesterday” Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy “The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip” Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, [traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AZ ; Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX ; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia] “The Public Body .01” Artspace, Sydney, Australia “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Taguchi Art Collection – CORRELATION DIAGRAM OF HAPPINESS” Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Tokyo “On the Origin of Art” The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia “Vogue 100” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK |
2015 | “Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim” The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY “Degrees of Freedom” Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy “Framing Desire: Photography and Video” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX “Dries van Noten: Inspirations” Mode Museum, Paris, France |
2014 | “The Marseillaise(s)” Museum Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC “Tattoo” Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark “It’s an Invasion” National Arts Club, New York, NY “Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited” Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech |
2013 | “(con)TEXT” Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH “APPARATUS” M+B, Los Angeles, CA “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Folk Devil” David Zwirner, New York, NY “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet” FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Belgium “Magnetic North” Ratio 3, San Francisco “Une affaire de famille: La photographie dans les collections de Stéphane, Rodolphe et Sébastien Janssen” Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium "Black Cake” Team Gallery, New York |
2012 | “Privacy” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany “The Kids Are All Right: An Exhibition about Family and Photography” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI ; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC “Pop Politics: Activism at 33 Revolutions” Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Spain “Audience as Subject Part 2: Extra Large” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA “The Importance of Being Photographed” University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL “Photographic!” Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea “Do Your Thing” White Columns, New York, NY “Looking at Picasso” Huis Marseilles Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection” M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA “Out of Focus: Photography” Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
2011 | “Post 9-11” OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown)” MoCA: Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA “The Last First Decade” Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal “Involuntary” fordProject, New York, NY “Ryan McGinley, Sam Samore, Tørbjorn Rødland” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium “The Trilogy Exhibition: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, Dash Snow” The Ring Art Center, Miami, FL |
2010 | “Summer Teeth” The Breeder, Athens, Greece “3+1” galerie du jour –agnès b., Paris, France “SWEAT" Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland “Roundtrip: New York Now Selections from the Domus Collection” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing , China “Out of the Woods” Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY “Calling Beauty” Columbus College of Art & Design, OH “NEW YORK The Loudest” Gallery Koko, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | “Emporte-Moi/ Sweep Me Off My Feet” Musée National Des Beaux-Arts Du Québec, Canada “Who Shot Rock: Photographers of Rock and Roll” Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY “KaraokeLike” Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland “New York Minute” MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Roma, Italy “The 2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition” Spencer Brownstone, New York, NY “The Art of Caring” New Orleans Museum of Art, LA |
2008 | “History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz” PPOW Gallery, New York, NY “Feature Photography” National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. “Listen Darling...The World is Yours” Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal “DARKSIDE” Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
2007 | “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” Marella Gallery, Milano Italy “Young at Heart” Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain “MA, People Take Pictures of Each Other” LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA “Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA “Sweet Bird of Youth” Arndt & Partner, Berlin, German “She Was Born to Be My Unicorn” Smith Stewart, New York, NY “Other Scenes” Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Rebel Rebel: A Tribute to Karlheinz Weinberger” Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY |
2006 | “Americans 1940-2006: Masterpieces of American Photography” Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria “Defamation of Character” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY “Into Me/ Out of Me” MADRE Museo d'Arte Donna Regina, Napoli, Italy “People” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY “The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY “The 6th Annual Vice Magazine Photo Issue Exhibition” Silverstein Photography, New York, NY “Youth of Today” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany |
2005 | “with us against reality, or against us!” galerie S.E., Oslo, Norway “Greater New York 2005” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY |
2004 | “Color Wheel Oblivion” Marella Arte Cotemporanea, Milano, Italy “Summer Solstice with Sam Gordon, Ryan McGinley, and Collier Schorr” Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA “Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art, Skateboarding, & Street Culture” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA “Fresh: Youth Culture in Contemporary Photographs” The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, NY |
2003 | “My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They're Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs)” Team Gallery, New York, NY “A NEW SCENE: WHAT ABOUT NEW YORK?” agnes b. galerie du jour, Paris, France “amfAR Portfolio” Cheim & Read, New York, NY |
2002 | “K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show” John Connelly Presents, New York, NY agnes b. galerie du jour, Paris, France “You're just a summer love, but I'll remember you when winter comes” Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY “Bystander” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY |
2001 | “Alleged at Space 1026” Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA “Raw: New York, New Work” Mamma Roma Ltd., New York, NY |
Public Collections
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, USA
The Ellipse Foundation, Portugal
Fondation Francés, Senlis, France
Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
Huis Marseilles Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ICA Miami, USA
Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT, USA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, USA
Montclair Art Museum, NJ, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Heights, OH, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Awards
2011 | Gold Medal: Society of Publication Designers, Ryan McGinley for The New York Times Magazine. May 30, 2010, “M.I.A. Takes to the Streets” |
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2007 | ICP Infinity Award: Young Photographer, International Center of Photography |
2003 | Photographer of the Year, American Photo Magazine |
PUBLICATIONS
Ryan McGinley: Whistle for the Wind, Rizzoli, 2012
You and I, Twin Palms, 2012
Life Adjustment Center, Dashwood Books, 2010
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Dashwood Books, 2010
Moonmilk by Mörel books, 2009
Interviews 2, Kunsthalle Wien, Walter Konig, 2008
Sun and Health, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., 2006
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon, 2006
Thumbsucker, Iconoclast, 2005
The Photograph As Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, 2004
Ryan McGinley, New York, Index Books, 2002
The Kids Are Alright, New York, Self-Published, 2000
Selected Bibliography
2012 | Ryan McGinley: Whistle for the Wind, Rizzoli You and I, Twin Palms |
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2010 | Life Adjustment Center, Dashwood Books Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Dashwood Books “The Guardian, April 14th (with illustration)” Helmore, Edward, “Naked in New York, USA Aletti, Vince, “Ryan McGinley,” The New Yorker, April 19th, pp 19,22 (with illustration) Rosenberg, Karen, “Different Angles On the Portrait,” The New Yorker, April 14th Harris, Jane, “Ryan McGinley, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” Time Out New York, April 8th |
2009 | Moonmilk by Mörel books Reardon, Ben, “Ryan McGinley,” i-D, September, (with illustration). Gavin, Francesca, “Ryan McGinley,” Wonderland, September, pp. 132-133 (with illustration). Turner, Christopher, “The Naked Eye,” Vogue UK, September, p. 157. McGinley, Ryan, “Moonmilk,” Tar Magazine, Issue Two / Spring, pp. 270 – 279 (with illustrations). McGinley, Ryan, “Ryan Inc.: Behind the Scenes of the McGinley Machine,” Vice Magazine, March, pp. cover, 162-189 (with illustrations). Clarke, Indigo, “Another Thing I Wanted to Tell You,” Another Magazine, January, p. 82. |
2008 | Interviews 2, Kunsthalle Wien, Walter Konig Princenthal, Nancy, “Ryan McGinley,” Art in America, September, p. 163 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Instant Gratification,” Modern Painters, July/August, p. 96 (with illustration). Kluger, Jeffrey, “Ryan McGinley,” Time, June 9, p. 57 (with illustration). Umar, Saheer, “When Boys Talk,” He Magazine, Summer, pp. 67-71 (with illustration). Helfand, Glen, “Starry-eyed and stripped,” The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 21, p. 43 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “I Know Where the Summer Goes ,” Ojode Pez, Issue 13, pp. Cover (with illustration). Rosenberg, Karen, “Ryan McGinley,” The New York Times, April 25, p. E25 (with illustration). Pearse, Emma, “Ryan McGinley,” Artreview.com, April 21 (with illustration). Aletti, Vince, “Ryan McGinley,” New Yorker, April 21, p. 24. Knofer, Ulrike, “Die Documentaire,” KulturSpiegel, April, pp. 22-7 (with illustration). Blasberg, Derek, “Ten people you should meet,” 10 Men, Spring, pp. cover, 92-3 (with illustration). Walleston, Aimee, “Better Looking,” He Magazine, Winter/Spring, pp. 138-141 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Breaking Through,” The New York Times Magazine, February 10, pp. cover, 52-77. Spiotta, Dana, “Ryan McGinley,” The Believer, February, pp. 45-56 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Lucas by Ryan,” i-D, February, pp.160-3 (with illustration). |
2007 | Vogel, Carol, “Neo-Factory,” Vogue Hommes, Fall/Winter, pp. 232-3 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “High Art,” The Advocate, August 14, pp. 52-3 (with illustration). Pearse, Emma, “Nudie Picks,” New York, June 18, p. 24 (with illustration). Rosenberg, Karen, “An Afternoon in Chelsea: Rebel Rebel,” New York, May 7, p. 78. Gefter, Philip, “A Young Man With an Eye, And Friends Up a Tree,” The New York Times, May 6, cover, pp. 22-33 (with illustration). Honigman, Ana Finel, “That Gaze,” UOVO, April/June, pp. 70-95 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Irregular Regulars, Rodeo, March, pp. 54-7 (with illustration). Molon, Dominic, “On the Edge,” WhiteWall, Issue 4, pp. 138-41 (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Who's That Ass?,” Vice, Volume 14 Number 4 , cover, pp. 42, 50 (with illustration). Aletti, Vince, “Musical Chair,” The New Yorker, January 29, p. 22 (with illustration). Chasin, Noah, “Irregular Regulars,” Time Out New York, January 25-31, p. 59 (with illustration). Levy, Ariel, “Warhol's Children,” New York, January 15, pp. 20-1 (with illustration). Bollen, Chris, “McGinley's Morrissey,” V Magazine, January, pp. 60-1 (with illustration). Velasco, David, “Team Player,” Artforum.com, January (with illustration). |
2006 | Sun and Health, Galerie du Jour Agnès B. Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon Kellner, Amy, “We'll succeed, our time has come,” i-D, October, pp. 177-83 (with illustrations). Sansom, Amy, “Nature and Nurture,” Mixte, October/November, pp. 72-3, 271 (with illustrations). Regan, Kai, “Studio Visit,” Black Book, October/November (with illustration). McGinley, Ryan, “Sun and Health,” EYEMAZING, Issue 4, pp. 162-5 (with illustrations). Simpson, Les, “The Name of This Show Is Not: Gay Art Now” Time Out New York, July 13- 19. |
2005 | Thumbsucker, Iconoclast Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Todd the Wet Sprocket,” OC Weekly, February 10 (with illustration). McCormick, Carlo, “Creativity Now: Ryan McGinley,” Tokion, Jan/Feb, pp.46-70 (with illustrations). Aletti, Vince, “Do not Recycle,” Village Voice, January 24. Valdez, Sarah, “Thrashers and Taggers: Beautiful Losers,” Art in America, January. |
2004 | The Photograph As Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson Blanks, Tim, “Capture the moment” The Daily Telegraph, November 6, pp. 36-9 (with illustrations). Nelson, Karin, “Ryan McGinley: shoot what you know,” Interview, July, p. 24 (with illustration). Honigman, Ana Finel, “24-7,” Artnet, June 21 (with illustrations). Aletti, Vince, “Untitled (Self Portrait),” Village Voice, April 28 – May 4, p. 46 (with illustration). |
2003 | Greenberg, David, “Sweet and Tender Hooligan: The Art of Being Ryan McGinley,” Fader, Sept/Oct, pp. 114-19 (with illustrations). Pierson, Jack, “Overexposed” ISSUE, Fall, pp. 112 – 116 (with illustrations). Crager, Jack, “Photographer of the Year: Ryan McGinley,” American Photo, July/Aug, pp. 43-51 (with illustrations). McGinley, Ryan, “The Queer Issue Cover,” Village Voice, June 25-July 1, cover. Krieger, Nina, “Ryan McGinley: The Kids Are Alright,” Contemporary, Issue 53-4 (with illustration). Koren, Leslie, “Village People” The New Record, April 6, pp. F2-3 (with illustrations). Sholis, Brian, “Ryan McGinley,” Flash Art, March (with illustration). Simpson, Les, “The kid is alright,” The Advocate, March 4. Aletti, Vince, “Two Photographers Shoot, Score: Making History” Village Voice, March 5-13, pp. 46-7. Zeaman, John, “A generation newly lost” The New Record, February 28, pp. 38 (with illustrations). Swanson, Carl, “Liked The Show, Loved the Afterparty” The New York Times, February 23, pp. 1, 12 (with illustrations). Cotter, Holland, “The Kids Are Alright” The New York Times, February 14, p. E45 (with illustration). Ekman, Eve, “Post-Whitney McGinley” New York Press, February 12-18, p. 27 (with illustration). Aletti, Vince, “The Best Photography Books of 2002″ Village Voice, February 5-11, p. 55. Schmerler, Sarah, “Takeout: Art,” TimeOut NY, Jan 30 – Feb 06, p. 2 (with illustration). |
2002 | Ryan McGinley, New York, Index Books Livingstone, David, “Ryan McGinley” Shift, November, p. 30 (with illustrations). Burton, Johanna, “Bystander” TimeOut NY, August 15-22, p. 46, (with illustration). Aletti, Vince, “Voice Picks: Bystander” Village Voice, July 23, pp. 71. Cotter, Holland, “Bystander” The New York Times, July 12, p. E38. |
2001 | McInness, Gavin, “The Vice Guide to New York” NME, April 21, p. 26-8 (with illustration). |
2000 | The Kids Are Alright, New York, Self-Published |