Artist Profile

Ryan McGinley

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) .
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