Interview with Ry Rocklen - www.artonair.org/archives/j/index.php
Born 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Sculpture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001 BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1996-98 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (Upcoming)
2009
Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
2008
Bernier/ Eliades, Athens
Baronian Francey, Brussels
2007
Half Craft, Medium, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies
Just Us, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Land of Super Neutral, B.U.G. Gallery, Bangkok University, Thailand
Soft Ice, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Lost & Found, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Grounded 4 Life, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Country Music, (Maureen Gallace, Emilie Halpern, Richard Hughes, Friedrich Kunath, Jack Pierson, Charles Raymond, and Ry Rocklen), Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, July 3-August 21, 2010
Rive Gauche / Rive Droite, curated by Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris
2009
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer
July 19 - October 4, 2009
2008
That Was Then, This Was Now, PS 1 Contemporary, Long Island City, NY
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
2007
LA Bodies: Figuration in Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Warhol &. . ., Kanter/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Red Eye, The Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
LA Trash & Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
From LA, Barronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
In Between Bandwidths: Bart Exposito & Ry Rocklen, with wording by Michael Ned Holte, Black
Dragon Society, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005
LA Juried Show, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drive-By & reLAX, Upspace, Los Angeles, CA
Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2004
BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY, Apex Art, New York, NY
2003
3D 7DEEP, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Golden, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
Cluster Fuck, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Something Else, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Win, Lose or Draw/Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2002
I'm from Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red, Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna, Austria
(curated by Hubert Schmalix)
The Daily Circus, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Low Overhead, Todd Hughes Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
A Well Rounded Appetite, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Face-Off, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Hannah Greely)
Big Trouble in Little China, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
The Backyard Show, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Battle for the Greatest Drawing in the World Title, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Something of That Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Chocolate Thunder, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
RESIDENCIES
2007 Medium, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies
2006 Bangkok University School of Fine & Applied Arts, Thailand
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Goldberg, RosaLee. "Performance Anxiety: Political currents at the Whitney Biennial," Modern Painters, May.
Dorment, Richard. "Whitney Biennial: sunk by its big ideas," Telegraph, Apr.
Cotter, Holland. "Art's Economic Indicator," The New York Times, Mar. 7.
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. "Ry Rocklen – Studio Visit," FlashArt Online, Mar. 11.
Dalton, Trinnie. Exhibition catalogue: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Huldisch, Henriette. "Lessness: Samuel Beckett in Echo Park, or an Art of Smaller, Slower, and Less,"
Exhibition catalogue: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Momin, Shamim M. "Time Change," Exhibition catalogue: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Exhibition catalogue: In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services (Geneva). JPR Ringier; Zurich, Switzerland.
2007
Holte, Michael Ned. Exhibition catalogue: Red Eye, The Rubell Collection, Miami, Fl.
Hargreaves, Kathryn. "Ry Rocklen and Nick Lowe," review of "Just Us" at Black Dragon Society, Artillery, Summer 2007.
"Ry Rocklen at Medium Gallery," review of "Half Craft" at Medium Gallery, St Barth Weekly, num. 116.
Sherwin, Skye. "Future Greats: Twenty-Five Artists to Look Out For in 2007," Artreview, March.
2006
Spiegler, Marc. "American Renaissance," Art Newspaper, July 27.
Pines, Ethan. "Art Tsunami," The Men's Book, Spring.
Hargreaves, Kathryn. "Real Live Art: Possessed & Transcendeant," The Arts District Citizen, February.
2005
Holte, Michael Ned. Exhibition poster with text: In Between Bandwidths, Black Dragon Society at The NADA Art Fair.
Studer, Margaret. "Shopping Spree: Buying is Strong in Basel," The Wall Street Journal Europe, June 24 – 26.
COLLECTIONS
Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
MoCA Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL
2003 Trance Plants, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ry Rocklen)
2001 Spoils, Sarah Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ry Rocklen)