Ry Rocklen CV
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Born 1978, Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA |
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Education | |
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MFA University of Southern California, CA, 2006 BFA University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2001 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1996-98 |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
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2014 |
Local Color, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, CA UNTITLED, New York, NY Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France |
2013 | Trophy Modern installation for Absolut Bureau, Miami Beach, FL |
2011 | Believe You Me, UNTITLED, New York, NY |
2010 | ZZZ’s, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
2009 | House of Return, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA Good Heavens, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY |
2008 | Good Grief, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece Time After Time, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium |
2007 | Half Craft, Medium, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies Just Us, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA |
2006 | Land of Super Neutral, B.U.G. Gallery, Bangkok University, Bangkok, 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 |
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Selected Group Exhibitions | |
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2015 | Condominium pancake, Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium |
2014 | please enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY Burned By The Sun, Mallorca Landings, Palma De Mallorca, Spain |
2013 |
Murmurs: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, CA Jew York, Zach Feuer and UNTITLED, New York, NY Stand-in, Albert Baronian Gallery, Paris, France Merci Mercy, Feedback Ltd., Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY |
2012 | YOUR HISTORY IS OUR HISTORY, curated by Rene-Julien Praz, Praz-Delavallad, Paris, France For the Martian Chronicles, curated by Yael Lipschutz, L+M Arts, Los Angeles, CA Coquilles Mecaniques, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum/ LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA Maybe it’s the light that has to change and not much else, curated by Janine Armin and Susie Halajian, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY Changing States of Matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy |
2011 | Nothing Beside Remains, LAND 1.0, Marfa, TX Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami, FL Jersey Bounce, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ Knock, Knock! From the Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara, CA Greater LA, New York, NY No Swan So Fine, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA |
2010 | Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Rive Gauche/ Rive Droite, Marc Jancou, Paris, France Country Music, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA Heather Cook, Alex Olson, R.H. Quaytman, Ry Rocklen, Gedi Sibony, Rental Gallery, New York, NY |
2009 | Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Athens Bienialle, Athens, Greece Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession: galeriste, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium |
2008 | That Was Then, This Was Now, PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
2007 | In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Warhol &, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2006 | Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, NY Red Eye, The Rubell Collection, Miami, FL LA Trash & Treasure, Miliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA |
2005 | From LA, Baronian Francey, Brussels, BE LA Juried Show, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Drive-By & reLAX, Unspace, Los Angeles, CA |
2004 | Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 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 |
2002 | Win, Lose of Draw/Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA I’m from Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red, curated by Hubert Schmalix, Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna, Austria The Daily Circus, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA Low Overhead, Todd Hughes Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA |
2001 | A Well Rounded Appetite, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA Face-Off, curated by Hannah Greely, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA 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 |
2000 | Something of That Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA Chocolate Thunder, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA |
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Notable and Public Collections | |
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Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY MoCA Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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