RYAN MCGINLEY
Born 1977 in Ramsey, NJ
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2000B.F.A. in Graphic Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
HONORS/AWARDS
2007ICP Infinity Award: Young Photographer, International Center of Photography
2003Photographer of the Year, American Photo Magazine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012Animals and Grids, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2011Wandering Comma, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
2010Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Team Gallery, New York, NY
Life Adjustment Center, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Crooked Aisles, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2009Moonmilk, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
2008Spring and By Summer Fall, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
I Know Where The Summer Goes, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2007Ryan McGinley, FOAM Fotagrafiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Irregular Regulars, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2006Project Space, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sun and Health, agnes b. galerie du jour, Paris, France, (with catalogue)
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (under the auspices of Team Gallery)
2005Laboratorio 987: Entre Nosotros, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
2004New Photographs, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/The Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, New York, (curated by Bob Nickas, with catalogue)
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003The Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (curated by David Sherry)
The Kids Are Alright, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
2002MC Magma, Milan, Italy
Ryan McGinley: Photographien, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2000The Kids are Alright, 420 W. B'way, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012The New Ages of Life, Palazzo re Enzo, Bologna and Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Out Of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011Snapshots of a Generation, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
The Trilogy Exhibition,The Ring Art Center, Miami, FL, USA
Post 9-11, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
Ryan McGinley, Sam Samore & Torbjørn Rødland, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2010Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2009Who Shot Rock: Photographers of Rock and Roll, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York (upcoming October, curated by Gail Buckland, with catalogue)
KaraokeLike, FotomuseumWinterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (upcoming, curated by Thomas Seelig, with catalogue)
Ellipse Foundation, Cascals, Portugal
2008Feature Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC (curated by Frank Goodyear)
Listen Darling…The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal (curated by Lisa Phillips)
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (curated by Thomas Seelig)
Boys Of Summer, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York (curated by Shelley Fox Aarons and Edsel Williams)
Fair Market, Rental, New York
I Won't Grow Up, Cheim & Reid, New York (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler)
History Keeps Me Awake At Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New
York
2007Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy, (curated by Aaron Rose)
Young at Heart, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain, (curated by Alexandre Melo and Joaquin Garcia)
Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sweet Bird of Youth, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Hedi Slimane)
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn, Smith Stewart, New York, NY, (curated by Amy Kellner)
Other Scenes, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (curated by Aaron Rose, with catalogue)
Rebel Rebel: A Tribute to Karlheinz Weinberger, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY, People Take Pictures of Each Other, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, (curated by Bob Nickas)
2006Americans 1940-2006: Masterpieces of American Photography, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (curated by Peter Weiermair, with catalogue)
Defamation of Character, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, (curated by Neville Wakefield)
People, MADRE Museo d'Arte Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, (curated by Klaus Biesenbach, with catalogue and traveling to Kunstwerke, Berlin and MACRO, Rome)
The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, (curated by Jack Pierson)
The 6th Annual Vice Magazine Photo Issue Exhibition, Silverstein Photography, New York, NY
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, (curated by Matthias Ulrich, with catalogue)
2005with us against reality, or against us!, galerie S.E., Oslo, Norway
Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, (with catalogue)
2004Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Cotemporanea, Milan, Italy
Summer Solstice with Sam Gordon, Ryan McGinley, and Collier Schorr, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art, Skateboarding, & Street Culture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, (traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco)
2004Fresh: Youth Culture in Contemporary Photographs, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
2003My 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, (curated by Bob Nickas)
A NEW SCENE: WHAT ABOUT NEW YORK?, agnes b. galerie du jour, Paris, France
amFAR Portfolio, Cheim and Read, New York
2002K48 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 Prisca C. Juschka Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Emily Sundblad and Hanna Liden)
Bystander, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2001Alleged at Space 1026, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Raw: New York, New Work, Mamma Roma Ltd., New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009Diane Smyth, "The Escapist", British Journal of Photography, September, pp. 19-23 (with illustration)
Francesca Gavin, "Ryan McGinley", Wonderland, September, pp. 132-133 (with illustration)
Ossian Ward, "Ryan McGinley", Time Out, September, p. 48 (with illustration)
"Spectrum", The Sunday Times Magazine, August, pp. 39-40 (with illustration)
Indigo Clarke, "Ryan McGinley: Photographer On His Good Luck Charm", Another Magazine, Spring/Summer, p. 82
Ben Reardon, "Ryan McGinley", i-D, pre-Fall 2009, p. 235
2008Princenthal, 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
McGinley, Ryan, 'Lucas by Ryan', I-D Magazine, February 2008
Spiotta, Dana, "Ryan McGinley," The Believer, February, pp. 45-56 (with illustration)
2008Falconer, Morgan, 'Ryan McGinley', Art World, issue 5, June-July, pp 102-105
'Ryan McGinley: I Know Where The Summer Goes', pluk, issue 36, Summer
2007Vogel, 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
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).
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).
2006Kellner, 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.
2005Schoenkopf, 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.
2004Blanks, 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).
2003Greenberg, 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).
2003Koren, 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
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).
2002Livingstone, 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.
2001McInness, Gavin, "The Vice Guide to New York" NME, April 21, p. 26-8 (with illustration)
PUBLICATIONS
Moonmilk, Alison Jacques Gallery, Morel, 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Ellipse Foundation, Portugal
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Heights, OH
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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