born in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 1968
Education
Hunter College Graduate Fine Arts Program; New York, 1991-2
School of Visual Arts; New York, BFA Fine Arts, 1990
MCPS Art Center; Maryland, 1982-86
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2006
Team Gallery, New York, USA; April
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; May
Lustpavillion, Mirabellgarten, Salzburg, Austria; May
2005
Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany; January
St. Wolfgang Church, Regensburg, Germany; February
2004
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; January
Dombergmuseum Freising, Freising, Germany; February - May
2003
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria; September
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland; December
2002
Mario Diacono, Boston, USA; November
Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, USA; November
Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany; January
2001
Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY; February (catalog)
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany; March
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria; May
2000
Art + Public, Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland; April
1999
Dorothee DePauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; October
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy; October
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; March
1998
Rove/Kenny Schachter, New York, USA; May
Mitchell Algus, New York, USA; May
1996
One Great Jones, New York, USA; November
1994
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA; December-January, 1994
1993
Wooster Gardens, New York, USA; May
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
Abbaye Saint-André Centre d_art contemporain, Meymac, France; _(_) et le canard était toujours vivant_ (July-October)
2003
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; "My Way Home" (with Dexter Dalwood and Bernhard Martin)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; "Painting Pictures-Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter"
Arario Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea; "Pop-Thru-Out" May
2002
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; "Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture"; (September-December, 2002), also at Tate Liverpool (December 2002-March 2003)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; "Projects 77"; (October-November)
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland; "Stations of the Cross" Art|33|Basel; (June) (catalog) (book: "Stations of the Cross" Jack Miles and Lisa Ruyter, published by Art & Public and Leo Koenig Inc.)(June)
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY; "From the Observatory" curator Bob Nickas; (March) (catalog)
14 Wharf Road/David Risley, London, England; "Love" curator David Risley; (March/April)
2001
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; "Special Projects: Lisa Ruyter: Rooftops"; (October)
C.A.I.S. Gallery, Seoul, Korea; "Ghost World" curator Michael Cohen; (October) (catalog)
Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark; "Come on, Feel the Noise"; (February)
Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY; "Before They Became Who They Are" curator Norman Dubrow; (January)
2000
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY; "Pastoral Pop" curator Debra Singer; (July-December)
Galerie Frank "Sport," Jack Featherly and Lisa Ruyter, Paris, France; September
Reali ArteContemporanea, Brescia, Italy; "Wayne Gonzales, Lisa Ruyter, John Tremblay; (May)
About Studio, Bangkok, Thailand; "Transporter" curators Laurie De Chiara and Naomi Urabe (January-February)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; "Greater New York" curated in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. (February-May)
Kenny Schachter/Rove, London, England; "I Hate NY" May
Team Gallery, New York, NY; "Hex Enduction Hour by the Fall" curator Bob Nickas; January-February
1999
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California; "Other Paintings" curator Julie Joyce
Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan; "eflny 1999" curator Tam Ochiai; September
Le Consortium, Dijon, France; "The Bastard Kids of Drella" curator Steven Parrino; July-August
Pat Hearn Gallery, "Jeff Elrod / Lisa Ruyter," New York, NY. (two person exhibition, March)
Exit Art, New York, NY; "Paradise 8: Permanent Resident" curator Odili Donald Odita; January-April
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists From the Logan Collection" Curated by Gary Garrels (January-April) (catalog)
1998
Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; "Cambio." September (catalog)
Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY; "Painting Now and Forever." July
Mitchell Algus, "White," New York, NY; July
Clementine Gallery, New York, NY; July
Kent, New York, NY; "A Delicate Condition" Organized by Jerry Kearns; March
1997
Team Gallery, New York, NY; "Diamond Dogs". June
32 Mercer Street, New York, NY; "Inside Out Art Fair" Organized by Kenny Schachter; May
1996
American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY; "Roy Arden, AC2K, Chivas Clem, John Kelsey, Lisa Ruyter, Tom Burr, John Waters". June
Mitchell Algus, New York, NY; "The Gramercy Art Fair". May
1995
Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA; "Saturday Night Fever" Organized by Michael Cohen and Catherine Liu. April
Here, New York, NY; "The Joy of Painting" Organized by Alix Lambert; February
1994
Team Gallery, DC, Washington, D.C.; "Speed Trials". November
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; "Disfunction, USA" Organized by Peter Halley and Robert Nickas.
Hohenthal Und Bergen Gallery, Köln, Germany; "Punishment + Decoration" Organized by Michael Corris; April-May (catalogue)
1993
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY; Project with Chuck Nanney; June
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY; "Steve DiBenedetto, Scott Grodesky, Bill Komoski, Peter Nagy, Lari Pittman, Lisa Ruyter". June
"What you are about to see is real" Muranushi Lederman Productions for the Chicago Art Fair; May
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; "Fluff from New York" Organized by Trudie Reiss; May
211 East 10th Street, New York, NY; "Home Alone" Organized by Ricardo De Oliveira and Sarah Morris; March
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; "Some artists I've been thinking about . . .". February
Heiligenkreuzerhof, School for the Applied Arts in collaboration with Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria; "Live in Your Head" Organized by Robert Nickas; January (catalogue)
Selected Bibliography
Kimberly Bradley, "Lisa Ruyter, Arndt & Partner" Artnews, May 2005, pg 154
Eva Karcher, "Die Fashion Connection" Vogue, April 2005, pg 268
Eva Karcher, "Alles ist Farbe" Vogue, April 2005, pgs 280-285
"Lisa Ruyter: Moderne Kunst in kirchlicher Umgebung" Regensburger Stadtteile, February 9, 2005
Ingeborg Ruthe, "In der Trendmaschine" Berliner Zeitung, February 5-6, 2005, pg 32
Peter Herbstreuth, "Ein strahlender Stern" Der Tagesspiegel, January 29, 2005, pg 26
Jason Oddy, "Canít See the Forest for the Trees" Modern Painters, January 2005, pgs 48-49
"Couture on Canvas" Interview, December-January 2005, pgs 146-153
Vincent Poinas, "ForÍt fauve" Citizen K, Spring 2004, pgs190-195
Julie Ryan, "Lisa Ruyter at Georg Kargl" Tema Celeste, November-December 2003, pg 111
Dan Halm, "Lisa Ruyter" Visual Arts Journal, Fall 2003, pg 18-21
Reverend Jen, "Lisa Ruyter Interview" ASS (Art Star Scene) Magazine, 2003, pgs 48-51
Doris Krumpl, "Eine Amerikanerin in Wien" Der Standard, September 11, 2003, pg 13
Charlie Finch, "The World Belongs to Lisa" ArtNet Magazine, www.artnet.com, January 28, 2003
Howard Halle, "Lisa Ruyter 'Follow the Boys'" Time Out New York, January 2-9 2003, pg 59
Manami Fujimori, "Very New York!" BT, January 2003, pgs 36, 42, photograph
Goings On About Town, Lisa Ruyter, The New Yorker, December 9, 2002
Cate McQuaid, "Galleries" The Boston Globe, December 13, 2002, pg E19
Bob Nickas, "Best of 2002" Artforum, December 2002, pgs 116-117
Corey Takahashi, "On the Streets, MoMA's Giving the High Sign" Newsday, October 20, 2002, pg D31, photograph
Phyllis Tuchman, "Signage of our times-billboard art" NY Daily News, October 9, 2002, pg 42, photograph
Michael Cohen, "Decentralization and Diversity, A Report From New York", Wolgan Misool, February, 2002, pgs 84-91, , in Korean
Howard Halle, "Lisa Ruyter", Elle Decor, October, 2001, pgs 78-84
David Hunt, "Lisa Ruyter, Leo Koenig Inc.", Flash Art, October, 2001, p 103
Robert Mahoney, "Lisa Ruyter at Leo Koenig", Art in America, September, 2001, p 157
Lisa Ruyter, "Top Ten", Artforum, September, 2001, p 48
Louise Lepore, "W Style Flash: Early Risers", W, September, 2001, pgs 458-62
Jonathan Gilmore, "Lisa Ruyter", Tema Celeste, May-June, 2001, p 83
Alexandra Peers, "Contemporary Art's 'New' Look", The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2001, p W14
Erik Bakke, "Lisa Ruyter" NYArts Magazine, April, 2001, p 25
Kim Levin, "Shortlist, Lisa Ruyter" The Village Voice, March 6, 2001, p 94
M. Coignet, "Couleur Ruyter", Jalouse, April, 2001, p 116-117
Barry Neuman, "Lisa Ruyter", Boiler Magazine, March 2001, boilermag.it
Gerhard Waldherr, "Prinz Kùnig", Deutsch Vogue, No. 38 March, 2001, p 34
Brita Sachs, "Puzzlespiele: Lisa Ruyter bei Binder in MÙnchen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 31, 2001
Justin Hoffmann, "Die Atmosph_re der Farbe", SÙddeutsche Zeitung, March 19, 2001
"Goings On About Town, Lisa Ruyter", The New Yorker, March 5, 2001, p 24
Christian Viveros-Faunœ, "Lisa Ruyter", New York Press, February 21-27, 2001, p 21
Charlie Finch, "Leo and Lisa, Lather and Light", ArtNet Magazine, February 15, 2001, artnet.com
YC., "Colors", Blast, November 2000, p 34
Bob Nickas, "Colors By Numbers", Dutch, November/December 2000, p 31
Clœmentine Vermont, "Lisa Ruyter, Jack Featherly", Art Press, November 2000, p 87-88
"Madison Avenue's Art Attack", W Magazine, November 2000, p 82
Jonathan Goodman, "Pastoral Pop!, ", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 31, p 38-43
Christopher Chambers, "Pastoral Pop!", dArt International, Winter 2001, p 50-51
Peter Nagy, "Against Nature" Time Out New York, August 24-31, 2000
Chris MacLeod, "Nature Knows Best" West Side Spirit, August 24, 2000
Ariella Budick, "Shifting Landscapes" Newsday, August 20, 2000
Kim Levin, "Shortlist, Pastoral Pop!" The Village Voice, August 16-22, 2000
Ken Johnson, "Pastoral Pop!", The New York Times, August 11, 2000, p E 34
Logan Hill, "On View: Paradise Paved", New York, August 7, 2000, p 87
"Goings On About Town", (Pastoral Pop) The New Yorker, August 7, 2000, p 12
Anne Wehr, "It's Second Nature" (pick/listing), Time Out New York, July 20-27, 2000, p 75
"Arts & Leisure Guide", The New York Times, July 16, 2000, (listing w ) p.33
"Congratulations", Smock, Premiere issue, 2000
Martin Coomer, "I Hate New York", Time Out London, June 7-14, 2000
"exporama", artpress, May 2000 p.7
Jonathan Goodman, "Greater New York", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 29, spring 2000 pps 27-28
PhM, "Expositions: Un rœalisme ö la mode abstraite", Tempo, l'agenda culturel du temps, No. 105, (Geneva) April 15-21, 2000 (, in French)
Holland Cotter, "New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways", The New York Times, March 6, 2000 p. E1,5
Jerry Saltz, "Greater Expectations", The Village Voice, March, 2000
Christian Viveros-Faune, "Great Expectations", New York Press, March 8-14, 2000
Faye Hirsch, "Working Proof", Art on Paper, January-February, 2000
Grady T. Turner, "Beautiful Dreamers", Flash Art, January/February 2000
Antonella Crippa, "Review: Lisa Ruyter", Tema Celeste, January/February, 2000: in Italian
Francesco Bonazzi, "Lisa Ruyter", Juliet, Nov 99-Jan 00, p 50 (, in Italian)
Bob Nickas, "Interview", Index, November/December, 1999
Meghan Dailey, "Jeff Elrod/Lisa Ruyter", Artforum, Summer 1999, p. 157
Bob Nickas, "People make paintings to prove they exist", Tema Celeste, March/April, 1999: in Italian
"Goings On About Town", The New Yorker, March 29, 1999
Ken Johnson; "Art Guide: Lisa Ruyter/Jeff Elrod", The New York Times, March 19, 1999
Claudine Ise, "Lisa Ruyter at Ace", The Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1999
Simon Watson, " Visual Art", Simon Says, March, 1999, vol. 3 issue 7
Odili Donald Odita, "Lisa Ruyter at Mitchell Algus and Kenny Schachter/Rove", Flash Art, January/February 1999
Phoebe Hoban, "Hot Paints", New York Magazine, January 11, 1999
Odili Donald Odita, "Lisa Ruyter at Mitchell Algus and Kenny Schachter/Rove", Connect, http://plexus.org/connect
, December 1998
Bill Arning, "Review: Lisa Ruyter at Mitchell Algus and Kenny Schachter/Rove", Art in America, December 1998
p. 99
Ken Johnson; "Review: 'White' at Mitchell Algus Gallery", The New York Times, August 7, 1998
Martha Schwendener, "Review: 'Planet Hollywood'", TimeOut New York, July 9, 1998, p. 62
Amy Chaiklin, "Studio Visit; Lisa Ruyter", NY Arts Magazine, July/August, 1998
Roberta Smith; "Review: 'Painting Now and Forever, Part I'", The New York Times, July 24, 1998
Holland Cotter; "The New Center of Gravity", The New York Times, May 15, 1998
Watson, Simon, "Art Picks", Simon Says, May, 1998, vol. 2 issue 9
Robert Mahoney; "A Delicate Condition", ArtNet Magazine, April 27, 1998
Martha Schwendener, "Review: 'Diamond Dogs'", TimeOut New York, July 10, 1997
Lawrence Nassau, "Review: 'Diamond Dogs'", New York Arts Magazine, July/August, 1997
Kim Levin, "Voice Choices", The Village Voice, June 10, 1997
Kim Levin, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, May 27, 1997
Roberta Smith, "Despite Changes, a Gallery Scene That's Resilient and Vital," The New York Times, May 9, 1997
Felicia Feaster, "Lisa Ruyter at One Great Jones," Reviews, Art in America, February 1997
Matthew Ritchie, "The Third Sex," Theory, Flash Art, February 1995
Sara Rossiter, "Lisa Ruyter," Ouverture, Flash Art, October 1994
Kim Levin, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, January 11, 1994
Sue Scott, "Margaret Curtis, Lisa Ruyter," ArtNews, November 1993
Jerry Saltz, "Mayday," Art in America, September 1993
Roberta Smith, "Shades of Rebirth for Painting," The New York Times, June 18, 1993
Kim Levin, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, June 15, 1993
Michael Corris and Robert Nickas, "Punishment and Decoration," Artforum, April 1993
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