List of solo and group exhibitions by Ron English is a chronological compilation of significant gallery and museum shows by American contemporary artist Ron English (born 1959), whose work encompasses painting, street art, sculpture, designer toys and immersive installations. [1] [2] Known for his self-described “POPaganda” practice and his use of advertising and popular iconography to examine consumer culture, English has presented work in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally. [3] [4]
This list presents English’s solo exhibitions and major group shows, organized chronologically by decade from the late 1970s to the present. It is intended to complement the biographical and critical overview in the main article on Ron English (artist).
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | September 17 – October 15, 2020 | Pop International Galleries | New York, New York, US | POPaganda On Paper | Online Pop International Galleries presentation of new works on paper and limited-edition prints, focused on mashups of cartoon mascots, advertising icons and art-historical references. | [5] |
| 2021 | September 18 – October 19, 2021 | Allouche Gallery | New York, New York, US | Brand Royalty | Allouche Gallery show debuting around twenty new paintings that riff on luxury branding, mascots and consumer icons, pushing the POPaganda cast into densely layered canvases about power, status and desire. | [8] |
| 2022 | August 6 – December 1, 2022 | KuBe Art Center (Ethan Cohen Gallery) | Beacon, New York, US | The Secret History of Beacon Bigfoot | Project in the former Beacon High School (now KuBe Art Center) built as an “adventure” around local Bigfoot legends, combining paintings, props and story fragments to recast Hudson Valley folklore through the Delusionville sensibility. | [12] |
| 2022–2023 | September 9, 2022 – January 22, 2023 | Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center | Mesa, Arizona, US | Living in Delusionville | Museum survey at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum presenting 37 paintings and sculptures from the previous decade, centered on English’s Delusionville universe; launched as part of Mesa Arts Center’s Fall 2022 opening reception with a POPaganda pop-up store and book signing, and accompanied by a screening of the feature documentary Living in Delusionville at the Piper Theater. | [16] |
| 2023 | May 20, 2023 – July 4, 2023 | Allouche Gallery | New York, New York, US | Now You See It | Allouche Mercer Street presentation of recent POPaganda paintings and sculptures that fold recurring characters and brand parodies into dense, illusionistic scenes timed with New York’s spring art-fair season. | [21] |
| 2024 | January 27, 2024 | Clutter Gallery | Beacon, New York, US | Ron English’s Oddities, Rarities and Experiments! | Special Clutter Gallery presentation opening the artist’s archive, featuring rare proofs, experimental works, and older pieces from across POPaganda projects, made available for in-person acquisition. | [24] |
| 2024 | May 18 – June 22, 2024 | Ro2 Art Gallery (Tin District) | Dallas, Texas, US | Ron English: Texas: Naturally Surreal | Ro2 Art Tin District show of recent paintings that fold Texas highways, billboards, cattle and roadside culture into the POPaganda cast, using humor and saturated commercial imagery to reflect on the state’s mythology and politics. | [25] |
| 2024 | June 13 – July 9, 2024 | Allouche Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Translations | Allouche Los Angeles exhibition premiering paintings and sculpture that rework familiar POPaganda characters and motifs into more introspective, narrative-driven compositions about translation between images, media and cultural contexts. | [27] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | September 12 – October 29, 2010 | Opera Gallery (382 West Broadway) | New York, New York, US | Status Factory | Immersive pop-up exhibition transforming a SoHo warehouse into a full-scale “factory” experience of Ron English’s Popaganda world, complete with installations, retail displays, and painted environments. Opened during Fashion Week, it merged fine art, satire, and spectacle. | [29] |
| 2010 | November 10 – December 17, 2010 | Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion (Orange Coast College) | Costa Mesa, California, US | Status Factory – The Art of Ron English | Large-scale museum edition of Status Factory, featuring over one hundred works, immersive installations, and monumental canvases that expanded the touring concept into a full institutional survey. | [34] |
| 2011 | March 28 – April 15, 2011 | South Texas College, Pecan Campus Library Art Gallery | McAllen, Texas, US | The Other Side of Madison Avenue | Solo exhibition at South Texas College’s Pecan Campus Library Art Gallery, presenting works that critique advertising and mass-media aesthetics through English’s signature “popaganda” style. The program served as an educational showcase for local students and visitors. | [35] |
| 2011 | March 31 – August 14, 2011 (see note) | International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) | McAllen, Texas, US | You Are Not Here | Solo museum exhibition presenting paintings, sculptures, and installations by Ron English at IMAS. Coverage emphasized the show’s conceptual exploration of illusion and presence, marking a significant institutional milestone in the artist’s career. | [36] |
| 2011 | June 24 – July 21, 2011 | Lazarides (Rathbone Place) | London, UK | Skin Deep: Post-Instinctual Afterthoughts on Psychological Portraiture | Solo focused on psychological portraiture, debuting skull-and-portrait hybrids and character studies that push pop iconography toward introspection; the run closed in late July at Rathbone Place. | [40] |
| 2011 | July 1 – 18, 2011 | Public/Image.3D | Tokyo, Japan | POPaganda in Japan | First Japan solo project, presented with ZacPac, unveiling new paintings alongside collaboration releases such as a limited Be@rbrick, marking English’s debut in Tokyo’s designer-toy and pop-art crossover scene. | [42] |
| 2011 | October 6 – 30, 2011 | Post No Bills | Venice, California, US | English 101 | Venice Beach presentation combining editioned prints, toys, sculptures, and billboard-scale graphics, emphasizing English’s pop-imagery vocabulary inside Post No Bills’ print-driven space. | [44] |
| 2011 | November 19 – December 10, 2011 | Corey Helford Gallery | Culver City (Los Angeles), California, US | Seasons in Supurbia | Debut of an eighteen-painting series examining suburban consumer culture through allegory and satire. The show’s critical reception highlighted English’s use of lush color and hybridized characters as a critique of American idealism. | [49] |
| 2012 | May 10 – 20, 2012 | Webb’s Auction House & Gallery | Auckland, New Zealand | Ron English Exhibition | English’s first New Zealand solo exhibition, presented at Webb’s as part of the Semi-Permanent side programme. The show featured paintings, limited editions and installations introducing his “POPaganda” aesthetic to Auckland’s contemporary art audience. | [52] |
| 2012 | November 1 – 29, 2012 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Crucial Fiction | Exhibition presenting new paintings and pop-saturated compositions, expanding English’s recurring characters and advertising parodies into more surreal narrative tableaux. | [56] |
| 2013 | June 8 – July 6, 2013 | The Clutter Gallery | Beacon, New York, US | Thought Factory | Solo exhibition at The Clutter Gallery presenting original drawings, studies, and custom toy releases. Thought Factory offered a rare look into English’s creative process, showing sketches that inform his designer toys and pop-surrealist imagery. | [58] |
| 2013 | June 8 – July 28, 2013 | X on Main | Beacon, New York, US | Between the Scenes | Photographic and installation-based exhibition documenting English’s studio world and the creative community surrounding his Beacon practice, presented at the artist-run X on Main space. | [61] |
| 2013 | October 26 – November 16, 2013 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | POPAGANDASTAN – New Works from Ron English | Major solo exhibition of new paintings expanding English’s satirical universe of brand icons and mythic consumer figures. The show marked his continued evolution within pop surrealism and included monumental canvases exploring cultural fantasy and identity. | [64] |
| 2014 | October 21 – December 21, 2014 | CAIXA Cultural Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Ron English – Do Estúdio para a Rua | Major institutional exhibition presenting over 110 works by Ron English at CAIXA Cultural Rio. The show combined paintings, sculpture, murals, and video screenings, offering the most comprehensive Brazilian survey of his career to date. | [65] |
| 2014 | December 21 to late December 2014 | Secret Fresh Gallery (Ronac Art Center) | Manila, Philippines | Ron English X Secret Fresh | Holiday-period run at Secret Fresh extending the Manila presentation, with continued display of signature figures and follow-up society coverage documenting the exhibition’s reception in the city’s art and toy community. | [68] |
| 2015 | December 12, 2015 – January 9, 2016 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | NeoNature: We Are the New They | Major solo show inaugurating Corey Helford’s new downtown Los Angeles space, presenting Ron English’s “NeoNature” universe of hybrid animals, large paintings and sculptures that imagine a future ecology shaped by genetic engineering and consumer culture. | [71] |
| 2016 | February 20 – March 31, 2016 | Dorothy Circus Gallery | Rome, Italy | Sugar High | Solo exhibition at Dorothy Circus Gallery where Ron English used saccharine mascots, processed foods and candy-box color to critique overconsumption and food culture, filling the Rome gallery with paintings and sculptures that pushed his “POPaganda” characters into a confectionery, almost cartoonish environment. | [74] |
| 2016 | September 22 – October 19, 2016 | Allouche Gallery | New York, New York, US | Ron English / Guernica | Solo exhibition in Allouche’s new Meatpacking District space, bringing together eighteen new paintings that rework Picasso’s Guernica to reflect on cycles of creation and destruction in contemporary politics and mass media. | [78] |
| 2017 | March 19 – April 19, 2017 | JPS Gallery (Repulse Bay|The Pulse) | Hong Kong, China | Garden of Mutant Plants | Immersive installation of Ron English’s “mutant” plant characters at The Pulse in Repulse Bay, transforming the mall’s JPS Gallery space into a fantastical garden environment aimed at families and passersby along Hong Kong’s beachfront. | [81] |
| 2017 | April 4 – December 10, 2017 | Museo de la Paz de Gernika | Gernika-Lumo, Bizkaia, Spain | Ron English: Reimagining Guernica | Solo museum project marking the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika, in which English reinterprets Picasso’s Guernica and related imagery to address war, memory and mass media, presented as part of the Gernika Peace Museum’s commemorative program in the Basque Country. | [84] |
| 2017 | May 6–14, 2017 | The Qube, PMQ | Hong Kong, China | East Meets West | Hong Kong solo exhibition at The Qube, PMQ, presenting Ron English’s POPaganda billboards and paintings alongside limited-edition “East Meets West” merchandise and collaborations during a week-long Central venue run. | [87] |
| 2017 | December 2–30, 2017 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | TOYBOX: America in the Visuals | Solo exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery presenting new large-scale paintings and sculptures in which English treats America itself as a toy box, crowding the space with distorted mascots, cereal icons and brand parodies that probe consumer culture and nostalgia. | [90] |
| 2017 | late 2017 – January 2018 (reception January 6, 2018) | Gallery @ The Falcon | Marlboro, New York, US | POPaganda | Exhibition at Gallery @ The Falcon featuring framed photos and POPaganda circus-style banners from Ron English’s Delusionville universe. | [93] |
| 2018 | October 11 – November 25, 2018 | Allouche Gallery | New York, New York, US | Delusionville | Solo exhibition of new paintings and sculpture expanding English’s Delusionville universe, filling Allouche’s Gansevoort Street space with mash-ups of cartoon mascots, advertising icons and art-historical references, plus a section of collaborative works with Daniel Johnston. | [95] |
| 2018 | October 18 – November 18, 2018 | Galerie Matthew Namour | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Universal Grin | Solo exhibition in Old Montréal featuring paintings and sculpture centered on Ron English’s “Grin” iconography. | [98] |
| 2019 | May 24, 2019 (opening) | Red Truck Gallery | New Orleans, Louisiana, US | Mojo Voodoo / Heavy Metal Muzick | Red Truck Gallery presented Mojo Voodoo / Heavy Metal Muzick as a Ron English solo show, unveiling new paintings and works that fused voodoo-inflected imagery, music iconography, and his signature pop characters in a dense, lowbrow-surreal installation. | [101] |
| 2019 | June 21 – July 14, 2019 | Pop Life Global Q-Plex | Shenzhen, China | English Translation Series | Pop Life Global’s Q-Plex space hosted Ron English’s solo exhibition English Translation Series, presenting new canvases, sculptures and designer-toy works that extended his POPaganda characters into a large-scale installation environment tailored for the Shenzhen audience. | [103] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | January 27 – February 27, 2000 | Sam Cintron Gallery | Jersey City, New Jersey, US | Modernism for a New Millennium | Solo exhibition at Sam Cintron Gallery presenting new paintings by Ron English. The show opened on Thursday, January 27, 2000, with an evening reception from 6:30–9:30 pm. Promotional material highlights works such as English’s 1996 oil painting Weeping Women. | [104] |
| 2002 | October 3 – December 3, 2002 | Soma NYC — Counter Culture Store-Gallery | New York, New York, US | Draw the Crime: The Subversions of Ron English | Solo exhibition at Soma NYC presenting Ron English’s politically charged billboard works and pop-culture interventions. The show opened on October 3 with a 7–11 pm reception and featured pieces such as *KISS Kids on Coke*, aligning with the artist’s anti-advertising and culture-jamming practice. Documented in a period street-art archive and confirmed by the original showcard. | [105] |
| 2003 | May 2, 2003 | FIFTY24SF Gallery (Upper Playground) | San Francisco, California, US | Ron English | San Francisco solo presented with Upper Playground; the gallery archive highlights pop-culture icon remixes (Marilyn, Mona Lisa, Warhol) that foreshadowed later series shown at the space. | [107] |
| 2003 | September 5, 2003 | Plush Lounge, Key Club | Los Angeles, California, US | POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English | One-night presentation at the Key Club’s Plush Lounge premiering new artworks created for The Dandy Warhols’ album Welcome to the Monkey House, paired with a sneak preview screening of the documentary POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English. | [109] |
| 2004 | November 20, 2004 | Marcoart Gallery | New York, New York, US | Ron English | Solo exhibition at Marcoart Gallery in the Lower East Side, presented by Marcoart and Duro CIA. Promotional material describes English’s work in billboard subversion, pop-icon satire, and culture-jamming, highlighting his reinterpretations of mass-media imagery and corporate mascots. | [110] |
| 2005 | 27–28 March 2005 | Arte Vista The Pop-Art Gallery | Badhoevedorp, Netherlands | Ron English Exhibition | Two-day Easter weekend pop-art exhibition at Arte Vista The Pop-Art Gallery in Badhoevedorp; the Dutch invitation notes that Ron English officially opened the show at 13:00 on Sunday, 27 March 2005, and reproduces his absinthe- and Marilyn-themed paintings. | [113] |
| 2005 | May 28 – July 2, 2005 | Varnish Fine Art | San Francisco, California, US | Son of Pop | Solo program centered on pop iconography and culture-jamming motifs, launched with preview events and anchored to Varnish’s early summer schedule in SoMa. | [114] |
| 2006 | October 14 – November 11, 2006 | Robert Berman Gallery (Berman/Turner Projects, Bergamot Station) | Santa Monica, California, US | Ron English — New Works | Los Angeles presentation of new paintings and studio works under the Berman/Turner program at Bergamot Station, showcasing English’s evolving POPaganda iconography within the gallery’s contemporary roster. | [117] |
| 2007 | 29 Nov – late Dec 2007 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Big Picture Pop | Solo exhibition at Opera Gallery’s SoHo location featuring large-scale canvases and sculptural works that extended English’s pop-icon vocabulary into a New York gallery setting during the 2007 holiday season. | [118] |
| 2008 | November 1 – December 6, 2008 | Shooting Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | The Secret History of KISS | Solo exhibition timed to the 2008 election season, featuring new paintings and installations satirizing celebrity, politics, and branding. The series reimagined the rock band KISS through English’s trademark “popaganda” lens, with extensive local coverage and strong turnout at the Larkin Street space. | [122] |
| 2009 | January 8–29, 2009 | FIFTY24SF Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Mythographic Vicissitudes | Early-2009 presentation of new figurative works at Upper Playground’s FIFTY24SF space. The show blended pop iconography and allegory, with coverage emphasizing English’s evolving use of mythic and consumerist symbolism. | [128] |
| 2009 | May 8 – June 6, 2009 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, United Kingdom | Lazarus Rising | The artist’s first UK solo with Elms Lesters, Lazarus Rising unveiled monumental reinterpretations of Guernica and other politically charged works, accompanied by a hardcover catalogue documenting the exhibition. | [131] |
| 2009 | July 9 – August 25, 2009 | The Don Gallery (Via Cola Montano 15) | Milan, Italy | Ron English | The artist’s first Italian solo exhibition at The Don Gallery showcased new paintings and sculptures that blend political satire and pop iconography, presented to a Milan audience through the gallery’s contemporary-art program. | [134] |
| 2009 | Nov 12 – Dec 2, 2009 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Immortal Underground | Fall solo exhibition at Opera Gallery’s SoHo location, pairing new “Popaganda” paintings with theatrical staging and large-format portraits. The opening drew significant press for its elaborate presentation and crowd, positioning English among the key figures in Pop Surrealism’s New York circuit. | [136] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1990s | December 12 (c. 1990s) | Art Bar & Café | Dallas, Texas, US | Ron English | Exhibition of paintings by New York artist Ron English at Art Bar & Café, followed by a Club Clearview CD-release party for Dallas band The Sutcliffes; showcard positions the evening as a solo presentation. | [139] |
| 1990 | February 11 – March 3, 1990 | Thomas V. Robinson / Robinson Galleries | Houston, Texas, US | Ron English (FotoFest ’90) | Solo exhibition of Ron English’s photographic work presented as part of FotoFest ’90. The exhibition featured English’s composite photographic constructions merging real people, urban settings, and hand-drawn cardboard figures to create deliberately contradictory scenes that challenge viewer perception. Also included were works from his “American Sideshows” series addressing contemporary U.S. social issues through the visual language of rundown carnival attractions. An opening reception with the artist was held on February 11, 1990. | [140] |
| 1990 | May 5 – June 2, 1990 | The Art Store | New York, New York, US | New Paintings | Solo exhibition of new paintings at The Art Store on Downing Street, with opening reception on 5 May. | [142] |
| 1991 | September 14 – October 13, 1991 | Gallery Stendhal | New York, New York, US | Inbred/Hybrid | Solo exhibition presenting new work by Ron English at Gallery Stendhal. The show juxtaposed English’s satirical pop-surrealist imagery with iconic “high art” references, including a reworking of Picasso’s Guernica, praised for honoring the original’s themes while sharply critiquing its cultural canonization. Contemporary press noted the exhibition as English’s first solo show at the gallery and highlighted its provocative engagement with art-historical icons. | [143] |
| 1992 | February 9 – (date unspecified), 1992 | Thomas V. Robinson Galleries | Houston, Texas, US | Pop America | Solo exhibition of Ron English’s paintings and photographic works, presented at Robinson Galleries. The show included major early canvases such as Batman & Boy Wonder (1991) and received coverage in The Houston Post, which highlighted the exhibition’s focus on English’s satirical exploration of U.S. culture. | [144] |
| 1992 | November 12 – December 12, 1992 | Gallery Stendhal | New York, New York, US | HEY! My Kid Could Do That! | Solo exhibition of new work by Ron English at Gallery Stendhal, presenting his satirical, Neo-Pop pictorial approach. The accompanying feature article in *Absolute Collection* (October 1992) describes the exhibition as part of English’s broader exploration of appropriation, childhood iconography, and cultural critique—linking the show to his collaborative drawings with family members, his reworkings of popular characters, and his longstanding practice of billboard interventions. Art purchases benefited the Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art children’s program. | [146] |
| 1992 | November 19 – December 2, 1992 | Clark & Company (Galleries 1054) | Washington, D.C., US | Ron English — Inaugural Exhibition at Clark & Company | First Washington, D.C. exhibition of New York pop artist Ron English, showcasing satirical oil paintings noted for their bold social commentary. Works described as “the bad boy English is known for,” including repainted billboards and pieces addressing alcohol culture, public propaganda, and other socio-political themes. Coverage in *The Georgetowner* highlighted the show’s provocative tone and its likely potential to “raise a few eyebrows and probably cause some controversy.” | [148] |
| 1992 | November – December 17, 1992 | Clark & Company | Washington, D.C., US | Ron English — Solo Exhibition (Washington Debut) | Solo presentation of Ron English’s oil paintings marking his inaugural exhibition in the Washington, D.C. area. Press coverage highlights the political edge of his canvases and his reputation for billboard interventions addressing issues such as alcohol, smoking, reproductive rights, and vegetarianism. | [149] |
| 1993 | March 24, 1993 | Debris at USA (Big Bottom Lounge) | New York, New York, US | Recent Works by Ron English | One-night presentation of recent paintings by English at the Big Bottom Lounge inside Debris at Club USA in Times Square, positioned as a focused studio-style snapshot of his early-1990s work. | [150] |
| 1994 | February 5 – March 19, 1994 | Tunnel Gallery | New York, New York, US | Ron English: Recent Works | Solo exhibition of recent paintings by Ron English at Tunnel Gallery; promotional materials highlight his billboard-based work Jesus Christ on Family Values among the featured pieces. | [151] |
| 1994 | February 5 – March 19, 1994 | Wunderlich Gallery | Austin, Texas, US | Art in Heaven | Traveling solo exhibition of English’s paintings, drawings and photographs at Wunderlich Gallery, with opening reception on 5 February. | [152] |
| 1994 | June 30 – July 30, 1994 | Michael Kisslinger Gallery | New York, New York, US | Art in Heaven | Solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs by English at Michael Kisslinger Gallery in SoHo, with opening reception on 30 June. | [153] |
| 1994–1995 | December 2, 1994 – January 1, 1995 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC | Washington, DC, US | Revisionist Modernism | Solo exhibition presenting Ron English’s satirical reinterpretations of canonical works by artists such as Manet, Warhol, Kahlo, and Jasper Johns. Coverage noted his technique of re-working art-historical icons into humorous critiques, including works like “Luncheon on the Grass,” “Money is the Root of All Art,” “The Anti-Warhol,” and “Ron in My Thoughts.” | [154] |
| 1996 | 1996 | Maxwell’s (Jonathan LeVine presents) | Hoboken, New Jersey, US | The Art of Ron English | Early solo organized by curator/dealer Jonathan LeVine at Maxwell’s—best known as a seminal music venue that also hosted exhibitions—presenting paintings, photography, drawings, and giclée editions by English. The show is referenced in LeVine’s career history and documented by a period promotional card. | [155] |
| 1996 | April 11, 1996 | Den of Thieves | New York, New York, US | New Giclée Canvases | Late-night Camel Lights event at Den of Thieves presenting a set of new giclée canvases by English, functioning as a compact solo display within the nightclub context. | [158] |
| 1996 | October 18, 1996 | The Gem | Los Angeles, California, US | Ron English at The Gem | One-night lounge exhibition on Melrose Avenue presenting paintings by English, organized by Camel Lights and 01 Gallery with DJ set and Absolut Vodka reception. | [159] |
| 1997 | April 3 – April 30, 1997 | Gallery Stendhal | New York, New York, US | Agit-Pop America | Solo exhibition presenting new works by Ron English, including the large-scale oil painting Culture Wars (1996). The show continued English’s satirical reworkings of American pop culture and art-historical iconography. | [160] |
| 1998 | July 31 – August 16, 1998 | Noiseville Gallery | New York, New York, US | Noiseville 98 | Solo exhibition at Noiseville Gallery; included early imagery of English’s crucified Mickey Mouse on a mousetrap, a Popaganda image critiquing the Disney-ization of Times Square that later became a recurring motif in his work. | [162] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1979 | December 7 | Kwikwash Gallery | Houston, Texas, US | Annus ... Mirabilis | Photography-based exhibition titled “Eye/Hand Coordination — Annus ... Mirabilis,” held at Kwikwash Gallery, 3207 Montrose, with an evening opening from 7–10 p.m. | [164] |
| 1988 | 11 August – 3 September 1988 | Fotogalerie Prinsengracht 356 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Ron English | Early European solo exhibition of Ron English’s photographic work, exploring the tension between documenting reality and creating illusionistic scenes without darkroom manipulation. The showcard describes his images as “straight” photographs presenting staged three-dimensional tableaux rendered as two-dimensional illusions. | [165] |
| 1989 | March 4–25, 1989 | OK Harris Works of Art | New York, New York, US | Ron English | Solo exhibition at OK Harris presenting English’s early photographic works, including trompe-l’oeil stagings and illusionistic constructed scenes; one of his first documented New York solo shows. | [166] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | April 3 – April 25, 2020 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Last Gasp: 50th Anniversary Group Show | Group exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery celebrating fifty years of underground-comix publisher Last Gasp, bringing together work by artists long associated with the press, including Ron English, whose pieces were shown alongside classic lowbrow and comix figures. | [168] |
| 2020 | April 13 – May 15, 2020 | Dorothy Circus Gallery | London, UK | Dorothy Circus + Street Art | Gallery showcase in London bringing together street- and pop-surrealist artists represented by Dorothy Circus, with Ron English featured through works such as his politically charged Abraham Obama bust, placing his satirical iconography alongside other street-art figures in a curated “vault” of the gallery’s urban-art program. | [171] |
| 2020 | 1 June – 31 December 2020 | Galerie Matthew Namour (online) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Exposition générale en ligne | Long-running online exhibition from Galerie Matthew Namour presenting a rotating selection of works by its core artists, including Ron English along with Shepard Fairey, Ravi Zupa and others, functioning as a digital showroom of the gallery’s street- and pop-art roster during the second half of 2020. | [174] |
| 2020 | June 8, 2020 | Allouche Gallery (online) | New York City, US | Ron English & Sebastian Wahl: One Artist, One Work | Online two-artist presentation organized by Allouche Gallery, pairing a single representative work by Ron English with one by Sebastian Wahl in a focused digital viewing format. | [176] |
| 2021 | May 22 – June 26, 2021 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | 15 Year Anniversary Show – Part 2 | Second installment of Corey Helford Gallery’s fifteenth-anniversary celebration, filling the space with a large survey of new and recent works by its stable, including Ron English. | [177] |
| 2021 | July 17 – August 28, 2021 | Southampton Arts Center | Southampton, New York, US | BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER | Museum-scale survey of works on paper curated by BEYOND THE STREETS. | [181] |
| 2021 | October 28 – November 25, 2021 | Allouche Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Allouche Gallery Los Angeles — Grand Opening | Grand-opening exhibition introducing Allouche Gallery’s Los Angeles space with a roster of the gallery’s signature artists, including Ron English and collaborative works related to Daniel Johnston. | [183] |
| 2021–2022 | December 18, 2021 – January 29, 2022 | Ethan Cohen Gallery | New York, New York, US | The Last Word | Group exhibition centered on text-based practices, calligraphy, and graffiti-influenced mark-making. Ron English was shown alongside artists exploring the visual language of letters and script across Eastern and Western traditions. | [186] |
| 2022 | February 16–23, 2022 | Ethan Cohen Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Reality Check | Inaugural Los Angeles exhibition for Ethan Cohen Gallery, presenting work by Ron English alongside Ai Weiwei, Aboudia, Thomas Deininger, Edwin Schlossberg, Victor Ekpuk and Yigal Ozeri. English was represented in the show with works such as Cowgirl Guernica. | [188] |
| 2022 | March 5 – March 31 2022 | Waltham Fine Art | Waltham, UK | Hidden Treasures | Three-artist presentation at Waltham Fine Art showcasing works by Ron English alongside Otto Schade and bigglesworth, pairing English’s pop-inflected imagery with contemporary street-influenced painting and drawing. | [190] |
| 2022 | April 10 – July 17, 2022 | Castello di Desenzano del Garda | Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Italy | Banksy è chi Banksy fa! An Unconventional Street Art Exhibition | Group exhibition curated by Michele Ciolino & Matteo Vanzan, featuring high-profile street-art figures including Ron English; held at the Castello di Desenzano del Garda under the banner of exploring the “Banksy phenomenon.” | [191] |
| 2022 | June 2 – June 20, 2022 | Shout Art Hub & Gallery | Hong Kong, China | Some Like It Hot – Monroe and Faces of Pop Culture | Themed exhibition focusing on Marilyn Monroe imagery and pop-culture portraiture, bringing together works by Ron English and other artists who rework celebrity icons through contemporary pop and street-art styles. | [194] |
| 2022 | June 4 – October 30, 2022 | KuBe Art Center (Ethan Cohen Gallery) | Beacon, New York, US | Birds of a Feather: A Group Exhibition Curated by Joseph Ayers and Ethan Cohen | Large group exhibition filling the multi-level KuBe Art Center with painting, sculpture and installation by a wide roster of artists, including English. | [196] |
| 2022 | July 26 – August 26, 2022 | Patrick Jones Gallery | Dallas, Texas, US | Blue Chip Artists | Group exhibition presenting works by Patrick Jones Gallery’s roster of contemporary “blue chip” artists, with Ron English shown alongside other market-established names. | [199] |
| 2022 | October 17 – November 17, 2022 | Jonathan LeVine Projects | Jersey City, New Jersey, US | Pop Surrealist Classics from the Vault | Gallery group show drawing on Jonathan LeVine Projects’ archive of pop-surrealist works, presenting “vault” pieces by English and other core artists. | [202] |
| 2023 | January 28 – March 4, 2023 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Art Collector Starter Kit IX | Ninth edition of Corey Helford’s annual small-works showcase designed for emerging collectors, featuring compact pieces by gallery artists including English. | [205] |
| 2023 | June 1 – October 6, 2023 | 475 Amsterdam Avenue (G Editions project space) | New York City, New York, US | Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop | Print exhibition of hip-hop–related silkscreen works presented first in Jersey City and then at G Editions’ Upper West Side space, featuring artists including Cey Adams, Charlie Ahearn, Janette Beckman, CRASH, DAZE, Al Diaz, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Bob Gruen and others. | [208] |
| 2023 | October 7 – November 11, 2023 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Literartistry: Art Inspired by the Written Word | Group exhibition where artists created pieces based on novels, poems and other texts, with English contributing POPaganda works shaped by literary sources. | [209] |
| 2023 | December 5 – December 25, 2023 | Jonathan LeVine Projects | Jersey City / online, US | Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Invader, DFace, Ron English, Raymond Pettibon, Mark Ryden, Jeff Soto, Jason deCaires Taylor, Shag, Kumkum Fernando ... | Jonathan LeVine Projects exhibition assembling works by leading pop, street and contemporary artists. Ron English was shown alongside Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Mark Ryden and others in a curated end-of-year presentation. | [211] |
| 2025 | January 13 – February 9, 2025 | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK | Cold Turkey | Group exhibition at StolenSpace using post-holiday themes of food-feasting and restraint, pairing Ron English’s consumer-culture satires with other artists’ imagery of leftovers, cravings and diet culture. | [213] |
| 2025 | March 8 – April 5, 2025 | Brassworks Gallery | Portland, Oregon, US | Is It Still Life? | Pop-surrealist group show curated by KRK Ryden, bringing together English’s painting Dead Duck with works by Mark Ryden, Marion Peck and others to stretch the idea of still life toward cartoon icons, horror and dark humour. | [215] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015 | Gallery Nine5 | New York, New York, US | Brand Loyalty; I’m Lovin’ It | Natalie Kates’s branding-themed exhibition at 24 Spring Street assembled artists examining corporate identity, advertising language, and logo culture through Pop-influenced painting, sculpture and mixed-media works, with a video component documented on the gallery’s channels. | [217] |
| 2015 | January 22 – February 15, 2015 | Somerset House | London, UK | Mapping the City | Large-scale exhibition in Somerset House’s New Wing where more than fifty artists—including English—reimagined maps and city plans through street-art and graphic languages, linking cartography to urban experience. | [220] |
| 2015 | January 24 – February 7, 2015 | Corey Helford Gallery (CHG Circa) | Culver City, California, US | Freaks And Americana: An Exploration of Big Top Culture | CHG Circa’s circus-themed survey brought together contemporary figurative and Pop-surrealist artists responding to sideshow lore, carnival aesthetics, and historical big-top imagery, framed through Corey Helford’s curatorial focus on Americana motifs. | [222] |
| 2015 | May 15 – December 31, 2015 | Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain | Rabat, Morocco | Main Street | Museum exhibition of urban and street-influenced art curated by Print Them All, bringing artists such as Ron English, Maya Hayuk, Miss Van, Tilt and others into the Mohammed VI Museum for a months-long presentation of large-scale works and editions. | [226] |
| 2015 | May 23 – July 18, 2015 | CHG Circa (Corey Helford Gallery) | Culver City, California, US | Product Displacement | Group exhibition at CHG Circa in which English and peers reworked advertising, packaging, and brand mascots, using pop-surrealist strategies to question consumer culture and the seduction of commercial imagery. | [229] |
| 2015 | July 16 – August 1, 2015 | Joseph Gross Gallery | New York, New York, US | Summer Group Show | Chelsea summer exhibition at Joseph Gross Gallery featuring Ron English alongside Sebastian Wahl, Joseph Grazi and other gallery artists, opening with a reception on 16 July and running through 1 August as a survey of the gallery’s program across painting, collage and sculpture. | [231] |
| 2015 | July 18 – September 6, 2015 | Museum of Art & History (MOAH) | Lancaster, California, US | Play. Create. Collect. | Summer exhibition cycle at MOAH built around play, making, and collecting, bringing together toy-based art and related installations by artists including Ron English and launching with VIP and public openings in mid-July 2015. | [233] |
| 2015 | October 23 – December 13, 2015 | Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (Haverford College) | Haverford, Pennsylvania, US | The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall | Curated group exhibition at Haverford College tracing how American artists responded to the Berlin Wall and Cold War border politics, with works by English and others placed in dialogue around memory, ideology, and the afterlife of the Wall in U.S. visual culture. | [235] |
| 2015 | September 17 – October 10, 2015 | One Art Space | New York, New York, US | Attack the Block | Group show at One Art Space surveying contemporary street art, with English shown alongside figures such as Faile, Shepard Fairey, Retna, Bast, Swoon, Dan Witz, and Anthony Lister in a dense presentation of mural-inspired studio work. | [237] |
| 2015–2016 | September 18, 2015 – March 13, 2016 | Halle Saint Pierre | Paris, France | HEY! modern art & pop culture / Act III | Third chapter of the HEY! series at Halle Saint Pierre, expanding its survey of Pop-inflected, outsider, lowbrow and comics-derived visual cultures through an eclectic international roster, accompanied by essays and media coverage connecting the show to Paris’s alternative-art circuits. | [238] |
| 2015 | October 10, 2015 – March 13, 2016 | Station Museum of Contemporary Art | Houston, Texas, US | Corpocracy | Politically charged group exhibition at the Station Museum examining corporate power and U.S. capitalism, where English’s large installation of reworked brand mascots and ad slogans stood out among works by Steve Lambert, Dread Scott, the Beehive Design Collective, and others. | [241] |
| 2015 | November 5, 2015 – January 9, 2016 | Riverside Art Museum | Riverside, California, US | Baby Tattooville: Local Love | Annual pop-surrealist survey organized by Bob Self at Riverside Art Museum, gathering a core Baby Tattooville circle—including English, Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, Isabel Samaras and others—for a regional “local love” showcase of lowbrow painting and illustration. | [243] |
| 2016 | January 23, 2016 | 312 Bowery / The Hole | New York, New York, US | The Art of a Political Revolution | New York stop of the nationwide “Artists for Bernie” exhibition series, mobilizing visual artists—including Ron English—around themes of grassroots political engagement. | [244] |
| 2016 | February – 24 March 2016 | Lazarides (Rathbone Place) | London, UK | Still Here — A Decade of Lazarides | Tenth-anniversary survey at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place gallery, assembling a large roster of artists associated with the space over the years, including English, to chart the gallery’s role in bringing street and urban art into the London gallery scene. | [245] |
| 2016 | March 17–26, 2016 | Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery (S/2) | Hong Kong, China | They Would Be Kings — An Exhibition Curated by Steve Lazarides | 2 Hong Kong gallery. | [248] |
| 2016 | April 1 – April 30, 2016 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Last Gasp 46th Anniversary — Group Exhibition | Anniversary exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery celebrating publisher Ron Turner and Last Gasp’s 46 years in underground and alternative comics, with tribute works by Ron English, Gary Baseman, Isabel Samaras, Skinner, Mark Bode, Sam Flores and other lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists closely associated with the press. | [251] |
| 2016 | May 22 – December 31, 2016 | Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) | Virginia Beach, Virginia, US | Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose | Museum survey organized with Hi-Fructose magazine, presenting landmark works by artists associated with the publication’s first decade, including Ron English, in an exhibition that opened at Virginia MOCA before embarking on a multi-venue tour. | [252] |
| 2016 | June 29 – August 28, 2016 | Matthew Namour Gallery | Montréal, Canada | Grand Opening | Inaugural group exhibition for Matthew Namour’s Old Montréal space, assembling more than 25 lowbrow and street artists; Ron English was represented with oil paintings such as Temper Tupac and Temper Biggie. | [255] |
| 2016 | August 27 – September 24, 2016 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | 10th Anniversary Exhibition | Large-scale gala group show marking Corey Helford Gallery’s tenth anniversary in downtown Los Angeles, assembling a wide roster of pop-surrealist and lowbrow artists—with Ron English included—to celebrate the gallery’s history and showcase recent work across painting, sculpture and installation. | [258] |
| 2016 | August 3 – August 20, 2016 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery | New York, New York, US | Cluster: A Group Show of Groupings | Summer group exhibition at Jonathan LeVine’s 529 West 20th Street space in Chelsea, bringing together Ron English, Anton Vill, Charlie Immer, Dylon Egon, Gary Mellon, Luke O'Sullivan, Troy Coulterman and others around the idea of sculptural and pictorial “clusters” of works installed in conversation with one another. | [261] |
| 2016 | September 17 – October 9, 2016 | Beinart Gallery | Brunswick (Melbourne), Australia | Small Works 2016 | Annual small-format survey at Beinart Gallery, bringing together more than fifty artists—including English, Josh Keyes, Henrik Uldalen, Jana Brike, Tiffany Bozic and others—for an international showcase of detailed small-scale works. | [264] |
| 2016–2017 | 26 November 2016 – 8 January 2017 | The AB Factory | Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy | Multi Street ART | Exhibition of multiples and unique works by leading street artists, presented with Milan’s The Don Gallery and featuring pieces by Banksy, Invader, KAWS, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, JonOne and others, marking one of the first large street-art surveys in Sardinia. | [266] |
| 2016–2017 | Active by April 2017 | 4 World Trade Center, 69th floor | New York, New York, US | Graffiti in the Sky | Skyscraper-level studio and exhibition project on the 69th floor of 4 World Trade Center, where a group of New York street and pop artists—including Ron English, with his large-scale painting No Brain No Pain—created and displayed murals and canvases overlooking Lower Manhattan as part of a temporary high-rise art space. | [269] |
| 2018 | 2018 (dates unspecified) | 4 World Trade Center, 69th floor | New York, New York, US | Street to Tower | Large-format exhibition on the 69th floor of 4 World Trade Center, co-curated by Izzy Church and Gil Goren and organized by Silverstein Properties. Presented dozens of New York–connected urban and street artists; Goren notes that he was one of only two non-American participants and that he exhibited there alongside Ron English, Whisbe, Buff Monster and others. | [272] |
| 2017 | January 19 – February 12, 2017 | Kimball Art Center | Park City, Utah, US | Thirty-Three: Celebrating 33 Years of the Independent Spirit & Sundance Film Festival | Exhibition timed to the Sundance Film Festival, curated by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock with Gallery1988, gathering 33 pop and contemporary artists including English to reflect the festival’s independent, boundary-pushing spirit. | [274] |
| 2017 | February 11 – May 7, 2017 | Akron Art Museum | Akron, OH, US | Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose | Akron Art Museum leg of the touring survey drawn from the first decade of Hi-Fructose magazine, assembling paintings, sculptures, and installations by featured artists including Ron English in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries. | [276] |
| 2017 | February 18 – March 18, 2017 | Jonathan LeVine Projects @ Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, New Jersey, US | Welcome to New Jersey | Inaugural group exhibition inaugurating Jonathan LeVine Projects’ Jersey City space at Mana Contemporary, gathering a large roster of the gallery’s New Contemporary artists—including Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Miss Van and others—as a statement show for the new location. | [277] |
| 2017 | April 22 – July 9, 2017 | Fort Wayne Museum of Art | Fort Wayne, Indiana, US | JUXTAPOZED | Large New Contemporary survey co-presented with Thinkspace Projects, bringing together dozens of artists associated with Juxtapoz magazine, including Ron English, in a thematic exploration of lowbrow, pop surrealism and street-influenced painting within a museum setting. | [280] |
| 2017 | May 7 – October 1, 2017 | MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma | Rome, Italy | Cross the Streets — 40 anni di Street Art e Writing | Large-scale survey of forty years of street art and writing at MACRO (Via Nizza 138), with Pop Surrealism sections that include Ron English’s work (for example, his Mc Supersized sculpture). | [283] |
| 2017 | June 11 – September 17, 2017 | Crocker Art Museum | Sacramento, California, US | Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose | Touring survey of artists featured in Hi-Fructose magazine’s first decade, with the Crocker stop presenting English alongside more than fifty pop-surrealist and new-contemporary figures in a museum context. | [287] |
| 2017 | June 29 – July 30, 2017 | Galerie Matthew Namour | Montréal, Quebec, Canada | 1st Birthday! | Anniversary group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s first year in Old Montréal, with works by Ron English alongside artists such as Banksy, Blek le Rat, FAILE, Shepard Fairey and others. | [289] </ref> |
| 2017 | July 15 – August 19, 2017 | Copro Gallery (Bergamot Station) | Santa Monica, California, US | HEAVY METAL — 40th Anniversary Art Show | Anniversary group show at Copro Gallery marking four decades of Heavy Metal magazine, gathering English with a large roster of fantasy, comics and pop-surrealist artists whose paintings and drawings echoed the publication’s sci-fi and countercultural legacy. | [290] |
| 2017 | July 29 – September 23, 2017 | The Gallery @ The Civic | Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK | The Toy Box: From Pop to Present | Exhibition at The Civic exploring toy culture from Pop art to contemporary practice, with works by artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, KAWS, Jimmy Cauty and Ron English. | [293] |
| 2017 | September 16, 2017 (opening) | URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art | Berlin, Germany | Grand Opening — Inaugural Exhibition | Inaugural exhibition of Berlin’s URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, unveiling works by around 100 international street and graffiti artists, with Ron English included in the opening-week program and Artmile celebrations. | [297] |
| 2017–2018 | December 7, 2017 – January 6, 2018 | Fabien Castanier Gallery (Wynwood) | Miami, Florida, US | POPADELIC | Three-artist show in Wynwood bringing together new work by Speedy Graphito, English and Fidia Falaschetti, blending pop imagery and psychedelic color in paintings and sculpture timed to coincide with Miami’s Art Basel and Art Miami week. | [300] |
| 2018 | January 13 – February 3, 2018 | Clutter Gallery | Beacon, NY, US | I Heart Skull! | Heart Skull–themed custom exhibition at Clutter Gallery, built around Ron English’s Heart Skull sculpt and featuring one-off interpretations by a roster of invited artists for a dedicated toy-art showcase. | [302] |
| 2018 | July 7–28, 2018 | Spoke Art Gallery | New York, New York, US | Suggestivism: Resonance | Chapter of the traveling Suggestivism: Resonance survey presented at Spoke Art’s New York space, including work by Ron English among other artists. | [305] |
| 2018 | October 11 – November 25, 2018 | Allouche Gallery | New York City, US | Delusionville (includes collaborative section “Rival Verses” with Daniel Johnston) | Exhibition at Allouche Gallery presenting Ron English’s latest studio paintings and sculptures, and featuring a dedicated collaborative sub-section titled “Rival Verses” with Daniel Johnston, developed through decades of friendship and creative exchange. | [308] |
| 2018 | December 15, 2018 – February 18, 2019 | Mandarin Oriental (pop-up) | Taipei, Taiwan | All the Rage (Urban Art Exhibition) | Major urban-art pop-up organized by Dopeness Art Lab at the Mandarin Oriental Taipei, featuring international street and pop artists including Ron English. | [310] |
| 2019 | April 6 – May 11, 2019 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Lucky 13 Anniversary Show, Pt. 1: Fine Art of Street & Graffiti | First chapter of Corey Helford’s Lucky 13 anniversary, a large group survey of street and graffiti art curated with RISK and featuring Ron English alongside an international roster of muralists and urban artists. | [311] |
| 2018 | May 17 – June 17, 2018 | Galerie Matthew Namour | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Group Exhibition | Group show at Galerie Matthew Namour featuring Ron English alongside Augustine Kofie, Kevin Ledo, Reach, Remi Rough, Reso, Rubin 415, Gary Taxali and Ravi Zupa; English was represented with paintings including Bowling for Bunnies, Guernica Ground Troops and Cowgirl Guernica. | [316] |
| 2019 | May 18 – June 22, 2019 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Pop Surrealism & New Figurative | Group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s “Lucky 13” anniversary, featuring Ron English alongside artists such as D*Face, HUSH, RISK and EINE in a showcase of pop-surreal-influenced painting and new figurative styles. | [318] |
| 2019 | August 29 – September 12, 2019 | Underdogs10 | Lisbon, Portugal | Smile High Club | Group exhibition curated by DJ Fat Boy Slim at Underdogs10, bringing together Ron English and other international artists to re-imagine the smiley face as a pop-cultural and counter-cultural icon through painting, sculpture and mixed media. | [320] |
| 2019 | June 21 – September 29, 2019 | Twenty Five Kent | Brooklyn, New York, US | Beyond the Streets (New York) | New York edition of the large-scale Beyond the Streets survey, filling the 25 Kent warehouse with installations and galleries by a star roster of graffiti and street artists, including a dedicated section for English’s POPaganda work. | [322] |
| 2019 | 19 November 2019 – 1 January 2020 | Galerie Matthew Namour | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Group Show | Year-end group exhibition at Galerie Matthew Namour in Montreal, with Ron English listed among the participating artists in the gallery’s program. | [325] |
| 2019 | December 5, 2019 | Wynwood Walls / GGA Gallery | Miami, Florida, US | Wynwood Walls 10-Year Retrospective | Anniversary exhibition during Miami Art Week marking a decade of Wynwood Walls, with English’s work shown alongside pieces by other core muralists who helped define the site’s street-art legacy. | [327] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | January – March 2010 | Warrington Museum & Art Gallery | Warrington, England, UK | (R)Evolution of Urban Art | Early UK museum exhibition exploring the evolution of street and urban art, featuring works by international artists alongside educational programs. The presentation positioned urban art within institutional spaces ahead of its mainstream museum acceptance. | [328] |
| 2010 | January 9 – February 5, 2010 | Harold Golen Gallery | Miami, Florida, US | New World Order | Season-opening exhibition at Harold Golen Gallery, featuring new pieces across the gallery’s signature blend of pop surrealism, lowbrow, and street-culture aesthetics. | [330] |
| 2010 | February 9 – March 18, 2010 | Cerritos College Art Gallery | Norwalk, California, US | Re:Creation – Serious Play with Canonical Art | Group exhibition exploring reinterpretations of art-historical masterpieces through humorous and conceptual approaches. Artists parodied or reimagined canonical figures from Da Vinci to Duchamp, highlighting how popular culture continues to reshape the art-historical canon. | [331] |
| 2010 | February 27 – March 27, 2010 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery | New York, New York, US | Five Year Anniversary | Milestone group exhibition marking Jonathan LeVine Gallery’s fifth year, gathering key artists from its roster to reflect on the gallery’s influence in the Pop Surrealist and New Contemporary art movements. | [332] |
| 2010 | April 1 – May 2, 2010 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show | Celebration of Last Gasp’s four decades as an underground publisher, featuring a wide array of lowbrow, comic, and outsider artists who defined the San Francisco alternative art scene. | [334] |
| 2010 | April 3 – April 30, 2010 | Robert Berman Gallery (D5) | Santa Monica, California, US | Another Nude Show | Exhibition within the MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) framework at the gallery’s D5 space, focusing on figurative and nude work by contemporary artists across media. | [337] |
| 2010 | May 6 – June 6, 2010 | The Don Gallery | Milan, Italy | Editions Show (also listed as Edition) | Joint project with Le Raclet featuring limited prints, screenprints, and design multiples. Superego Studio debuted ceramic renditions of “McDonald Supersized,” blending pop satire with collectible object design in a hybrid fine-art and edition format. | [339] |
| 2010 | May 15 – August 22, 2010 | Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (curated by Corey Helford Gallery) | Bristol, England, UK | Art From the New World | Landmark British survey of the U.S. Pop Surrealism and New Contemporary movements, curated by Corey Helford Gallery and hosted at Bristol’s main museum. Featured over 40 artists in large-scale installations and paintings, bridging institutional and street-influenced art audiences. | [342] |
| 2010 | June 5 – July 3, 2010 | V1 Gallery | Copenhagen, Denmark | Album: A Group Exhibition | Summer program at V1 Gallery featuring contemporary painters and installation artists exploring narrative imagery and pop-inflected figuration. The show functioned as a visual “album,” presenting distinctive chapters from each participant’s ongoing body of work within the gallery’s industrial space in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District. | [343] |
| 2010 | June 5 – June 26, 2010 | Copro Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Metamorphosis | Large-scale beinArt Collective showcase curated by Jon Beinart, featuring more than 50 surrealist and pop-surrealist artists. The show emphasized biological transformation and dream imagery, aligning with the collective’s focus on the fantastic and the psychologically charged. | [345] |
| 2010 | June 9 – June 23, 2010 | Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche | Montreal, Canada | Looking East | Justin Giarla’s curated program for Yves Laroche’s new Montreal location, mixing West Coast street-art sensibilities with the gallery’s pop-inflected roster for the inaugural summer schedule. | [347] |
| 2010 | June 11–20, 2010 | 6812 Melrose Avenue | Los Angeles, California, US | The Vader Project — Auction Exhibition Preview | Los Angeles preview exhibition of the traveling Vader Project prior to auction; showcased artist-customized helmets including Ron English’s. | [349] |
| 2010 | June 19 – August 15, 2010 | Museo de la Ciudad de México | Mexico City, Mexico | Draw – Muestra de dibujo contemporáneo | Large-scale contemporary drawing exhibition organized for the Museo de la Ciudad de México in collaboration with Anonymous Gallery. Exhibition texts and artist rosters list Ron English among the participating artists. | [350] |
| 2010 | 26 June – 15 October 2010 | Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive (Museo Carandente) | Spoleto, Umbria, Italy | Pop Surrealism: What a Wonderfool World / Collezione Collicola – Pop Surrealism | Major museum presentation of the Drago / Dorothy Circus “Pop Surrealism” project, staged as part of Festival dei Due Mondi 2010. The exhibition featured Ron English alongside Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, Shepard Fairey, Glenn Barr and others. The official poster and works list confirm Ron English as one of the participating artists. | [352] |
| 2010 | October 9–11, 2010 | St. Patrick’s School | New York, New York, US | RE:FORM SCHOOL | Large-scale, three-day art and activism exhibition in a decommissioned school building, featuring installations and works by over 150 artists—including Ron English—addressing public education reform. | [356] |
| 2011 | April 2011 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | South Park 15th Anniversary: 15 Artists Interpret “South Park” | Curated anniversary exhibition featuring interpretations of South Park characters by major contemporary artists, including Ron English. | [357] |
| 2012 | June 2012 | LALA Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | LA Freewalls Inside | Indoor exhibition complementing the LA Freewalls public-mural program, showcasing works by participating street artists including Ron English. | [358] |
| 2012 | 6 – 29 July 2012 | Museo Casa del Conte Verde | Rivoli (Turin), Italy | Pop Surrealism – Stay Foolish! | Museum exhibition curated by Alexandra Mazzanti and Alessandro Icardi in collaboration with Dorothy Circus Gallery, presenting international pop-surrealist artists including Ron English. Hosted at Casa del Conte Verde in Rivoli, the show featured a wide roster of contemporary figurative and lowbrow painters. | [359] |
| 2010 | July 10 – July 25, 2010 | Last Rites Gallery | New York, New York, US | Lead Poisoning | Themed drawing exhibition at Last Rites Gallery exploring fine-line precision and dark-surreal motifs. The show opened alongside Jason D’Aquino’s solo and highlighted anatomical draftsmanship and gothic realism. | [362] |
| 2010 | July 31, 2010 | Open Space (citywide installation) | Beacon, New York, US | Electric Windows | One-day live-painting festival organized by Thundercut, featuring dozens of street artists creating large panels installed around Beacon’s downtown buildings; reinforced the town’s reputation as a Hudson Valley art hub. | [364] |
| 2010 | September 11 – October 2, 2010 | Copro Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | BLABWORLD No. 1 SHOW … scenes from THE HEREAFTER | Exhibition tied to Monte Beauchamp’s first Blabworld anthology, expanding on the “Hereafter” theme through works by more than twenty artists. Featured surreal and narrative imagery that blended pop iconography with moral allegory, continuing Beauchamp’s long-running BLAB! project into a new book-and-gallery format. | [366] |
| 2010 | September 24 – October 1, 2010 | TT Underground Gallery | New York, New York, US | Family Tradition (curated by Ron English) | A curatorial project by Ron English reimagining a fictional mob family through pop-surrealist narrative art. The exhibition featured new works by Eric White, Travis Louie, Mark Dean Veca, Tristan Eaton, Mike Shinoda, and others, staged in a theatrical, noir-inspired setting beneath CBGB’s former location. | [368] |
| 2010 | September 30 – November 13, 2010 | The Don Gallery | Milan, Italy | Hello Bro! Pop Surrealism Lowbrow Street Art e Graffiti | Group exhibition of toy art, pop-surrealism and street art drawn from The Don Gallery’s collection; featured international artists including Ron English, Space Invader, Faile, Shepard Fairey and Mike Giant. | [370] |
| 2010 | October 2, 2010 – January 8, 2011 | Riverside Art Museum | Riverside, California, US | California Kustom: Presented by Baby Tattooville | Museum exhibition coinciding with the Baby Tattooville art retreat, exploring lowbrow and custom culture. Combined museum-scale displays with works by artists featured in the collector-focused Baby Tattoo network. | [372] |
| 2010–2011 | (touring dates vary) | Multiple venues (International Arts & Artists) | Tools in Motion: Works from the Hechinger Collection | Traveling exhibition drawn from John Hechinger’s collection of tool-themed artworks. News coverage of the tour lists Ron English among the participating artists. | [374] | |
| 2011 | February – February 25, 2011 | Opera Gallery | Paris, France | Graff City (Graff-City) | Paris presentation celebrating stencil and street art, featuring Speedy Graphito, Tilt, JonOne, Ron English, and others. The show filled Opera Gallery’s Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré space with colorful murals, layered lettering, and urban iconography blending graffiti heritage and fine-art framing. | [376] |
| 2011 | February 11 – 20, 2011 | Dorothy Circus Gallery | Rome, Italy | Private Collection Carnival | Curated selection from the gallery’s private collection shown during Carnival season in Rome. Exhibition materials and press coverage list Ron English among the participating Pop Surrealist artists. | [377] |
| 2011 | February 28 – March 31, 2011 | Robert Berman Gallery (D5) | Santa Monica, California, US | Street ’N Low | Group exhibition of street and lowbrow artists at Robert Berman’s D5 space in Bergamot Station. An exhibition review in California Contemporary Art and an artist’s official blog both note that paintings by Ron English were included in the show. | [380] |
| 2011 | March 11 – April 2011 | Gallery 1988 (Melrose) | Los Angeles, California, US | INLE | Greg “Craola” Simkins–curated exhibition inspired by the Black Rabbit of Inlé from Watership Down, bringing together over one hundred artists. The official exhibition flyer lists Ron English among the participating artists. | [382] |
| 2011 | April 17 – August 8, 2011 | The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA | Los Angeles, California, US | Art in the Streets | MOCA’s Geffen-site survey of graffiti and street art, organized by Jeffrey Deitch with Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose. | [384] |
| 2011 | April 29 – July 10, 2011 | Angel City Brewing | Los Angeles, California, US | Street Brewed: An Exhibition of Contemporary Street Art | Arts District showcase pairing murals, prints, and installations with Angel City’s brewery setting; coverage notes standout works such as “X-Ray Guernica” among the street-art highlights. | [386] |
| 2011 | May 7 – June 4, 2011 | Subliminal Projects | Los Angeles, California, US | New Masters | Group exhibition at Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects spotlighting figurative and painterly currents within the new contemporary movement. Featured artists merged classical technique with street-influenced iconography in a modern “masters” reinterpretation. | [387] |
| 2011 | May 20 – May 29, 2011 | Toy Tokyo / TT Underground Gallery | New York, New York, US | Getting Big!!! | Exhibition of 36-inch custom “Sharky” sculptures organized by ToyQube and Toy Tokyo. The official event showcard lists Ron English among the participating artists, alongside Frank Kozik, Jason Freeny, Kano, Keithing, Luke Chueh and Tristan Eaton. | [389] |
| 2011 | June 2 – September 15, 2011 | Scuola dei Mercanti (presented by Jonathan LeVine Gallery & Bonelli ArteContemporanea) | Venice, Italy | The Emergence of the Pop Imagist | International exhibition staged during the Venice Biennale season, organized by Jonathan LeVine and Bonelli ArteContemporanea. Featured contemporary artists redefining Pop iconography through surrealism and symbolism, supported by a dedicated Vanilla Edizioni catalogue. | [390] |
| 2011 | June 17 – 30, 2011 | Opera Gallery | London, UK | The Street Art Show | Urban art survey bringing together over twenty international figures including Nick Walker, D*Face, Blek le Rat, Shepard Fairey, and Ron English. The exhibition emphasized street art’s evolution from guerrilla walls to high-end galleries, with large-scale canvases and limited-edition prints shown in Mayfair. | [394] |
| 2011 | June 25 – December 11, 2011 | Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center | Santa Rosa, California, US | Pop’d from the Panel | Exhibition exploring the influence of comic-strip and cartoon imagery on modern and contemporary art; Ron English was among the listed participating artists. | [397] |
| 2011 | July 1, 2011 (opening; ran through mid-July) | Corey Helford Gallery | Culver City (Los Angeles), California, US | Zero to Sixty: Five Year Anniversary Gala Group Exhibition | Large-scale anniversary show celebrating Corey Helford Gallery’s first five years, featuring a cross-section of international new-contemporary artists. The opening drew extensive local coverage for its scale and lineup. | [399] |
| 2011 | August 12 – September 4, 2011 | Strychnin Gallery | Berlin, Germany | The C.O.P. Guide to Etiquette & Keep A Breast | Charity exhibition at Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, featuring artist-customized casts to raise awareness for the Keep A Breast Foundation. The event merged contemporary pop art with activist outreach. | [401] |
| 2011 | August 17 – September 17, 2011 | Varnish Fine Art | San Francisco, California, US | The Varnish Vault | Exhibition marking the opening of Varnish Fine Art’s new San Francisco location, showcasing highlights from its collection of pop-surrealist and contemporary realist works. | [403] |
| 2011 | September 17 – October 29, 2011 | Wooster Street Social Club (curated by Anonymous Gallery) | New York, New York, US | Flash | Anonymous Gallery’s takeover inside Ami James’s tattoo studio brought together a diverse roster of artists, including Ron English, Tristan Eaton, James Jean, Nick Walker and others, framing street-art aesthetics within the hybrid tattoo-and-gallery environment of Wooster Street. | [405] |
| 2011 | September 23 – October 16, 2011 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Abstractions | The SoHo gallery’s fall exhibition juxtaposed established abstractionists with contemporary urban and graffiti-inspired painters, bridging modernist color-field traditions and post-street-art mark-making. Included works by Futura, Saber, Sixeart, Gibby Haynes, and English, highlighting gestural energy and material experimentation. | [407] |
| 2011 | October 1 – November 8, 2011 | Riverside Art Museum | Riverside, California, US | Baby Tattooville On Parade | Museum extension of the Baby Tattooville gathering, featuring works from the annual retreat and presenting its signature mix of pop-surrealism and illustration inside a formal gallery setting. | [410] |
| 2011 | October 6 – November 3, 2011 | Samuel Owen Gallery | Greenwich, Connecticut, US | On Every Street | Michael De Feo’s curated lineup brought street-art names into a commercial gallery context, with press highlighting works by figures associated with stencil, pop, and graffiti-inflected practices. | [412] |
| 2011 | October 6 – November 6, 2011 | NH Lingotto Tech | Turin, Italy | BAM ON TOUR 2011 – GRAFIK #2 | Touring segment of the Biennale del Piemonte focused on graphic and street art; featured Ron English among the international artist lineup. | [414] |
| 2012 | January 21 – February 11, 2012 | Copro Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Conjoined 2 in 3D: The Sequel | Chet Zar’s second edition of the Conjoined series expanded the beinArt collective’s focus on dark surrealist sculpture. The show featured dimensional works ranging from anatomical fantasy to biomechanical forms, transforming Copro’s space into a hybrid of gallery and curiosity museum. | [416] |
| 2012 | January 27 – February 19, 2012 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York | Making Faces | Group exhibition of portraiture spanning modern and contemporary art, highlighting expressive, experimental, and surreal approaches to the human face across generations of painters and illustrators. | [418] |
| 2012 | March 15 – 23, 2012 | Spazio Orlandi / Superground | Milan, Lombardy, Italy | NEO POP / Pop Surrealism vs Urban Art | Group exhibition in Milan curated by Pietro Di Lecce at Spazio Orlandi and Superground, presenting pop surrealism and urban art side by side; the Artribune exhibition notice lists Ron English among the featured international artists alongside Blu, Nicola Verlato, Obey and Kenny Scharf. | [420] |
| 2012 | March 30 – April 29, 2012 | Mondo Bizzarro Gallery | Rome, Italy | Pop Rhapsody | Dual exhibition with Elio Varuna at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, blending pop surrealism and classical iconography. The show juxtaposed English’s hyperreal pop deconstructions with Varuna’s mythic imagery in a dialogue on consumer culture and visual excess. | [421] |
| 2012 | April 28 – May 19, 2012 | Thinkspace | Los Angeles, California, US | New Blood | Curated by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, New Blood gathered emerging and established artists from the pop-surrealist and new-contemporary movements. The show emphasized generational dialogue and the crossover between film, art, and popular culture. | [424] |
| 2012 | May 11 – 31, 2012 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Streets of the World | Survey of urban-influenced and street-derived contemporary art, highlighting international artists whose practices bridge graffiti, pop-surrealism, and photographic documentation of city culture. | [425] |
| 2012 | May 17 – June 3, 2012 | Graffik Gallery | London, UK | D.I.Z.N.I.: Dysfunctional Irate Zany Neurotic Individuals | Notting Hill showcase reimagining iconic cartoon figures through darker, satirical, and psychologically skewed variants, reflecting Graffik’s street-art sensibility. | [427] |
| 2012 | May 25 – June 17, 2012 | Opera Gallery | Paris, France | I Want to Be Loved by You (Marilyn tribute) | Tribute exhibition marking 50 years since Marilyn Monroe’s death, gathering contemporary artists who reinterpreted her image across painting, photography, and pop-inflected works. | [429] |
| 2012 | May 26 – September 16, 2012 | me Collectors Room | Berlin, Germany | Art & Toys – Collection Selim Varol | Major museum-scale exhibition showcasing Selim Varol’s extensive collection of designer toys and urban art. The presentation connected fine art, pop culture, and toy design through a diverse international lineup including English, KAWS, and Banksy. | [430] |
| 2012 | June 5 – July 31, 2012 | Stephen Webster | Beverly Hills, California, US | City of Fire | Arrested Motion–curated exhibition at Stephen Webster’s Beverly Hills space, assembling street, pop, and contemporary artists in a design-forward setting and aligning art with the luxury jeweler’s brand aesthetic. | [431] |
| 2012 | June 30 – July 13, 2012 | London Pleasure Gardens; Black Rat Gallery (Black Rat Projects) — presented by Corey Helford Gallery | London, UK | Letters from America | Joint project by Corey Helford Gallery and Black Rat Projects staged during the 2012 London Olympics, first installing monumental works at London Pleasure Gardens before opening a gallery show for U.S. street artists including RISK, SABER, TrustoCorp, and English. The Independence Day launch mixed large-scale murals, neon pieces, and social commentary on American culture abroad. | [434] |
| 2012 | August 2012 | Opera Gallery | Singapore | Marilyn: Nobody Else But You | Tribute exhibition at Opera Gallery Singapore, held at ION Orchard, devoted to interpretations of Marilyn Monroe through Pop and contemporary art lenses, commemorating her enduring influence on pop culture. | [437] |
| 2012 | August 24 – September 1, 2012 | Lazarides Rathbone Gallery | London, UK | Klimt Illustrated | Curated homage to Gustav Klimt featuring reinterpretations by contemporary artists. Ron English was among the nine street-and-pop-influenced artists invited. | [439] |
| 2012 | August 8 – 25, 2012 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery | New York, New York, US | Détournement: Signs of the Times | Group exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery curated by Carlo McCormick, featuring works by artists engaged in détournement and culture-jamming, including Ron English. | [440] |
| 2012 | September 13 – October 6, 2012 | Opera Gallery | Paris, France | Graff the Peace! Graff the War! | Themed group exhibition in Paris examining street art’s role in addressing peace, protest, and conflict, featuring works that juxtaposed graffiti aesthetics with political commentary. | [443] |
| 2012 | December 7, 2012 – April 6, 2013 | Brigham Young University Museum of Art | Provo, Utah, US | We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art | Museum survey of heroism, myth and pop culture in contemporary art; Ron English was listed among the participating artists. | [445] |
| 2012 | December 15, 2012 – January 26, 2013 | Corey Helford Gallery | Culver City, California, US | Crucifixion | Themed exhibition of contemporary interpretations of the Crucifixion, bringing together figurative and symbolic responses to religious imagery. Featured artists such as Korin Faught and Eric Joyner alongside English, highlighting contrasts between devotion, spectacle, and pop iconography. | [446] |
| 2013 | January 12 – February 2, 2013 | The Clutter Gallery | Beacon, New York, US | The (In)action Figure Show | Designer-toy exhibition featuring custom figures; English contributed “Action Jackson.” | [447] |
| 2013 | February 2 – March 16, 2013 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Flying West for the Winter | Winter group show at Corey Helford Gallery featuring a lineup of new-contemporary artists. The exhibition explored narrative and surreal imagery through painting and sculpture, with English contributing new works alongside gallery regulars. | [452] |
| 2013 | March 21 – April 7, 2013 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | The Pop Surrealism Show | Group exhibition at Opera Gallery New York featuring pop surrealist artists including Ron English, Sorayama, Sas and Colin Christian, and Lori Earley. | [454] |
| 2013 | March 23 – April 1, 2013 | Corey Helford Gallery / CHG Circa | Culver City, California, US | Art Collector Starter Kit | Dual-venue showcase of 12×12-inch works designed for new collectors, with a broad pop-surrealist roster spanning the main CHG space and CHG Circa; opening festivities emphasized accessible formats and editioned pieces. | [455] |
| 2013 | May 3 – 30, 2013 | Casa dell’Architettura / Acquario Romano | Rome, Italy | Suggestivism | Group exhibition at the Acquario Romano presenting international figurative work; roster included English. | [457] |
| 2013 | June 15 – July 7, 2013 | The Cotton Candy Machine | Brooklyn, New York, US | Tiny Trifecta (3rd Annual) | The gallery’s third annual small-works tradition, packing the shop with pocket-sized originals priced to move and a queue-drawing opening night; rotating favorites from street, illustration, and pop-surrealism kept the walls dense through July. | [459] |
| 2013 | June 27 – August 4, 2013 | The Dorian Grey Gallery | New York, New York, US | Michael McKenzie presents: ROCKicons | Exhibition at Dorian Grey Gallery curated by Michael McKenzie, exploring the visual language of rock and pop legends through paintings and prints by contemporary artists including English. | [462] |
| 2013 | July 18, 2013 | Opera Gallery & Art Walk (event) | Cannes, France | POW — The Very Best of Urban Art | One-night sale and showcase in Cannes organized by Opera Gallery and Art Walk, highlighting leading street and pop artists including English and Blek le Rat; presented as a summer spotlight on collectible urban art. | [463] |
| 2013 | August 7 – 24, 2013 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery (pop-up, 525 W 22nd St) | New York, New York, US | 10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003–2013 | Landmark anniversary survey curated by Marc and Sara Schiller, assembling a decade’s worth of street-art voices in a Chelsea pop-up; the lineup spanned global muralists and interventionists who shaped Wooster’s archive. | [464] |
| 2013 | September 6, 2013 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | 20th Anniversary Group Art Show | One-night opening for 111 Minna Gallery’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, co-presented with Last Gasp and featuring a large lineup of artists—including Ron English—who had shaped the gallery’s history. | [465] |
| 2013 | September 20 – November 11, 2013 | Long Beach Museum of Art | Long Beach, California, US | Risqué {Dirty Little Pictures} | Museum survey curated by Nathan Spoor and Jeff McMillan. Forty small-format works (8″×10″) by contemporary painters and illustrators exploring eroticism and taboo. Ron English was among the participating artists. | [467] |
| 2013 | December 3 – 8, 2013 | Opera Gallery (pop-up) | Miami Beach, FL, US | Tempest | Pop-up exhibition presented by Opera Gallery during Art Basel Miami Beach, featuring contemporary and urban artists including Ron English. The presentation included new figurative and pop-surrealist works by English shown alongside artists such as FAILE, Swoon, Vhils and Paul Insect. | [ citation needed ] |
| 2013 | December 4, 2013 – January 4, 2014 | Varnish Fine Art | San Francisco, California, US | The Varnish Vault – 2013 Holiday Season | Winter exhibition at Varnish Fine Art presenting paintings and sculptures from its represented roster, with the gallery’s Vault space highlighting small-format works and editions suited for collectors during the holiday season. | [469] |
| 2014 | March 13 – April 20, 2014 | Opera Gallery | Seoul, South Korea | The Great American Icons | Group exhibition at Opera Gallery Seoul spotlighting American Pop Art pioneers Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein alongside contemporary artists including Ron English, exploring enduring pop-cultural icons from mass media, film and advertising. | [471] |
| 2014 | March 15 – 28, 2014 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | POP-EYECONIC Group Show | Group exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery spotlighting leading figures in pop surrealism and pop-icon reinterpretation. English participated with paintings that reframed consumer imagery through his “POPaganda” lens. | [472] |
| 2014 | May 15 – June 14, 2014 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery (Chelsea—two locations) | New York, New York, US | Art Truancy: Celebrating 20 Years of Juxtapoz Magazine | Anniversary survey honoring two decades of Juxtapoz, staged simultaneously across both Chelsea spaces with a broad cross-section of lowbrow, street, and pop-surrealist artists linked to the magazine’s history. | [474] |
| 2014 | June 14 – July 7, 2014 | The Cotton Candy Machine | Brooklyn, New York, US | Tiny Trifecta (4th Annual) | Annual small-format exhibition curated by Tara McPherson at The Cotton Candy Machine gallery, presenting affordable original works by pop-surrealist and lowbrow artists — Ron English appeared among the featured artists. | [477] |
| 2014 | August 30 – September 26, 2014 | Heart 'N' Soul Gallery | Culver City, California, US | The Heart and Soul Collection | Inaugural group exhibition at Heart 'N' Soul Gallery featuring artists such as Ron English, Banksy, Mark Ryden, Robert Williams and Shepard Fairey. | [479] |
| 2014 | September 20, 2014 | Allouche Gallery | New York, New York, US | Inaugural Exhibition (Grand Opening) | Opening of Allouche Gallery’s new Spring Street space in SoHo. Ron English was documented among the participating artists in this multi-artist launch event, which featured works associated with culture-jamming and Pop-Surrealism. | [480] |
| 2014 | September 20, 2014 – January 25, 2015 | Harwood Museum of Art (Mandelman-Ribak Gallery) | Taos, New Mexico, US | ¡Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool — Lowbrow Insurgence: The Rise of Post-Pop Art | Museum exhibition surveying lowbrow and post-pop art within a broader Chicano and pop-cultural context. English’s inclusion aligned his work with the movement’s cross-cultural critique of consumerism and mass media. | [481] |
| 2014 | October 30 – December 20, 2014 | Galerie d'Art Yves Laroche | Montreal, Canada | Égrégore: The Zenith of Pop Surrealism | Large-scale group survey at Yves Laroche Gallery uniting major international pop-surrealist figures. The exhibition reflected the genre’s global momentum and included English among its central contributors. | [484] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | February 5 – March 5 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery | New York, New York, US | Pop Pluralism | Launch exhibition for the gallery’s New York space, signalling a programme centred on pop-informed contemporary art and lowbrow/post-graffiti currents; Ron English included among participants. | [486] |
| 2005 | February 26 – March 2005 | Track 16 Gallery (Copro/Nason at Track 16) | Santa Monica, California, US | Eye of the Illuminati | Copro/Nason’s Juxtapoz-aligned survey of occult symbols and pop-culture mythology; the gallery checklist includes English’s work Jesus Junior, situating the show within the period’s lowbrow circuit. | [488] |
| 2005 | July 23 – September 18, 2005 | Double Punch Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Board the Train | Large group exhibition featuring more than 75 artists customizing blank subway-car model trains designed by Klim Kozinevich and produced by Drastic Plastic. Participants included Ron English, SEEN, SLICK, MAZE, STASH, Sam Flores, Big Foot, Frank Kozik, Gary Baseman, Jeff Soto, David Horvath & Sun-Min Kim (Uglydolls), Mark Bode, Tokyo Plastic, Damion Silver, Mike Giant, and many others. | [490] |
| 2005 | March – May 1, 2005 | The Escapist (Escapist Artspace) | Austin, Texas, US | Superheroes of the Subversive: The Art of Daniel Johnston and Ron English | Two-artist presentation at 2209 S. 1st St., Suite D, aligning Johnston’s cult music-art iconography with English’s pop-culture remixes; local listings record the run “through May 1.” | [491] |
| 2005 | October 28 and November 19 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN: NEW YORK’S COUNTER CULTURE | The gallery staged a group show of New York urban-art and pop-surrealist figures, with a preview on 28 October and public opening on 19 November; participants included Ron English. | [493] |
| 2005 | September 17 – October 15, 2005 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Ron English, Mark Mothersbaugh & Daniel Johnston: 3 Man Art Exhibition | Three-person exhibition pairing English with Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh and cult songwriter Daniel Johnston, highlighting crossovers between music, underground comics, and pop-surrealism. | [495] |
| 2005 | September 30 – October 20, 2005 | The Showroom NYC | New York, New York, US | 100 (Circus) Punks Rule NYC | Custom-toy survey featuring 100+ artist-modified Circus Punks—midway knock-down dolls recast by street artists and designers—presented as a downtown pop-culture capsule with an opening on September 30 and a three-week run. | [496] |
| 2006 | January 14 – February 5 2006 | M Modern Gallery | Palm Springs, California, US | Blonde Bombshell — An Appreciation of the Species | Themed salute to the “blonde bombshell” across art and photography, staged amid Palm Springs’ mid-century spotlight season; artist list includes Ron English. | [498] |
| 2006 | February 4 – March 4, 2006 | Copro/Nason Gallery (Bergamot Station) | Santa Monica, California, US | Nostradamus: Three Waves to the Apocalypse | Gallery presentation styled as “Three Waves to the Apocalypse,” marking the program’s move into its Bergamot Station space; scheduled from February 4 and listed as running through March 4. | [499] |
| 2006 | March 1 – April 1, 2006 | Rodger Lapelle Galleries | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | New Paintings | Two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by T.R.F. Clark and Ron English, held at Rodger Lapelle Galleries with an opening reception on Friday, March 3, 2006 from 5–10 pm. | [502] |
| 2006 | May 31 – June 23, 2006 | The Canal Chapter (343 Canal St., 4th Fl.) | New York City, US | Banned from Television 7 | Seven-artist show at the Canal Street loft space, documented with the event card and installation notes; works on view included Clownboy in Car, positioning the program within downtown video- and image-culture satire. | [503] |
| 2006 | June 1 – 15, 2006 | The Show Room | New York City, US | Decked Out | Exhibition of 100 artist-customized longboards bridging designer-toy aesthetics, street-art graphics, and skate culture; participation by Ron English is confirmed through the physical showcard and secondary listings. | [506] |
| 2006 | June 2 – 11, 2006 | Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre | Hong Kong | Art of Hysteric | Hong Kong edition of Hysteric Mini’s 20th-anniversary art program, presented at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre. Official anniversary materials include Ron English among the featured contributors; the physical exhibition showcard confirms the run (June 2–11) and venue. | [509] |
| 2006 | June 17 – July 22 | Fuse Gallery | New York, New York, US | “New York’s Own” | Summer programme foregrounding city-rooted practice at a downtown space known for crossing street sensibilities with gallery presentation. | [510] |
| 2006 | June 21 – September 24, 2006 | Station Museum of Contemporary Art | Houston, Texas, US | POWER PATHOS | Museum exhibition pairing English with Daniel Johnston, Ausgang, Clark Fox, and Gibby Haynes, framing pop-inflected critique through painting, music-crossovers, and outsider currents in a Houston institutional setting. | [511] |
| 2006 | July 2006 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Next-Gen: Art for the New Aeon | Summer showcase under the “Next-Gen” banner highlighting rising New Contemporary artists at Copro/Nason. | [513] |
| 2006 | August 8 – September 8, 2006 | Gershwin Hotel Gallery | New York, New York, US | Marilyn in Art (book-launch exhibition) | Exhibition curated by Jason LeBlond accompanying the release of *Marilyn in Art* for Marilyn Monroe’s 80th birthday; the showcard lists Ron English among featured artists alongside Salvador Dalí, Mel Ramos, Bert Stern, Andy Warhol, and others. | [515] |
| 2006 | September 4 – 15, 2006 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | Elms Lesters presentation | Temporary presentation at 1–3–5 Flitcroft Street, London WC2, advertised with free admission and opening hours 12:00–18:00. | [517] |
| 2006 | October 6 – 15 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | In or Out? | A three-artist presentation by Adam Neate, José Parlá, and Ron English that played on the “inside/outside” divide of street culture entering a historic Soho painting space; coverage highlighted the collision of studio work with city textures and hand-painted signage aesthetics. | [518] |
| 2006 | October 20 – November 19, 2006 | Lineage Gallery | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | industrial POP | Two-person exhibition presenting English’s “industrial pop” works in tandem with John Puglisi’s paintings. | [520] |
| 2006 | October 28 – December 2 | Fuse Gallery | New York, New York, US | DRAW | The touring DRAW project’s New York stop, focusing on works on paper and sketch-based practice that bridged graffiti linework, underground comics, and pop-surreal imagery, with Fuse serving as the Lower East Side venue on the fall itinerary. | [521] |
| 2006 | December 2006 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Copro/Nason 15 Year Anniversary Group Show | Fifteenth-anniversary group exhibition at Copro/Nason, featuring numerous artists from the gallery’s program including Ron English, presented as the year-end showcase in Santa Monica. | [522] |
| 2006–2007 | December 8, 2006 – January 7, 2007 | ArtCenter/South Florida | Miami Beach, Florida, US | We’ll Make a Lover of You | Curated by Francesco LoCastro and timed with Miami’s Art Basel week, the exhibition gathered emerging and established “new contemporary” voices at ArtCenter/South Florida’s Lincoln Road complex, spotlighting pop-surrealist, street, and design-driven aesthetics for the Basel crowd. | [524] |
| 2007 | February 10 – 11, 2007 | Corey Helford Gallery | Los Angeles (Culver City), California, US | Charity by Numbers (benefit for The Alliance for Children’s Rights) | A two-day benefit combining art and philanthropy, where artists reinterpreted numbered canvases to raise funds for The Alliance for Children’s Rights; covered by major design and tech outlets for merging pop aesthetics with social causes. | [526] |
| 2007 | March 17 – April 23, 2007 | Art Prostitute (2919-C Commerce St.) | Dallas, Texas, US | Melodic Inversions and Contrary Motions | Three-artist exhibition at Art Prostitute featuring Ron English alongside Stephen Tompkins and Veronica DeJesus; the show explored rhythmic structure and contemporary pop imagery, with the Dallas Observer documenting its March opening. | [529] |
| 2007 | 30 May – 12 June 2007 | L’autre Galerie / Galerie d’art Yves Laroche | Montreal, Canada | Autres Bizarreries | Two-person exhibition featuring Ron English and Van Arno, presented by Galerie d’art Yves Laroche as part of its lowbrow/pop-surrealism program; promotional materials highlight both artists as headliners for the 30 May–12 June run. | [531] |
| 2007 | 4–16 May 2007 (preview) | La Luz de Jesus Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Six-String Masterpieces: The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute | Touring art-guitar exhibition launched with a Los Angeles preview; showcased custom-painted Dean guitars honoring Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell, combining rock-memorabilia culture and fine-art reinterpretations. | [534] |
| 2007 | May 4 – 26, 2007 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | DON’T DO THAT | Spring exhibition uniting Delta, Andrew McAttee, Dalek, Stash, Mark Dean Veca and Ron English; critics highlighted the interplay of graphic abstraction and cartoon surrealism across large wall works and installations. | [535] |
| 2007 | May 18 – June 16, 2007 | Windup Gallery | Mesa, Arizona, US | The Rising: Inaugural Show | Grand opening of Windup Gallery’s Main Street venue, debuting with a collaborative lineup of contemporary pop and illustrative artists, launched at a May 18 reception. | [537] |
| 2007 | 30 May – 12 June 2007 | Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche | Montreal, Canada | Autres Bizarreries: Ron English et Van Arno | Two-artist exhibition at Yves Laroche Gallery under the “Autres Bizarreries” series, spotlighting surreal figuration and narrative painting by English and Van Arno, both known for blending pop culture with baroque anatomy. | [538] |
| 2007 | May 24–28, 2007 | Los Angeles Convention Center (Star Wars Celebration IV) | Los Angeles, California, US | The Vader Project | The debut of the traveling art show in which contemporary artists customized authentic 1:1-scale Darth Vader helmets; featured work by pop-surrealist painters including Ron English, Jeff Soto and many others. | [540] |
| 2007 | July 14 – August 4, 2007 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Next-Gen: Art for the New Aeon | Large summer survey at Bergamot Station (T5) bringing together emerging and established Pop Surrealists; the exhibition explored futuristic imagery, mythic hybrids, and new figurative trends that marked the mid-2000s Los Angeles scene. | [542] |
| 2007 | July 21 – August 11, 2007 | Fuse Gallery | New York, New York, US | Revelation | Curated by Erik Foss, this exhibition invited artists to reinterpret the apocalyptic imagery of the Book of Revelation through pop, gothic, and conceptual frameworks; the opening on July 21 featured works exploring faith, fear, and end-times iconography. | [546] |
| 2007–2008 | 14 Sep 2007 – 10 Feb 2008 | Mesa Contemporary Arts (Mesa Arts Center) | Mesa, AZ, US | Beyond the Cel: The Influence of Animation in Contemporary Art | Museum-level thematic survey examining animation’s stylistic and conceptual impact on contemporary artists, including pop-surrealist and illustrative approaches influenced by film and television. | [547] |
| 2007 | October 5 – November 9, 2007 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | Small, Medium & Large | Autumn group exhibition at Elms Lesters London featuring works by leading street- and urban-art painters. Participating artists included Ron English, Adam Neate, Dalek, Futura, Mark Dean Veca and others. | [550] |
| 2007 | October 31, 2007 | The Showroom | New York, New York, US | The Beast Within | Halloween-night art happening curated by Jamie O’Shea, bringing together painters and toy designers for a darkly playful one-evening installation blending horror motifs and pop surrealism. | [552] |
| 2007 | 6 – 30 November 2007 | Gallery 1988 | Los Angeles, California, US | Bitters and Sweets | Hi-Fructose-curated program at Gallery 1988 merging pop-surrealism with confectionery motifs; featured limited-edition prints, installations, and collaborations between magazine artists and L.A. designers. | [554] |
| 2007 | December 4 – 23, 2007 | Manger Square / Separation Wall (project by Pictures on Walls) | Bethlehem, Palestine | Santa’s Ghetto | The 2007 edition relocated to Bethlehem, pairing a market in Manger Square with on-site interventions on the separation barrier; press images show fresh posters on the wall in mid-December, underscoring the project’s site-specific edge. | [556] |
| 2007 | 1 – 22 December 2007 | Feinkunst Krüger (and Raum 21) | Hamburg, Germany | Don’t Wake Daddy II | Expansive Lowbrow and pop-surrealist survey split across Feinkunst Krüger and Raum 21, assembling leading European and American figures in narrative figurative painting during Hamburg’s winter art season. | [558] |
| 2007 | December (Art Basel Miami Beach / fair dates) | Red Dot Art Fair (with The Shooting Gallery) | Miami Beach, Florida, US | Three-person presentation | During the December art-fair week in Miami Beach, The Shooting Gallery presented a three-artist booth at the Red Dot Art Fair that featured Ron English alongside Shawn Barber and Joshua Petker as part of the Art Basel satellite program. | [559] |
| 2007–2008 | December 13, 2007 – January 20, 2008 | Ad Hoc Art | Brooklyn, New York, US | Behind the Seen | Winter survey exhibition that bridged late 2007 and early 2008 at Ad Hoc Art, assembling key street-art figures for a dense salon of wall works, installations, and collaborative pieces that drew local press coverage for its scale and community energy. | [561] |
| 2008 | April 25, 2008 | World of Wonder Storefront Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | depARTed | One-night curated exhibition memorializing influential figures through new works by contemporary artists; English contributed pieces reflecting on pop-culture legacy and transformation. | [563] |
| 2008 | December 2008 (Art Basel Miami Beach week) | The Raleigh Hotel (suite exhibition) | Miami Beach, Florida, US | Installation 5: Self-Portraits | Art Basel Miami suite exhibition previewing Scion’s Installation 5 tour; English contributed a self-portrait work within the curated lineup. | [564] |
| 2008 | December 6 – December 20, 2008 | Feinkunst Krüger | Hamburg, Germany | Don’t Wake Daddy III | Third iteration of Feinkunst Krüger’s acclaimed “Don’t Wake Daddy” series spotlighting urban, pop-surrealist, and illustrative painters from Europe and abroad, reinforcing Hamburg’s role as a hub for the movement. | [565] |
| 2008 | 2008 | Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona College | New Rochelle, New York, US | Deep Pop | Curated by Andrew Michael Ford, this group exhibition brought together Pop-Surrealist and contemporary Pop artists within the academic setting of Iona College. Tommii Lim’s exhibition record identifies Ron English as one of the participating artists. | [567] |
| 2008 | 16 Mar – 20 Apr 2008 | Dorothy Circus Gallery | Rome, Italy | FURORE | Curated presentation of pop-surrealist and contemporary figurative artists in Rome, highlighting emotional intensity and painterly storytelling; accompanied by a full printed catalogue. | [568] |
| 2008 | January 19 – February 12, 2008 | Robert Berman Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | A Tribute to Alex Steinweiss — The Creator of the Album Cover | Homage to Steinweiss’s pioneering graphic legacy, pairing original historic covers with contemporary responses and design-world tributes presented at Bergamot Station. | [570] |
| 2008 | January–March 2008 | ©Pop (C Pop) Gallery | Detroit, Michigan, US | Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles | Detroit presentation of Les Barany’s automobile-inspired project, paired with the Scapegoat Publishing book and part of the multi-city rollout exploring the car as fetish, symbol, and narrative device. | [572] |
| 2008 | March 2008 | StolenSpace Gallery (Truman Brewery) | London, England, UK | DRAW | London edition of the traveling Fuse Gallery “DRAW” project, staged at StolenSpace in Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery complex. The show featured sketch-based works, on-site collaborations, and live drawing sessions emphasizing process over polish. | [575] |
| 2008 | April 2008 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Made in New York | Group exhibition at Opera Gallery New York featuring works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lori Earley, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Ron English, and others, presenting a cross-generational survey of New York–rooted Pop and contemporary image-making. | [576] |
| 2008 | April 5–26, 2008 | Robert Berman Gallery (Bergamot Station) | Santa Monica, California, US | Brad Benedict’s Sideshow — Moods for Moderns | Anniversary staging of Benedict’s pop-culture–driven survey, bringing together illustrators, painters, and media artists in a lively blend of retro motifs and contemporary reinterpretations. | [578] |
| 2008 | Apr 11 – May 10, 2008 | Joshua Liner Gallery | New York, New York, US | Locked & Loaded (inaugural group exhibition) | The gallery’s debut show combined major names from the Pop-surrealism and street-art scenes in a cohesive statement of intent for Joshua Liner’s curatorial direction, marking its first official opening at 548 W. 28th Street. | [579] |
| 2008 | Apr 14 – May 31, 2008 | Varnish Fine Art | San Francisco, California, US | 5 Year Anniversary Show | Milestone group exhibition celebrating Varnish Fine Art’s fifth anniversary, featuring signature artists from its first half-decade and highlighting the gallery’s focus on contemporary pop and figurative art. | [581] |
| 2008 | May 3 – June 14, 2008 | L’Imagerie Gallery | Los Angeles, US | Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles | Group exhibition organized by Les Barany and tied to the Scapegoat Publishing volume of the same name. The L’Imagerie Gallery iteration brought together artists including H.R. Giger, Shag, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Coop, and Ron English, exploring the automobile as mythic, subcultural, and surrealist icon. | [584] |
| 2008 | 3–30 May 2008 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | The ADAM and RON show (with Adam Neate) | Dual exhibition pairing Ron English with British artist Adam Neate across the gallery’s two studios; attracted major crowds for its limited-edition book and a screening of The Art and Crimes of Ron English during the run. | [587] |
| 2008 | May 28, 2008 | The powerHouse Arena | Brooklyn, New York, US | The Hustle | Group exhibition accompanying the launch of powerHouse Magazine Issue 3. The official showcard lists Ron English among the featured contributors, alongside Ricky Powell and others. | [589] |
| 2008 | June 22 – October 5, 2008 | Laguna Art Museum | Laguna Beach, California, US | In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor | A landmark museum survey mapping the visual language championed by Juxtapoz, uniting lowbrow, pop surrealism, underground comics, and street-influenced painting in a broad, historical sweep across several generations of artists. | [592] |
| 2008 | Jul–Oct 2008 | Gallery XIV (and Harrison Ave. fence) | Boston, Massachusetts, US | a politic | Multi-month political art program centered on Gallery XIV’s “Abraham Obama” initiative, which extended into a large mural facing the space and public screenings of the related documentary; drew attention for merging street art, campaign culture, and local activism during the 2008 election season. | [593] |
| 2008 | August 24–28, 2008 | Andenken Gallery & adjacent warehouse (Manifest Hope) | Denver, Colorado, US | Manifest Hope Gallery (DNC) | A high-profile Democratic National Convention exhibition near Coors Field, showcasing politically charged artworks—most prominently the large Abraham Obama panels—alongside nightly programming and extensive media attention. | [595] |
| 2008 | September 2008 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | THE BLAB! SHOW | Exhibition tied to Monte Beauchamp’s cult anthology BLAB!, bringing together painters and illustrators featured in the publication for a month-long survey at Bergamot Station. | [597] |
| 2008 | September 6 – October 11, 2008 | Last Rites Gallery | New York, New York, US | Dark Pop | Curated by Andrew Michael Ford, the exhibition explored darker reinterpretations of pop imagery. The official showcard lists Ron English among the participating artists. | [600] |
| 2008 | October 4 – November 8, 2008 | Robert Berman Gallery (D5) | Santa Monica, California, US | Change America | Political group exhibition staged in the 2008 U.S. election season at Bergamot Station’s D5 space. The show featured works by contemporary artists engaging themes of democracy, culture and media; participating artists included Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Robbie Conal and Jim Shaw. | [603] |
| 2008 | November 10 – December 10, 2008 | The Don Gallery | Milan, Italy | FYI. For Your Information | Group exhibition organized by The Don Gallery as part of the (CON)TEMPORARY ART circuit. A Tortona-district iteration at Pasticceria De Santis/The Don Gallery (via Tortona 28) featured an international roster including Ron English, Ericailcane, Mr. Jago, Space Invader and others, shown within the first segment of the program (10–20 November). | [605] |
| 2008 | November 27 – December 27, 2008 | Limited / Limited No Art Gallery | Milan, Italy | POP DISASTER | Milan exhibition blending street-inflected pop, contemporary illustration and design. Among the featured artists was Ron English. | [607] |
| 2008 | 5–20 Dec 2008 | Elms Lesters Painting Rooms | London, UK | 25th Anniversary / Book Launch | End-of-year exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and the launch of its commemorative book, gathering the gallery’s signature international roster for a holiday showcase. | [608] |
| 2008–2009 | 3 December 2008 – 4 January 2009 | ArtCenter / South Florida (800 Lincoln Rd) | Miami Beach, Florida, US | Kaiju Monster Invasion | Group exhibition exploring Japanese kaiju and monster culture, featuring fine art interpretations of Godzilla and related icons. Presented on Lincoln Road during Miami Art Week, the program included live events and community outreach during its December opening. | [610] |
| 2009 | January 2009 | C Pop Gallery | Detroit, Michigan, US | Scion Installation 5: Self-Portraits | Detroit launch of the Installation 5 tour, presenting self-portrait works by participating artists including Ron English. | [612] |
| 2009 | February – May 2009 | The Andy Warhol Museum | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US | The Vader Project | Museum stop of the traveling “Vader Project,” exhibiting custom artist-designed Darth Vader helmets including Ron English’s contribution. | [613] |
| 2009 | Feb 14 – Mar 8, 2009 | POVevolving Gallery | Los Angeles, CA, US | Movers & Shakers | Group show launched on Valentine’s Day in L.A.’s Chinatown, showcasing new prints and editions by a large roster of West Coast and urban-influenced artists. The presentation reflected POVevolving’s reputation as a print studio and community hub for experimental editions. | [614] |
| 2009 | February 28 – March 21, 2009 | Robert Berman Gallery | Santa Monica, CA, US | Rock, Paper, Scissor (curated by Jon Cournoyer) | Group exhibition blending album-art, illustration, and pop-culture painting. Featured artists included Raymond Pettibon, Daniel Johnston, Ron English, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Gibby Haynes. The catalogue reproduces English’s *Kursed Kids* (2008). | [616] |
| 2009 | March 2009 | Shooting Gallery (pop-up location) | Austin, Texas, US | New Brow: The Rise of Underground Art | Pop-up group exhibition accompanying the documentary New Brow; showcased artists central to underground pop-surrealism including Ron English. | [618] |
| 2009 | April 1 – May 2009 | Chicago Tourism Center | Chicago, Illinois, US | Officially Unofficial – Inspired Art for Obama | Municipal showcase of election-era posters and political imagery. The exhibition brought together street-graphic aesthetics, gallery pieces and community-oriented design celebrating Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign; featured artists included Ron English among others. | [619] |
| 2009 | May 13 – July 10, 2009 | Dorothy Circus Gallery | Rome, Italy | Yes We Can | A transatlantic exhibition connecting U.S. pop-surrealist artists with the European art scene. Yes We Can presented a concise selection of 20 works reflecting themes of optimism, politics, and media imagery within Dorothy Circus’s baroque-inspired gallery setting. | [620] |
| 2009 | June 6 – July 3, 2009 | Robert Berman Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Rock, Paper, Scissor | Group exhibition examining play, strategy and cultural symbolism through mixed-media works, including Ron English’s pop-inflected contributions. | [622] |
| 2009 | July 11 – August 1, 2009 | Copro Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Monster? (curated by Travis Louie) | Curated by Travis Louie, the summer exhibition explored creature imagery through the lens of pop-surrealism and illustration, featuring an extensive lineup of Copro regulars and new contributors. The opening included live music and costumed appearances, enhancing its carnival-like atmosphere. | [623] |
| 2009 | August 2009 | Corey Helford Gallery | Culver City, California, US | The Multi-Plane Show | Group exhibition inspired by Disney’s multiplane camera process, featuring layered panel works by Ron English and other contemporary pop-surrealists. | [625] |
| 2009 | August 5–22, 2009 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery | New York, New York, US | Beach Blanket Bingo – A Summer Mixer | Seasonal group show blending pop, street, and contemporary art at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, featuring over thirty artists in a lighthearted midsummer rotation. Press emphasized its relaxed, playful tone and crossover between commercial and fine art. | [626] |
| 2009 | October 2009 | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK | Green Day Presents: The Art of Rock | Curated rock-art exhibition aligned with Green Day’s visual collaborations, featuring contributions from leading pop and street artists including Ron English. | [629] |
| 2009 | 1 October 2009 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Nimbus Vapor | Curated by Ron English, this street-art exhibition at Opera Gallery New York opened on October 1, 2009; it featured a broad selection of urban artists exploring atmosphere and transcendence through graffiti aesthetics and fine art forms. | [630] |
| 2009 | October 12–31, 2009 | Opera Gallery | Seoul, South Korea | Bright Society | Exhibition at Opera Gallery Seoul pairing Ron English’s Popaganda works with Korean artist Park Young-gyun’s surreal imagery; presented in the Cheongdam-dong district as a pop-culture exchange during autumn 2009. | [633] |
| 2009 | October 24 – November 21, 2009 | Jonathan LeVine Gallery (Gallery I) | New York, New York, US | True Self (curated by Gary Baseman) | Curated by Gary Baseman, True Self invited artists to reinterpret personal identity and myth through portraiture. The show united established illustrators and pop-surrealist painters within the Chelsea gallery’s main space. | [635] |
| 2009 | October 31 – December 12, 2009 | Atkinson Gallery (Millfield School), curated by Elms Lesters | Street, Somerset, England, UK | Natural Selection | Elms Lesters assembled a non-selling survey blending street-culture aesthetics with contemporary abstraction and design-forward graphics; the show circulated with a limited-edition catalogue emphasizing its curatorial range. | [638] |
| 2009–2010 | November 2009 – 13 March 2010 | Warrington Museum & Art Gallery | Warrington, UK | (R)Evolution of Urban Art | Museum survey tracing the evolution of urban and street art from its graffiti roots to contemporary practice, staged in Warrington through early 2010 with extensive community and press engagement. | [641] |
| 2009–2010 | November 8, 2009 – January 31, 2010 | MACRO Future (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma) | Rome, Italy | Apocalypse Wow! | Major pop-urban survey at MACRO Future marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, juxtaposing street-inspired works and political imagery. The show featured European and American artists addressing rebellion and mass media in contemporary art. | [644] |
| 2009 | November 17, 2009 – January 5, 2010 | ArcLight Hollywood | Los Angeles, California, US | Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Show | Curated survey of Hollywood Bowl concert-poster art featuring contemporary illustrators and pop artists including Ron English; presented in ArcLight’s exhibition corridors. | [647] |
| 2009 | December 2009 | SCOPE Miami (Mauger Modern Art) | Miami, Florida, US | There’s Still Life | Compact still-life–themed exhibition organized by Mauger Modern Art for SCOPE Miami, uniting pop-surrealist and contemporary figurative artists whose works reinterpreted traditional vanitas subjects during Art Basel week. | [648] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Zero One Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | The Art of Ron English and Daniel Johnston | One-night presentation on Melrose pairing Johnston’s works with English’s interpretations. | [649] | |
| 2000 | SubTonic | New York, New York, US | The Art of Ron English and Daniel Johnston | Group exhibition featuring works by Ron English and Daniel Johnston at SubTonic, New York. Confirmed in a 2022 exhibition-listing document. | [651] | |
| 2000 | May 24, 2000 | CB’s Gallery (313 Bowery) | New York, New York, US | Lords of the Lowbrow II | Lowbrow night at CB’s Gallery on the Bowery, with English shown alongside Van Arno, Anthony Ausgang and Fiona Smyth. | [652] |
| 2000 | May 25, 2000 | Gershwin Gallery | New York, New York, US | Hollywood Glam | End-of-season “Hollywood Glam” group exhibition at the Gershwin Gallery in the Gershwin Hotel, curated by Megan Curry; Email #951 in the TranceAm 2000 NYC art/event archive lists Ron English among the participating artists and confirms the May 25 opening (7–10 pm). | [653] |
| 2000 | May 27 – June 24, 2000 | Merry Karnowsky Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Obey Popaganda — New Works by Shepard Fairey and Ron English | Joint exhibition pairing new works by Shepard Fairey with Ron English’s Popaganda paintings and graphics, presented at Merry Karnowsky Gallery with an opening on May 27. | [654] |
| 2001 | April 22 – May 28, 2001 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington | Washington, D.C., US | Post-Pop, Post-Punk | Group exhibition exploring post-pop and post-punk aesthetics, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC. | [655] |
| 2001 | May 24 – June 11, 2001 | Opera Gallery | New York, New York, US | Bipolar Surrealism (Ron English & Jean François Larrieu) | Two-artist exhibition presenting English’s pop-iconoclastic paintings alongside Larrieu’s surrealist works. The accompanying catalog text highlights English’s reinvention of mainstream iconography across canvas, song, and pirated billboards, emphasizing sociopolitical themes, media subversion, and his signature “Dali-meets-Disney” approach. | [656] |
| 2001 | June 2001 | Space 1026 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | Destroy All Monsters — The Art of Ron English and Daniel Johnston | Artist-run Space 1026 paired English with musician-artist Daniel Johnston, a crossover presentation documented with installation photos that underscored DIY ethos and the dialogue between pop-icon imagery and outsider music-scene graphics. | [657] |
| 2001 | June 28 – July 21, 2001 | Rockville Arts Place | Rockville, Maryland, US | Second Childhood | Exhibition curated by Chip Sommers featuring Ron English, Anthony Ausgang, Orlando Cuevas and Maribeth Egan; included children’s art and a book signing of Ron English’s POPaganda. Opening reception on June 28 with artist talk to follow. | [659] |
| 2001 | October 19 – November 30 | Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA DC) | Washington, D.C., US | Playerhaters Don’t Hate the Game, Hate the Player | Fall program at MOCA DC’s Georgetown space (1054 31st St NW) framed through street-culture language, aligning with the museum’s ongoing graffiti and urban-art listings that year. | [660] |
| 2002 | January 4, 2002 | Fifty24 Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Player Haters | Group exhibition featuring Ron English alongside DALEK, Richard Coleman and Shepard Fairey at Fifty24 Gallery, an early hub of street-influenced contemporary art in San Francisco. | [662] |
| 2002 | February 16 – March 16, 2002 | Merry Karnowsky Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Playerhaters | Group exhibition featuring Ron English with Shepard Fairey, Dalek and Richard Colman; curated by Roger Gastman and presented in collaboration with While You Were Sleeping magazine. | [663] |
| 2002 | July 25 – October 2002 | Artscape | Baltimore, Maryland, US | Loco Motion | Outdoor group exhibition curated by Logan Hicks for the city-sponsored Artscape festival, featuring large-scale sculptural and photographic works installed along the Mount Royal Avenue median and remaining on view for three months after the festival. | [664] |
| 2002 | September - September 30, 2002 | Tin Man Alley | New Hope, Pennsylvania, US | Gods and Guerrillas | Three-person exhibition of new paintings by Ron English, Lisa Petrucci and Dalek, presented at Tin Man Alley (12 West Mechanic Street, New Hope). The gallery was open Thursday through Monday, noon to 7 p.m., with the show running through September 30, 2002. | [665] |
| 2002 | October–November 2002 | Track 16 Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Art Show | Juxtapoz marked its eighth year with a Track 16 program connected to the magazine’s pop-surrealist orbit; the gallery issued a dedicated Niagara silkscreen for the occasion, and contemporaneous artist CVs note participation in the anniversary show. | [666] |
| 2002 | November 7 – December 7, 2002 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Popaganda (Ron English) and Pentings (Lennie Mace) | Two-artist exhibition pairing Ron English’s satirical Popaganda paintings with Lennie Mace’s large-scale ballpoint-pen “Pentings.” The show highlighted English’s subversive critique of modern cultural iconography and his well-known billboard interventions, alongside Mace’s stylized illustration and pen-graffiti practice. Exhibition text noted English’s “false advertisements” for Apple and Budweiser, and referenced a then-current *Juxtapoz* magazine feature on him. | [667] |
| 2003 | January 23 – March 29, 2003 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Sci-Fi: Art by Hundreds of Talented Space Cadets | A large-scale group exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco featuring over 100 artists including Ron English, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr, Gary Baseman, Isabel Samaras, Clayton Bailey, Jeff Soto and Eric White. The show included a special screening of Cory McAbee’s film *American Astronaut* on February 20 at 7 pm and 9 pm, and a full-color catalogue from Last Gasp was published to accompany the exhibition. The exhibition was curated by Sunny Buick. | [668] |
| 2003 | April 18 – May 17, 2003 | MOCA DC | Washington, DC, US | Art in the Age of Unreason | Group exhibition at MOCA DC featuring works by Mark Clark, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Ted Fields, Esther Harris, Daniel Johnston, Richard Mock, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Eduardo Sarabia and Bill Saylor, with a closing party held on Friday, May 16, 2003 from 6–10 pm. | [670] |
| 2003 | May 1 – May 31, 2003 | 111 Minna Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | RE-Start | Group exhibition featuring 15 local artists including Ron English, Sam Flores, Nate Van Dyke, Tiffany Bozic and Chris Koperski, who explored unfamiliar creative processes by working with new tools and media rather than their established styles. | [671] |
| 2003 | August 29 – October 4, 2003 | MOCA DC | Washington, DC, US | Public Image (Private Image) | Group exhibition at MOCA DC featuring works by Olivia Barr, Ron English, Shepard Fairey and others, exploring issues of public and private image; accompanied by a screening of the documentary Popaganda: Art and Subversion of Ron English. | [672] |
| 2003 | August 16 – September 16, 2003 | Ghettogloss Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Street Dreams | Curated by Eddie Donaldson, Casey “EKLIPS” Zoltan and Roger Gastman; launched with a public opening featuring Styles of Beyond, The Groove Ensemble and Divine Styler, and brought together graffiti stalwarts and street-culture photographers including Retna, REVOK, Chaz Bojórquez, Shepard Fairey, Ricky Powell, Estevan Oriol and Ben Woodward. | [673] |
| 2003 | December 4, 2003 – February 7, 2004 | Earl McGrath Gallery | New York, New York, US | Raising the Brow: East and West | Group exhibition of leading Pop-Surrealist and lowbrow artists; the showcards and gallery archive list Ron English among participants alongside Mark Ryden, Eric White, Alex Gross, the Clayton Brothers, Gary Baseman, Nils Karsten and Josh Agle. | [674] |
| 2004 | May 6 – June 1, 2004 | FIFTY24SF Gallery | San Francisco, California, US | Unframed: 1 | Launch exhibition for the new design-and-street-culture magazine ‘‘Unframed’’ from Upper Playground and Hybrid Design, opened with an evening reception on May 6 and gathered a cross-section of early-2000s illustration and urban art figures tied to the publication’s first issue. | [675] |
| 2004 | August 21 – September 26, 2004 | Tin Man Alley (Jonathan LeVine) | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | Pretty Ain’t Pretty | Two-artist presentation with Van Arno anchoring Jonathan LeVine’s Philadelphia program; featured Ron English’s pop-surrealist and fast-food–themed works and opened August 21 to local coverage. | [677] |
| 2004 | October 29 – November 20, 2004 | The Showroom NYC | New York, New York, US | Tag the System | Subway-centennial showcase built around All City Style mini-train blanks, with more than 150 customized “cars” presented salon-style to echo rolling-stock lineups and New York graffiti history. | [679] |
| 2004 | November 20 – December 5 | M Modern Gallery | Palm Springs, California, US | My Way: A Tribute to the Rat Pack | Lounge-era homage pairing a gallery exhibition with a nine-artist serigraph portfolio, produced in a numbered edition of 333 sets; participating artists included Ron English. | [681] |
| 2004–2005 | November 30, 2004 – January 8, 2005 | Varnish Fine Art | San Francisco, California, US | Misfit Toys | Holiday-season group program themed around toy culture and pop iconography; the gallery lists seven participating artists, positioning the show at the intersection of lowbrow painting and collectible culture. | [683] |
| 2004 | December 3–7, 2004 | SRX Studio | Miami, Florida, US | Parallel Universe | Group exhibition titled Parallel Universe: Art Show of the New Movement, curated by Francesco LoCastro and presented by Objex Artspace and SRX Studio. Featured artists included Ron English, Glenn Barr, Gary Baseman, Scott Musgrove, Sas Christian, Ray Caesar, Liz McGrath, Anthony Ausgang, Van Arno, Skot Olsen, Colin Christian, Dave Kinsey and others, with an opening reception on Friday, December 3, 2004 from 7 pm to 12 am. | [684] |
| 2004 | December 11, 2004 – January 15, 2005 | Copro/Nason Gallery | Santa Monica, California, US | Krampus & Christmas | Holiday group exhibition at Copro/Nason Gallery featuring Krampus- and Christmas-themed works; participating artists included Ron English alongside Adele Pederson, Andrew Brandou, Anthony Ausgang, Brian Viveros, Gary Baseman, Robert Williams, Shag, Van Arno and others. | [685] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | February 10 – March 9, 1990 | Zero One Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Agit-Pop America: Clark & Ron English | Two-artist exhibition of new work by Clark and Ron English, presented at Zero One Gallery on Melrose Avenue. Opening reception held February 10, 7–10 p.m. The exhibition included English’s painting Color Corrected (listed on the announcement). | [687] |
| 1990 | July 6, 1990 | Palace de Beauté | New York, New York, US | Freedom of Expression II | Group exhibition presented by English & Eichman at Palace de Beauté, featuring new flag-themed artworks by thirty artists, including Art Fux, Dread Scott, Ronnie Cutrone, Gerald Milkin-Pericho, Frank Palaia, Marguerite Van Cook, and others. Held in the midst of national debates on arts funding and censorship, the exhibition coincided with wider artist-led protests covered in contemporary press. | [688] |
| 1990 | November 28, 1990 | Studio Z | Hoboken, New Jersey, US | Censorship | Group exhibition at Studio Z featuring works by Karin Batten, Ron English, China Marks, Franc Palaia, Kristen Reed, Salem Krieger, Leslie Sharpe and Robbie Conal. The opening reception took place on November 28 from 6–9 p.m. | [690] |
| 1990 | November 29 – December 23, 1990 | The Gallery | New York, NY, US | ART = MONEY? | Major multi-venue, multi-city exhibition curated by McKenzie & Mitrotti, featuring works by Ron English alongside prominent contemporary artists including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, David Lynch, Mark Kostabi, Ronnie Cutrone, Arman, and Larry Rivers. The show explored the relationship between value, commerce, and artistic production, with contributions from originating galleries in New York, Miami/Palm Beach, Santa Fe/Scottsdale, Los Angeles, and Rome. | [691] |
| 1991 | January 27 – March 3, 1991 | Kenkeleba Gallery | New York, New York, US | Recent Work by the New Depressionists | Group exhibition at Kenkeleba Gallery featuring works by Andrew Castrucci, Carlos “Mare” Rodriguez, Ron English, Lee Quiñones, Sandra “Pink” Fabara and Martin Wong. The opening reception was held on January 27, 1991. | [693] |
| 1991 | February 1991 | Kenkeleba Gallery | New York, New York, US | Time City / Outer Limits | Group exhibition organized by LEE (Lee Quiñones) at Kenkeleba Gallery, bringing together Loisaida artists in response to the cultural and political tensions of the Gulf War period. Featured artists included LEE, Martin Wong, Carlos “Mare” Rodriguez, Andrew Castrucci, Ron English and Sandra “Pink” Fabara. Reviewed in The City Sun (Feb. 13–19, 1991). | [694] |
| 1992 | March 1992 | Elston Fine Arts | New York, New York, US | Urban Jungle | Group installation curated by Robert Costa and Maggie Ens; Ron English participated with a mixed-media contribution referenced in the review. | [695] |
| 1992 | March 12 – April 12, 1992 | Gallery Stendhal | New York, NY, US | Absolut Collaboration | Group exhibition for Absolut Vodka’s “Artists of the 90s” program featuring Solomon Avital, Ron English, Betty Tompkins, and Marcia G. Yerman. Included a collaborative 8×8 ft quadriptych painted in four distinct styles centered on the Absolut bottle motif. | [696] |
| 1992 | May 8–31, 1992 | Limelight (Public Image) | New York, New York, US | Urban Primitivism | Installation by Ron English and Bill Klaila presented at Limelight, with an opening reception on May 8 from 6–8 p.m. The invitation describes the project as an “installation of urban primitivism,” hosted by Public Image at the iconic Manhattan nightclub venue. | [699] |
| 1992 | December 3 – December 13, 1992 | Trammell Crow Center, Upper West Pavilion | Dallas, Texas, US | Contact ’92: DCCCD Art Alumni Exhibition | Alumni exhibition sponsored by North Lake College featuring 22 artists from the seven campuses of the Dallas County Community College District, marking the district’s 25th anniversary. | [700] |
| 1992 | September 26, 1992 | 10th Street Art Gallery, 228 East 10th St | New York City, US | Wild Kingdom: Animals & Creatures in Imagery | Group exhibition curated by Gary Azon at 10th Street Art Gallery, presenting works by Clifford Land, Keith Haring, Ron English, Andres Serrano, Mike Cockrill, Barbara Slitkin and many others under the theme of animals and creatures. Opening reception: Saturday Sept 26, 6–9 PM. | [701] |
| 1993 | June 1993 | Clark & Co. (Galleries 1054) | Washington, D.C., US | The New Romantics | Group exhibition featuring sexually explicit works by nine artists. Ron English contributed several paintings including humorous pieces with cartoon characters (e.g., M&M, 1992). Reviewed in *KOAN*, June 1993; the exhibition “continues through June 20.” | [702] |
| 1993 | August 3–21, 1993 | Frank Bustamante Gallery | New York, New York, US | Summer Group Show | Group exhibition of gallery artists and invited artists at Frank Bustamante Gallery, 560 Broadway at Prince Street; reception held 7 August 1993. | [703] |
| 1993 | October 3–31, 1993 | Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art | Lake Worth, Florida, US | Art, Money & Myth | Nationally-traveled group exhibition examining “the economics of aesthetics” and the commodification of art. Featured artists included Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Tom Otterness, Maier Valsam, Alexander Kosolapov, Ron English, Barton Lidice Benes, Jenny Marketou, Allan D’Arcangelo, Hunt Slonem, and Peter Cain. Special preview held October 2, 1993. | [704] |
| 1994 | April 16 – June 5, 1994 | William King Regional Arts Center | Abingdon, Virginia, US | Masters of Satire | Group exhibition curated by Carolyn Eyler examining social commentary and satire. Ron English exhibited two oil paintings—Batman (1991) and This Bud’s For You (1992)—courtesy of Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York. Other artists included Robert Arneson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Pieter Brueghel the Elder (historic prints on loan), Honoré Daumier (historic prints), Francisco Goya (historic works), William Fick, Philip Guston, William Hogarth (historic works), Matthew Lawrence, Tengiz Mirzashvili, Larry Mullins, Larry Rodman, Peter Saul, Mark Scala, Josef Schützenhöfer, Suzanne Silver, and Bebe Williams. Reviewed in Art Papers (Sept/Oct 1994). | [706] |
| 1995 | 1995 (month not specified) | Robinson Galleries | Houston, Texas, US | Group Exhibition — Robinson Galleries Artists | Group presentation of gallery artists at Robinson Galleries, Houston. Promotional material lists Ron English among the featured artists represented by the gallery during this period, alongside Kelly Fearing, Glenn Downing, Wayne Gilbert, Lahib Jaddo, Constance Kelly, Sally Saul, Barnabas Strickland, and others. Documentation appears in a Robinson Galleries advertisement and in coverage preserved by the Portal to Texas History. | [708] |
| 1995 | February 1–25, 1995 | Rockville Arts Place | Rockville, Maryland, US | Black | Group exhibition exploring the theme of “black” through diverse media; Ron English participated with Color Corrected, an oil-on-canvas reinterpretation of a 1920s Norman Rockwell scene in which the Boy Scout child is Black. Contemporary coverage in the Rockville Gazette highlighted English’s use of humor and social commentary as well as the exhibition’s broader focus on race and culture. | [709] |
| 1995 | March 25 – April 23, 1995 | Common Boundaries | Jersey City, New Jersey, US | Art Amok: A Diabolical Experiment in Painting | Pro Arts “Collective Intelligence Project” group exhibition at Common Boundaries, 68 Mercer Street, Jersey City, curated by Robert Costa. | [711] |
| 1996–1997 | December 6, 1996 – January 4, 1997 | MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) | Washington, D.C., US | Three Artists, Three Visions | Three-person exhibition featuring Ron English, Anthony Ausgang, and Stuart Gosswein. Organized by gallery director Clark and presenting separate bodies of work by each artist, the show explored personal narrative, pop-culture imagery, and variations of tone and technique across the three participants. | [712] |
| 1997 | 1997 (date unspecified) | The Tunnel (Chelsea/ Brooklyn warehouse) | New York, NY, US | Vision 21 | Multidisciplinary group exhibition curated by Leeza Ahmady at The Tunnel nightclub and associated Brooklyn venue; featured 75 artists including Ron English, DJ Spooky, Nat Finkelstein, Neke Carson, and others, offering a prediction of contemporary art for the 21st century. | [713] |
| 1997 | February 14–27, 1997 | Tomasulo Gallery, McKay Library, Union County College | Cranford, New Jersey, US | The Graven Image | Group exhibition examining contemporary interpretations of religious iconography. Ron English contributed two works, including his painting Medusa, highlighted in *The Star-Ledger* review as an example of the show’s satirical approach to sacred imagery. | [714] |
| c. 1997 | September 12 (c. 1997) | Ozone Art Gallery | New York, New York, US | Ozone Art Gallery Grand Opening — Inaugural Group Exhibition | Grand opening reception and inaugural group exhibition at Ozone Art Gallery, 400 Broome Street (corner of Kenmare and Cleveland), held 6–10 pm with complimentary admission for guests. Later accounts of Ozone’s 1997 programming describe lowbrow and pop-surrealist group shows that included Ron English. | [715] |
| 1997 | October 3 – October 31, 1997 | Ozone Art Gallery | New York, New York, US | Lords of the Lowbrow | Group exhibition at Ozone Art Gallery featuring works by Ron English and others tied to the Lowbrow/pop-surrealist movement. | [716] |
| 1998 | May 1998 | Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA DC) | Washington, DC, US | One Hundred and Ten NAFTA Oranges | Group exhibition at MOCA DC exploring political and cultural responses to the North American Free Trade Agreement | [717] |
| 1998 | June 6 – July 2, 1998 | Zero 1 Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | POPaganda! | Two-artist exhibition of new work by the Clark/Hogan duo and Ron English at Zero 1 Gallery on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. | [718] |
| 1998 | December 5, 1998 – January 16, 1999 | Merry Karnowsky Gallery | Los Angeles, California, US | Kittens 'n' Kads | Group exhibition curated by Copro/Nason Fine Art Publishing at Merry Karnowsky Gallery; opening night reception held 5 December 1998, 8–11 p.m. | [719] |
| 1999 | 1999 (dates unspecified) | The Lab | San Francisco, California, US | The Art of Midnight Editing: Two Decades of Culture Jamming and Drive-By Advertising Improvement | Curated survey of culture-jamming, billboard intervention, and media-subversion practices featuring Ron English among pioneering artists working in public-space critique. | [720] |
| 1999 | February 1–26, 1999 | CBGB’s 313 Gallery | New York, New York, US | POPaganda2/Rejected II | Joint exhibition at CBGB’s 313 Gallery featuring 101 new paintings by Ron English and 50 new drawings by Daniel Johnston; related promotion also announced a companion performance night for the collaboration at Cheetah nightclub on February 4, 1999. | [721] |
| 1999 | April 28 – May 21, 1999 | 313 Gallery (CBGB's) | New York, New York, US | 20 Years of Billboard Alterations and Liberations | New York presentation of 20 Years of Billboard Alterations and Liberations at CBGB’s 313 Gallery, documenting more than 1,000 pirated billboards by the Billboard Liberation Front, Ron English, Cicada and others, with an opening reception and talks by artists and critics. | [723] |
| 1999 | June 18 – July 13, 1999 | David Leonardis Gallery | Chicago, Illinois, US | Ron English & Alice Wheeler — Coast to Coast | Two-person exhibition with photographer Alice Wheeler, including English’s Cancer Wides (1998) and Wheeler’s Kurt Cobain concert photograph from Motorsports Garage, Seattle (1991). | [724] |
| Year | Dates | Venue | Location | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | May 16–17, 1982 | Infomart (Texas Gallery Art Show, in conjunction with ARTFEST) | Dallas, Texas, US | Texas Gallery Art Show | Large multi-gallery showcase featuring more than twenty Texas art galleries. Ron English was exhibited by Houston’s Parkerson Gallery, which presented his painting Horny Senatosaurs within the fair’s contemporary art section. | [725] |
| 1985 | August 3–30, 1985 | Theatre Gallery | Dallas, Texas, US | Dubious Edge | Group exhibition at Theatre Gallery featuring the photographic work of Ron English, noted in the Dallas Observer as part of the gallery’s August program. The listing highlights a print from the exhibition and identifies English as one of the photographers presenting new work. | [726] |
| 1986 | April 5, 1986 | Theatre Gallery | Dallas, Texas, US | Invading Aliens from the Beach | One-night joint show by Susan English and Ron English at Theatre Gallery on Commerce Street in Dallas, running from 7–10 p.m. and featuring their collaborative “alien” imagery. | [727] |
| 1986 | September 13 – October 11, 1986 | Fashion Moda | Bronx, New York, US | The Salon | Group exhibition produced by artist and Fashion Moda co-founder Stefan Eins, presented at the influential South Bronx alternative art space. | [728] |
| 1986 | October 1986 | Houston Center for Photography | Houston, Texas, US | Texas 150: New Texas Photography | Group exhibition curated by Lew Thomas and April Rapier as part of the Texas 150 series, featuring 18 photographers. Ron English’s works were highlighted for their surreal, half-human, half-beast imagery. The show ran through October 12, 1986. | [729] |
| 1986 | October 30 – November 19, 1986 | City Without Walls | Newark, New Jersey, US | 5th Annual Metro Show | Fifth edition of City Without Walls’ Metro Show, organized by the Urban Artists’ Collective and featuring regional artists including English; opened with an evening reception on 30 October. | [730] |
| Late 1980s (likely 1986 or 1987) | June 27 (one-night event) | Under Acme | New York, New York, US | MGD — Painting N.Y.C. | One-night group art show held at Under Acme, 9 Great Jones Street, featuring Ron English among a roster of emerging downtown artists. The event combined visual art with live music and DJ sets, reflecting the hybrid art–club culture of the late-1980s East Village. | [731] |
| 1987 | January 18 – February 12, 1987 | Bond Gallery | New York, New York, US | Para Photography | Seven-artist exhibition integrating photographic work with sculpture, non-silver processes, painting, drawing, multimedia and writing. | [732] |
| 1988 | February 2, 1988 | Limelight | New York, New York, US | 2042: Art at the Speed of Life | Large group exhibition presented by Randall Hart at the Limelight nightclub, featuring works by twenty-six artists from California, Texas and New York, including Ron English. | [733] |
| 1988 | May 4, 1988 | Tunnel Gallery | New York, New York, US | Staff Infection | Group exhibition at The Tunnel Gallery featuring original works by Mark Kostabi’s studio assistants. Organized by Ron English, the show included contributions from ten artists and was also referenced in contemporary coverage as “The Ghosts of Kostabi.” | [735] |
| 1988 | May – 26 June 1988 | Midtown Y Photography Gallery | New York, NY, US | Ron English, Abbot Genser, Jeanine El’Gazi | Three-artist photography exhibition at the Midtown Y Photography Gallery. A contemporary exhibition listing in *Afterimage* confirms the roster of Ron English, Abbot Genser and Jeanine El’Gazi, with the show running through June 26, 1988. | [737] |
| 1988 | July 6, 1988 | Tunnel Gallery | New York, New York, US | The Immoral & Illegal Artshow | Group exhibition at Tunnel Gallery on 12th Avenue featuring English alongside New York downtown artists, plus a special section of photographs documenting pirate billboards from Texas. | [738] |
| 1988 | September 21, 1988 | Tunnel (Coatcheck Gallery) | New York, New York, US | Twenty Men Artists | One-night show in Tunnel’s Coatcheck Gallery presenting twenty works by twenty male artists, including English, framed as a tongue-in-cheek response to feminist art debates. | [739] |
| 1988 | November 26, 1988 – January 9, 1989 | The New Waterfront Museum | Brooklyn, New York, US | The All-Male Feminist Art Show | Group exhibition at The New Waterfront Museum, 84 Front Street, Brooklyn, curated by Robert Costa; included Ron English among a roster of male artists, with reception on 3 December 1988. | [740] |
| 1989 | March 16–29, 1989 | Grace Harkin Gallery | New York, New York, US | Art on the Run | Group exhibition in the East Village featuring experimental works by multiple artists. Ron English contributed The Last Supper, a surreal image juxtaposing a glowing McDonald’s sign with a symbolic plate of fish, noted in ARTSPEAK as part of the show. | [741] |
| 1989 | March 22 – April 15, 1989 | The Police Building | New York, New York, US | The Prisoners of Art | Multi-media group exhibition presented at the Police Building and organized by Collaborative Projects (COLAB), curated by Gary Azon, Ken Christie, Charlie Finch, Baird Jones, Lynn Sweeney, Willoughby Sharp, and Vee. The opening reception took place on March 18, 1989. | [742] |
| 1989 | July 24 – August 2 and August 8–24, 1989 | Dance Theater Workshop Gallery | New York, New York, US | Dog Days | Dog Days summer group show presented by 2 T.Q. at the Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, 219 West 19th Street, New York; exhibition ran in two segments with a reception on 8 August 1989. | [743] |
| 1989 | December 9, 1989 | Black and White in Color Gallery | Bronx, New York, US | The Helms Degenerate Art Show | One-night group exhibition presented by English and Eichman at the Black and White in Color Gallery, featuring works by over two dozen artists, including Ron English, Leon Golub, Lady Pink, Christo, Faith Ringgold, Dread Scott, Richard Serra, Nancy Spero, and Andres Serrano. The event also included live performances throughout the evening. | [744] |
| 1989 | December 1989 – January 1990 | Fashion Moda (South Bronx) | Bronx, New York, US | [Exhibition/Fundraiser, December 1989 – January 1990] | Exhibition/fundraiser organized by Fashion Moda featuring works by Rigoberto Torres, Chuck Hardgrove, Mark Kostabi, Ronnie Cutrone, Ricky Prol, Crash, Daze, Ariel Jordan, Wendy Hoffmann, Tabo Toral, Ron English and others. | [746] |
Robinson Galleries presents an exhibition of the photography of Ron English. English's photographs merge actual persons and places, his own hand-drawn cardboard figures, and flattening of space… Also featured will be English's "American Sideshows."
Clark & Company will showcase oil paintings of New York Pop artist Ron English—his inaugural exhibition in the Washington area.
Showcard lists the exhibition dates 2–11 June 2006 and venue "Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre."
Invitation lists "RON ENGLISH, DANIEL JOHNSTON, GIBBY HAYNES, CLARK FOX, ANTHONY AUSGANG" and notes exhibition dates June 21 – September 24, 2006.
Showcard lists "Ron English" among participating artists; exhibition runs August 8 – September 8, 2006.
Showcard lists "Ron English & John Puglisi," Lineage Gallery, October 20 – November 19, 2006.
Copro/Nason 15 Year Anniversary Group Show – December 2006
2007 – Melodic Inversions and Contrary Motions … with Ron English and Veronica DeJesus.
"Ron English … will participate in The Vader Project, May 24-28 2007 at Star Wars Celebration IV, Los Angeles."
"Notable artists involved … Ron English … among the artists who participated."
A list of exhibiting artists includes Ron English, Adam Neate, Dalek, Futura, Mark Dean Veca.
"Work at this show includes … Ron English …" referring to the "Small, Medium and Large" show opening October 5.
"2007 Red Dot Fair, 3 Person Show with Ron English and Joshua Petker, The Shooting Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL"
Lists "Deep Pop Exhibition **with Ron English** and Marc Dean Veca / Iona College, NY (2008)."
Lists "Made in New York: Warhol, Basquiat, English, Earley – Opera Gallery, New York, NY."
States that Opera Gallery's "Made in New York" exhibition featured works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lori Earley, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Ron English, and more; opening in April 2008.
States that the 2008 L'Imagerie Gallery "Carnivora" exhibition included artists such as H.R. Giger, Shag, Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, Coop, and Ron English.
Official Carnivora artist roster includes Ron English.
Confirms L'Imagerie Gallery exhibition dates: opening May 3, 2008, running through June 14, 2008.
Lists: "The Hustle, Group show w. Ricky Powell, Ron English, Quick and more. The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, USA."
Links The Hustle magazine issue to a central group exhibition at The powerHouse Arena and lists Ron English among contributors.
Showcard lists Ron English among participating artists; confirms opening reception Wednesday, May 28, 6–9pm.
Showcard lists Ron English among the artists; show runs 6 September – 11 October 2008.
Exhibition description lists participating artists including Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Jim Shaw and Robbie Conal.
Artist CV lists "2008 — Change America, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA."
Email #951 is titled "Gershwin Gallery and Hotel's Last Art Show of the Season!" and names Ron English as a participating artist.
"Ron English's 'Cartoonia' (1998, $8,000) is a version of Picasso's 'Guernica' in which Petunia Pig leans out of the window, and the Tasmanian Devil plays the role of the bull."
A print from the exhibit "Dubious Edge," Aug 3–30 at Theatre Gallery.
"Jeanine El'Gazi. Ron English. Abbot Genser. All through June 26."
Ron English's large work, "The Last Supper," is a surreal juxtaposition of images, beginning with the lighted-up McDonald sign and ending with a plate of quiet fish.