Ryan Johnson (artist)

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Ryan Johnson
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Ryan Johnson in his Brooklyn studio, 2009
Born1978 (age 44–45)
Karachi, Pakistan
Nationality American
Known forSculpture

Ryan Johnson (born 1978) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. [1] His sculptures are "made from a variety of materials, among them wood, medical casting tape and sheet metal," [2] and they have been described as having "strange spatial compressions, surreal displacements and quasi-Futurist illusions of movement." [3]

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Johnson grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and graduated from Jakarta International School. [4] [5] He holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Columbia University. His work has been featured in exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (now the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House), and the Saatchi Gallery in London (among others).

Solo exhibitions

2017Life Study, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

2012Self Storage, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY

2010Description of a Struggle, Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York, NY

2008Watchman, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2007Ambien Eyes, Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2005Modern Human Animal, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

Selected group exhibitions

2018Visitors from Shallow Space, Fresh Window, Brooklyn, NY

2017Cupid Angling, John H. Baker Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

2016Fort Greene, curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus LA, Los Angeles, CA Life Study, EDDYSROOM, Greenpoint, NY

2015Under Foundations, curated by Jess Wilcox, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY Eagles II, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain

2014Forever, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon Imaginary Portraits, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Gallery Met, New York, NY Pale Fire, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2013High, Low, and In Between, with Ryan Johnson, Johannes VanDerBeek, and Sara VanDerBeek, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO

2012Pewter Wings, Golden Horns, Stone Veils, GRIMM Gallery, The Netherlands

2010NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, NY

2009Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2008Without Walls, Museum 52, New York, NY
Imaginary Thing, curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2007BRAIN FORM, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
Capricci (possibilities of other worlds), Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
MASH, The Helena, New York, NY

20062006 Untitled (For H.C. Westermann), curated by Michael Rooks, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Metaphysics of Youth, curated by Luigi Fassi and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Artenova-Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy
Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York, NY
Ionesco's Friends, curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2005Greater New York P.S.1, Queens, NY
Who is the Protagonist? curated by Ohad Meromi, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2004Pattern Playback, curated by Silvia Cubina, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Four-Ply, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Hung, Drawn, and Quartered, curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, NY

2003Pantone, curated by David Hunt, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY
Burnt Orange, Heresy Space 101, Brooklyn, NY

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References

  1. ↑ "Ryan Johnson - Artist - Saatchi Gallery". www.saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  2. ↑ "archive.ph". archive.ph. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  3. ↑ Rosenberg, Karen (2012-12-06). "Ryan Johnson: 'Self Storage'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  4. ↑ "UPS and Ogilvy on Apparent Rip-Off: No Similarities Here! Who's Ryan Johnson?" FastCo Design, August 2010 http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662181/ups-and-ogilvy-on-apparent-rip-off-no-similarities-here-whos-ryan-johnson
  5. ↑ “Ryan Johnson on How His New Works Reflect the angst of Early Adulthood,” Video on Artinfo.com, November 2012 http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/837071/video-ryan-johnson-on-how-his-new-works-reflect-the-angst-of

Further reading

Interview with the Ryan Johnson 2012 lodownmagazine.com

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