Ryan McGinness
Born 1972 in Virginia Beach, VA, currently living and working in Manhattan, New York.
McGinness received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. While completing his degree, McGinness served as a curatorial assistant at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.
Unified by a psychedelic, graphic aesthetic, McGinness’ work derives inspiration from skateboard culture and surf decals to explore how contemporary iconography can communicate personal meaning. “Nothing inherently has meaning,” he once said. “Meaning is projected and reflected which gives the illusion that things ‘have’ meaning. In that sense, meaning is like color.” Often featuring commercial logos, signs, and kaleidoscopic patterns, his work is characterized by its uniform smoothness and mechanical application of color.
His work is shown globally and is housed in the permanent public collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art(New York) Museum of Modern Art（New York, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond), Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), and the UBS Collection among others.
出生於1972年，弗吉尼亞州維吉尼亞海灘，目前在紐約曼哈頓生活和工作。
McGinness 於1994年獲得卡內基梅隆大學的美術學士學位。在完成學位期間，他曾擔任賓夕法尼亞州匹茲堡安迪·沃荷博物館的策展助理。
麥金尼斯的作品以迷幻的圖形美學為統一，從滑板文化和衝浪貼紙中汲取靈感，探索當代圖像如何傳達個人意義。他曾說過：「沒有任何東西本質上具有意義。意義是被投射和反映出來的，這給人一種事物『擁有』意義的錯覺。在這個層面上，意義就像顏色。」他的作品經常包含商業標誌、標誌和萬花筒般的圖案，特徵是均勻的光滑度和機械化的顏色應用。
他的作品在全球展出，並被大都會藝術博物館（紐約）、現代藝術博物館（紐約）、維吉尼亞美術館（里士滿）、當代藝術博物館（聖地牙哥）、以及瑞銀集團(UBS Collection) 等收藏。
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
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2024 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, WYSIWYG, March 28-May 11
2023 Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, Drawings, September 16-October 28
County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, A New System for Control, March 1-15
2022 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, The New Narratives, October 20-November 26
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, Kraftworks, July 29-September 5
2020 Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, Pedaling in Sauerkraut, November 13-January 5, 2021
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, Mindscapes, October 15-November 14
2019 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, Warhol Flower Icons, June 21-July 21
Harper’s, East Hampton, NY, Mother & Child, May 11-June 13
2018 Nanzuka (AishoNanzuka), Hong Kong, China, Warhol Flower Icons, September 12-October 6, 2018
Nanzuka (EchoOne), Bangkok, Thailand, Warhol Flower Icons, September 8-October 21, 2018
2017 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Studio Views, November 17, 2017-March 18, 2018
Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, Ocular Evidence, November 11, 2017-February 3, 2018
2016 Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, #metadata, March 19-April 22
2015 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit, January 31-April 19
2014 Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, Community Identity Stability, November 8-December 31
Pace Prints, New York, NY, Figure Drawings, May 2-June 14
Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Everything Is Everywhere, April 5-May 10
Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Art History Is Not Linear (Boijmans), April 4-May 10
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit, January 25-November 9
2013 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland, Women & Mindscapes, March 15-April 7
2012 Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, Women: New (Re)Presentations, September 15-November 3
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, Women: Sun-stained Symbols, August 4-September 3
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, Units of Meaning, June 22-July 22
Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, Women: Sketches & Solutions, May 3-June 30
Pace Primitive, New York, NY, Geometric Primitives, March 30-May 5
2011 Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Trophies, May 26-July 16
Country Club, Los Angeles, CA, Works on Paper, May 21-July 2
Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Recent Paintings, May 19-July 1
Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Color Oblicuo, January 26-March 27
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY, Black Holes, January 1-March 8
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2023 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, So Many Songs We have yet to Play, April 6-September 3, 2023
Kadokawa Culture Museum, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, Tagukore, February 4-May 7, 2023
2022 Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, Bounteous, March 26-May 21 2022
2021 The Museum Of___, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, Dust to Dust., September 8-November 6
El Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Ainsa-Sobrarbe, Huesca, Spain, Abstraction/Simulation June 5-October 22
2020 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, Really., Curated by Ryan McGinness & Inka Essenhigh,
October 15-November 14
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, Artists for New York, October 5-October 22
2018 Harper’s Books, East Hampton, New York, Grafik, Curated by Ryan McGinness, August 15-October 10
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, England, Heads Roll, Curated by Paul Morrison, August 11-November 24
Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, Tick Tock: Time in Contempary Art, February 2-May 5
2017 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, July 8-October 15
2016 Pace Prints, New York, NY, Remember the Future, October 28-December 17
Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, February 27-March 26
2015 Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille, France, A Perspective on Agnès B.’s Collection, June 12-August 23
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting, January 24-May 3
2014 Columbus Museum of Art, Now-ism: Abstraction Today, September 6, 2014-August 15, 2015
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting, June 11-August 17
2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Factory Direct, June 24-September 9
Montclair Art Museum, Montclaire, NJ, Modern and Contemprary Art from Private Collections, February 12-June 17
2011 Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, Masters of Reality, November 3-December 23
Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, Nose Job, Curated by Carlo McCormick, July 15-August 22
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark, Litos Grafera, January 8-April 25
Museum of Stavanger, Norway, Litos Grafera, May 26-September 11
2010 National Arts Club, New York, NY, Contemporary Magic, Curated by Stacy Engman, November 4-30
2007 Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX, Monumental Drawing, April 5-June 17
2006 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, Graphic Content, December 7-February 26, 2007
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Art on Paper 2006, November 12-January 21, 2007
Public Art Fund, MetroTech, Brooklyn, NY, The World Is Round, October 27-September 9, 2007
Royal Academy of Arts, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England, USA Today, October 6-November 4
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, Spank the Monkey, September 27-January 7, 2007
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Since 2000: Printmaking Now, May 3-September 18
Deitch Projects, New York, NY, The Garden Party, March 9-April 29
2005 MoMA PS1, New York, NY, Greater New York 2005, March 13-September 22
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego,CA
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
The Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo
The Charles Saatchi Collection, London
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Art in Embassies, U.S Department of State
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
New York Public Library
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Art in Architecture (AiA)
Norton Family Foundation
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
UBS Collection, New York
Bank of America, New York
J.P. Morgan Chase Art Program
MTV Networks
The Neuberger Berman Collection
Hallmark Art Collection
The Schwab Family Collection
Gilberto e Rosa Sandretto Collection
The Malingue Collection
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Richard E. Jacobs Group
The Shockey Family Collection
Cora Diamond Corporation
The Judy & Rob Mann Collection
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
The Phil Schrager Collection
The Michael Krichman & Carmen Cuenca Collection
The Matthew & Iris Strauss Collection
The Joan K. Jacobs Healing Arts Collection at UC San Diego