RY ROCKLEN
Born in 1978, Los Angeles, CA. Lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA. EDUCATION
2006 M.F.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 2001 B.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1996-1998 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2024 Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Richard and the Tortoise, Lazy Eye Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA
2019 Food Group: Genesis, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Ry Rocklen in Residence: Pixievision, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA 2017 Food Group, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Ry Rocklen: L.A. Relics, Honor Fraser, Los Angles, CA My Metropolitan, Feuer/Mesler, New York, NY
2015 Trophy Modern, VAROLA, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA. Ry Rocklen: Trophy Modern, National Work Table, Clocktower, New York, NY Praz-Delavallade solo booth, Paris Internationale, Paris, France
Condominium Pancake with Derek Boshier, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium 2014 Local Color, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA A Living, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR
A Living, UNTITLED, New York, NY. 2013 Trophy Modern, UNTITLED & Thomas Solomon Solo Booth, ALAC, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Believe You Me, UNTITLED, New York, NY
2010 ZZZ’s, Visual Arts Centre, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
2009 House of Return, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA Good Heavens, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY 2008 Good Grief, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece Time After Time, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium 2007 Half Craft, Medium, St. Barthelemy, France
Just Us, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Land of Super Neutral, B.U.G. Gallery, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand
Soft Ice, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Lost & Found, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Grounded 4 Life, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Staring at a Sun that Never Sets, The Pit, Palm Springs, CA
2021 ArtMint, Quality Coins, Yucca Valley, CA
2019 This is a Pipe: Realism and Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery,
Chicago, IL
CURRENT:; LA FOOD, LA’s Public Terminal Art Triennial, Los Angeles, CA L.A. on Fire, Wilding Can Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Le Magasin, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
An Homage to Hollis Benton (curated by Aaron Moulton), Over the Influence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 L’Institut d’esthétique Dans le cadre de La Manutention, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Dress Me Up, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Ancient Art Objects, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
Summer Show, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery East Hampton, NY
I Love L.A., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
Concrete Island, VENUS Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, NY Cross Currents, COMA Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales, Australia
2016 L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Wasteland, Mona Bismarck American Center / Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris / Pantin, France
Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Prototypology. An Index of Process and Mutation, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy Thirty Shades of White, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Supernova, MAG: museuo alto garda, Riva del garda, Italy
2014 please enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Burned By The Sun, Mallorca Landings, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2013 Murmurs: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Stand-in, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
More Young Americans (curated by Susanne Van Hagen), L’Enclos des Bernardins, Hôtel de Miramion, Paris, France
Jew York, Zach Feuer and UNTITLED, New York, NY
Merci Mercy, Feedback Ltd., Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY
2012 Your History is Our History (curated by René-Julien Praz), Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Coquilles mécaniques, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
For the Martian Chronicles (curated by Yael Lipschutz), L+M Arts, Los Angeles, CA Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
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Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Maybe It’s The Light Has To Change And Not Much Else (curated by J. Armin & S. Halajian), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Changing States of Matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Venice Beach Biennial, Venice Beach, CA
Torrance Biennial, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2011 Greater LA, New York, NY
No Swan So Fine, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Nothing Beside Remains, LAND 1.0, Marfa, TX
Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami, FL
Jersey Bounce, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Knock, Knock! From The Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris, France
Country Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Heather Cook, Alex Olson, R.H. Quaytman, Ry Rocklen, Gedi Sibony, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at The Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Nothing Is Permanent. Albert Baronian, Profession: Galeriste, European Centre for
Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
2008 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
That Was Then, This Was Now, PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 2007 LA Bodies: Figuration in Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, BFAS – Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Warhol &, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Red Eye, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
LA Trash & Treasure, Miliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2005 From LA, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
LA Juried Show, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Drive-By & reLAX, Sunspace, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
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BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY, Apex Art, New York, NY 2003 3D 7DEEP, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Golden, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany Cluster Fuck, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Something Else, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Win, Lose of Draw/Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
I’m from Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red (curated by Hubert Schmalix), Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna, Austria
The Daily Circus, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Low Overhead, Todd Hughes Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001 A Well Rounded Appetite, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Face-Off (curated by Hannah Greely), The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
Big Trouble in Little China, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
The Backyard Show, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Battle for the Greatest Drawing in the World Title, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Something of That Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA Chocolate Thunder, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
CATALOGUES
2019 CURRENT: LA FOOD, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France 2015 Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Ry Rocklen. Cast, Plated and Tiled, Wood Kusaka
Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Anne Ellegood, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick, Made in
L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, University of California: Los Angeles, CA; DelMonico Books,
Prestel: New York, NY
2008 Trinie Dalton, Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2007 Michael Ned Holte, Red Eye, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Lindsay Preston Zappas, Interview: Isolation with Ry Rocklen, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, April 7
2019 Christopher Knight, Review: Ry Rocklen sets the table with his surreal, supersize sculpture, Los Angeles Times, April 23
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2018 Deborah Vankin, ‘My Kid Could Do That’: See the childhood art of Ruscha, Opie, Aitken and others on view in LA, Los Angeles Times, April 6
Jordan Riefe, My Kid Could Do That: Famous Artists Put Their Childhood Drawings on View in LA, Observer, April 2
2017 Trinie Dalton, This Is Not a Test, Artforum, November 20
Microsize Me, Ry Rocklen, Cultured, October 3
Rebecca Brantley, Review: Ancient Art Objects is an acute examination of the contemporary, ArtsATL, September 11
Michael Slenske, We’ve Got Spirit, LALA Magazine, Fall
Raisa Rexer, Revisiting the Arcades, art ltd., March/April
Jonathan Griffin, Ry Rocklen, Frieze, January/February
Food Group by Ry Rocklen at Team Gallery, New York, Blown Artinfo, October 20
Grab a map and explore these high desert art installations this weekend, The Desert Sun, October 21
Gary Pini, 10 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week, Paper Magazine, October 5
2016 Andrew Berardini, Ry Rocklen’s LA Relics, Bomb, October 5
Jonathan Griffin, Review: Ry Rocklen – Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, Frieze, November 2 Bob Colacello, The Lure of LACMA, Vanity Fair, December
Darius Sabbaghzadeh, Ry Rocklen, Flash Art, November/December
Sharon Mizota, Ry Rocklen’s Sly Sculptures: There’s more than what you might see at first, Los Angeles Times, September 16
Michael Slenske, Ry Rocklen’s ‘LA Relics’ at Honor Fraser Gallery, Wallpaper, September 14 Brian Boucher, Ry Rocklen’s Charming Audio Tour Guides Visitors Through His LES Show, Artnet, January 18
2015 Ry Rocklen, Treasure hunter, POCKO,com, September 4
Melinda O’Brien, The Talent, Southbay Magazine, February/March
Andrew M. Goldstein, Want to Stay Cool? Then See These 50 Works From Paris Internationale, Artspace.com, October 24
Alysia Gray Painter, Trophy Furniture: Ry Rocklen Exhibit, NBC Los Angeles, December
2014 Jan Garden Castro, In the Studio with Ry Rocklen, International Sculpture Center, August Anne Martens, Ry Rocklen’s Quotidian Bling, Artillery, November
Joanna Fiduccia, Picks: Ry Rocklen – Untitled, Artforum, June
Adam Tschorn, LAXART Gala Serves Up Typing, Tattoos, and Smashing Tabboos, Los Angeles Times, September 29
2013 Brian Boucher, Ry Rocklen’s Absolute Sportif, Interview Magazine, December 4 Ry Rocklen’s Winning Installation in Miami Beach, Artsy, November 29
2012 Holly Myers, Made in LA: Ry Rocklen, art ltd., August
Hammer announces $100,000 prize for new biennial; 60 artists chosen, Los Angeles Times, March
Ana Finel Honingman, Interview with Ry Rocklen, Artslant
2011 Charles Donelan, CAF’s Home Show, Revisited: Ten Los Angeles Artists Take On Santa Barbara’s Homes, Santa Barbara Independent, June 2
Scary Clowns and Wet Feet at Ry Rocklen’s Opening at Untitled, The New York Observer, September 8
Brent Birnbaum, Featured Artist: Ry Rocklen, Artcards Review, October 11
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Andrew Goldstein and Sarah Douglas, Bargains Were the New Bling at the Armory, Artinfo, March
This weekend: LAND takes over Marfa, Ballroom Marfa, December
2010 Katie Geha, Ry Rocklen: 500 Words, Artforum, October 26
Katie Anania, Ry Rocklen, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas, Art Lies, Issue 66
2009 T.J. Carlin, Reviews: Ry Rocklen – Good Heavens, Art Review, May 2009, p. 116 Annie Wharton, Ry Rocklen, Flash Art, November-December 2009, p. 89 Brian Sholis, Ry Rocklen, Artforum, Summer 2009, p. 341
2008 RosaLee Goldberg, Performance Anxiety: Political Currents at the Whitney Biennial, Modern Painters, May
Vikram Anuradha, Los Angeles Artists Sweep the Whitney Biennial, Artillery, May Richard Dorment, Whitney Biennial: Sunk by Its Big Ideas, Telegraph, April Holland Cotter, Art’s Economic Indicator, The New York Times, March 7
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Ry Rocklen – Studio Visit, FlashArt.com, March 11
2007 Skye Sherwin, Future Greats: Twenty-Five Artists to Look Out for in 2007, ArtReview, March
2006 Marc Spiegler, American Renaissance, The Art Newspaper, July 27
Kathryn Hargreaves, Real Live Art: Possessed & Transcendent, The Arts District Citizen, February
Ethan Pines, Art Tsunami, Men’s Book, Spring, p. 82
Margaret Studer, Shopping Spree: Buying Is Strong in Basel, The Wall Street Journal Europe, June 24-26
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2021 – Present 2018
2017
2014 2013
2012 2007 2003 2001
Quality Coin, Yucca Valley, CA (community arts space)
Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize, Ojai, CA (grant and residency) Trophy Modern Home: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Ry Rocklen in HDTS 2017, High Desert Test Sites, CA
LAXART Gala, Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA
Night Court, Absolut Art Bar, Miami Beach, FL (in collaboration with Absolut)
Montalvo Art Center Irvine Fellow, Saratoga, CA (residency)
Medium, St. Barthélemy, France (residency)
Trance Plants, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curatorial)
Spoils, Sarah Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curatorial)
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COLLECTIONS
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mohn Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
MoCA Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL