Ryan Sullivan (b.1983, upstate New York) lives and works in New York City. Sullivan’s paintings reflect his dynamic and constantly-evolving mode of abstraction, with each painting standing as a physical record of its own creation – both embodying and describing material flows and physical processes.

Evocative and unrepeatable, Sullivan’s works have been praised for their assertion of painting's enduring critical importance and potential.

Sullivan studied at the Rhode Island School of Design*, Providence (RI) (2005).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
The Chamber (or Wall of Sound), Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ, San Francisco (CA), USA
one minute’s music, one minute’s time, Sadie Coles HQ, London

2017
Only Connect, Maccarone, New York (NY)

2016
~/—, Sadie Coles HQ, London

2015
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (FL), USA

2013
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece

2012
Maccarone, New York (NY)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBIIONS

2019
En Plein Air, Highline, New York (NY), USA

2018
Black Hole, Art and Materiality from Informal to Invisible, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
CONDO: Shanghart Gallery hosting Sadie Coles HQ, London, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (CA), USA

2017
Abstract / Non Abstract, Presented by Larry Gagosian & Jeffrey Deitch, Gagosian Gallery, Miami (FL), USA
Satellite TV, Tetsuo's Garage, 8-10 Yasukawa, Nikko, Japan
MIDTOWN, Lever House, New York (NY)
Thinking out Loud, The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas (TX), USA

2016
In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York (NY)

2015
New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Surface Tension, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (NY)
New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2014
Man In The Mirror, Vanharents Art Collection, Brussels

2013
Empire State, New York Art Now, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, White Flag Projects, St. Louis (MI), USA
Group Show, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace Gallery, New York (NY)
Fruits of Captiva, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (NY)

2012
Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (FL), USA
Group Show, West Street Gallery, New York (NY)

2011
Were All Stars To Disappear or Die, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
Grisaille, Luxembourg & Dayan, London
Everything You Can Imagine is Real…, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Secondary Evidence of Things Unseen, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin
Robert Barry, Peer Bode, Raymond Hains, Nikolas Gambaroff, Ryan Sullivan, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (NY)

2010
Skins, OHWOW, Miami (FL) USA?Group Show, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA?Neo-Vitruvian: The Body Now, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York (NY)?Greater New York

2010: Rotation 4, MoMA/P.S.1, Queens (NY), USA?Twenty-Six Dinner Parties: 1, Amagansett (NY), USA?Spare Room, West Street Gallery, New York (NY)?Substance Abuse, Leo Koenig Inc., Projekte, New York (NY)?Volume, AT1 Projects, Los Angeles (CA), USA?Selections, LA Art House, Los Angeles (CA), USA

2009
Kings County Biennial, Kidd Yellin, Brooklyn (NY), USA
Room Tones, St. Cecila Convent, Brooklyn (NY), USA

2008
What the Midnight Can Show Us, Museum52, New York (NY)

2007
Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York (NY)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY)
The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago (IL), USA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (RI), USA

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2017
Troedsson Villa, Japan

2013
Artist-in-Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa (TX), USA
Artist-in-Residence, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva (FL), USA

Source:
Website of Gallery of Sadie Coles HQ, 2020

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