RUTH ROOT
Born 1967, Chicago, IL.
Currently lives and works in New York City.
Education
2003 Yaddo
1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1993 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1990 Brown University
Awards
1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting 1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Forum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid
2015 Old, Odd & Oval, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2014 The Dartmouth Experiment, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 2011 The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2009 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Maureen Paley Gallery, London 2008 Gallery Minmin, Tokyo
2007 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
2005 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria 2004 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid 2003 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York 2001 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2000 Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy 1999 Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Museum Exhibitions
2018 Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Surface/Depth, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2015 New York Painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2008 Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin
2007 Don’t Look. Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection Martina Yamin, class of
1958, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2005 Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2004 City Maps, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
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2003 Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002 Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sam collect – contemporary art project, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2000 Greater New York, Duplex solo installation, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and
Laura Hoptman, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Group Exhibitions
2019 Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now, curated by Alex Glauber and Alex Logsdail, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Twist, fused/Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York, NY
2017 Man Alive, Maruani Mercier, Brussels
2016 Looking Back, The 10th White Columns Annual – Selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York
Life Eraser, Brand New Gallery, Milan Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York
The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
2014 Les Plaisirs Démodés (The Old-Fashioned Way), Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2013 Wit, The Painting Center, New York
2012 To the Venetians II: Chris Martin, Matt Rich and Ruth Root, curated by Carrie Moyer and
Dennis Congdon, RISD Painting Department Providence, RI
2011-12 The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. Ives, Conrwall, UK, touring to the Mead Gallery,
University of Warwick, UK
2009 Trail Blazers in the 21st Century, The David and Ruth Robinson Eisenberg Gallery, New
Brunswick, NJ
Print, Mushroom Works, Newark upon Tyne, United Kingdom 2008 Take Me There Show Me The Way, Haunch of Venison, New York
David Reed Studio, New York
Gallery Minmin, Japan
2007 Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Bushels, Bundles & Barrels, Superfund Investment Center, New York
The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Coventry, United Kingdom 2006 Untitled (for H.C. Westermann), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Ruth Root, Alex Brown, Cameron Martin, Sally Ross, Gallery Minmin, Tokyo
it is, “what is it”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York 2005 The Early Show, White Columns, New York
Trade, White Columns, New York
2004 Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
20th Anniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York 2002 Jump, Curated by Ross Neher, The Painting Center, New York
I-Beam, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Curated by
Michelle Grabner, Rocket Gallery, London Acme Gallery, Los Angeles
Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York
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State of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York 2001 The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Painting show, Curated by Laura Owens, Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles 2000 Fuel Serve, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York
Salty Salute, West Wing Art Space, Toronto
Perfidy -Exhausted Embrace, Curated by Martyn Simpson and Daniel Sturgis, Convent Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Eveux, France
Kosmobiologie, Curated by Nancy Chaikin, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Fifteen, Deutsche Bank, Curated by Walter Robinson, New York Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1998 Home and Away, Curated by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Son-of-a-Guston, Curated by Nina Bovasso, Clementine Gallery, New York
Cambio, Part 2, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City
Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
New Museum Benefit Auction, Pierogi 2000 Portfolios, New York Superfreaks: Part II, Odyssey, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1997 Cambio, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 526 West 26th St., New York Wrong Place, Right Time, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech,
Temporary Space, New York
Vague Pop, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, View room, New York
1996 The Experimenters, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York
Taking Stock, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 25 Broad Street, New York
Texas Meets New York, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Museum of Art,
Arlington, Texas
Bump, The Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
The Death of the Death of Painting, Curated by Kenny Schachter, New York
1995 Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Good, 450 Gallery, New York
Eat or Be Eaten/ Painting, Not Painting, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994 Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York Bibliography
2017 Gerwin, Daniel. “Ruth Root” Artforum, September
2016 Hodara, Susan. “Painting Overtakes Pixels in Aldrich Museum Exhibition.” The New York
Times, 18 February
2015 Biswas, Allie. “Ruth Root: ‘I love to see how artists create such a joy from colour’ “ Studio
International, December 17.
Campbell, Andrianna. “Ruth Root.” Artforum.com, 13 July
Peiffer, Prudice. “Ruth Root.” Artforum, October
Vogel, Wendy. “The Lookout: Ruth Root” Art in America Online, 2 July
Vogel, Wendy. “Ruth Root” Art in America, September
Hawley, Anthony. “Ruth Root” The Brooklyn Rail, 8 September
Yau, John. “Two Ways of Making Painting in the 21st Century” Hyperallergic, 19 July The New Yorker, 27 July
Schwendener, Martha. “Review: Ruth Root, Minimal and Opulent, at Andrew Kreps
Gallery, The New York Times, 2 July
2009 James, Nicholas, “Between Painting and Sculpture,” artslant.com, 25 January 2009
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Nickas, Bob. “Color and Structure.” Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting. London, UK. Phaidon Press. 2009
Carrier, David. "Ruth Root.” artUS, Issue 24/24 Fall - Winter
2008 McKeon, Belinda. "Taking Root On Gallery Walls.” The Irish Times, March 11
Maine, Stephen. "Brand Boosters.” The New York Sun, March 6 Ruth Root. The New Yorker, March 3
Rosenberg, Karen. "Ruth Root.” The New York Times, February 22
2007 “The Painting Show - Abstracts at Warwick University Mead Gallery.” 24 Hour Museum.org.uk, March 15
Januszczak, Waldemar. ”The pleasures of undescriptive colour.” Times Online, February 18
2005 Huntington, Richard. "A sampling of all things abstract—old and new.” The Buffalo News, August 13
Flynn, Barbara. "Exhibition round-up: New York.” Artforum, p. 546 Rimanelli, David. "Greater New York 2005.” Artforum, May
Coles, Alex. "Ruth Root.” Modern Painters, May, p.112.
De Chassey, Eric. "Painting (Cont'd).” art press, n310, March
2004 Campagnola, Sonia. "Ruth Root.” Flash Art, Summer Pozuelo, Abel H., "Ruth Root.” El Cultural, May
Carpio, Francisco. "Ruth Root.” ABC Cultural, June
Pardo, Tanial. "Ruth Root.” Exit Express, June
Boyce, Roger. “Ruth Root at Andrew Kreps Gallery.” Art in America, February
2003 Richard, Frances “Ruth Root: Andrew Kreps Gallery.” Artforum, September Kerr, Merrily. “New York New York: Art Fragments from the Big Apple.”
Flash Art, July-September
Burton, Johanna. “Ruth Root.” Time Out New York, May 15-22 “Ruth Root.” www.flavorpill.com, May 10
Smith, Roberta. “Ruth Root.” The New York Times, May 9
2002 Pagel, David. “Some Things Old, Some Things New.” Los Angeles Times, May 10 2001 Isé, Claudine. “Coughlan, Reeder, Root, Weatherford.” Tema Celeste,
September/October
Schmerler, Sarah. “Gallery Beat.” Art on Paper, July-August
Johnson, Ken. “Ruth Root.” The New York Times, April 27
Mahoney, Robert. “Ruth Root.” Time Out New York, May 10-17
Naves, Mario. “These Paintings Are Watching You.” The New York Observer, May 7 Wehr, Anne. “Cigarette break.” Time Out New York, April 19-26
2000 Cibulski, Dana Mouton. “New York.” Art Papers Magazine, November / December Conti, Tiziana. “Ruth Root.” Tema Celeste, November
Dault, Gary Michael. “Salty Salute at the West Wing Art Space.” The Globe and Mail, September 30
Orange, Mark. “Greater New York.” Untitled, Autumn
Kino, Carol. “The Emergent Factor.” Art in America, July
Hunt, David. “Kosmobiologie.” Time Out New York, July 27
Shave, Stuart. “Man Made.” i-D, April
Sumpter, Helen. “Ruth Root.” Hot Tickets, March
Cook, Mark. “Ruth Root.” The Big Issue, March
Cotter, Holland. “New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways.” The New York Times,
March 6
Turner, Grady. “Beautiful Dreamers.” Flash Art, January-February
1999 Cotter, Holland. “Ruth Root.” Art in Review, The New York Times, March Pinchbeck, Daniel. “Ruth Root.” The Newspaper of New York, March
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Schmerler, Sarah. “Ruth Roott.” Time Out New York, March Spaid, Sue. “Met Life.” The Village Voice, March
Turner, Grady. “Son of a Guston.” Flash Art, January
1995 “Eclectic Exhibition Opens at the Anderson Gallery.” Metro Weekend, November Huntington, Richard. “The Expected and Unexpected - A Fun Mix From Near and Far.”
The Buffalo News, July
Huntington, Richard. “Nasty at Times.” The Buffalo News, December Victor, Mathieu. “Eat or Be Eaten.” Artvoice, November
Catalogues
2015 Smith-Stewart, Amy. Ruth Root: Old, Odd, and Oval. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Ridgefield, CT
2014 Artist-in-Residence Spring 2014: Ruth Root Paintings. Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH
2005 Schneider, Claire and Grachos, Louis. Extreme Abstraction. Albright Knox Gallery. Buffalo, NY. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Reddy Young, Tara.
2002 Sam Collects Contemporary Art Projects. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA
2001 Dailey, Meghan and Gingeras, Alison M. The Approximative. Mink Ranch Productions.
Paris, France
2000 Groom, Simon. Perfidy: Surviving Modernism. Kettle’s Yard. Cambridge, UK
1999 European Galleries. Art Forum Berlin. Berlin, Germany Swenson, Susan (ed.). Pierogi Press. vol. 3, New York, NY
1997 Schachter, Kenny. Cambio. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. New York, NY Lectures
2001 Conversations with Contemporary Artists, MoMA, New York, NY
Public Collections
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY