RYAN JOHNSON
Artist Bio
Born in 1978, Karachi, Pakistan. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Description of a Struggle, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City, NY
2008
Watchman, Guild & Greyshkul (Spring 2008);
2007
Ambien Eyes, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy
2005
Modern Human Animal, LFL Gallery, project room, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Pewter Wings, Golden Horns, Stone Veils - Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
2010
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY
Precarity and the Butter Tower, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX
Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
2009
On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, New York
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2008
Imaginary Thing curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado
2007
Brain Form, Guild & Greyshkul, New York City, NY
Capricci (possibilités d’autres mondes),Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
M*A*S*H New York, Cottelston Advisors, New York, NY
2006
Metaphysics of youth, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo Pescara, (Curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli and Luigi
Fassi)
Turn the Beat Around, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Ionesco’s friends, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, (Curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli)
2005
Greater New York, PS1, Queens, NY
Who is the Protagonist?, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY, (curated by Ohad Meromi)
2004
Pattern Play-back The Moore Space, Miami, FL, (curated by Silvia Cubina)
Four-Ply, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Hung, Drawn, and Quartered, Team Gallery, New York, NY, “ (curated by Miriam Katzeff)”
2003
Pantone Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, (curated by David Hunt)
Burnt Orange Heresy, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY.
Education
2003
Columbia University, New York, NY, M.F.A
2000
Pratt Institute, New York, NY, B.F.A.