Born 1971 New York, NY

 

EDUCATION:

  • 1997
  • BFA with Honors, School of Visual Arts Fine Arts/Art Education, New York

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2011
  • Cordy Ryman, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Windowboxing, Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC
  • 2010
  • DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
  • Scrapple, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin TX
  • Tempest, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • bars bars bars, TWIG Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2009
  • DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
  • Hail to the Grid, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA*
  • DCKT Contemporary, Pulse New York, New York, NY
  • DCKT Contemporary, NEXT, Chicago, IL
  • 2008
  • Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
  • Bars blocks Stacks, Stalke Up North, Gilleleje, Denmark
  • 2007
  • Kantor / Feuer Window, New York, NY
  • 2006
  • Room Project, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2005
  • School Daze, Carol Shen Gallery, The Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Modus Ponens, The Phatory LLC, New York, NY
  • 2004
  • NK, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2003
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2002
  • Paintings, Suite 106, New York, NY
  • 2001
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Galerie Windows Bernier / Eliades, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2000
  • Open Art, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
  • Cordy Ryman in Italy –The Pietrubbia Encaustic Constructs, Garner Tullis, New York, NY
  • 1999
  • Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1997
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Windows Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1993
  • Tennisport Arts, Long Island City, NY

 

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2011
  • Construct, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2011
  • On The Wall/ Off The Wall, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
  • The Working Title, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
  • Contain, Maintain, Sustain, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
  • New Wallworks, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
  • January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
  • Nowness, Peel Gallery Shop, Houston, TX
  • Open, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
  • The Thingness of Color, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
  • 2010
  • Summertime in Paris: Extreme Painting, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Core & Mantle, M55 Art Gallery, Long Island City, NY
  • 2009-10
  • Aberrant Abstraction: Keltie Ferris, Chris Martin, Cordy Ryman, Agathe Snow, Nerman Museum of
  • Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
  • 2009
  • On View 1, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark
  • Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
  • One More, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Koln, Germany
  • Next Post, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
  • New Abstraction, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
  • The Crest Hardware Art Show, Crest True Value Hardware, Brooklyn, NY
  • Regeneration, Smartspaces, 88 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
  • Party at Chris’s House, Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2008
  • Organic Geometry, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY
  • One More, Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark
  • Into the Trees, The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, Omi, New York
  • Color Climax, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
  • The Ice Cream Show, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Crowded, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
  • Abstraction in Appearance, Jason Rulnick Gallery, New York, NY
  • A Roller Coaster in the Dark, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2007
  • Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
  • Still Flying - 25th Anniversary Outdoor Sculpture Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition,
  • Empire Fulton Ferry and Brooklyn Bridge Parks, Brooklyn, NY
  • Small Work, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  • De Cirkel, Roger Raveel Museum, Deinze, Belgium
  • 2006
  • Drift, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY
  • Transformall, NY Arts Magazine, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
  • Mid-Life Crisis, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
  • 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum
  • and School of the Arts, New York, NY
  • Searching for Love & Fire, David Castillo Modern and Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
  • The Seventh Side of the Die, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
  • Clarissa Dalrymple's Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
  • Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York, NY
  • Blender, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
  • Cuarto, Sumi, New York, NY
  • 2005
  • Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
  • Walls and Things, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
  • New York’s Finest, CANADA, New York, NY
  • 112 Mercer, Suite 106, New York, NY
  • ATM Gallery, New York, NY
  • Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • 2004
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • Fresh Paint, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • Drift 2004, Valentino Pier Park, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2003
  • Medium Rare, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2002
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2001
  • Presenting Suite 106, Suite 106, New York, NY
  • Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • A Celebration of Abstract Art, The Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA
  • Open House Exhibition, Garner Tullis, New York, NY
  • Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
  • 2000
  • Bumberbiennale, Seattle, WA
  • Assemblage, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1999
  • Studio Artists, Garner Tullis, New York, NY
  • Mod, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  • Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
  • 1998
  • A Slice of Apple, Ruth Bachofner, Santa Monica, CA
  • Abstraction, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
  • William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1996
  • A Shaping Up, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
  • The Art Exchange Show, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1995
  • John Good / Downtown Alliance, New York, NY
  • Abstraction=Representation, Open Space, Victoria, BC
  • John Good / Victoria Anstead Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1994
  • John Good Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1993
  • Silent Echoes, Tennisport Arts, Long Island City, NY

 

AWARDS:

  • 2006
  • Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
  • 1997
  • Rhodes Family Award for Excellence, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

COLLECTIONS:

  • Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
  • Raussmuller Collection, Basel, Switzerland
  • RD Merrill Company, Seattle, WA
  • Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
  • The Speyer Family Collection, New York, NY
  • Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle, WA

 

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