
Ryan Trecartin
Lives and works in Los Angeles
1981 Born in Webster, TX, USAEducation
2000-2004 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
Awards and Grants
2009 Calvin Klein Collection New Artist of the Year Award, The First Annual Art Awards, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2009 Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
2009 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, USA
Curatorial Projects
2015 '2015 Triennial: Sourround Audience', New Museum, New York, co-curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan TrecartinSelected Public Collections
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
New Art Trust, San Francisco
François Pinault Collection, Venice
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London
| sep 12 2019 - feb 26 2020 | Re'Search Wait’S | Sprüth Magers Berlin |
| nov 07 2018 - jan 20 2019 | Re'Search Wait’S | Pond Society, Shanghai |
| oct 25 - dec 09 2018 | 6th Athens Biennale 2018 ANTI | Athens,
Greece |
| may 15 - sep 13 2015 | Re'Search Wait’S | National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne |
| apr 10 - jun 07 2015 | Situation #1: Ryan Trecartin, Junior War, 2013 | Fotomuseum Winterthur |
| feb 2015 | Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, Yielders Path | Andrea Rosen Gallery,
New York |
| oct 21 - nov 25 2014 | Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin | Regen Projects,
Los Angeles |
| oct 02 - dec 21 2014 | Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin: Priority Innfield | Zabludowicz Collection,
London |
| sep 14 2014 - feb 15 2015 | Site Visit | KW Institute for contemporary art,
Berlin |
| jan 21 - mar 11 2012 | Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin (with Rhett Larue) | Showroom MAMA,
Rotterdam |
| oct 18 - jan 08 2011 | Ryan Trecartin/Lizzie Fitch: Any Ever | Musée d’Art Moderne del la Ville de Paris,
Paris |
| jun 30 - oct 30 2011 | Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Miami |
| jun 19 - sep 03 2011 | Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever | MoMA PS1,
Long Island City, NY |
| jan 19 - mar 16 2011 | Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever | Instanbul Modern Museum,
Instanbul |
| jun 18 - oct 17 2010 | Any Ever | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center
Los Angeles |
| mar 26 - may 24 2010 | Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever | The Power Plant,
Toronto |
| sep 01 - sep 30 2009 | A Family Finds Entertainment | Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna |
| apr 11 - may 16 2009 | Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, The Aboutthing (in the air) | Elizabeth Dee Gallery,
New York City |
| sep 10 - dec 07 2008 | Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area | Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles |
| may 01 - may 31 2008 | Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area | Wexner Center for the Arts,
Columbus |
| sep 08 - oct 13 2007 | I-Be Area | Elizabeth Dee Gallery,
New York |
| - 2007 | Big Room Now: Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch | Crane Arts Center,
Philadelphia |
| - 2006 | Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin: I Smell Pregnant | QED Gallery,
Los Angeles |
| feb 22 - may 12 2019 | Body in Pieces | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | KAI10 Arthena Foundation,
Düsseldorf, Germany |
| mar 22 - aug 21 2017 | Utopia / Distopia, Part II | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | MAAT,
Lisbon |
| feb 27 - sep 04 2016 | THE NEW HUMAN KNOCK, KNOCK, IS ANYONE HOME? | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Moderna Museet,
MALMÖ |
| nov 16 - nov 30 2015 | Young Americans | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3,
Vienna |
| nov 16 - nov 30 2015 | Young Americans | Petra Cortright, Luis Gispert, Alex Ito, Carter Mull, Ken Okiishi, Timur Si-qin, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson | Franz Josefs Kai 3,
Vienna |
| oct 09 2015 - jan 31 2016 | Co-Workers | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
| sep 17 - sep 20 2015 | Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin | Ryan Trecartin | art berlin contemporary,
Berlin |
| jun 20 - sep 13 2015 | Screen Play - Life in an Animated World | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo |
| jun 13 - sep 17 2015 | MOMENTUM - 8th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Galleri F15 and MOMENTUM Kunsthall,
Moss, Norway |
| jun 05 - sep 09 2015 | Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim | A.o., John Bock, Ryan Trecartin | Guggenheim Museum,
New York |
| may 01 - sep 27 2015 | America is Hard to See | A.o., Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin | Whitney Museum,
New York |
| apr 23 - jun 19 2015 | Collaborate! | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Oriel Sycharth Gallery,
United Kingdom |
| apr 21 - aug 16 2015 | ‘Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection’ | Andreas Gursky, Gary Hume, Pamela Rosenkranz, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin, Andro Wekua | Astrup Fearnley Museet,
Oslo |
| apr 16 - may 31 2015 | Creating Realities. Begegnungen zwischen Kunst und Kino | A.o., Ryan Trecartin, Andro Wekua | Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich |
| oct 10 2014 - jan 04 2015 | Secret Passions: Private Flemish Collections | A.o., Sylvie Fleury, Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin | Tripostal, Lille3000,
Lille |
| oct 09 2014 - jan 11 2015 | Pop Departures | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Seattle Art Museum,
Seattle |
| sep 25 2014 - jan 06 2015 | Private Settings | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Museum of Modern Art,
Warsaw |
| sep 13 - nov 09 2014 | The Los Angeles Art Project | A.o., Sterling Ruby, Ryan Trecartin | Ullens Center,
Beijing |
| jun 05 - sep 07 2014 | Infinite Jest | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt |
| apr 13 - may 25 2014 | Dark Velocity | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Hessel Museum of Art,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA |
| apr 04 - jun 08 2014 | Affekte | A.o., Cyprien Gaillard, Ryan Trecartin | Kunstpalais Erlangen |
| apr 2014 | Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
Isla del Coco, CR |
| mar 27 - jun 22 2014 | Science Fiction: Myths of the Present Future | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | FACT,
Liverpool |
| mar 22 - jun 22 2014 | Room Service VOM HOTEL IN DER KUNST UND KÜNSTLERN IM HOTEL | A.o., Thomas Demand, Peter fischli david Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden |
| mar 16 - jun 22 2014 | High Performance. Die JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION zu Gast im ZKM. | A.o., Cyprien Gaillard, Ryan Trecartin, Andro Wekua | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe |
| mar 07 - apr 06 2014 | Disown – Not For Everyone | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Red Bull Studios,
New York, USA |
| oct 25 - dec 14 2013 | Il Palazzo Enciclopedico | John Bock, George Condo, Peter fischli david Weiss, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel | Arsenale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
| oct 12 - dec 14 2013 | Time Machine | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Le fonds M-Arco,
Marseille |
| sep 29 2013 - jan 26 2014 | Speculations on Anonymous Materials | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel |
| sep 06 2013 - sep 28 2012 | Station to Station | A.o., Kenneth Anger, Thomas Demand, Peter fischli david Weiss, Karen Kilimnik, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Ryan Trecartin | New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, Winslow, Barstow, Los Angeles, Oakland/San Francisco
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| sep 05 - oct 07 2013 | Image Employment | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | MOMA PS1,
Long Island City, USA |
| jun 01 - nov 24 2013 | 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia | A.o., George Condo, Peter fischli david Weiss, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel | 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia,
Venice |
| may 30 - dec 31 2013 | Prima Materia | A.o., Alighiero Boetti, Lizzie Fitch, Ryan Trecartin | Punta della Dogana,
Venice |
| may 10 2013 - feb 23 2014 | Futures Project | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Center for Living Arts,
Mobile, USA |
| mar 22 - may 19 2013 | Pivot Points: 15 Years and counting | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami,
Miami, USA |
| mar 16 - jun 22 2013 | Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, USA |
| nov 04 2012 - jan 02 2013 | Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Guggenheim,
New York, USA |
| oct 18 - nov 04 2012 | Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | 319 Scholes,
New York, USA |
| sep 18 - dec 31 2012 | Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years | A.o., Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Andreas Gursky, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Ryan Trecartin | The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York |
| sep 08 2012 - jun 29 2013 | Number Six: Flaming Creatures | A.o., John Bock, Ed Ruscha, Ryan Trecartin | Julia Stoschek Collection,
Düsseldorf |
| sep 07 - dec 09 2012 | Performance Now | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA |
| jun 01 - sep 02 2012 | Riotous Baroque | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Guggenheim Bilbao,
Spain |
| mar 01 - jun 10 2012 | Weighted Words | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Zabludowicz Collection,
London |
| jan 19 - mar 25 2012 | 100 Years (version #4) | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Boston University Art Gallery,
Boston, USA |
| sep 23 - oct 30 2011 | Technicolor Yawn | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Gridchin Hall,
Moscow |
| sep 18 - dec 18 2011 | Third Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Third Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
| aug 27 - jan 22 2011 | Leif Djurhuus Collection | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art,
Aarhus |
| jul 29 - sep 25 2011 | Jersey Bounce | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Visual Arts Center of New Jersey,
Summit |
| jun 15 - sep 11 2011 | Watch Me Move: The Animation Show | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Barbican Art Gallery,
London |
| jun 01 - nov 24 2011 | Commercial Break | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Garage Projects,
Venice, Italy |
| may 13 - jun 12 2011 | ALIAS, Krakow Photomonth 2011 | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Bunkier Sztuki Museum of Contemporary Art,
Krakow |
| mar 15 - may 15 2011 | Re'Search Wait’S | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Singapore Biennale,
Singapore |
| jan 13 - feb 26 2011 | The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Brand New Gallery,
Milan |
| dec 18 2010 - apr 26 2011 | 21st Century – Art in the First Decade | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art,
Brisbane |
| dec 01 2010 - aug 26 2011 | How Soon Now | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation,
Miami |
| nov 20 2010 - nov 06 2011 | The More Things Change | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
| oct 20 - nov 10 2010 | Screening | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | 203-205 Brompton Road,
London |
| sep 25 - dec 19 2010 | Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Kölnischer Kunstverein,
Cologne |
| sep 18 - nov 28 2010 | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art,
Liverpool |
| sep 13 - dec 10 2010 | Mash-up: Splicing Life | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut,
Storrs |
| sep 03 - nov 07 2010 | 10,000 Lives | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The Eighth Gwangju Biennale,
Gwangju |
| jul 10 - aug 15 2010 | Suppose it is true after all? What then?: Ryan Trecartin, Matias Faldbakken & Tobias Madison | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Johan Berggren Gallery,
Malmö |
| jun 19 - sep 17 2010 | 100 Years (version #3) | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Garage: Center for Contemporary Culture,
Moscow |
| jun 18 - oct 03 2010 | fast forward 2: The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Karlsruhe |
| may 23 - oct 18 2010 | 5 Year Review | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | MoMA PS1,
New York |
| may 08 - jun 06 2010 | 45 Years of Performance Video from EAI | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Wiels,
Brussels |
| apr 29 - sep 11 2010 | This is my condition | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Filomena Soares Gallery,
Lisbon |
| apr 22 - aug 01 2010 | Queer Voice | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia |
| mar 13 - sep 12 2010 | Soaps, Flukes & Follies | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Cheekwood Museum of Art,
Nashville |
| feb 06 - may 09 2010 | Reflection | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito,
Mito |
| feb 05 - apr 04 2010 | Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | MIT/List Visual Arts Center,
Cambridge |
| nov 17 - nov 21 2009 | Speak and Spell | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | COCO (Contemporary Concerns),
Vienna |
| nov 01 2009 - may 03 2010 | 100 Years (version #1, Düsseldorf), Number Three: Here and Now | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Julia Stoschek Foundation,
Düsseldorf |
| oct 15 - nov 04 2009 | Subjective Projections | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Bielefelder Kunstverein,
Bielefeld |
| oct 10 2009 - jul 29 2010 | 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009) | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | PS1, Long Island City,
New York |
| oct 10 - oct 27 2009 | Cutting Edge Framing | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | 11 N.E. 39th St.,
Miami |
| oct 04 - oct 24 2009 | Pose/Expose | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | imo projects,
Copenhagen |
| oct 01 - oct 31 2009 | The Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Tyler School of Art of Temple University,
Philadelphia |
| sep 05 - oct 17 2009 | Bande Annonce | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | New Galerie,
Paris, France |
| sep 05 - oct 17 2009 | Bande Annonce | A.o., Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Ryan Trecartin | New Galerie,
Paris |
| jun 17 - sep 26 2009 | Until the End of the World | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Andreas Melas Presents,
Athens |
| may 27 - jul 24 2009 | Solaris | A.o., Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Ryan Trecartin | Gio Marconi,
Milan |
| may 22 - aug 09 2009 | Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Hong Kong Museum of Art,
Hong Kong |
| apr 27 - sep 01 2009 | Tristin Lowe, Virgil Marti, Peter Rose, and Ryan Trecartin | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia |
| apr 08 - jul 2009 | The Generational: Younger than Jesus | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The New Museum,
New York |
| mar 03 2009 - jan 17 2010 | Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao |
| sep 06 - nov 15 2008 | Busan Biennale | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Busan,
South Korea |
| jul 07 - oct 07 2008 | Freeway Balconies | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Deutsche Guggenheim,
Berlin |
| jun 26 - aug 15 2008 | The Left Hand of Darkness | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The Project,
New York |
| jun 26 - aug 15 2008 | The Left Hand of Darkness | A.o., Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Ryan Trecartin | The Project,
New York |
| jan 24 - jun 07 2008 | Sensory Overload | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee |
| dec 14 2007 - feb 29 2008 | Cinema in Revolt | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia |
| dec 12 2007 - feb 17 2008 | Television Delivers People | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York |
| oct 24 2007 - jan 13 2008 | USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia |
| may 12 - aug 19 2007 | Between Two Deaths | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | ZKM,
Karlsruhe |
| may 12 - aug 19 2007 | Between Two Deaths | A.o., Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Ryan Trecartin | ZKM,
Karlsruhe |
| oct 06 - nov 04 2006 | USA Today, Works from the Saatchi Collection | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens,
London |
| oct 06 - oct 04 2006 | USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery | A.o., Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Ryan Trecartin | Royal Academy of Arts,
London |
| jul 13 - aug 14 2006 | Action Adventure | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Canada Gallery,
New York |
| may 04 - sep 17 2006 | Metro Pictures | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | The Moore Space,
Miami |
| mar 25 2006 | Schindler House | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Los Angeles |
| mar 02 - may 28 2006 | Whitney Biennial 2006, Day for Night | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York |
| feb 25 - mar 26 2005 | Sympathetic Magic | A.o., Ryan Trecartin | Planaria,
New York |