Ryan Mcginness “New Narratives”

Miles McEnery Gallery

[Image: Ryan Mcginness "The Puzzle" (2022) Acrylic and metal leaf on canvas, 84 x 60 in.]

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Ryan Mcginness (b. 1972 in Virginia Beach, VA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. While completing his degree, McGinness served as a curatorial assistant at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

McGinness’ work may be found in the collections of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York Public Library, New York, NY; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, and elsewhere.

McGinness’ work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Aishonanzuka, Hong Kong; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Deitch Projects, New York, NY; Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain; Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; MoMA PSI, New York, NY; Pace Prints, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; and Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, among others.

“In the most personal show of his career, called ‘New Narratives,’ McGinness is using images plucked from his domestic life as a departure point for paintings that he has constructed as singular images rather than a collage of many.”
- Hilarie M. Sheets in “Puzzling New Narratives”