|  |  | Born 1973, Atlanta, GA Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
 
 
 
 [ EDUCATION ]
 
 2000   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
 1999   MFA, Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine 
              Arts, Boston, MA
 1996   BFA, Painting, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
 1996   BA, Art History, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
 
 
 
 [ AWARDS ]
 
 2006   Joan Mitchell Foundation Career Opportunity Grant
 2001   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
 1999   Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
 1998   Dana Pond Painting Award, SMFA
 
 
 
 
  [ SOLO EXHIBITIONS ] 
 2009
 — Leo Koenig, New York, NY
 
 2007
 — Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
 — Kantor Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
 2006
 — Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
 — Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
 
 2005
 — Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY
 
 2002
 — Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
 
 2000
 — Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
 
 
 
 [ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ]
 
 2009
 — Poised, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
 
 2008
 — In Your Face, Buia Gallery, New York, NY
 — Size Matters, XS, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, 
                TN
 — Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects, 76 Grand, 
                New York, NY
 — The Drawing Narrative, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia 
                PA
 — Admirer, Gallery 31Grand, New York, NY
 — By Invitation Only, Kinz, Tillou and Feigen Gallery, 
                New York, NY
 — New Object/New York, Mississippi State Univeristy, 
                Starville, MS
 
 2007
 — Recent Acquisitions, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 
                GA
 — Size Matters/Recent Small Scale, Hudson Valley 
                Center for Contemporary Art
 — The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
 — NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
 — Open Season, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
 
 2006
 — Stiff, Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL; curated by Ann 
                Toebbe
 — Sweets and Beauties, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, 
                New York
 — Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Galleria 
                Glance, Torino, Italy
 
 2005
 — Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY
 — Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, 
                CH
 — Radical Vaudeville, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great 
                Barrington, MA
 — Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipients, Cue 
                Art Foundation, New York, NY
 — Of Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, 
                NY
 
 2004
 — Home Grown, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
 — Under the Sun, Greener Pastures, Toronto, ON
 — Expect: Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
 — East, Norwich Gallery, NSAD, Norwich, UK (selected 
                by Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lybke)
 
 2001
 — Garden State, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, 
                NY
 — I See You 2, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, 
                curated by Kiki Smith and Sam Messer
 
 2000
 — Snapshot, The Baltimore Museum of Contemporary 
                Art, Baltimore, MD
 — Open, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
 
 1999
 — Go Figure, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
 — Posing, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 
                Boston, MA
 
 
 
 [ SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ]
 
 2009
 Noonan, Kate. "The Missing," Baltimore City Papers, January 
                14.
 
 2008
 Hoffman, Christiane. "Gute Zeiten fuer gute Sammler,"Welt, 
                November 2.
 Tarnowski, Dan. "Conceptual Figures @ Deitch Projects," Whitehot 
                Magazine, October.
 Newhall, Edith. "Young artists pickƒ,"The Philadelphia Inquirer, 
                June 20.
 Mason, Doug. "Exhibit showcases extra small, powerful works of 
                art," Knoxville News Sentinel, March 23.
 Fauer, Jon. "Ridley Howard," Film and Digital Times, March.
 
 2007
 Kunitz, Daniel. "A Collectors Fantasy on Display," The New 
                York Sun, October 18.
 Viveros Faunce, Christian. "Vapid Transit," The Village Voice, 
                October 30.
 Richmond, Susan. "Ridley Howard,"Art Papers, January/February, 
                pp. 50 - 51.
 
 2006
 Cullum, Jerry. "Dive into Portraits' Surprising Recesses,"The 
                Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 24, p. K11.
 Feaster, Felicia. "Sitting Pretty, Ridley Howard's Feminine Mystique,"Creative 
                Loafing.com, December 6.
 Mullins, Charlotte. Painting People: Figure Painting Today, 
                DAD Publishers.
 Dimling Cochran, Rebecca. "The Homecoming,"The Atlantan, 
                November.
 Vona, Luca. "Il Nuovo Folk,"exibart.onpaper, No. 32, September.
 Benz, Mario. "Auf der Suche im Nirgendwo,"Basler Zeitung, 
                June 8, p. 25.
 
 2005
 Vassallo, Christina. "A Story Being Told,"Ducts.org webzine, 
                Issue 14, Winter.
 Mullins, Charlotte. "A false sense of security,"Financial Times, 
                August 13, p. W (illustration).
 Koslow Miller, Francine. "Ridley Howard,"Tema Celeste, 
                July/August.
 Naves, Mario. "Is Orange the Next Blue? Ridley Howard's Figurative 
                Conceit." The New York Observer, May 2.
 Schaefer, Kayleen. "Culture: Ridley Howard,"Details, April, 
                p.56.
 Kunitz, Daniel. "Modern Folk: Ridley Howard's Dreamlike Paintings,"Vanity 
                Fair, April, p. 116 (illustration).
 Finch, Charlie. "The Decline and Fall of Painting,"Artnet.com, 
                April 26.
 Kunitz, Daniel. "Meet the new folk,"ArtReview, April, pp. 
                44-45.
 
 2004
 Hatton, Karolyn. East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, 
                UK (catalogue essay).
 Collins, Ian. "Painting Comes Out of the Cold,"Eastern Daily 
                Press UK, July 3.
 Cullum, Jerry. "Same Name, Different Game,"Atlanta Journal 
                Constitution, July 18.
 Feaster, Felicia. "Summer Sizzles,"Creative Loafing Atlanta, 
                July 8.
 
 2002
 Johnson, Ken. "Ridley Howard at Fredericks Freiser", The New 
                York Times, October 4, p. E33.
 Roth, Alexi. "Ridley Howard", The New Yorker, October 7.
 Chambers, Christopher. "October Picks", NY Arts, October.
 
 2000
 Koslow Miller, Francine. "Ridley Howard at Howard Yezerski", Artforum, 
                Summer, p.187-188 (illustration).
 McQuaid, Cate. Ridley Howard at Howard Yezerski", The Boston 
                Globe, March 22.
 Valentine, Mark. "Paintings of a Suburban Childhood,"The South 
                End News, March 8.
 
 1999
 McQuaid, Cate. "Striking Portraits,"The Boston Globe, July 
                22.
 McQuaid, Cate. "Posing,"The Boston Globe, January 3.
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