Ry Rocklen

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RY ROCKLEN
1978 Born in Los Angeles, California
  Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
   
Education
2006 MFA, Sculpture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001 BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1996-1998 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
   
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Believe You Me, UNTITLED, New York, NY 
2010 ZZZ’s, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 
2009 House of Return, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA
  Good Heavens, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
2008 Good Grief, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
  Time After Time, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Half Craft, Medium, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies
  Just Us, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 
2006 Land of Super Neutral, B.U.G. Gallery, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand
  Soft Ice, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY 
2004 Lost & Found, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA  
2003 Grounded 4 Life, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
   
Group Exhibitions
2012 Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum/ LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
  Changing states of matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011 Nothing Beside Remains, LAND 1.0, Marfa, TX
  Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami, FL
  Jersey Bounce, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
  Knock, Knock! From the Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
  Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara, CA
  Greater LA, New York, NY
  No Swan So Fine, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA 
2010 Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  Rive Gauche/ Rive Droite, Marc Jancou, Paris, France
  Country Music, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
  Heather Cook, Alex Olson, R.H. Quaytman, Ry Rocklen, Gedi Sibony, Rental Gallery, New York, NY 
2009 Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Athens Bienialle, Athens, Greece
  Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession: galeriste, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium 
2008 That Was Then, This Was Now, PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
  The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 
2007 In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
  Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Warhol &, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
  Red Eye, The Rubell Colelction, Miami, FL
  LA Trash & Treasure, Miliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 
2005 From LA, Baronian Francey, Brussels, BE
  LA Juried Show, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Drive-By & reLAX, Unspace, Los Angeles, CA 
2004 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY, Apex Art, New York, NY 
2003 3D 7DEEP, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  Golden, Galerie Micheal Janssen, Cologne, Germany
  Cluster Fuck, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
  Something Else, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Win, Lose of Draw/Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  I’m from Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red, Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna, Austria
  The Daily Circus, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
  Low Overhead, Todd Hughes Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001 A Well Rounded Appetitex, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
  Face-Off, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
  Big Trouble in Little China, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  The Backyard Show, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  The Battle for the Greatest Drawing in the World Title, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 
2000 Something of That Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  Chocolate Thunder, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA