BIOGRAPHY
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RYAN MCNAMARA
1979 Born in Phoenix, AZ
  Lives and works in New York, NY
   
Solo Exhibitions and Performances 
2015 Gently Used, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Ryan McNamara’s Candid, Brand New Gallery, Milan, I
  Survey: Personal Performances, Showroom, MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
  And Introducing Ryan McNamara, Collectorspace, Istanbul, TR
2012 Still, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY
2010 And Introducing Ryan McNamara, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY
   
Group Exhibitions and Performances 
2016 Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2013 To Be Real - performance and performativity, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Museum Of Arts, Bonn), Videonale, D
2012 Making friends, Josee Bienvenu, New York, NY
2011 Wind and Tears, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
  Meditation, Repetition, Trance, Mendes Wood, Sao Paolo, BR
  II, Watermill Performance Center, Water Mill, NY
  On Shuffle, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
  Jack Smith: Thank You For Explaining Me, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
  Dengue Dance Contest, Club Gong, Buenos Aires, RA
2010 Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, FL
  Phase 3: Robert Filliou, The Artist’s Institute, New York, NY
  Hallways, 100 Years of Performance, The Garage, Moscow, RUS
  Forever, The Kitchen, New York, NY
  Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY 
  This Is My Condition, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, P
  Live on Five Songs Presents, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2009 The Sacred Band of Thebes aka In Memory of Robert Isabell aka Any Fag Could Do That, Performa09, X Initiative, New York, NY
  Ryan McNamara Presents: Klaus von Nichtssagend, The Musical, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
  Stars!, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY
  Heaven: Splendid Isolation, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, GR
  Ryan McNamara Presents: Bernie, the Magic Lady, Art Production Fund Lab, New York, NY
  Sam Kim’s Darling, PS122, New York, NY
2008 When Fear Becomes Form, Centre d’Art de Neufchatel, CH
   
Situations
2013  Performa, New York, NY
  Body Scans, Collaboration with David Colman, Public Art Fun Spring 2013 Benefit, New York, NY
2012 Relache, Performa, New York, NY
2011 Card Ending in 5589, Art Basel VIP Opening, Miami Beach, FL
  Watermill Benefit, Watermill Arts Center, Water Mill, NY
  Collaboration with Michele Abeles, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
  This Charming Man, Public Art Fund benefit, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
  Marina Abramovic Staring Contest, The Museum of Modern Art atrium, New York, NY
2010 Move!, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
  Production, in collaboration with Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out, Louis Vuitton Fifth Avenue Maison, New York, NY
  MoMA Board Meeting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  The Whitney Houston Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  4’33”, The Starlight Lounge, Brooklyn, NY
  2009 Move On Up, The Raleigh Hotel, Miami, FL
  Greater New York studio visit, Ryan McNamara studio, New York, NY
  2008 Out of The Darkness, Into the Light, LGBT Center, New York, NY
  Taco Bell Pandemonium, Christ Lutheran School, Phoenix, AZ
  Fine Eulogy for a Damn Fine Grandma, Casa Franciscan Renewal Center, Phoenix, AZ
   
Awards
2011 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2010 Art Matters Grant
   
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY