Mark Ryden
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BiographyBorn in Medford, Oregon, 1963
Lives & Works in Portland, Oregon -
"If your eyes are open, you can see the face of the divine wherever you look. I found the face of the divine in a tattered stuffed animal radiating the inner light of kitsch."
—Mark Ryden -
Portrait by Christopher French.
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WorksExhibitions
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Mark Ryden: Animal Secrets
May 19 – July 30, 2022Perrotin and Kasmin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new work by American artist Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Animal Secrets is presented in Perrotin’s Paris gallery from May 19–July 30, 2022, comprising 10 paintings and 12 works on paper that further develop the artist’s series of portraiture featuring mysterious and mythical creatures. The resulting gallery of enchanted characters embodies the artist’s meticulously-realized signature blend of archetype, kitsch, and narrative mysticism. Animal Secrets is conceived alongside the artist’s most recent exhibition at Perrotin Tokyo, Yakalina 9.View More -
Mark Ryden: Yakalina 9
In collaboration with Perrotin, Tokyo April 1 – May 30, 2022Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American artist Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Yakalina 9 will be presented in Perrotin's Tokyo gallery from April 1–May 30, 2022. Encompassing the newly created series of bronze sculptures and drawings of the mysterious entity Yakalina, the exhibition is conceived as a component of the artist's upcoming exhibition, Animal Secrets, opening at Perrotin Paris in May.View More -
Mark Ryden: Anima Animals
July 3 – August 29, 2020Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Featuring approximately forty works from the artist’s latest series, Anima Animals, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin’s Shanghai gallery from July 3, 2020. This also marks the artist’s first solo show in China.View More
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Mark Ryden at PMQ in Hong Kong
March 26 – April 4, 2018Quintessence 132 - Macro Dodecahedron is a sculptural work that continues Mark Ryden’s exploration of the dodecahedron as a unique geometric form with significant mathematical and philosophical resonance. The dodecahedron belongs to a small group of five geometric solids that share a simple set of parameters: the same polygon on every face, and the same number of faces at each vertex.View More -
Mark Ryden: The Art of Whipped Cream
May 20 – July 28, 2017Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Mark Ryden: The Art of Whipped Cream on view at 515 West 27th Street, May 20 – July 28, 2017. The exhibition will feature drawings, sketches and paintings created for the production of American Ballet Theatre’s Whipped Cream. A concurrent exhibition of Ryden's work for the ballet will be held at Gallery Met located at the Metropolitan Opera House, May 19 – July 8, 2017.View More -
Mark Ryden: Dodecahedron
December 10, 2015 – January 23, 2016Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Dodecahedron, Mark Ryden’s second exhibition at the gallery, on view at 293 10th Avenue from December 10, 2015 - January 23, 2016. Dodecahedron features the Los Angeles-based artist’s first-ever bronze sculpture, along with eight new paintings, drawings, color studies and a new porcelain edition.View More -
Mark Ryden: The Gay 90’s: Old Tyme Art Show
April 29 – June 5, 2010 293 Tenth Avenue, New York
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Mark Ryden x Barbie
Pink Pop at 8382 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA October 21, 2022 View More -
USA For UNHCR
Art And Resilience Benefit Auction April 29, 2021 View More -
Mark Ryden: Anima Animals
New Monograph December 15, 2020 View More -
Mark Ryden reviewed in The New York Times
by Robin Pogrebin May 19, 2017Painters and choreographers have a history of collaboration; Marc Chagall designed the sets and costumes for Adolph Bolm’s “Firebird” at Ballet Theater in 1945, and...View More -
Mark Ryden interviewed in LA Weekly
by Falling James March 17, 2017Reality and fantasy don’t collide in Mark Ryden’s art so much as they are equal halves of a more natural and dreamlike world. The longtime...View More -
Mark Ryden featured in The New York Times
by Roslyn Sulcas March 10, 2017A Viennese pastry shop, dancing sweets, a little boy who overindulges and a revolution by the lower pastry orders. An almost unknown Richard Strauss score....View More
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