*1973, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
   
   
EDUCATION
   
2000:  Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1999:  MFA Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
1996:  BA Art History, University of Georgia, GA, USA
BFA Painting, University of Georgia, GA, USA
   
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
   
2009:  Leo Koenig, New York, NY, USA
2007:  Groeflin Maag Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2006:  Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, USA Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2005:  Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY, USA
2004:  LFL Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002:  Fredericks Freisure Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000:  Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2009:  National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009"
New York, NY, USA
   
2008:  Deitch Projects, "Conceptual Figures", New York, NY, USA
  Leo Koenig Inc. Contemporary, "Between Us", Aidas Bareikis, Greg Bogin, Nicole Eisenman
Justin Faunce, Torben Giehler, Ridley Howard, Tony Matelly, Les Rogers, Bill Saylor
David Scher and Anke Weyner, Andes, NY, USA
  31 GRAND, "Admirer" (curated by Maureen Cavanaugh), New York, NY, USA
   
2007:  High Museum of Art, "Recent Aquisitions", Atlanta, GA, USA
  Hudson River Center for Contemporary Art, "Size Matters", Hudson, NY
  Chelsea Art Museum, "The Incomplete", New York, NY, USA
  Derek Eller Gallery, "NeoIntegrity" (curated by Keith Mayerson), New York, NY, USA
  Kravets Wehby Gallery, "The Incomplete Incomplete", New York, NY, USA
   
2006:  Gallery 4000, "Stiff" (curated by Ann Toebbe), Chicago, IL, USA
  Fredericks and Freiser, "Sweets and Beauties", New York, NY, USA
  Galleria Glance, Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Torino, Italy
   
2005:  Sixtyseven Gallery, "Hello Sunday", New York, NY, USA
  Groeflin Maag Galerie, "Honeymoon with Romeo", Basel, Switzerland
  Geoffrey Young Gallery, "Radical Vaudeville", Great Barrington, MA, USA
  CUE Art Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation Recipients, New York, NY, USA
  Feigen Contemporary, "Of Life and Limb", New York, NY, USA
   
2004:  Soloman Projects, "Homegrown", Atlanta, GA, USA
  Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, "Under the Sun", Toronto, Canada
  Sean Kelly Gallery, "Expect: Art", New York, NY, USA
  East International (curated by Neo Rauch and Gerd Harry Lybke), Norwich, UK
   
2001:  Fredericks Freisure Gallery, "Garden State", New York, NY, USA
Fredericks Freisure Gallery, "I see you 2" (curated by Kki Smith and Sam Messer), New York, NY, USA
Howell Mill, "Cream", Atlanta, GA, USA
   
2000:  LFL Gallery, "Open", New York, NY, USA
  The Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, "Snapshot", Baltimore, MD, USA
   
1999:  Clifford Smith Gallery, "Go Figure", Boston, MA, USA
   
1998:  Mills Gallery, Boston Center of the Arts, "Posing", Boston, MA, USA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
2009:  Josephina Ayerza, lacanian ink 33, Ridley Howard, Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josephina Ayerza
New York, front and back cover, pp. 172-179
Kate Noonan, “The Missing,” Baltimore City Papers, January 14
   
2008:  “Conceptual Figures @ Deitch Projects“, Whitehot Magazine, October
Doug Mason, “Exhibit showcases extra small, powerful works of art“, Knoxville News Sentinel, March 23
Jon Fauer, “Ridley Howard,” Film and Digital Times, March
   
2007:  Susan Richmond, Ridley Howard at Solomon Projects, Art Papers, January/February
   
2006:  Charlotte Mullins, Painting People; Figure Painting Today, DAP Press Jerry Cullum
Ridley Howard at SolomonProjects, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Dec.24
  Felicia Feaster, Ridley Howard’s Feminine Mystique, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Dec. 6
  Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Ridley Howard, The Atlantan, November
  Luca Vona, Il Nuovo Folk, Exibart.onpaper, no.32, September
  Mario Benz, Auf der Suche im Nirgendwo, Basler Zeitung, June 8, p. 25
   
2005:  Charlotte Mullins, False sense of security, Financial Times, August 13
Francine Miller Koslow, Ridley Howard, Tema Celeste, July/August
  Mario Naves, Is Orange the Next Blue? Ridley Howard's Figurative Conceit
The New York Observer, May 2, p. 20
  Daniel Kunitz, Meet the new folk, ArtReview, April
  Daniel Kunitz, Modern Folk, Vanity Fair, April
  Charlie Finch, The Decline and Fall of Painting, Artnet.com, April
  Kayleen Schaefer, Culture: Ridley Howard, April, p. 56
   
2004:  Jerry Cullum, Same Name, Different Game, Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 18
  Felicia Feaster, Summer Sizzles, Creative Loafing, July 8
  Ian Collins, Paintings come out of the Cold, Eastern Daily Express UK, London, July 3
  Karolyn Hatton, Brass Buttons..., East, ex. cat.
   
2002:  Christopher Chambers, October Picks, NY Arts, October
  Alexi Roth, Ridley Howard, The New Yorker, October 7
  Ken Johnson, Ridley Howard, The New York Times, October 4
   
2000:  Francine Koslow Miller, Ridley Howard, Artforum, Summer, pp. 187-188
  Kate McQuaid, Ridley Howard, The Boston Globe, March 22
  Mark Valentine, Paintings of Suburban Childhood, The South End News, March 8
   
1999:  Kate McQuaid, Ridley Howard, Striking Portraits, The Boston Globe, July 22
  Kate McQuaid, Ridley Howard, Posing, The Boston Globe, January 03
   
GRANTS AND AWARDS
   
2001:  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
   
1999:  Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
   
1998:  Dana Pond Painting Award, SMFA