Roe Ethridge (American, born 1969) takes equally from his work as a commercial photographer, and artist. Blurring the lines that separate the two, Ethridge creates images that are simultaneously generic and intimate, often treading between humor and cynicism. Functioning in tandem, these motivations coalesce into an ongoing investigation into the mechanics of photographs, and their ability to both retreat into the personal, and expand to relay collective experiences.
Roe Ethridge will have a solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York in January 2025. In 2023, his work was the subject of the solo show AMERICAN POLYCHRONIC, presented in collaboration with Gagosian in New York. In 2022, Ethridge participated in Objects of Desire. Photography and the Language of Advertising, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and in 2020 he participated in New Visions, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway. From 2016 to 2017, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, hosted the first comprehensive survey of Ethridge’s work in the United States. Other solo exhibitions include: Happy Birthday Louise Parker, 10 Corso Como, Milan, IT, 2024,Shelter Island, FOAM, Amsterdam, 2016, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, 2012, traveled to Museum Leuven, Belgium, 2012.
His work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Aspen Art Museum, CO; Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New Museum, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA; Tate Modern, London, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY