Born 1967, Chicago, IL.
Lives and works in New York City.

Education

1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1993 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990 Brown University

Awards

1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting
1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Ruth Root, Gallery Minmin, Japan
Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2005
Ruth Root, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2004
Ruth Root, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Ruth Root, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
2003
Ruth Root, "Statements", Art Basel, Miami
Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2001
Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2000 Ruth Root, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Ruth Root, Nylon Gallery, London, England
1999
Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
1997
Ruth Root; Abstract Paintings for Beds, AAA Gallery, NYC
Ruth Root, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA

Museum Exhibitions

2008
Unique Act. Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Donít Look. Contemporary Drawings from an Alumnaís Collection
Martina Yamin, class of 1958, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2005
Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2004
City Maps, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2003
Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003
The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002
Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2000
Greater New York, Duplex solo installation, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Laura Hoptman, MOMA/PS1, LIC, NY, February-April

Group Exhibitions

2008
David Reed Studio, New York, NY
2007
Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Bushels, Bundles & Barrels, Superfund Investment Center, New York, NY
The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Coventry, England
2006
Untitled (for H.C. Westermann), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Ruth Root, Alex Brown, Cameron Martin, Sally Ross, Gallery Minmin, Tokyo, Japan
2005
The Early Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Trade, White Columns, New York, NY
2004
Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Greetings from New York: A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
20th Anniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brownís Enterprise, Corp., New York, NY
2002
Jump, Curated by Ross Neher, The Painting Center, New York, NY
I-Beam, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Rocket Gallery, London, England
Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
State of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2001
The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Painting show, Curated by Laura Owens, Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Fuel Serve, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York, NY
Salty Salute, West Wing Art Space, Toronto, Canada
Perfidy -Exhausted Embrace, Curated by Martyn Simpson and Daniel Sturgis, Convent Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Eveux, France
Kosmobiologie, Curated by Nancy Chaikin, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Fifteen, Deutsche Bank, Curated by Walter Robinson, New York, NY
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Home and Away, Curated by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Brownís Enterprise, Corp., New York, NY
Son-of-a-Guston, Curated by Nina Bovasso, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
Cambio, Part 2, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
New Museum Benefit Auction, Pierogi 2000 Portfolios, New York, NY
Superfreaks: Part II, Odyssey, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Cambio, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 526 West 26th St., New York, NY
Wrong Place, Right Time, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, Temporary Space, New York, NY
Vague Pop, Curated by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, View room, New York, NY
1996
The Experimenters, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
Taking Stock, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 25 Broad Street, New York, NY
Texas Meets New York, Curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
Bump, The Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
The Death of the Death of Painting, Curated by Kenny Schachter, New York, NY
1995
Lookin' Good, Feelin' Good, 450 Gallery, New York, NY
Eat or Be Eaten/ Painting, Not Painting, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994
Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Bibliography

2008
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Rosenberg, Karen. "Ruth Root". The New York Times. February 22.
2007
"The Painting Show - Abstracts at Warwick University Mead Gallery". 24 Hour Museum.org.uk. March 15
Januszczak, Waldemar ."The pleasures of undescriptive colour". Times Online. February 18
2005
Huntington, Richard. "A sampling of all things abstractóold and new". The Buffalo News. August 13
Flynn, Barbara. "Exhibition round-up: New York". Artforum. p. 546
Rimanelli, David. "Greater New York 2005". Artforum. May
Coles, Alex. "Ruth Root". Modern Painters. May, p.112.
De Chassey, Eric. "Painting (Cont'd)." art press. n310, March
2004
Campagnola, Sonia. "Ruth Root". Flash Art. Summer
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2003
Richard, Frances "Ruth Root: Andrew Kreps Gallery". Artforum. September
Kerr, Merrily. "New York New York: Art Fragments from the Big Apple". Flash Art. July-September
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1999
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1995
"Eclectic Exhibition Opens at the Anderson Gallery". Metro Weekend. November
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Catalogues

2005
Schneider, Claire and Grachos, Louis. Extreme Abstraction. Albright Knox Gallery.
Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Reddy Young, Tara.
2002
Sam Collects Contemporary Art Projects. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA
2001
Dailey, Meghan and Gingeras, Alison M. The Approximative. Mink Ranch Productions. Paris, France
2000
Groom, Simon. Perfidy: Surviving Modernism. Kettleís Yard. Cambridge,
1999
European Galleries. Art Forum Berlin. Berlin, Germany
Swenson, Susan (ed.). Pierogi Press. vol. 3, New York, NY
1997
Schachter, Kenny. Cambio. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. New York, NY

Lectures

2001
Conversations with Contemporary Artists, MoMA, New York, NY