Carly Ries (they/she)
b. 1987, Baltimore, MD
Lives and works in New York
ries.carly@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2013 - 2015 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Photography
2005 - 2009 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Minor Goddesses, Curated by Frances Dorenbaum, Likely General, Toronto, Canada
2019 CENTERFOLD, ZH Projects, Brooklyn, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Women of Independent Spirit: Vernacular Photographs from
the Collection of Peter J. Cohen, curated by Julie Saul and Carly Ries, Tampa Museum of Art, FL
2023 Quotation Device, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 A Fractured Sigh, curated by Chiara Mannarino and Charlotte Bravin Lee, Bravin Lee, NY
2018 Up like a sun, down like a pancake, curated by Kelly Lloyd, Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore
2017 For the Love of Barbara, The Jungle Lounge, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Property, Rogers Park Historical Society and Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 We the People, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Blueprints, Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center, Chicago, IL
2016 Onward Compé, Project Basho, Philadephia, PA
2015 EXPO Chicago, curated by Kori Newkirk, Chicago, IL
2015 Who's Afraid of Feminism, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Radiance, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Rendered in an Idiom Other Than for Scientists, USS Gallery Nomadic Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Hair Club, John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014 Nervous Splendor (solo), Schneider Gallery Project Space, Chicago, IL
2014 I Make Me Up, the work of Robert Seydel and his students, Johnson Gallery, Hampshire College, MA
2013 Culture, Mind, and Body: Intersections, Johnson Gallery, Hampshire College, MA
2011 Skin, Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009 Becomings, The Mill Center, Baltimore, MD
COLLECTIONS
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Artist in Residence, Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bruce Goodman Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Centerfold/dlofretneC, published by Picture Speak
2021 Sky Mirror, artist book
2021 100 Photographs, published by the Collection of Peter J. Cohen
2019 CENTERFOLD, artist book
2017 Book of HAIR, published by HAIR CLUB (Suzanne Gold, Kelly LLoyd, and Michal Lynn Schumate)
2015 Who's Afraid of Feminism?, exhibition catalogue, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PRESS
Artnet Editors' Picks, Taylor Dafoe, artnet, September, 2019
Femme Art Review, exhibition review by Chiara Mannarino, published in first print edition of Femme Art Review, February 2020
Aint-Bad
Juxtapoz Magazine
TEACHING & VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
Parsons, The New School, New York, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL