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  Taking Pictures: Women of Independent Spirit, curated by Julie Saul and Carly Ries, Tampa Museum of Art, FL

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