Carly Ries (b. 1987, Baltimore, MD)
Education
MFA, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015)
BA, Photography, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (2009)
Exhibitions
2026 The Long Dark, Cuchifritos + Artists Alliance Inc, NY
2026 Speaking in Pairs, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, NY
2026 The Sentence, Commerce Street Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Suddenly there was nothing, Harkawik Gallery, NY
2024 Garden, Justine Kurland Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Centerfold, 10x10 Photobooks Salon #71, Magnum Foundation,NY
2023 Taking Pictures, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (curator)
2020 Minor Goddesses, Likely General, Toronto, CA (solo)
2020 A Fractured Sigh, BravinLee, New York, NY
2019 Centerfold, ZH Projects, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2018 Up like a sun, down like a pancake, Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
2018 Property, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Who’s Afraid of Feminism, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 We the People, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Blueprints, Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Radiance, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Rendered in an Idiom Other Than for Scientists, USS Gallery Projects, Chicago, IL
2014 Nervous Splendor, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Publications
2026 Float Magazine
2023 Centerfold, published by Picture Speak
2021 Sky Mirror, self-published artist book
2021 100 Photographs, published by The Peter J. Cohen Collection
2019 CENTERFOLD, self-published artist book
Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
New York Public Library
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Press
2026 Musée Magazine: Weekend Portfolio
2025 The New York Times: Art Gallery Shows to See in December by Andrew Russeth
2025 Femme Art Review: Unruly Images, Interview with Emma Fiona Jones
2024 Collector Daily: Book Review: Centerfold by Olga Yatskevich
2023 DAZED: Light Box, Interview by Sara Quattrochi Febles
2020 Femme Art Review: Centerfold, exhibition review by Chiara Mannarino
2019 Artnet.com, Editors’ Picks by Taylor Dafoe
Awards & Fellowships
Artist in Residence, Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015)
Bruce Goodman Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015)
Visiting Artist
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Columbia University, NY
Hunter College, NY
International Center for Photography, NY
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Parsons School of Design/The New School, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
School of Visual Arts, NY
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT