John Richey is a New York based visual artist and curator who works between Brooklyn, NY and the Hudson Valley. His cross-disciplinary practice is process driven and incorporates cyanotype, handmade video animations, and immersive installations using themes and images borrowed from various personal collections. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, has exhibited domestically and abroad, and was profiled in Artforum Internationals “Best of 2004”. He has attended artist residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Program, the Studios at MASS MoCA residency in North Adams, MA, and most recently Art77 in Rutland, VT. Over the past 18 years, in addition to his active studio and curatorial practice, Richey has held various professional titles at New York commercial galleries and fine art foundations including Marian Goodman Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, the Keith Haring Foundation, and Pace Gallery.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 

2023 Reverse : Pair | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York. NY

2023 In Being Double | Pace Gallery | New York. NY

2022 Annual Small Works Show | 440 Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2022 Below A Brooklyn Sky | Established Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2022 Wildflowers in the Concrete Jungle | Pace Gallery | New York. NY

2022 rearranging the sky | Lagoon New York | Brooklyn. NY

2021 With Care | Textile Art Center | Brooklyn. NY

2021 Actual Paper | Court Tree Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2021 a group showcase | The Project Gallery/St. Marks Pl. | Brooklyn. NY

2021 ARTWORKS | The Old Stone House | Brooklyn. NY

2021 Fire at the Opera House | 77Art Gallery | Rutland. VT

2021 Atmospheres | Pace Gallery | New York. NY

2021 This is Only the Beginning | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2021 We’re Still Here… | Old Stone House | Brooklyn. NY

2021 ReDesign | Sidney Larson Gallery | Columbia. MO

2020 Atlantic Art Walk | 194 Atlantic Ave | Brooklyn. NY

2020 new work | Ellenbogen Gallery | Manchester. VT

2020 ARTWORKS | The Old Stone House | Brooklyn. NY

2020 Deep Blue See | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 TRANSFORM | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Ghost Double | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn NY

2019 The Great Paper Show | Court Tree Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 RE: RE: RE: patterns | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Parallel Play | curated by Heather Topcick | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 The Tower | Shape Shifter Lab | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Priority Mail | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 control | variable | stART Space | Manchester. VT

2019 ENVELOPING SUN (v.02) | stART Space | Manchester. VT

2019 John Richey + Stuart J. Gibson | Three’s Brewing | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Heirloom | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Rendering Likeness | Established Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2019 ENVELOPING SUN (v.01) | Future Fashion D.U.M.B.O. | Brooklyn. NY

2019 ArtTotes4Good | Flowering Rock | Boston. MA

2019 AAO Show | Goodwin Square | Hartford. CT

2019 screen | surface | Gowanus Dredgers Boat House | Brooklyn. NY

2019 Postcards from the Edge | Bortolami Gallery | New York. NY

2019 Pace Staff Exhibition | Pace Gallery | New York. NY

2019 LOVE/HATE | Local Projects | Long Island City. NY

2019 Unity in Diversity | WORKS/san jose | San Jose. CA

2018 small/MIGHTY | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 OUTLET | Winter Show 2018 | stART Space | Manchester. VT

2018 Gifts by Artists | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 Far Away Interactions | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 TAB18 | Trestle Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 A Fluid Tapestry | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 Between You and Oblivion | crated by John Gagne | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018 OUTLET | Autumn Show 2018 | stART Space | Manchester. VT

2018 RE: RE: patterns | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018   The Summer Show | Threes Brewing / Arts Gowanus' Gallery Dispersed | Brooklyn. NY

2018   Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself | Cigar Factory LIC | Queens. NY

2018   Twinning | Summer Show 2018 | stART Space | Manchester. VT

2018   Mass/Matter | 77 Gallery | Rutland. VT

2018   surface | screen | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018   Material curated by Bethanie Irons | PLEAT Gallery

2018   Blue By You | BAU Gallery | Beacon. NY

2018   Sugar is Sweet | Nu Hotel hosted by Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018   Onward | Outsider Art Fair | New York. NY

2018   Introductions 2018 | Trestle Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018   What Can I Say? | 301 Gallery | Beverly. MA

2018   Cards for Puerto Rico | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2018   Postcards from the Edge | Gallery 524 | New York. NY

2017   Tartan | La Bodega Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2017   Identity in Flux Gowanus | Spaceworks Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2017   Et Tu, Art Brute? | AEG Underground/Andrew Edlin Gallery | New York. NY

2017   Drums on Paper with the Neighbors | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2017   Mass/Less | Thomas Young Gallery | Boston. MA

2017   Priority Mail | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2017   ACT I | Hudson Hall | Hudson. NY

2017   Poster | Black Black Ball Projects | Brooklyn. NY

2017   RECOLLECTIONS | the Shoppe | Brooklyn. NY

2017   Alternative Facts | WORKS/san jose | San Jose. CA

2017   Abstract Mind | CICA Museum | Gimpo. Korea

2017   inDIVISIBLE | Eclipse Mill Gallery | North Adams. MA

2017   Marked Urgent | Ground Floor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2017   Recollection | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York. NY

2017   Drums on Paper | Groundfloor Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2016   W.A.S. | AAA3A | Bronx. NY                                 

2016   helper projects Tiki Video Bar | NADA Miami Beach | Miami. FL

2016   Bound: Art Books and Zines | MOCA Cleveland | Cleveland. OH

2016   Drums on Paper | Rabbit Hole Gallery | Brooklyn. NY

2016   uniform | SPRING BREAK Art Show | New York. NY

2013   MO N S A L V A T | Bureau | New York. NY

2013   #catcamp @helpurr | Helper Projects | Brooklyn. NY

2009   RE: | Florence Quater Gallery | Tucson. AZ

2008   AIM 28: How Soon is Now? | Bronx Museum for the Arts | Bronx. NY

2007   next door Video Series | Ellen Curlee Gallery | St. Louis. MO

2007   Genesis I’m Sorry | Greene Naftali Gallery | New York, NY

2006   Video_Dumbo: RENDEZ-MOI | d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) | Brooklyn. NY

2006   Strip | Lascano Gallery | Great Barrington. MA

2006   PANORAMICA | The Rufino Tamayo Museum | Mexico City. MX

2005   Zolle | P.S. 122 | New York. NY

2005   Video_Dumbo: the past is in front of you | d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) | Brooklyn. NY

2005   Drive Time | Wignall Museum/Gallery | Rancho Cucamonga. CA

2004   L.A. Freewaves: how can you resist? | Downtown Los Angeles | Los Angeles. CA

2004   summary | 4F gallery | Los Angeles. CA

2004   Supersonic | The Wind Tunnel | Pasadena. CA

2004   Pasale | Estacion Tijuana | Tijuana.  MX

2004   New California Masters | WORK/san jose | San Jose CA

2004   everything under control | Herbert Marcuse Gallery | La Jolla. CA      

2003   the 9th floor: graduate relocation project | 8601 Wilshire | Beverly Hills. CA

2003   in the event of an emergency | Herbert Marcuse Gallery | La Jolla. CA

2002   pi[3] works/ boredom research projects | Southampton's Green Cellar | London. UK

2002   love hotel. cite one: the bubble | Magnetic Research Facility | La Jolla. CA   

2002   humdrum | Shane House Gallery | Tucson. AZ

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

2023 In Being Double | Pace Gallery | New York. NY (curated by Tumi Nwanma + John Richey)

2023 Playing With Fire | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York. NY (curated by Tumi Nwanma + John Richey)  

2021 Fire at the Opera House | 77ART Gallery | Rutland. VT (co-curated with 77ART Residency cohort)

2019 ENVELOPING SUN | Future Fashion D.U.M.B.O. | Brooklyn. NY (v.01) + stART Space | Manchester. VT (v.02) (co-curated with Amalya Meira)

2018 Society of 23's Locker Dressing Room | Jeffrey Augustine Songco | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York. NY (curated by Marly Hammer + John Richey)

2017   ReCOLLECTIONS | group exhibition | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York. NY (v.01) + The Shoppe | Brooklyn. NY (v.02) (curated by Marly Hammer + John Richey)

 

BIOGRAPHY:                             

ARTFORUM International (Best of 2004). 'on the ground: Los Angeles' by Jan Tumlir. December 2004.

 

RESIDENCIES:

2018 77ART | 77ART | Rutland. VT

2016   Studios at MASS MoCA | MASS MoCA | North Adams. MA

2008   Artist in the Marketplace 28 | Bronx Museum of the Arts | Bronx. NY

2006   Babel, Babble, Rabble | The Banff Centre for the Arts | Banff. AB. CA

 

AWARDS:        

2006    Marshall M. Williams Scholarship Award | Banff, AB. CA

2004    Russell Foundation Grant | La Jolla. CA

2003    UCSD Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship | La Jolla. CA

2000    Medici Scholarship | Tucson. AZ

 

ART FAIRS:

2019 The Other Art Fair (May) | Brooklyn Expo Center | Brooklyn NY

2018 The Other Art Fair (November) | Brooklyn Expo Center | Brooklyn NY

EDUCATION:

MFA   University of California, San Diego. La Jolla. CA

BFA   University of Arizona. Tucson. AZ