Ryan McGinley - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

As part of the museum's First Exposure series, a showcase for new photography, McGinley had had a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003. In recent years, his photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums. He had solo shows at MoMA P.S.1 in New York (2004), in Spain at the MUSAC in Leon (2005). In 2005, he was the laureate of the Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award.

In 2007 McGinley exhibited his show, Irregular Regulars, at Team Gallery in SoHo.

"McGinley went on a two-year road trip, traveling to dozens of Morrissey concerts in the US, the UK, and Mexico. The resultant photos, many of which are densely saturated in the concerts’ colored lights, feature candid shots of fans, regularly zooming in for seductive close-ups of enamored youngsters—a celebration of the ecstatic cult of fame and its ardent enablers." link

In 2008 he exhibited, I Know Where the Summer Goes, also at Team Gallery.

"But his favorite subject remains youth, as his 2008 exhibit, "I Know Where the Summer Goes," proves. In that collection, McGinley's troupe travels the country as he photographs them, sometimes clothed and often not, while they leap fences, lounge in a desert, play together in a tree." Link

In October 2010 McGinley opened his exhibition, "Life Adjustment Center" at Ratio 3 in San Francisco. Debuting two groups of black and white portraits and color photographs.