Biographie de Ryan McGinley
Ryan Mcginley is a New York-based artist who was raised in New Jersey. After moving to the City in 1996, he began extensively photographing downtown culture. McGinley's work is in numerous museum collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been the subject of monographie exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, MUSAC in Léon, Spain, and MoMA PSI in New York City.
He has had numerous solo gallery and museum exhibitions around the world in cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, London, Athens, Milan, and Berlin. John Kelsey is a writer, artist, and activist based in New York City. He is a member of the collective The Bernadette Corporation and co-founder of the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art. His texts on contemporary art have appeared frequently in Artfbrum, where he is a contributing editor.
He is the author of Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art (Sternberg Press, 2010). Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including the lorthcoming Sommer of Hate (Semiotexte, 2012) and two books of art criticism. She writes frequently about visual and literary culture for Art in America, :Artforum, May Revue, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. The recipient of a Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Brant, she has published essays and monographs on contemporary artists including forge Pardo, Moyra Davev, Elke Krystufek, Tiny Creatures, The Bernadette Corporation, among many others.
With Richard Birkett and Marco Vera, she organized the Artists Space exhibition Radical Localism-Media and Art from tbe Puebla Nuevo Gallery .Mexicali Rose in 2012. She teaches writing at European Graduate School. Gus Van Sant is a filmmaker, writer, artist, and musician. I lis films include Drugstore Cowboy, Gerry, and .Ify Own Private Idaho. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, in 1998 for Good Will Hunting and in 2009 for milk.
His films Paranoid Park (2007) and East Days (2005) were both nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. In 2003, Elephant garnered that prestigious honor and Van Sant received the award for Best Director.