Ryan Mendoza
Ryan Mendoza
born 1971, New York
lives and works between Naples and Berlin
Ryan Mendoza is one of the protagonists of a renewed interest in painting. His work moves between realism and expressionism in the constant retrieval of historical references, which comprise Lucian Freud, Chuck Close and Alex Katz. In painting he combines distant models with original aesthetic stimuli drawn from everyday experiences. He depicts scenes that traverse intimate dreads and reveal humanity’s hidden obsessions.
(text by Anna Lupa de Simone, from the catalogue for the exhibition The Possesed at Madre, Museo D´Arte Contemporanea DonnaRegina, Naples in 2010)
Ryan Mendoza studied painting at the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York and Paris, and began to travel, moving between Munich, Berlin, Paris and Rome. He now lives and works in Naples and Berlin.
Selected exhibitions
2016
Unforgotten, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
Detroit Home, Art Rotterdam 2016, Rotterdam
Georg Baselitz, Ryan Mendoza, WeGallery, Berlin, Germany
Ryan Mendoza Retrospective, Mudima Fondazione, Milan, Italy2015
2015
Welcome to America, MacS-Museo Arte Contemporanea Sicily, Italy
2014
Everything and nothing, Livingstone gallery, The Hague
2013
Chromophobia, ABC, Bologna, Italy
Paul P., Ryan Mendoza, Roger Ballen, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Les Aventures de la Vérité, Peinture et Philosophie, Fondation Maeght, curated by Bernard Henri-Lévy
2012
I promise, Livingstone gallery
VOLTA NY, New York (Livingstone gallery)
2011
Ryan Mendoza Selected Works, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany
2010
The Possessed, Madre, Museo D´Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
FRIEZE Art Fair, Londen (Galleria Massimo Minini)
2009
Chocolate Crocodile, Galerie Lelong, Paris
2008
Candyland revisited, Livingstone gallery, The Hague
2007
Don´t Look at Me, Galerie Lelong, Paris
2005
Turning Off The Lights, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
2004
Fear in a Time of Superheroes, Galleria Massimo Minini, Spazio Maria Calderara, Milan
Ryan Mendoza, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich
Join Now for Instant Access, White Cube, London
2001
Ryan Mendoza, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck
2000
Ryan Mendoza, MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento
e Rovereto, Trento
Ryan Mendoza, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Ryan Mendoza, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
1999
A Cake for the Dead, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
1998
Ryan Mendoza, Studio Cannaviello, Milan
1997
Oh Big Fishy, Galleria in Arco, Turin
Cadaver Dog, Galleria Studio Legale, Caserta
