Brie Ruais was born in
1982, in Southern California. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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EDUCATION
2011 MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of the Arts, NY
2004 BFA, Studio Art, New York University, Steinhardt School, NY
SELECT SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021
Movement at the Edge of the Land, curated by Frauke V. Josenhans, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, Texas (opening June 5)
Brie Ruais and Christopher Le Brun, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (opening in June)
Solo Presentation, Albertz Benda Gallery, NYC (forthcoming December)
2020
Spiraling Open and Closed like an Aperature, Solo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Brie Ruais: WAYS, Albertz Benda Gallery, NYC
Brie Ruais with Albertz Benda Gallery, The Armory Art Fair, NYC
2018
Brie Ruais, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Attempting to Hold the Landscape, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017
Brie Ruais and Thomas Fougeirol, Albertz Benda Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Broken Ground, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Paper Covers Rock, Letha Wilson and Brie Ruais, September, Hudson, NY
Squid Ink, Rosy Keyser and Brie Ruais, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
130 lbs of Proximal Frontage, Mesler/Feuer with Nicole Klagsbrun, New York City, New York
2014
Dugout, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
Brie Ruais & Anna Betbeze, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Brie Ruais, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2013
XO, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York City, New York
Two Wholes, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, co-organized Dr. Brittany Webb and Jodi Throckmorton, featuring works from the permanent collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
You Look Like a World, curated by Hilary Schaffner, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Afterimages: Maude Bernier Chabot, Brie Ruais, Elizabeth Zvonar, Curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
2019
Material Properties, curated by Margaret Lui Clinton, albertz benda gallery, NYC
Embodying: Flesh, Fiber, Features, Brie Ruais, Martha Tuttle, Letha Wilson, curated by Serena Trizzino, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy
The Second Body, Artists include, Zarouhie Abdalian, Erica Baum, Trisha Brown, Sam Contis, Ulrike Müller, Brie Ruais, Carly Steinbrunn, Stefanie Victor, Organized with Sam Contis, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Intimate Immensity, curated by Alexis Granwell, Artists include El Anatsui, Lynda Benglis, Chakaia Booker, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Alexis Granwell, Fabienne Lasserre, Brie Ruais, Michelle Segre, Joan Snyder, Sun You. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Form Will Find its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction; curated by Elizabeth Carpenter; Artists include Nicole Cherubini, Alexandra Engelfriet, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Brie Ruais, and Anders Ruhwald. The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Under the Night Sky, Albertz Benda, NYC
Night, Shortly, Halsey McKay at Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
Somatic Gesture, Artists include Ruth Asawa, Amanda Curreri, Jay DeFeo, Rosy Keyser, Bessma Khalaf, Sonya Rapoport, Brie Ruais and Suné Woods. Organized by Romer Young Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY
2017
Resistance After Nature, curated by Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
New Ruins, curated by Natalie Campbell and Danielle Mysliwiec, Exhibiting artists include N.Dash, Jessica Dickinson, Donald Moffett, Sam Moyer, and Brie Ruais, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2016
Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
3 Sculptors, Sally Saul, Brie Ruais, and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Splotch, Curated by Eileen Jeng, Sperone Westwater, NY, NY
Mal Maison, Curated by Ashton Cooper, Maccarone, NY, NY
Low, Curated by Ethan Greenbaum and Michael DeLucia, Lyles and King, NY, NY
2015
Crafted: Objects in Flux, MFA Boston, Boston, MA
Socrates Sculpture Park EAF14 Exhibition, Long Island City, New York
Geometries of Intimacy, Curated by Jess Wilcox and Clara Halpern, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
2013
Ajar, Curated by Natasha Llorens, Reverse, Brooklyn, NY
Where The Sun Don’t Shine, Curated by 247365, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Vessels, The Horticulture Society of New York, New York, NY
Exhibition Curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibition curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Movement in Three Parts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY, NY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (Underlined texts are downloadable)
Leah Ollman, “The Measure of All Things”, Art in America, February 23, 2021
Jody Zellen, “Gallery Rounds: Brie Ruais”, artillery, January 6, 2021
2020
Osman Can Yerebakan, “Brie Ruais’ Desert Magic”, Garage, December 18, 2020
Brienne Walsh, “Using Her Body, Brie Ruais Traces the Mark of Climate Change On Nevada’s Deserts”, Forbes, December 22, 2020
Lindsay Preston Zappas, “Poppies and skulls commingle in fantastical airbrushed paintings”, KCRW, Decem
Jodi Throckmorton, Frauke V. Josenhans, Martha Tuttle, Inside Burger Collection: Terrestrial Affair, Brie Ruais, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, May/June 2020
Annabel Osberg, Amid Social Distancing, Clay is a Unifying Medium, AEQAI, March 28, 2020
2019
Edith Newhall, Intimacy writ large, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 2019
Artist Brie Ruais, Moda Operandi.com, March 2019
Clay Dreams, American Craft Magazine, Feb/Mar 2019
2018
Jeff Lincoln, Breakthrough Artist: Veteran LA artist John Mason wields decades of influence - from James Turrell to Sterling Ruby, LALAmag.com, pg 140, Spring
Sharon Mizota, “Brie Ruais puts all her body weight into each sculpture she makes”, LA Times, May 19, 2018
Jenine Marsh, “Brie Ruais”, Canadian C Magazine, Issue 138 View here
Interview by Anne-Valérie Kirmann, “Brie Ruais”, AbstractRoom.org, March 2018
2017
Loney Abrams, “Sculpting the Landscape: Brie Ruais on Using Clay as a Metaphor for Land’s Violent History”, Artspace.com, September 28, 2017
Martha Schwendener, “What to See in New York’s Art Fairs this Week”, New York Times, March 2, 2017
Julie Baumgardner, “A Guide to America’s Next Great Art Neighborhood”, The New York Times Style Magazine, Jan 11, 2017
2016
Joseph Hart, “Deep Color Podcast: Brie Ruais”, Interview at deepcolorpodcast.com, December 2016
Anthony Hawley, “Mal Maison”, Modern Painters, October/November, 2016
Paul Laster, “Weekend Edition: 12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before February 15”, The Observer, Feb 11, 2016
2015
Ashton Cooper, “In The Flesh: Brie Ruais’ delicately bruised ceramics offer a gutsy take on the self-portrait”, Cultured Magazine, Fall 2015
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Shortlist, “Brie Ruais”, June 8 & 15, 2015
Dylan Kerr, “Full-Contact Ceramics: Sculptor Brie Ruais on Wrestling Conceptual Statements From Mountains of Clay”, Artspace.com, August 27, 2015
Ryan Steadman, “If Walls Could Talk”, Blinnk.com, May 5, 2015
2014
James Trainor, “Up and Coming: Through the Medium of Clay, Sculptor Brie Ruais Lays Herself Bare”, Artsy.com, Oct 2014
Scott Indrisek, “Kick it, Push it: A sculptor gets physical with clay”, Modern Painters, November 2014
James Trainor, “Artists on Artists: Brie Ruais by James Trainor”, BOMB Magazine, Fall 2014
Scott Indrisek, “Brie Ruais Gets Physical with her Material”, Blouin ArtInfo.com, September 9, 2014
Leah Ollman, “Getting Physical with Clay and Fiber at Marc Selwyn”, The Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2014
Roman Astrauskas, “Ring of Desire: On Brie Ruais’ Nearly Torn Away”, Magenta Magazine Online, May 2014
Kendra Jayne Patrick, “Brie Ruais”, TurbulanceArtProject.com, April 2014
Wendy Vogel, “Brie Ruais, Reviews in Brief: New York”, Modern Painters, March 2014
Lilly Wei, “Claytime!”, Art News, January 2014
2013
“Brie Ruais”, Modern Painters: Review in Brief, March 2013
David Colman, "Art Scene: The Next Generation", Architectural Digest, December 2013
Corydon Cowansage, “Interview with Brie Ruais”, Art Haps.com, October 27, 2013
Abraham Adams, Critics' Picks, "Ajar", Artforum.com, October 30, 2013
John Arthur Peetz, Critics' Picks, "Where The Sun Don't Shine", Artforum.com, July 18, 2013
Chloe Rossetti, Critics' Picks, "Vessels", Artforum.com, June 28, 2013
Karen Rosenberg, Art in Review, "Vessels", The New York Times, June 20, 2013
2012
Michael Wilson, “Movement in Three Parts”, Time Out New York, April 24, 2012
2011
Roberta Smith, “Paul Clay”, The New York Times, June 3, 2011
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town: “Paul Clay”, June 2011
PUBLICATIONS
WAYS, Albertz Benda Gallery Exhibition catalog, with an essay by Kathy Battista, 2019
Centering in on the Hold: Selected Stills 2011-2018, self-published zine, 2018
Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics, by Phaidon Press, 2017
Paper Covers Rock: Brie Ruais, Letha Wilson, designed by Grace Caiazza with Kristen Dodge, published by September Gallery, 2017
Emily Zilber, Crafted: Objects in Flux, Exhibition catalog by MFA Boston Publications, 2015
The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, show catalog 2015
“Hung” by Brie Ruais, Interventions: The Online Journal of Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Modern Art, January 2015
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, editor Jack Flam, 2014
X O: Brie Ruais, Artist’s Book including a conversation with Sarah Sze, published by Nicole Klagsbrun, November 2013
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2018
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, NY, NY. 2017
Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, Nevada . 2017
Dieu Donne Papermaking Residency, NY, NY. 2016
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, Queens, NY. 2014
The Shandaken Project Residency, Shandaken, NY. 2014
Guest Artist Exhibition Series, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. 2012
Abrons Art Center & Henry Street Settlement, AIRspace Residency, NY, NY. 2011