RESUME

R. Blair Sullivan (b.1980) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose experimental works are playful and inquisitive. His works suggest conceptual connections between our biological and built worlds. Artistic mediums, archetypes, mythologies, and the quotidian are scrutinized and deconstructed to create forced narratives and absurdities. His work has been exhibited at the Reykjavik Living Arts Museum and Harbinger Project Space in Iceland and in New York at MOMA PS1, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Essex Flowers, and Van DeWeghe Fine Art. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Solo Exhibitions

2022

Harbinger Project Space-Reykjavik, Iceland, Wick

2018

66 Knickerbocker (Interstate Projects)-Brooklyn, NY, The Stationmaster’s Daughter with Kevin Lipps and Mimi Yin

Essex Flowers-New York, NY, R. Blair Sullivan: Meanders (a Fugue)

2016 

Turn Gallery-New York, NY, Furrow with Kevin Lipps

2015 

West 10th Window/Art-in-Buildings Program-New York, NY, Lehr

2014 

Van De Weghe Fine Art-New York,NY, R. Blair Sullivan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Two Chairs-South Windham, VT, Stream 5: Give and Take

N.B.K-Berlin, DE, There Is Fiction in the Space Between with Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute/Camp Solong

2018

Baby Blue Gallery-Chicago, IL, Cook My Goose

Green Door Gallery-Brooklyn, NY, Advent

728 E 136th St. 6th Fl.-Bronx, NY, Alien of Extraordinary Ability

2017

2346 Mackay-Detroit, MI, Turn Ons

2016

Essex Flowers-New York, NY, Nosegays, Tussie-Mussies or Posies

2015

Orgy Park-Brooklyn, NY, It’s Unlikely curated by Veronica Levitt

MOMA P.S.1-New York, NY, Das Handler: Base meant performance with Art Handler Magazine and ALLGOLD

Whitespace Gallery-Atlanta, GA, Short Shorts video festival

2014

68 Projects-Berlin, Germany, Person, Place, or Thing

Dorfman Projects-New York, NY, Cirrus curated by Vanessa Buia

Topless-Rockaway Beach, NY, Cherry on Top(less)

Interstate Projects-Brooklyn, NY, U:L:O Part II organized by CAVE

Soft Spot-soft_spot.net, Petite Object a

2013

Beverly’s-NY,NY, Frequencies Vol.2 curated by Essex Flowers

Smiðjustigur 10-Reykjavik, Iceland, Parlour Show

MOMA PS1-Queens,NY, Easter Eggomania

2012

The Journal-Brooklyn, NY, Home Again, Again

Nurture Art-Brooklyn, NY, Monochrome: Video Night organized by Scott Lawrence

PACS-Brooklyn, NY, Permanent Collection

Concept Plus Object-Philadelphia, PA, Possible Projects: Ryan Sullivan invites Joanne Sullivan

2011

Marianne Boesky Gallery-New York, NY, I Bleed Black

Context Gallery-Derry, Ireland, Never Records organized by Ted Riederer

Foyer Gallery-Brooklyn, NY, Ryan Sullivan and Kimberly Hennessy

Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Education-Bronx, NY, ^..^ and :) curated by Brent Birnbaum, Fran Holstrom, and Carolyn Salas

Art in General-New York, NY, Chinese Take Out organized by Jason Bailer Losh

2010

Marianne Boesky Gallery-New York, NY, Employee of the Month

Cave-Detroit, MI, All the Splendors of the Earth Part II

John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, Selections from Untitled Television Show

Possible Projects-Brooklyn, NY, Two Sheets Eight Pages

Former Tower Records-New York, NY, Never Can Say Goodbye: Never Records organized by Ted Riederer for No Longer Empty

Albuquerque Public Library, Albuquerque, NM, Chicane burns as citadels slave....organized by Jonathan Hartshorn

2009

Nurture Art-Brooklyn, NY, Collage: Collage curated by Jackie Klempay

Niagra-New York, NY, The Art Handler Show

Silvershed-New York, NY, Vector: Issue 2  for ABCyz

NADA  County Affair-Brooklyn, NY, Junk Shop organized by Jeffrey Tranchell

Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Bods:Rethinking the Figure

Maxon Mills-Wassaic, NY, Elemental Alchemy Action1 perfomed with Egill Kalevi Karlsson, curated by Summer Guthrie

Skaftfell-Seydisfjordur, Iceland, Ripped from Something Bigger

Otom-Brooklyn, NY, Workout

Tunnel Building-New York, NY, The Ghosts of Coleridge

Max Protecht Gallery-New York, NY, Vector: Issue 2

2007

Visual Arts Gallery-Miami, FL, Aqua Wynwood

Arthur Roger Project Space-New Orleans,LA, MFA Roadshow, organized by Dan Cameron

Finesilver Gallery-San Antonio, TX, MFA Roadshow, organized by Dan Cameron

Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO, MFA Roadshow, organized by Dan Cameron

Visual Arts Gallery-New York, NY, $960,000+ (MFA thesis exhibition), curated by Joao Ribas

Moti Hasson Gallery-New York, NY, New Misunderstandings: Return of the Same

UNT Artspace-Fort Worth, TX, Artists and cowboys should be friends organized by Mike Egan

2006

Visual Arts Gallery-New York, NY, Wrest Stops Along the Intrastate curated by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

Visual Arts Gallery-New York, NY, Abstract and Real

Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery-Brooklyn, NY, Stolen Time curated by Aileen Tat and Rachel Pascua