Education

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1988

Grants and Awards

1999-2000 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award

Solo Exhibitions

2008
26 Devoe, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY
2007
Panorama, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Cyclidrome, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2001
Tesseract, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2000
Ricci Albenda, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1999
Spectral paintings from COLOR-I-ME-TRY, Van Laere Contemporary, Antwerp
1998
Spectral paintings from COLOR-I-ME-TRY, Rove/Kenney Schachter, NYC
The Wave/Particle Project + Portals to Other Dimensions, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
Particles, curated by Kenny Schachter, Avalanche, NYC
1996
Do You See What I See?, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
1995
Follow the Bouncing Ball, VW2566, NYC

Museum Exhibitions

2008
Fighting Words, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2006
Supervision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2004
Nothing Compared to This : ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in current art, Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe 5th International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
(curated by Robert Storr)
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Warped Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Ralph Rugoff)
Unheimlich Centre d'Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
The Moderns, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Castello Di Rivoli, Museo díArte Contemporanea, Torino,
Italy
2002
Out of Site, curated by Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
2001
Projects 74: Ricci Albenda, curated by Laura Hoptman, MoMA, NYC
The Americans, curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Casino2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
(S.M.A.K). Gent, Belgium
2000
Glee: Painting Now, curated by Amy Cappellazzo and Jessica Hough, The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Elysian Fields, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Greater New York, solo installation, MoMA/PS1, LIC, NY
1996
Facing the Millennium, Texas Meets New York, curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Art Museum, Texas
1992
Fluxus Attitudes, curated by Cornelia Lauf and Susan Hapgood, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
In The Beginning, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, California
The object is the mirror, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
2007
Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
"from rest to rest", CCS Galleries Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
2006
"it is, what is it?", Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Impact : New Mural Projects, PPOW Project, NYC
Selected Sculpture, MW Project, London, UK.
2003
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
2002
Penetration, curated by Mark Fletcher, Marianne Boesky and Friedrich Petzel Galleries, NYC
From the Observatory, curated by Robert Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery,NYC
Guide to Trust No.2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
New Economy Painting, curated by Nowell Karten, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles
State of the Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2001
Brown, The Approach, London
Space Co-Opted, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2000
Fuel Serve, curated by Kenny Schachter, Kenny Schachter/Rove, NYC
New York Projects, Delfina Studio Trust, London
1999
Group Show Stalke, Copenhagen, Denmark
New York Neither/Nor curated by Bill Arning, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
Free Coke, GreeneNaftali, NYC
1998
Group Exhibition, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
Cambio, curated by Kenny Schachter, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC
1997
Dream of the Fishermanís Wife, curated by Noritoshi Hirakawa, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC
Supastore, curated by Sarah Stanton, UP & CO., NYC
1996
Linez, 407 Gallery, NYC
Midway, Borax Films/Pilot Arts, NYC
Sex, Drugs and Explosives, curated by Kenny Schachter, London Artforum, London
The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment (or ‡ BientÙt to Irony)î, curated by Bill Arning,
White Columns, NYC
1995
Album, curated by Bas Bremer and Gerben Grumbach, NYC, Rotterdam, Amsterdam
Faggots: A Communique From North America, curated by Bill Arning, Rojas
Foundation, Universidad Buenos Aires, Argentina
Guys and Dolls, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
High Anxiety, curated by Kenny Schachter, NYC
Oy, curated by Kenny Schachter, NYC
A Personal Choice, Galleria il Capricornico, Venice, Italy
1994
I Could Do That, curated by Kenny Schachter, NYC
Pre-Existing Condition, curated by Kenny Schachter, Puffin Room, NYC, Elizabeth Valleix Gallery, Paris
1993
Phone, curated by Kenny Schachter, Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, NYC
The Rushmore Festival, curated by Bill Arning, Woodbury, NY
1992
Arbeiten auf Papier, curated by Friedrich Petzel, Galerie Gisela Capitain Cologne
Detour, curated by Sandra Ontello, International House. NYC
Stand-Ins, curated by Craig Kalpakjian, P.S. 1 in the Four Walls model, Queens, NY
1991
Decorous Beliefs, curated by Kenny Schachter, Natalie Rivera Gallery, NYC
The Drawing Show, Water Street Studios, NYC
Home for June, curated by Erik Oppenheim, HOME for Contemporary Theater and Art, NYC
New York Artists: Miniature and Small, 228 Parliament Gallery, Toronto
Open Bar, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, NYC
Unlearning, curated by Kenny Schachter, NYC
Works on Paper, curated by Friedrich Petzel, Thea Westreich, NYC
1988
Art for Living, Gallery Nao Faz Mal, Providence, Rhode Island

Projects

1999
Answer yes, no, or don't know, curatorial project, Andrew Kreps Gallery

Public Commissions

2005
Penny Pritzker, Hyatt Center, Chicago

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Catalogues

Goren, Nili, and Lurie, Aya. Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008.
"Extreme Abstraction", by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2005.
Storr, Robert, "Disparities and Deformations, Our Grotesque", Site Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004. Kotik, Charlotta, Mosaka Tumelo, Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY,
2004.
Christov-Bakargiev Carolyn, The Moderns, Castello Di Rivoli, Museo díArte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy,2003.
Rugoff, Ralph. Warped Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, 2003.
Nickas, Robert with Louise Lawler. After The Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, 2003
Cream3, Phaidon Press, New York, June 2003
Ricci Albenda, Page 100, Charley, 2002
Hoptman, Laura. Projects 74: Ricci Albenda, Museum of Modern Art, November 2001
the americans. new art. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2001 (text font designed by Ricci Albenda)
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, October 2001
Williams, Eliza (ed.) Ricci Albenda Zoo, Purple House Ltd, June 2001
Glee, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, September 2000
Elysian Fields, Elysian Fields Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 24- July 24, 2000
Greater New York, MOMA/PS1, LIC, NY 2000