Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley (born 1977, 17th of October) is an artist photographer from New York City whose works are somewhat similar to certain confessional photographers like Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

His subjects include mostly color images of friends and lovers, as well as youth more so on the 'fringes' of society (e.g., skateboarders, graffiti writers, etc.). He has also photographed vans full of naked kids road-tripping across the country, including Sean Fitzgerald and Gerri Noack, who was subsequently removed from the trip for as yet undisclosed violations.

As of 2006, his works have been seen in many galleries and museums. At 24 he was the youngest artist to have a solo show in New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also had solo shows at New York's PS1 and in Spain at the MUSAC in Leon. He is represented by Team Gallery in New York.

His apartment, at one point, had its walls covered with Polaroid pictures of everyone who had ever visited him.

In 2007 he was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity award by the International Center for Photography. [http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.886241/k.956F/Infinity_Awards.htm]

In 2008, the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós used one of McGinley's images for their fifth album "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust". The video for the first track from the album, "Gobbledigook", is also inspired by his work.cite web
url = http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/disco/medsud-artwork.php
title = sigur rós - discography » með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
accessdate = 2008-06-30
work = sigur-ros.co.uk ]

Vice magazine is really very fond of him.

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References

* [http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/disco/medsud-artwork.php Sigur Rós Album Cover and description]
* [http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.886241/k.956F/Infinity_Awards.htm Young Photographer Infinity Awards]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/arts/design/06geft.html "A Young Man With an Eye, and Friends Up a Tree" by Philip Gefter, New York Times, May 6, 2007]
* [http://bell-roberts.com/?artist=196 Bell-Roberts.com]

External links

*Ryan McGinley's [http://www.ryanmcginley.com official site]
* [http://www.teamgal.com/artists/ryan_mc_ginley Artist page at Team Gallery]
* [http://www.afgmanagement.com AFG Management]
*Images, texts and biography from the [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/ryan_mcginley.htm Saatchi Gallery]