Donna Ruff


 

Bio

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS

  • 2020

    • Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA: “utopia”

  • 2019

    • Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL: “Extraño”
    • Miami Beach Jewish Community Center (JCC), Miami Beach, FL: “For You Were Strangers”

  • 2018

    • Swenson Gallery, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL: “Processed Prose” with Jeff Wallace

  • 2017

    • Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY: “The Migrant Series”

  • 2014

    • London14 Art Fair: London First, with Wendy Wolf at Fitzroy Knox Gallery

  • 2009

    • Experimental Space, Juvenal Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY: “Dialogue”
    • BravinLee Projects Artist Book Program, New York, NY: “Es-tu comme moi?”

  • 2007

    • PVCC Gallery, Charlottesville, VA: “On the Seventh Day”

  • 2005

    • ArtSPACE New Haven, New Haven, CT: “Tempo”
    • NEXT Gallery, Metropolitan College, New York, NY: “Treetext”

  • 2004

    • Westchester Art Workshop: Donna Ruff
    • Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT: “Glimpse”

  • 2003

    • Eldridge Street Project, New York, NY: “Nephesh”

  • 2001

    • Hallway Project PS 122, New York, NY

  • 1997

    • Barry University, Miami, FL: “Santa Fe Diary”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2019

    • LnS Gallery, Miami, FL: The Artful Book”
    • Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum FIU, Miami, FL: “Spheres of Meaning”
    • Box Gallery, Palm Beach, FL: “CONstitutionX”

  • 2018

    • Hollywood Art & Culture Center: Florida Biennial 2018, Hollywood, FL
    • San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA: “Cut it Out!”

  • 2017

    • Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL: “Sunrise Sunset”
    • Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY: “The Times”
    • Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: “Patterning,” Samantha Friedman, curator
    • Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA and other venues: “Cut Up/ Cut Out”

  • 2016

    • Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC: “Reduce”
    • Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: “Mapping Spaces: Carte Blanche,” Dita Amory, curator
    • 21POP, “Cut it Out,” FOG Design + Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

  • 2015

    • Central Booking Gallery, New York: “GOING BIG,” Suzan Shutan and Susan Carr, curators
    • Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM: “Axle Indoors”
    • Wade Wilson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM: “Stubborn Matter,” David Leigh, curator

  • 2014

    • New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM: “Hunting and Gathering, Recent Acquisitions”
    • Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY: “Paper Unbound”
    • Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY: “Psyched”
    • Usable Space Gallery, Milwaukee, WI: “(Re)Motivated”
    • Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona: “Fold, Paper, Scissors”
    • Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM: “All the News That’s Fit to Print”

  • 2013

    • Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI: “Transformed Volumes”
    • CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: “My Favorite Things”
    • Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: “Brother, Can You Spare a Stack”
    • New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM: “Art on the Edge 2012,” Toby Kamps, curator (purchase award)

  • 2012

    • Williams Gallery, Lafayette University, Easton, PA: “Booked”
    • Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM: “CutGlueFold”
    • Galleri Urbane, Dallas and Marfa, TX: “Director’s Choice”
    • Traveling exhibition: “Tribute to El-Mutanabbi Street,” artists book invitational, Beau Beausoleil and Sarah Bodman, curators

  • 2011

    • Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: “Marked Differences,” Roberta Waddell, curator
    • Trenton Artworks, Trenton, NJ: “Uncommon Threads”
    • Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA: Sol Lewitt Exchange

  • 2010

    • Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY: “CUT UPS”
    • Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: “Fire Works”
    • McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY: “Reader’s Delight”
    • John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, WI: “Speaking Volumes”
    • Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Unveil”

  • 2009

    • Center for Books Arts, New York, NY: “Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning”
    • General Store, Sydney, Australia: Independent Salon of Book Art

  • 2008

    • Resistance!” Annual Rutgers Book Art Symposium (presenter)
    • Bookverks2008: “Information is not Knowledge”
    • Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA: “PAPER[space]”
    • Garson Baker Fine Art, New York, NY: “Small Wonders”

  • 2007

    • Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT: “Process”
    • Druckwerkstatt im Kulturwerk des bbk berlin, Berlin, Germany: “Handgeschopft”
    • Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY: “Per Square Foot”

  • 2006

    • Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT: “Disaster! One Year After”
    • German Consulate, New York, NY: “Feedback: Artist to Artist”
    • NJ Print Council: “New Directions”
    • ALL Gallery, New Haven, CT: “TEXTure”
    • John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT: Invitational 2006
    • BAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: “Making your Mark: On Paper”

  • 2005

    • PS 122 Project Room, NY, NY: “5 Boroughs”
    • Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA: “Word of Mouth”
    • Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT: “(re)creation”
    • Mills Pond House, St. James, NY: “Women, Words, and Images”
    • Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT: “Translucence”

  • 2004

    • Flux Factory, LIC, NY: “Qville”
    • New Art Center, Newton, MA: “Off the Wall ”
    • Gallery 402, New York, NY: The Print Show
    • 4th International Graphic Triennale Prague (cat.)
    • Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: National Print Exhibition
    • A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY: “Generations.04”
    • Indiana State University: “Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary Printmaking”

  • 2003

    • Salon Internacional de Grabado y Ediciones de Arte Contemporaneo, Estampa, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
    • Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN; “Flying Carpet”

  • 2002

    • Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ: “Kaboom!”
    • Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: National Print Exhibition
    • ExitArt, New York, NY; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA: “Reactions”
    • California State University, Fresno, CA: “From Stone and Plate”

  • 2001

    • Bharat Bhavan Fifth International Biennial of Print Art, Bhopal, India (cat.)
    • Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany: “Feedback: artists by artists”
    • Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NJ: “breaking the rules, art 2001”
    • New Jersey Printmaking Council, NJ: “Humanity” (Johnson & Johnson Purchase Award)

  • 2000

    • Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT: Connecticut Biennial
    • Mason Gross Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: “Paper Trail”
    • Connecticut Graphic Arts Center: “Paper Works”
    • College Art Association New York Area MFA Exhibition
    • New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ: International Juried Show, curator Dan Cameron (Award)

  • 1999/00

    • "National Collegiate Handmade Paper Show," Columbia College, Chicago, IL
    • SUNY College, Buffalo, NY; American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.

  • 1999

    • Artworks, Trenton, NJ: “Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking” (Award)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

  • 2018

    • Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL: “To the Letter”

  • 2014

    • Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM: “All the News That’s Fit to Print”

  • 2009

    • Heskins Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT: “Status Update” (co-curator Debbie Hesse)

  • 2004

    • New Art Center, Newton, MA: “Off the Wall ”

GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • Oolite Arts Project Grant
  • New Art Center Curatorial Opportunity Grant
  • Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship Grant
  • Johnson & Johnson Purchase Award
  • Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
  • Rutgers University Research Grant
  • Purchase Award, Artworks
  • Desi Award for Graphic Design

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

  • 2020

    Deering Estate, Miami, FL

  • 2015

    Escape2Create, Seaside, FL

  • 2008/09

    Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2005

    Artist in Residence, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

  • 2001

    • Panelist, Digital Imaging Seminar, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
    • Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
    • Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

  • 1997

    Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Morgan Library
  • Smith College
  • JP Morgan Chase Collection
  • Yale Art Museum
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Library of Congress
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Norwalk Community College
  • Zimmerli Art Museum
  • American Embassy, Berlin

EDUCATION

  • MFA Rutgers University
  • MA Florida State University, Art History
  • BA University of Miami, Art

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

  • “Kawasaki Plus Yoga Equals Kawashokrachakraboom,” adobeairstream.com, April 2014
  • “Design Miami: Youthful Vibe, Design Orthodoxy, and Liminal Spaces,” adobeairstream.com December 2012
  • “With Contemporary Eye, Merry Scully Curates New Mexico Museum of Art Alcove Shows,” adobeairstream.com, October 2012
  • “Consensus ‘Has Failed’: ISEA2012 Artist Marina Zurkow on Gila 2.0, Animals and Land,” adobeairstream.com, October 2012
  • “Myth of the City” Asks Participants to Create Better Ones,” adobeairstream.com, July 2012
  • “CAMH’s Curator of It is what it is. Or is it? Talks Readymades- and Houston,” adobeairstream.com, July 2012
  • “Alison Keogh on Cracked Earth, ‘Cloaked Earth,’ and the Artist’s Journey,” adobeairstream.com, April 2012

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Elisa Turner, “Paper Cuts/Social Fabric,” Biscayne Times, September 2019
  • “Meet Donna Ruff” VoyageMIA, February 21, 2019
  • Roberta Smith, “The Times,” New York Times, August 3, 2017
  • New American Paintings, No. 124 South Edition, 2016
  • Sarah Lindsay, “The Four,” Four Seasons Magazine, Issue 1 2016
  • Paul Weideman, “News Prints: Artists Transform the New York Times” Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, Jan. 24, 2014
  • Enrique Limon, “Extra, Extra!” Santa Fe Reporter, Jan. 22, 2014
  • Douglas Fairfield, “The Edge Factor,” Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, January 18, 2013
  • Hallie Sekoff, “Donna Ruff’s Newspapers Reconstruct Our Ways of Seeing and Reading,” Huffington Post, November 13, 2012
  • Jealous Curator, October 17, 2012
  • Roberta Smith, “Reader’s Delight,” New York Times, July 23, 2010
  • Jonathan Wallis, UNVEIL at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia City Paper, Jan. 19, 2010
  • Roberta Fallon, Libby Rosoff, Unveil at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, The Art Blog, Jan. 25, 2010
  • Newhall, Edith, “Exhibit is works of, not on, paper,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 2008
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  • Parson, Laura, "Torch Songs," The Hook, April 26, 2007
  • Flanders, April, “Experiprints and Printstallations,” Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2006
  • Schermler, Sara, “Making your Mark on Paper,” Time Out New York, March 23-29, 2006
  • Latter, Ruth. “In the South.” The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA. February 2, 2006
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  • Harrison, Helen, The Rewards of a Story Well Told: “Women, Words, and Images,” New York Times, April 3, 2005
  • Hopkins, Randi “Editor’s Select” Boston Phoenix, October 8-14, 2004
  • Streitfeld, L.P. “Balancing Act,” Advocate & Greenwich Times, February 22, 2004
  • O‘Connell, A.J., “Words are as much artist’s medium as the message,” Norwalk Hour, January 15, 2004
  • Gold, Julia, “Ruff Cuts,” The Jewish Week, December 19, 2003
  • Lombardi, D. Dominick, “Exploring the Gamut of Contemporary Art,” New York Times, June, 2001
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  • Wallace, Sue, "Art Pops off Page," Connecticut Post, January 16, 1998
  • Streitfeld, L.P.,"Making the Journey" Fairfield County Weekly, November 13, 1997
  • Tyler, Betty, "Child's Play," Norwalk Times, November 15, 1997