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Francis Ruyter
John Collier Jr.: Chacon, Mora County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American Rancher, 2018
Francis Ruyter is an American painter and gallerist; he currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
Ruyter’s practice usually begins with a single photograph, which he then transfers and reduces. His work exists somewhere between photography and painting, creating a unique style and system of signs for the viewer to read and interpret. He uses new media to reinterpret archival photographs, blending new technologies and traditional painting techniques. More specifically a large body of his work is occupied with recreations of photographs from Library of Congress’s FSA archive of Depression-era photography. He then brings the sepia and black and white images to life with vivid colour and negative space.
Ruyter also works as an educator, teaching at institutions such as The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Cooper Union, New York, NY; Columbia University, undergraduate, New York, NY; New York University,University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Ruyter has had many solo shows including Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, 2020; Such Wet Eyes, Song Song, Vienna, 2019; Hurricane/Time/Image, FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna, 2018; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Galeria Senda, Barcelona (ES). 2015, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY (US). 2012, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
Ruyter has also featured works in group shows such as God in reverse: When wisdom defies capture, The Richmond Art Galery, Richmond BC (CA), 2020; Spaces of no control, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (US), 2018; History in the Making, Alan Cristea Gallery, London; City Fabrics, ARCC, Vienna; Queer, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (AT), 2017; Publishing as an artistic toolbox, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. This is the sea, Big Mak / art Monte-Carlo salon d’art, Monaco.
His work is included in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Collection le Consortium, Dijon, France; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, among others.
Francis Ruyter is currently represented by Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, England.
Francis Ruyter is an American painter and gallerist; he currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
Ruyter’s practice usually begins with a single photograph, which he then transfers and reduces. His work exists somewhere between photography and painting, creating a unique style and system of signs for the viewer to read and interpret. He uses new media to reinterpret archival photographs, blending new technologies and traditional painting techniques. More specifically a large body of his work is occupied with recreations of photographs from Library of Congress’s FSA archive of Depression-era photography. He then brings the sepia and black and white images to life with vivid colour and negative space.
Ruyter also works as an educator, teaching at institutions such as The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Cooper Union, New York, NY; Columbia University, undergraduate, New York, NY; New York University,University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Ruyter has had many solo shows including Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, 2020; Such Wet Eyes, Song Song, Vienna, 2019; Hurricane/Time/Image, FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna, 2018; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Galeria Senda, Barcelona (ES). 2015, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY (US). 2012, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
Ruyter has also featured works in group shows such as God in reverse: When wisdom defies capture, The Richmond Art Galery, Richmond BC (CA), 2020; Spaces of no control, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (US), 2018; History in the Making, Alan Cristea Gallery, London; City Fabrics, ARCC, Vienna; Queer, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (AT), 2017; Publishing as an artistic toolbox, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. This is the sea, Big Mak / art Monte-Carlo salon d’art, Monaco.
His work is included in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Collection le Consortium, Dijon, France; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, among others.
Francis Ruyter is currently represented by Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, England.
