Roxy Paine was born in 1966 in New York and studied at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York. Since 1990, his work has been internationally exhibited and is included in major collections such as De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His tree sculptures can be found at various museums and foundations including the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA; Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo NMAC, Cadiz, Spain; and the St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO. Roxy Paine lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, NY.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2011
Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2010
Roxy Paine: Distillation, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Roxy Paine, WANAS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
2009
Roxy Paine: Dendroid Drawings and Maquettes, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007
Roxy Paine, Madison Square Park, New York, NY
2006
Roxy Paine: PMU, curated by Bruce Guenther, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR,
February 25 – May 28, 2006 (one-person exhibition)
Roxy Paine: New Work, James Cohan Gallery, New York, January 14 – February 25, 2006 (one-person exhibition)
2005
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, organized by Paul Schimmel with Gloria Sutton,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition; catalogue)
2002
Roxy Paine: Second Nature, co-curated by Joseph Ketner and Lynn Herbert, Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands (April 2002 through January 2004) (one-person exhibition; catalogue) The Whitney Biennial in Central Park, curated by Tom Eccles, organized by the Public Art Fund, New York in collaboration with The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (group exhibition; individual catalogue for Bluff)
AWARDS
2006
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1997
Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington, D.C.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
NMAC, Cadiz, Spain
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY