From New York to Connecticut and beyond
I live and work in Connecticut where I manage Ronnie Rysz Studio and architecture-based communications for Yale University. Additionally, I co-run a writing project, Rysz + Rysz, which explores creative combinations of people, places, and pastimes across the world.
I am the recipient of a Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism fellowship; Change, Inc. grant; and Vermont Studio Center fellowship. Selections of my work are included in the following collections: Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Housatonic Museum of Art, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Print Club of Albany, and Slater Memorial Museum as well as many private collections. My work has been exhibited nationally, including shows at the 808 Gallery at Boston University, Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University, Artspace NH, Brian Morris Gallery + Buddy Warren Inc., Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Real Art Ways, and Silvermine Arts Center, among others.
In 2006, I received a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Art in Old Lyme and studied fine art and design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. My formative experience also includes assisting James Reed, founder and master printer emeritus at Milestone Graphics, and Randy Davis, principal painter at Off the Wall Murals; working in communications for the Yale Center for British Art; and teaching printmaking at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and Western Connecticut State University.
Photo by Monique Atherton
In gallery
2023
►Small Works, Five Points Arts, Torrington, CT
►Dark Shiny Pop: Mixed Media Made Amidst Cultural Crises, Branford College, Yale University, New Haven, CT (solo)
2018
►Reality Distortion Field (installation), Yale West Campus, City-Wide Open Studios, Artspace NH, Orange, CT
2016
►Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
►Between Clock and Bed, Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
2015
►Drawing and Collage, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT (solo)
►Default Notice, DaSilva Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
►Conversation II, No Pop, New Haven, CT
►Framing New Haven, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
►In Conversation, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
►Tenth Annual Alumni Exhibition, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
►Worlds Without End, Brian Morris Gallery and Buddy Warren Inc., New York, NY, and Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
►Art for Sale, Real Art Ways and EBK Gallery, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
►New Members Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2014
►After Hours, 116 Crown, New Haven, CT (solo)
►Third Annual CT Printmakers Invitational, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
►Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
►In Relief, Gallery of the Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2013
►Opting Out, Kohn-Joseloff Gallery, Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, CT (solo)
►Eighth Annual Alumni Exhibition, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
►The Gazers, Seton Art Gallery, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
►Crossing the Line, Gallery of the Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2012
►Closed Circle, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (solo)
►Artist's Choice, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
2011
►War Making, A-Space Gallery, West Haven, CT
►Bridgeport Prints, Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council, Bridgeport, CT
►Second Glance, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
2010
►Losing All Touch, 22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk, CT
►Linear Structure, Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT
►Comix, 305 Knowlton Street Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
►Flock, Artspace NH, New Haven, CT
►Echo, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
2009
►Tanning Membership, 116 Crown, New Haven, CT (solo)
►International Miniature Print, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
►Crossing the Bridge, Hygienic Art, New London, CT
2008
►Climate of Uncertainty, Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT (solo)
►Conncentric, Artspace NH, New Haven, CT
►Tête á Tête, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
►Impressed, Chauncey Stillman Gallery, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
►Not Printed on Paper, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, and Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
►A Printer’s Eye, Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT
2007
►Politics as Usual (installation), Hamden Middle School, City-Wide Open Studios, Artspace NH, Hamden, CT
►Works on Paper, Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO
►Bi-annual Exhibition, Read’s Artspace, Bridgeport, CT
2006
►National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
►Dirty Fingernails, Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO
►Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
►Crossing the Bridge, Hygienic Art, New London, CT
►BFA Thesis Exhibition, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
►Regional BFA Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
In media
News
►July 13, 2016, The Newtown Bee, “Rosencranz Earns 'Art Of The Northeast' Honor At Silvermine”
►February 12, 2016, Daily Nutmeg, article by Dan Mims "Mr. Mix–It"
►March 22, 2016, New Haven Independent, article by Allan Appel "Brush With Death Inspires New Strokes"
►October 16, 2015, New Haven Independent, article by Allan Appel "Foreclosed Houses Go On Display, As Art"
►March 8, 2012, The Arts Paper, article by Hank Hoffman, "Attention to Detail," published by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven
►March 12, 2011, Artist A Day, "Ronnie Rysz"
►August 17, 2010, New Haven Register, article by Judy Birke "Artspace's Open Studios Exhibit Portends Good Things for Fall"
►May 30, 2010, New Haven Register "Local Artists Awarded State Fellowships"
►August 2, 2010, Connecticut Post, Greenwich Times, and Stamford Advocate, article by Scott Gargan "Have We Lost 'Touch'? Artist Addresses the Diminishing Importance of Physical Communication in New Exhibition"
►August 2, 2010, The Norwalk Hour, article by Keith Loria "Rysz Communicates Through Art"
►February/March 2011, New American Paintings, #92 northeast edition, published by The Open Studios Press, Boston
►Fall/Winter 2010, Post Road Magazine, cover image, issue 21, published by Post Road Inc. in partnership with the Boston College Department of English
Other
►November 10, 2015, WNHH Radio (103.5 FM), host Sharon Benzoni "At the Moment | Ronnie Rysz"
►January 1, 2011, Mend Motion Pictures, Complete in Itself, documentary, produced by Denise Santisteban, creative director, Tiffany Hopkins