EDUCATION
2002 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001 B.A., Brown University, Providence, RI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Honey, The LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
2016 Hurlyburly, Waller Creek Conservancy, Austin, TX
2014 You, Brown University, Providence, RI
Terra, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
Current, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
Undertone, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Boys Cry Too, Hermann Park, Houston, TX
Undertone, SCAD Gallery See, Atlanta, GA
2013 Hot Rod, Chicago Lakefront, Chicago, IL
Red, Yellow and Blue, Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Red, Yellow and Blue, Madison Square Park, New York, NY
Iron Maiden, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Big, Open, Empty, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
2009 Move, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Whole, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
2007 Posedown, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
MASSPEAK, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Aldrich Contemporary Arts Museum, Ridgefield, CT Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2004 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2015 Ten Year Anniversary, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
The Sculptor’s Eye: Prints, Drawings and Photographs from the Collection, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA
Civilization and Its Discontents: SAIC Alumni Exhibition, Selections from 1985-2015, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Womanhouse, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Hollow Bone, Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn NY
2014 Orly Genger and James Siena, two-person exhibition, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Show, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013 Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, N
All F@*#ing Summer, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2012 Makeup on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Sentimental Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, F
MAKE Skateboards, organized by Jonathan Lavoie and Scott Ogden, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Disorderly Conduct, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
January White Sale, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Figuration, Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, MI
2010 Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
MATERIAL WORLD: Sculpture to Environment, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess, MCA Denver, Denver, CO
Brucennial, New York, NY
2009 Fresh from Chelsea, University Gallery and Grinter Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
The Fields Sculpture Center at Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Dritto Rovescio, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Collector’s Choice III Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2006 Queens International 2006, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Studio in the Park, curated by Karin Bravin, New York, NY
Women in the Bedroom, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2004 EAF04: 2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
2003 Haifa Second International Installation Triennale, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
The Reconstruction Biennial, Exit Art, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Townsend, Jen and Renee Zettle-Sterling. Cast: Art and Objects made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process. Schiffer Publishing Co. 2017
Vannier, Charlotte. Cesi n’est pas un pull. Pyramyd. 2017
Kwon, Liz Yisun. NY Public Art. Artbooks21, 2017
2016 Lee, Nayun. Fresh Art New York, Quel Part Press, Seoul, Korea, 2016
2015 Swinkels, Dorothè. “Fighting with the Rope” TEXTIEL PLUS (Winter 2015)
2014 McDonnell, Brandy. “Recycled Rope Sculpture Lassos Attention in Automobile Alley” THE OKLAHOMAN (Oct 13, 2014)
Kino, Carol. “Trick Ropester” ART DESK (Fall/Winter 2014-2015)
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “The Contemporary Austin Offers A Sublime Installation and Surreal Fun” STATESMAN (May 30, 2014)
Adjarian, M.M. “Orly Genger: Current” ARTS + CULTURE TEXAS (May 28, 2014)
Osborn, Brett. Time and Nothingness. Anne Whutknot Publishing Co. 2014.
2013 McQuaid, Cate. “Tying It All Together At The deCordova” THE BOSTON GLOBE (Dec 26, 2013)
Rodriguez, Meredith. “Hot Rod Sculpture Wanders the Lakefront” CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Nov 25, 2013)
Ballard, Thea. “A Monument of Rope Travels to Massachusetts” MODERN PAINTERS (Nov 2013)
Budick, Ariella. “Public Sculpture: Red, Yellow and Blue; Lightness of Being” FINANCIAL TIMES (Aug 27, 2013)
Shahi, K. “New York – Orly Genger, Red, Yellow and Blue” ART OBSERVED (Aug 29, 2013)
Smith, Roberta. “Ideally, Striving for an Organic Fusion” THE NEW YORK TIMES (July 18, 2013)
Simon, Lizzie. “Roping in New Yorkers” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (May 2, 2013)
Kino, Carol. “Rope Wrangler, Ideas Unfurling; Orly Genger in Madison Square Park” THE NEW YORK TIMES (May 1, 2013
Artist uses lobster rope to create installation in NYC park exhibit moves to Mass. in Oct” THE WASHINGTON POST
Sheets, Hilarie, M. “Beyond The Wall” ART + AUCTION (May 2013)
“New York Artists Now: Next Generation,” NEW YORK OBSERVER (February 22, 2013)
2012 Vogel, Carol. “Rope as Architecture,” NEW YORK TIMES (November 22, 2012)
Chtena, Natascha. “Orly Genger,” IDOL MAGAZINE (Issue 2)
2011 Davis, Ben. “Give Orly Genger Enough Rope!,” ARTINFO (May 9, 2011)
Edgers, Geoff. “Genger named deCordova’s Rappaport winner,” THE BOSTON GLOBE (October 14, 2011)
Indrisek, Scott. “Reviews: Orly Genger/ Carolyn Carr,” MODERN PAINTERS (April, 2011)
2010 Honigman, Ana Finel. “Whatever It Takes To Get It Made: A Conversation with Orly Genger,” SCULPTURE (December, 2010)
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Rope Wrangler,” ART IN AMERICA (October, 2010)
Edwards, Meghan. “Show of Force,” INTERIOR DESIGN (September, 2010)
Kwon, Liz. “Orly Genger: Art in Space,” BOB – International Magazine of Space Design (September, 2010)
Goldstein, Andrew M. “Material World: Sculpture to Environment, Review,” ARTINFO (June 10, 2010)
Panetta, Jane and Veronica Roberts. “Orly Genger,” MUSEO MAGAZINE XIV
Gordon, Amanda. “Roping Them In,” CITY ARTS (January 12, 2010)
2009 Wolin, Joseph R. “Orly Genger, Move,” TIME OUT NEW YORK (October 14 – 20, 2009)
“Goings on About Town,” THE NEW YORKER (September 23 – 29, 2009)
Green, Tyler. “Acquisition: Orly Genger at Indianapolis,” MODERN ART NOTES (April 2, 2009)
Edwards, Meghan. “On the Ropes,” INTERIOR DESIGN (March, 2009)
Davide Rampello, et al. Dritto Rovescio. La Triennale di Milano, 2009
2008 MacAdam, Barbara A. “The Shape Of Things To Come,” ARTNEWS(April, 2008)
Bishop, Philip. Review, ORLANDO SENTINEL (March 23, 2008)
2007 Ames, Katrine. “All Around the Town,” HOUSE AND GARDEN (November, 2007)
Slowinski, Dolores. “Not Another Poser,” DETROIT METRO TIMES (October 17, 2007)
Cohen, Keri Gutten. “Exhibits a Other Galleries,” DETROIT FREE PRESS (September 14, 2007)
Murayama, Atsuko. “Orly Genger: MASSPEAK,” THE NEW YORK SEIKATSU (April 28, 2007)
Baker, R.C., “Best in Show,” THE VILLAGE VOICE (April 25-May 1, 2007)
Gelber, Eric, “Orly Genger: MASSPEAK,” THE NEW YORK SUN(April 19, 2007)
Smith, Roberta, “Space Redefined in Chelsea,” THE NEW YORK TIMES (April 13, 2007)
Schwendener, Martha, “Flair and Flash, Not Fumpiness,” THE NEW YORK TIMES (January 27, 2007)
2006 Abichandani, Jaichri, “Queens International 06: Everything All at Once,” Vol.3, (2006)
Schwendener, Martha, “Art From Everywhere, All from Queens,” THE NEW YORK TIMES (December 15, 2006)
Scheinman, Pamela, “Orly Genger’s Playful Puzzlejuice,” FIBERARTS (Sept/Oct 2006)
Budick, Ariella, “Alfresco Art is The City’s Grace,” NEWSDAY (August 20, 2006)
Vogel, Carol, “Inside Riverside Park,” THE NEW YORK TIMES (May 5, 2006)
2005 “The Heart of the Matter,” INTERIOR DESIGN, Number 15 (2005):121
SCULPTURE, Vol. 24 No. 6 (July/August 2005): 12
Weinberg, Michelle, “Crustacean in the Hall of Furies and Orly Genger,” MIAMI NEW TIMES (April 7-13, 2005)
2004 Reed, John, “Orly Genger: Elizabeth Dee Gallery,” ARTFORUM.COM (October 2004)
Gopnik, Blake, “For Art Lovers, a Chelsea Morning,” THE WASHINGTON POST (September 26, 2004)
Graham, Ruth, “Profile: Orly Genger, Cut from a Creative Cloth,” THE NEW YORK SUN (August 23, 2004)
Pollack, Barbara, “From Garret to Gallery,” TIME OUT NEW YORK (August 5-12, 2004)
2003 Talmor, Daniella, Haifa Second International Installation Triennale, (Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2003) Wandering Library, Temporary Edition
Smith, Roberta, “A Space Reborn, With a Show That’s Never Finished,” THE NEW YORK TIMES (April 4, 2003):E37
Saltz, Jerry, “Rays of Light,” THE VILLAGE VOICE (January 22-28, 2003): 61
LECTURES/ VISITING ARTIST/AWARDS
2015 Washington University
2014 Brown University
Joslyn Art Museum
Expo Chicago
The Austin Contemporary
SCAD
2013 artnet ArtTable
2012 MassArt
2011 Rappaport PrizeMuseum of Arts and Design
Montclaire Art Museum
The Wexner Center for the Arts
Ohio State Univesity
2010 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
2008 Indianapolis Museum of Art
2007 College for Creative Studies
Cranbrook Academy of Art
2005 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
University of Pennsylvania
FEATURED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Hammer Museum of Contemporary Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Hood Museum of Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Brooklyn Museum
Indianapolis Museum of Art
RISD Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Queens Museum
Joslyn Art Museum
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum