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Will Ryman was born on 29 December, 1969 in New York City, US, is an American artist (born 1969). Discover Will Ryman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Born 29 December, 1969
Birthday 29 December
Birthplace New York City, US
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Will Ryman is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures and public art projects.

1969

Will Ryman was born on December 29, 1969, in New York City.

In his early twenties, pursuing a career as a playwright, Ryman began taking playwriting workshops, and immersed himself in the work of Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eugene Ionesco.

For twelve years, Ryman wrote his own plays while working a series of jobs as a script reader, a prep chef, and a line cook.

1999

In 1999, Ryman’s Absurdist play The Encounter debuted at New York’s Trilogy Theater.

At the age of 32, Ryman began to make sculptures of the characters in his plays in an effort to “envision them more fully.” Ryman created these sculptures out of a desire to "let the play's scenery tell the whole story, and to create theater with no lines or actors, but just the world itself."

A self-taught visual artist, Ryman made his earliest works from papier-mâché and combined household materials and everyday objects.

As Ryman recounts, “I basically took apart my bookshelves and my coat tree and got some papier-mâché and built a hundred or so figures about four feet tall.”

2004

These small expressive sculptures with outstretched arms and wailing mouths evolved into an artwork Ryman titled “The Pit,” which was shown in his first gallery exhibition in 2004 at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert in Chelsea, and in 2005 as part of “Greater New York” at P.S.1 in Long Island City, which helped launch his career as an artist.

Ryman developed an ambitious large-scale sculpture practice using materials as varied as coal, steel, computer parts, paper towels, bullets, and bronze.

2005

Family Dinner, 2005, a sculpture of a domestic dinner scene exuding an unsettling tone, was shown at the Tracy Williams Ltd. Gallery, New York in 2005.

2008

Will Ryman’s first public art project, Wall Street, 2008, was exhibited at 7 World Trade Center, New York City.

The artist produced a sculptural tableau of a typical New York street scene consisting of fifteen characters including businessmen in suits, people waiting for a bus, a man eating a hot dog, and a woman reading a newspaper.

The sculptures ranging from three-inches tall to fifteen feet in height, were made of papier-mâché, epoxy resin, wire mesh, acrylic, wood, and cloth.

This artwork was acquired by and exhibited in 2008 at the 21C Museum Collection, Louisville.

2010

In 2010, Ryman created The Dinner Party, a larger-than-life dinner scene evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper made of steel, wood, epoxy resin, nails, tile, aluminum, flock, wire, resin, plastic, glass, and chain.

This installation exhibited at The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, was the second dinner-themed installation by Ryman.

2011

Organized by the Fund for Park Avenue Sculpture Committee and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, in 2011, Ryman’s public art project The Roses On Park Avenue, 2010, was unveiled on Park Avenue between 57th and 67th Streets in New York City.

Ryman installed thirty-eight sculptures of roses towering as high as twenty-five feet and twenty individual scattered petals in the medians along Park Avenue.

Climbing the thorny roses were sculptures of aphids, beetles, ladybugs, and ants made of fiberglass resin and stainless steel.

The underlying concept for the installation was a critique of commercialism and an interrogation of our endless search for beauty and lasting perfection.

New York Times critic Dorothy Spears wrote, “…in their cartoonish display of human expectation and failure, [The Roses] also owe a powerful debt to Mr. Ryman’s lingering fascination with absurdist theater.” Ryman’s initial designs for the Park Avenue installation included a large-scale coffee cup, an empty Doritos bag, and extinguished matches strewn like litter among the flowers.

Those artworks were later deemed by the approval committee as conflicting with the city’s anti-trash campaign and removed from the design.

In 2011, Ryman produced monochrome red, yellow, and blue versions of his large-scale Rose sculptures for the exhibition Will Ryman: Desublimation of the Rose at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables.

Will Ryman’s life-size tableau made of fiberglass, wood, fabric, epoxy, coated with coal, is based on Pete Souza’s iconic photograph of President Obama, military officials, and members of the administration viewing in real time from the Situation Room of the West Wing, Osama bin Laden’s capture in Pakistan in 2011.

Ryman deliberately reduced the dramatic narrative to its elemental parts.

By covering the sculpted tableau in crushed coal - a polemical natural resource since The Industrial Revolution - Ryman alludes to the complicated consequences of human progress and to the eternal existence of war throughout history.

The artist explains, “I erased a lot of the identity of the faces in that room, because for me, the interesting thing about the piece is the situation itself.

It is one that has been repeating itself throughout history and will probably continue to repeat itself.” Ryman’s sculpture transforms an illustration of a crucial military action by an American president into a timeless representation of leadership in the face of war.

2012

Acquired by the Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Bird (2012), is a twelve-foot high, twelve-foot wide, and fourteen-foot long sculpture, made with over 5,000 actual and fabricated nails in the shape of a bird.

The bird weighs five tons, and it stands on a nest of ninety thousand nails.

2013

Presented by the New York City Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, in 2013, Ryman’s Bird was installed in New York City’s Flatiron Square Plaza.

Also in 2013, Ryman produced America, a recreation of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood log cabin, which examines the origins of capitalism and its complexities within the scope of American history.

Assembled from real logs covered entirely in gold leaf, Ryman lined the interior walls and floor of the room-sized cabin with materials that had contributed to the development of America’s economy — including arrowheads, slavery shackles, bullets, pills, tobacco, and iPhones, arranged in grids.

First exhibited at Kasmin Gallery, New York in 2013, America was acquired by the collectors Sydney and Walda Besthoff for the New Orleans Museum of Art where it is on permanent view.

2014

Furthering his examination of American Capitalism and mass production, in 2014 Ryman created Cadillac, a life-sized sculpture of a 1958 Eldorado Biarritz Cadillac convertible fabricated entirely out of resin and Bounty paper towels.

Ryman’s sculpture blended two iconic American brands: one, a post-war symbol of luxury, class, and power, and the other, a mass-produced disposable product.

Taking nearly three years to construct, Will Ryman’s The Situation Room, 2014 was exhibited at Kasmin Gallery, New York in 2015.

2015

In 2015 the sculpture was exhibited in Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst II, Knockdown Center, Queens NY and in 2017 at the CCS Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit.

2019

Following the Park Avenue exhibition, which was positively reviewed and garnered much attention, Ryman has exhibited individual Rose sculptures at museums including The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, and LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton (2019).