Ryan McNamara
Selected Works
Tights
105” by 54” by 48”, fabric/metal, wood, 2014
Unitard Stretch (purple)
72” by 48”, fabric/wood, 2014
Misty Malarky Ying Yang
60” by 43” by 43”, fabric/steel, Plexiglas, 2014
Untitled
72” by 48”, fabric/wood, 2014
Ryan McNamara was born in 1979 in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned a B.F.A from Arizona State University in 2002 and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2011. He was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant in 2011, the Artmatters Grant in 2010, and received the Performa 13 Malcolm McLaren Award in 2013.
McNamara works with performance, installation, and sculpture. Many of his works have a collaborative or participatory quality, incorporating elements of theatre and dance into site-specific or situation-specific installations and performances.
McNamara has shown at The Watermill Performance Center, Water Mill, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work can be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
