Ginny Casey American, b. 1981

b. 1981 Niskayuna, NYLives and works in New Jersey, NY
 
Ginny Casey’s contemporary, surrealist paintings capture invented spaces that are occupied by objects distorted and rendered uncanny: tools, household items, and the occasional disembodied hand. In her richly coloured still lives, inanimate objects appear alive and suggest psychological or dream states. 
 
An MFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Casey has exhibited widely in New York City and beyond. The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania hosted a critically acclaimed exhibition of her paintings in 2017. While they focus on casually assembled everyday objects, Casey’s canvases pull viewers in with suggestive narratives and spatial depth. Her works can also be playful and self-referential, with clusters of scissors, vessels, palette knives, and other studio necessities that appear in conversation. 
 

Ginny Casey received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.  In 2018, Casey was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Painting Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Busywork, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2024); Ginny Casey, Half Gallery Annex, New York, NY (2023); Bewitched, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023); Combing the Honey Home, Half Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Trap Door, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019).  Group exhibitions include Surrealism in the Service of Distraction, Gallery Raphael Durazzo, Paris, FR (2024); Objecting Reality, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, (2024); Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism, Almine Rech, London, UK 2023; Breathless, Myriam Chair Galerie, Paris, FR (2023); Blind Field, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY, (2022); Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech, New York, NY (2021); Domestic Horror, Gagosian, New York, NY (2019).

 

EDUCATION

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2008

Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2005

BFA, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, 2003

SACI College of Art and Design, Florence, Italy, 2001

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Bodywork, Cob Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)

2023 Ginny Casey, Half Gallery Annex, New York, NY

2023 Bewitched, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2021 Combing the Honey Home, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Trap Door, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Skeleton Key, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Built from Broke, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Play Things, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2016 Ghost Maker, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Green Teeth, Culture Room, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Kindred Creatures, Amrose and Sable Gallery, Albany, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Surrealism in the Service of Distraction, Gallery Raphael Durazzo, Paris, FR

2024 Prophetic Dreams, Kutlesa Gallery, Goldau, Switzerland

2024 Objecting Reality, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong

2023 Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism, Almine Rech, London, UK

2023 Breathless, Myriam Chair Galerie, Paris, FR

2023 Works on Paper: 100 Years, Amanita, New York, NY

2023 Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY

2022 Blind Field, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2021 Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech, New York, NY

2021 Nature Morte, The Hole, New York, NY

2021 Surfaces, Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA

2021 Inaugural Exhibition, Nino Mier, Brussels, Belgium

2020 Sympathetic Magic, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Five Year Anniversary Show, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Under Glass, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2020 Paper (and one on wood), Nino Mier Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA

2020 King Dogs Never Grow Old, Diane Rosenstein Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA

2019 Domestic Horror, Gagosian, New York, NY

2018 Early 21st Century Art, Almine Rech, London, UK

2018 SEED, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Cliche, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Ginny Casey & Jessi Reaves, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Sitting Still, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY

2017 Stack, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2017 Hors D’oeuvres, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2016 Tie His Hands Gently, Romeo, New York, NY

2016 Fathoms, Radical Abacus, Santa Fe, NM

2016 Me, My, Mine, DC Moore, New York, NY

2016 Nurture/ Nature, 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Double Nickels on the Dime, D’Agostino & Fiore, New York, NY

2015 Two Painters One Sculptor, Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY

2015 Star Gazer/ Ancient Light, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Space Answers, Bannerette, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Not Color Absolute, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

2014 Ginny Casey and Heather McPherson, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Secret Santa’s Car Key Party, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Do it Yourself, 195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

2014 The Last Brucennial, 837 Washington Street, New York, NY

2013 A Country Road. A Tree. Evening., FJORD, Philadelphia, PA

2012 Thirteen, AMO Studios, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Stones, Bones and Relics, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

2010 County Affair, Fortress to Solitude booth, NADA, Calicoon, NY

2010 The Drawing Show, Tompkin’s Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Will it happen?, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

2008 RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, The Dunk, Providence, RI

2007 Organically Speaking, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY

2007 Eating the Sands of Time, Knew Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2007 Whimsy Sex, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2007 Swap/Meet, Icebox Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

AWARDS

NYSCA/NYFA Painting Fellowship, 2018

John A. Chironna Memorial Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design, 2006-2007

Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, 2006-2007