Nan Ring
contact: nancy.ring@verizon.net
I am interested in selling my original art, interior design inquiries, and gallery representation. Additional images can be seen on my Instagram site.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ring.nancy/
Small painting installations: http://nanring.com
New Work: http://nanringstudio.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, “These Almost Lost Pieces” BrassWorks Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
2020, “Elephantine” Public Art Installation, Montclair Fresh Air Exhibitions, Montclair, N.J.
2016, “I Will Touch a Hundred Flowers”, Lippman Gallery, Short Hills, N.J.
2011, “What You Get Is To Be Changed,” NJ Arts Incubator, West Orange, N.J.
2010, The University of the Arts Thesis Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA.
2009, “Kitchen”, Orbis, Montclair, N.J.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Upcoming: “December Salon” Perry Lawson Gallery, Nyack, NY
2024, “Monstrous and Miniscule” Riverviews Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
2023, “Chaos and Clarity, Light and Shadow” 14C at Art 150, Jersey City, N.J.
2022, 14C Art Fair, Booth C29, group booth curated by Kristine Go, Jersey City, N.J.
2022, “Movement” Papermill Playhouse Gallery, Millburn, NJ, curator, Jesus Nunez
2022, “Be Still” Out Left Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., curator Lumane Luma
2021, 14C Art Fair, Jersey City, NJ.
2021, “Hope and Possibility”, Bridgette Mayer Gallery Benefit Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA.
2021, “Herstory”, Drawing Rooms Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, artsy.net2020, “Interplay” Juried Group Exhibition, Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. (pop-up of NYC based gallery.)
2020, “The Space Between” Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, N.J.
2020, “Congruence”, Online Juried Exhibition, curator Bridgette Mayer
2020, 14C Art Fair Exhibitor, Grand Hyatt, Jersey City, NJ, February 21 - 23.
2020, “The Blues” The Painting Center, New York, NY, January 30.
2019, “Everything . . . If You Are Brave,” Index Gallery, Newark, NJ, April.
2019, 14C Art Fair, under the auspices of Drawing Rooms Gallery, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Jersey City, NJ.
2019, Drawing Rooms Art Project at JC Fridays, Juried Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ.
2018, Bridgette Mayer Invitational Benefit Exhibition for the Rail Park Project, Philadelphia, PA.
2018, "Piece Together" community engagement art project at Summit Farmer's Market, Summit, NJ
2018, “Somewhere Over the Interconnected Rainbow” Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.
2018, “Big Small Show”, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.
2017, Pingry Faculty Exhibition, Hostetter Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ.
2017, “Big Ink” Printmaking Exhibition, North Adams, Mass.
2017, Open Studios, Manufacturer’s Village Studio Building, East Orange, NJ.
2016, “An Intimate History of Milkweed,” Kenise Barnes Gallery Project Space, Larchmont, NY.
2016, “Big Ink,” original large-scale woodblock printmaking event, Northampton, MASS.
2015, “Old Enough to Know Better,” Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA.
2015, “11-point Perspective,” Pierro Gallery, South Orange, N.J.
2014, “Everyone I’ve Ever Fed,” and “I Believe That I Will Never Quite Know/After Mary Oliver,” 73 See Gallery, N.J., two-person exhibit, 73 See Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
2013, “Making It”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
2013, “Here in the Same Open Emptiness/After Marina Tsvetaeva” 2-person exhibition, 73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2013, “Of the Land,” chaNorth Alumni Exhibition, New York, N.Y.
2012, “Mudluscious”, New Jersey Arts Incubator, West Orange, N.J.
2011, “Pale Language,” New Jersey Arts Incubator, West Orange, N.J.
2011, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey 25th International Juried Show, 1/14, Summit, N.J.
2010 “Future Excavations: Artists, Remnants and Relics,” Gallery 224, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
2010 “It’s Complicated,” Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
2010 “2D or Not 2D,” Juried by Chuck Arnoldi and Gregory Amenoff, President’s Office Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
2009, “Works in Progress”, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
2009, “A Pinch and a Dash”, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, N.Y.
2008, “Works in Progress”, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Coca Cola, Atlanta, GA.
Copley Real Estate, Boston, MA.
Phillip Morris, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Prudential Insurance Company, N.J.
Southeast Banking Company, Coral Gables, FL.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, N.Y.
RESIDENCIES
2024: artist-in-residence, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Wintertide, March.
2023, artist-in-residence, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Wintertide, March.
2022, artist-in-residence, Edgewood Farm at Castle Hill, Truro, Mass, March.
2019 artist-in-residence, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, June/July
2019, artist-in-residence, Edgewood Farm at Castle Hill, Truro, Mass, March.
2018, artist-in-residence, Hambidge Center, Georgia, July/August
2018, artist-in-residence, Edgewood Farm at Castle Hill, Truro, Mass, March.
2017, artist-in-residence, MASSMoCA, North Adams, Mass, January
2016, Artist-in-residence, Millay Art Colony, NY, July alumni weekend
2014, Artist-in-residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, June
2014, Artist-in-residence, Soaring Gardens, PA, July
2013, Artist-in-residence, Ucross Foundation, WY, August
2013, Artist-in-residence, I-park, East Haddam, CT, July
2012, Artist-in-Residence, chaNorth, Pine Plains, N.Y, July
2012, Artist-in-Residence, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, June
2011, Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, July
1989, Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Foundation, CA., August.
1987, Artist-in-Residence, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, CA., July/August.
REVIEWS
Tussle Magazine, June 3, 2024, “Nan Ring: These Almost Lost Pieces”, Patti Jordan, https://www.tusslemagazine.com/magazine
Garden State Art Weekend Preview: Eleven Exhibitions Not to Miss, Tris McCall, NJarts.net, April 17, 2024 https://www.njarts.net/garden-state-art-weekend-preview-11-must-see-exhibitions/
The Four Oranges, April 11, 2024, “Nan Ring; The Artist as Poet, the Poet as Artist”, Carol Selman, https://thefouroranges.com/nan-ring-the-artist-as-poet-the-poet-as-artist/
Jersey City Times, August 11, 2023, “Vivid Visions Comes to 150 Bay Street in Powerhouse Arts District” Tris McCall, https://jcitytimes.com/vivid-visions-comes-to-150-bay-street-in-powerhouse-arts-district/
NJ Star Ledger, December 1, 2011, “Romantic Fragments in West Orange,” Dan Bischoff, p. 31 , review of solo exhibition “What You Get Is To Be Changed”
West Orange Patch, September 17, 2011, “Three Artists Share a Pale Language” Carol Selman, online, West Orange, NJ. http://westorange.patch.com/articles/three-artists-share-a-pale-language-at-new-jersey-arts-incubator#
The Sun, October 24, 1990, “Women Figure”, John Dorsey, p. 1H, Baltimore, MD
The Phoenix, Dec. 15, 1988, “Making a Visual Impact”, Hamilton, p.14, Brooklyn
Artforum, April 1982, “New Drawing in America”, Donald B. Kuspit, p. 83
Catalog, Jan. 1982, “New Drawing in America”, p. 13, The Drawing Center, N.Y.
New York Times, Friday, July 17, 1981, “Selections 14”, Vivien Raynor, p. C22
WRITINGS
2023, About Place Journal, published original poem, “A Moving Story”
2023, Grey Sparrow Press, published original poem “These Almost Lost Pieces”
1996, Author and illustrator of Walking On Walnuts, a culinary memoir, Bantam Books regional bestseller, national media
WEB
2016, Featured Artist, Solo(s) Project House, http://solosprojecthouse.com/sph-studios-nan-ring/
2012, Featured Artist, Morpheme Magazine, http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/413331, Issue 2, pg. 32 – 35
2012, “Little Big Skies,” http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/413331, Featured Artist, July 27, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Blog.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011, Fellowship Award , Painting, Vermont Studio Center.
2011, Honorable Mention, Painting, Visual Art Center 25th Juried Exhibition, Summit, N.J
2010, Nominee, The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting
1988, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Regional Fellowship Award for Works on Paper
1987, New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship Award in Drawing.
1987, Monticello Foundation Fellowship Award, Montalvo Center for the Arts.
EDUCATION
2010, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. M. F.A. Painting. GPA 3.79
1978, Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts, graduate cum laude B.F.A in Studio Art. GPA 3.54
1975 – 76, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Sophomore year