Born in 1982, Southern California. Lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.
EDUCATION
2011
MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY
2004
BFA, Studio Art, New York University, Steinhardt School, New York, NY
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Brie Ruais: Bone Dice, albertz benda, New York, NY
ONENESS: Brie Ruais, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2023
Penumbra, Seven Sisters, Houston, TX
Daughter, You Seem Foreign to Me, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Plant Dreaming Deep, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2021
Some Things I Know About Being in a Body, albertz benda gallery, New York City, NY
Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of Land, curated by Frauke V. Josenhans, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX
Brie Ruais and Christopher LeBrun, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2020
Spiraling Open and Closed Like an Aperture, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Ways, albertz benda gallery, New York, NY
Brie Ruais with albertz benda gallery, The Armory Art Fair, New York, NY
2018
Gina Osterloh and Brie Ruais, GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Brie Ruais, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brie Ruais and John Mason, albertz benda gallery, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
Attempting to Hold the Landscape, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017
Brie Ruais and Thomas Fougeirol, albertz benda gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Broken Ground, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Paper Covers Rock, Letha Wilson and Brie Ruais, September, Hudson, NY
Paper Covers Rock, Letha Wilson and Brie Ruais, September, Hudson, NY
Squid Ink, Rosy Keyser and Brie Ruais, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
According to the Body, YoungWorld, Detroit, MI
Where You No Longer Are, There is Your Desert, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY
2015
130 lbs of Proximal Frontage, Mesler/Feuer with Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2014
Dugout, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
Brie Ruais & Anna Betbeze, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Brie Ruais, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2013
XO, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
Two Wholes, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
2012
Unfolding // Performing Sculpture, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Afterglow, curated by Night Gallery, Acquavella, Palm Beach, FL
Women, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2023
This Earth, curated by Stefan Hagen, Concord Art, Concord, MA
2022
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, curated by Dr. Cliff Lauson, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Ex-tend, Ex-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay, curated by Sagi Refael and J. Susan Isaacs, Towson University Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, MD
Broken Open, curated by Hilary Schaffner, MONA Portsmouth, NH
Ceramics Now!, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
2021
This Earth: Notes and Observations From Montello Foundation Artists, curated by Stefan Hagen and Hikmet Sidney Loe, The Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
This America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
2020
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
You Look Like a World, curated by Hilary Schaffner, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, OR
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics, artists include Kathy Butterly, Kahlil
Robert Irving, Simone Leigh, and Brie Ruais, The Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Earth Body, curated by Karen Azoulay, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Afterimages: Maude Bernier Chabot, Brie Ruais, Elizabeth Zvonar, curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
2019
Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Annual Contemporary Art Auction, Dallas, TX
Material Properties, curated by Margaret Lui Clinton, albertz benda gallery, New York, NY
Earth Piece, Everton Museum, Syracuse, NY
Embodying: Flesh, Fiber, Features, Brie Ruais, Martha Tuttle, Letha Wilson, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy
America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Vanishing Act, Artists include Colby Bird, David Kennedy Cutler, Chris Duncan, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Kara Hamilton, Sheree Hovsepian, Denise Kupferschmidt, Virginia Lee
Montgomery, Francis Picabia, Eli Ping, Brie Ruais, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Wilmer Wilson IV, Halsey McKay Gallery, Easthampton, NY
Intimate Immensity, curated by Alexis Granwell, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Form Will Find its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction, curated by Elizabeth Carpenter, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Recognize you when she sees you, Give you the things she has for you, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
Under the Night Sky, albertz benda gallery, New York, NY
Night, Shortly, Halsey McKay at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Somatic Gesture, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY
2017
Glen Baldridge, Eli Hansen, Brie Ruais, Halsey McKay Gallery, NADA Miami, FL
True Lies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I GO, YOU GO, GOOD TO GO, Unclebrother (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise), Hancock, NY
Form of Touch, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
Resistance After Nature, curated by Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
New Ruins, curated by Natalie Campbell and Danielle Mysliwiec, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.
Six Years of The Shandaken Project, Phillips Auction House, New York, NY
Post-Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016
Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Blue Jean Baby, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
3 Sculptors, Sally Saul, Brie Ruais, and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Splotch, curated by Eileen Jeng, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Mal Maison, Curated by Ashton Cooper, Maccarone, New York, NY
Low, curated by Ethan Greenbaum and Michael DeLucia, Lyles and King, New York, NY
2015
Crafted: Objects in Flux, MFA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Road to Ruin, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Performative Process, curated by Ryan Steadman, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2014
Socrates Sculpture Park EAF14 Exhibition, Long Island City, NY
Geometries of Intimacy, Curated by Jess Wilcox and Clara Halpern, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Next, Arsenal, Toronto, Canada
Next, Arsenal, Montreal, Canada
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams and Fitzroy Gallery, New York, NY
A Topography of Chance, Fused Space, curated by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Lovers, curated by Martin Basher, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2013
Ajar, Curated by Natasha Llorens, Reverse, Brooklyn, NY
Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, Curated by Phong Bui, New York, NY
Where The Sun Don’t Shine, Curated by 247365, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Vessels, The Horticulture Society of New York, New York, NY
Exhibition Curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
ADAA, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Omar Khayyam, Eli Ping Gallery, New York, NY
2012
NADA Miami Beach, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Miami, FL
AIRspace 2012, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Sculpture Center Artist Market, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
Movement in Three Parts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2011
BYTS Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY
Fabric as Form, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, NY
2010
Durer’s Rhinocerous, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
The Record Show, The Museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
B-Sides, 6-8 Months Project Space, New York, NY
First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Tragic Sense of Life, Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Rochester, NY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Women, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2023
Ashton Cooper, “Brie Ruais, Night Gallery,” Artforum, September
Justin Duyao, "Brie Ruais Invigorates Body-Based Conceptual Art for a New Generation," Southwest Contemporary, July 28
Jennifer Remenchik, "Artist Brie Ruais on Moons and Mothers," Curate.LA, June 1
Lydia Wilford, "8 Women Artists Using Ceramics to Subvert Art Traditions," Artsy, May 24
2022
Jennifer Lucy Allan, "There Will Be Mud: Contemporary Ceramics at the Hayward," TheQuietus.com, November 19
Gabrielle Schwarz, "Strange Clay: A Garden of Weird and Wonderful Delights at th
e Southbank," The Telegraph, October 25
Laura Freeman, "Strange Clay Review: Ceramics in Contemporary Art Review—A Show to Delight and Amaze," The Times, October 25
Adrian Searle, "Strange Clay Review—Gleeful Globs, Erupting Goo and an Octopus in the Toilet," The Guardian, October 25
Nancy Durrant, "Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery Review—Weird and Wonderful," The Standard, October 25
Susan Isaacs, "Craft Exhibits Shine at the Renwick Gallery, Delaware Contemporary and Towson University Center for the Arts," ArtBlog, November 21
Christine DeOrio, "Out of Body: Exploring Ancient Earth Shaping Traditions, A New York Artist Sculpts Dazzling Modern Artifacts," Luxe Interiors + Design, March/April
Kay Whitney, "Brie Ruais: Moody Center for the Arts," Sculpture Magazine, May/June
Fanni Somogyi, "Ex-tend, Ex-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay at Towson University Center for the Arts Gallery," BmoreArt.com, October 5
Leah Triplett Harrington, "Day-trip Worthy Exhibitions to See This Summer Around New England," Boston Art Review, June 15
Barbara MacAdam, "Brie Ruais: Inside her Process & Partnership with Clay," Art and Object, February 5
Vittoria Benzine, "Brie Ruais: Some Things I Know About Being in a Body at albertz benda gallery," Whitehot Magazine, January 2022
Daniel Larkin, "Using Clay to Concretize the Psychological State of Being Wounded," Hyperallergic, January 19
Emily R. Pellerin, "What Artist Brie Ruais Knows-And Still Doesn't Know-About Being in a Body," Pin-Up, January
2021
"Albertz Benda Opens 'Brie Ruais: Some Things I Know About Being In a Body," ArtDaily, December 13
Vittoria Benzine, "Brooklyn Artists Hit the Beach at the Untitled and Scope Art Fairs," Brooklyn Magazine, December 4
Marley Massey Parsons, "Brie Ruais: Recording with Clay," Art Spiel, December 15
Sarah Cascone, "Editors' Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week," Artnet News
"Brie Ruais, A Brooklyn Based Ceramic Sculptor Talks about her Creative Experience in the Galisteo Basin," Radio Free Galisteo with John Shannon, October 22
Pearl Fontaine, "Movement at the Edge of the Land: Brie Ruais at the Moody Center," Whitewall, August 13
Harriet Lloyd Smith, "Ceramic Artists: Top Trail-glazers Breaking the Mould," Wallpaper, August 16
Von Mathias Richter, "Bilder einer Giesterfahrt," Markische Allgemeine, August 8
Sarah Cascone, "How Brie Ruais Uses Her Own Body to Shape Her Clay Sculptures, and the Desert Sounds That Keep Her Motivated," Artnet News, July 29
Katharine Shilcutt, "Mutual Recognition: Brie Ruais Moves Heaven and Earth at the Moody," Rice University News, June 10
Helen Holmes, "The 9 Must-See Museum Exhibitions of Summer 2021," The Observer, June 1
Megan Voeller, "For 'TakingSpace' at the PAFA, Women Artists are as Monumental as They Want to Be," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1
Carolina Larracilla, "5 Museum District Exhibits You Shouldn't Miss This Summer," Houstonia Magazine, June 17
Tarra Gaines, "10 Vivid and Eye-catching June Art Events No Houstonian Should Miss," Culture Map Houston, June 7
Andrew Dansby, Amber Elliott, Arts Picks: Children's Museum of Houston Reopening a Highlight This Week," Houston Chronicle, June 3
"Moody Center for the Arts Opens its Summer Exhibition Featuring Large-Scale Ceramics by Brie Ruais," Art Daily
Melissa Mahanes, "A Luxury Hotel and Fine Dining are only Part of the Story of the Joseph," Sophisticated Living Magazine, Mar/April
Leslie Katz, "Stanford Art Museums to Reopen in April," San Francisco Examiner, March 26
Leah Ollman, "The Measure of All Things," Art in America, February 23
Jody Zellen, "Gallery Rounds: Brie Ruais," Artillery, January 6
2020
Jodi Throckmorton, Frauke V. Josenhans, and Martha Tuttle, “Terrestrial Affair: Brie Ruais,” ArtAsiaPacific, 118, May/June
Annabel Osberg, "Amid Social Distancing, Clay is a Unifying Medium," AEQAI, March 28
Leah Ollman, "Review: Coronavirus closed Craft Contemporary’s biennial, but it can’t stop our love of the art," Los Angeles Times, March 14
Frances Anderton, "5 design things to do: March 5-11," KCRW, March 3
2019
Osman Can Yerebakan, “Our Preview Picks from the Dallas Art Fair’s 11th Edition, Cultured, April 10
Stan Mir, “Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity,” Hyperallergic, April 7
Susan Isaacs, Works by (mostly) women, sensual, whimsical, powerful, in “Intimate Immensity” at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, artblog.com, March 27
Edith Newhall, Intimacy writ large, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24
Louise Parker, “In with the Art Crowd,” Moda Operandi, March 5
Clay Dreams, American Craft Magazine, Feb/Mar
2018
Sharon Mizota, “Brie Ruais puts all her body weight into each sculpture she makes”, LA Times, May 19
Jenine Marsh, “Brie Ruais”, Canadian C Magazine, Issue 138
Interview by Anne-Valérie Kirmann, “Brie Ruais”, AbstractRoom.org, March
2017
Scott Indrisek, “10 Emerging Artists to Discover at Untitled Miami Beach”, Artsy.com, December 5
Loney Abrams, “Sculpting the Landscape: Brie Ruais on Using Clay as a Metaphor for Land’s Violent History”, Artspace.com, September 28
Martha Schwendener, “What to See in New York’s Art Fairs this Week”, New York Times, March 2
Julie Baumgardner, “A Guide to America’s Next Great Art Neighborhood”, The New York Times Style Magazine, January 11
2016
Joseph Hart, “Deep Color Podcast: Brie Ruais”, Interview at deepcolorpodcast.com, December
Anthony Hawley, “Mal Maison”, Modern Painters, October/November
Taylor DaFoe, “New York Summer Group Shows: ‘Splotch’ at Sperone Westwater”, Blouin Artinfo, July 18
Casey Lesser, “15 New York Gallery Shows Where’ You’ll Find Exciting Young Artists This June”, Artsy, June 2
Paul Laster, “Weekend Edition: 12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before February 15”, The Observer, February 11
2015
Ryan Steadman, “The Top Ten NYC Gallery Shows of 2015”, The Observer, December 17
Ashton Cooper, “In The Flesh: Brie Ruais’ delicately bruised ceramics offer a gutsy take on the self-portrait”, Cultured Magazine, Fall
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Shortlist, “Brie Ruais”, June 8 & 15
Dylan Kerr, “Full-Contact Ceramics: Sculptor Brie Ruais on Wrestling Conceptual Statements From Mountains of Clay”, Artspace.com, August 27
Ryan Steadman, “If Walls Could Talk”, Blinnk.com, May 5
Scott Indrisek, “5 Must-See Gallery Shows”, Blouin Artinfo.com, June 12
Dan Duray, “Untitled and Zack Feuer Galleries Will Merge on the Lower East Side”, Artnews.com, March 11
2014
James Trainor, “Up and Coming: Through the Medium of Clay, Sculptor Brie Ruais Lays Herself Bare”, Artsy.com, October
Scott Indrisek, “Kick it, Push it: A sculptor gets physical with clay”, Modern Painters, November
James Trainor, “Artists on Artists: Brie Ruais by James Trainor”, BOMB Magazine, Fall
Scott Indrisek, “Brie Ruais Gets Physical with her Material”, Blouin ArtInfo.com, September 9
Leah Ollman, “Getting Physical with Clay and Fiber at Marc Selwyn”, The Los Angeles Times, August 1
Roman Astrauskas, “Ring of Desire: On Brie Ruais’ Nearly Torn Away”, Magenta Magazine Online, May
Kendra Jayne Patrick, “Brie Ruais”, TurbulanceArtProject.com, April
Wendy Vogel, “Brie Ruais, Reviews in Brief: New York”, Modern Painters, March
“Hit List: Things We Like”, Modern Painters, February
Lilly Wei, “Claytime!”, Art News, January
2013
“Brie Ruais”, Modern Painters: Review in Brief, March
David Colman, "Art Scene: The Next Generation", Architectural Digest, December
Corydon Cowansage, “Interview with Brie Ruais”, Art Haps.com, October 27
Abraham Adams, Critics' Picks, "Ajar", Artforum.com, October 30
John Arthur Peetz, Critics' Picks, "Where The Sun Don't Shine", Artforum.com, July 18
Chloe Rossetti, Critics' Picks, "Vessels", Artforum.com, June 28
Karen Rosenberg, Art in Review, "Vessels", The New York Times, June 20
2012
Site95.com, “Weekly Artist Feature: Brie Ruais”, June 4
Michael Wilson, “Movement in Three Parts”, Time Out New York, April 24
David Everitt Howe, “Dead Weight”, Sculpture Center Tumblr, June
2011
Joan Sherman, “Young Artists Look at Old Masters”, The Huffington Post, August 15
Roberta Smith, “Paul Clay”, The New York Times, June 3
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town: “Paul Clay”, June
2010
Columbia Spectator, “Art Exhibit More Strange Than Standard”, April 4
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pizzuti Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
TD Bank, US Headquarters
US Embassy, Matamoros, Mexico, Art in Embassies, US Department of State
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Ex-tend Ex-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay, ed. J Susan Isaacs and Sagi Rafael, published by Center for the Arts Gallery at Towson University, 2023
Clay Pop, ed. Alia Dahl and Jeffrey Deitch, by Rizzoli Electa
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, published by Hatje Cantz
2019
Brie Ruais, "The Proof in the Print," Brooklyn Rail, February
Ways, albertz benda gallery exhibition catalog, with an essay by Kathy Battista
2018
Centering in on the Hold: Selected Stills 2011-2018, self-published zine
2017
Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics, by Phaidon Press
Paper Covers Rock: Brie Ruais, Letha Wilson, designed by Grace Caiazza,, published by September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015
Emily Zilber, Crafted: Objects in Flux, Exhibition catalog by MFA Boston Publications
The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, show catalog
2014
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, editor Jack Flam
2013
X O: Brie Ruais, Artist’s Book including a conversation with Sarah Sze, published by Nicole Klagsbrun, November
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024
Burke Residency, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2023
Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2021
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place, Lake Forest, IL
2018
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
, New York, NY
2017
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York, NY
Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, NV
2016
Dieu Donne Papermaking Residency, New York, NY
2015
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Residency Fellowship, Snowmass Village, CO
2014
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, Queens, NY
The Shandaken Project Residency, Shandaken, NY
2012
Guest Artist Exhibition Series, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Abrons Art Center & Henry Street Settlement, AIRspace Residency, New York, NY
2008
Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Fellowship and Residency, Johnson, VT
2005
The Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum, Apprenticeship, Philadelphia, PA
LECTURESHIPS/TEACHING
2021
Visiting Artist, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
Artist Lecture, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2020
Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Critiques, Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics Department, Detroit, MI
2018
Visiting Artist Workshop Course, Sculpture Section, The College of Staten Island (CUNY),
Department of Performing and Creative Arts, Staten Island, NY
2017
Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, St. Olaf College Department of Art, Northfield, MN
“Artist’s Eye: Brie Ruais on Beverly Buchanan”, artist led tour of “Ruins and Rituals”, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2016
Ceramics for Adults, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2015
Visiting Artist Lecture, Critiques, and Workshop, Indiana University, Ceramics Department, Bloomington, IN
2014
Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, Rhode Island School of Design, Ceramics Department, Providence, RI
2013
Sculpture I, Columbia University, New York, NY
2012
Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, New York Studio Residency Program, New York, NY
2012
Visiting Artist Lecture and Critiques, New York Studio Residency Program, New York, NY
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture, Adelphi University, Art Department, Long Island, NY