Rhys Gaetano

Rhys Gaetano (b. 1983, New York, NY); BFA: Cooper Union, NY; lives and works between Brooklyn and upstate in Oxford, NY, in his studio next to an apiary. Gaetano’s first show with Entrance, ‘All in if You Are,’ was staged in September 2021 as a two person show with his friend and frequent collaborator, artist Ray Smith. Gaetano exhibited a new series of poured encaustic wax paintings and a sculptural disco ball titled ‘101.1’ that rotated in the room, playing the eponymous radio station for the duration of the show. Gaetano was a founding member and active participant in the activities of the art collective Bruce High Quality in 2006, anonymously exhibiting internationally in commercial venues and institutions with the group that came to define the downtown New York arts scene for more than a decade and a half. Gaetano began using his own name around 2019. His new encaustic wax on panel paintings depict moments of personal memory through abstracted representation of American commercial iconography.

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Solo Exhibitions
2021 All in if you Are, with Ray Smith, Entrance, New York, NY
2019 Bruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2017 The Second Coming, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Portraits of the Artists as a Young Bruce, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 Pearls, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2016 Selections from the Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6817, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Pizzatopia, Vito Schnabel Projects, New York, NY
2015 Arcadia, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Mother, Vito Schnabel, New York, NY
2014 Isle of the Dead, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Vive La Sociale!, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Meditations of the Emperor, Mark Fletcher, New York, NY
2014 Selections from the Greek and Roman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vito Schnabel, New York, NY
2013 Ode to Joy, 2001 - 2013, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Freedom, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013 The Transubstantial Bruce, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2012 The Raft of the Medusa / Le Radeau de la Méduse, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2012 Art History With Labor, Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY
2012 Stay With Me, Baby, Alexander Dellal, Contemporary Fine Arts and Vito Schnabel, Berlin, Germany
2011 The Princess and the Monolith, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
2011 Argumenta, Vito Schnabel, Venice, Italy
2010 The Retrospective, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Beyond Pastoral, 20 Hoxton Square Projects and Vito Schnabel, London, UK
2010 Self Portraits, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY