Ronnie Cutrone
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Ronnie Cutrone Biography
1948 - 2013 New York, NY

Education: 1966-70, School of Visual Arts
1972-82 Andy Warhol's art assistant

One Man exhibitions:
1978-79
Live performances & installations, Mudd Club, NYC
Performance/Installation, Robert Freidus gallery, NYC
Sculpture, White Columns gallery, NYC
1982
Lucio Amelio gallery, Naples (Italy)
Tony Shafrazi gallery, NYC
1983 Rotterdam Arts Council, Gallerie T'Venster, (Holland)
Tony Shafrazi gallery, NYC
1984
Salvatore Ala gallery, Milan (Italy)
Tony Shafrazi gallery, NYC
1985
Tony Shafrazi gallery, NYC
Summer Party Watercolors, The Purple Barge, NYC
1986
Tony Shafrazi gallery, NYC
Gallerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam (Holland)
1987
Salvatore Ala gallery, Milan (Italy)
Robert Berman gallery, Los Angeles
Markus Gallery, Las Vegas
1988
Saatchi & Saatchi, NYC
Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Shelf Life Exhibitions:
Martin Lawrence modern gallery, NYC, May
Martin Lawrence Gallery, Los Angeles, June
Martin Lawrence Pentagon Gallery, Washington D.C., November
Martin Lawrence Gallery, New Jersey, December
1991
Love-Spit-Love, Live Nude Installation, Simon Watson Gallery, NYC
Raffaelli Studio d'arte. Trento (Italy)
1991-92
"New York", Galleria II Capricorno, Venice (Italy)
1994
Birdbath, Club U.S.A., NYC
Associazione Culturale Contemporanea, Milan (Italy)
Ronnie Cutrone "Archangels", Gallery Cotthem (Belgium)
1995
"Computer Love / Going for Baroque", Special Projects International, NYC
Lorenzellli Arte, Milan (Italy)
Gallerie Wabermann, Munich (Germany)
1995-97
"The SuperModel Project", Digital Canvas, Amsterdam (Holland)
1997-98
Commissioned portraits of sport and television celebrities
1998
Rinaldo Rotta Gallery, "Flags and Quilts", Genoa (Italy)
1999-2000
Trimarchi Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
1999-2001
Cabaret Live Performance, Venues, NYC (Siren, Joe's Pub, Lot 61)
2003
Lorenzellli Arte, "Tataboo", Milan (Italy)
"Kids are us/I bambini siamo noi", Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2004
"If Cartoons Could Paint", Putignano Arte, Noci (Bari, Italy)
"Landscapes, Lies and Lollipops", Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY


Television:
"The Joan Rivers Show", Love-Spit-Love, April, 1991
"The Phil Donohue Show", Love-Spit-Love, May, 1991
"Al Goldstein's Midnight Blue", Love-Spit-Love, September, 1991
"Birdbath" Video, April, 1994
"The Joan Rivers Show", Love-Spit-Love, April, 1991
"America's Talking", CNBC, "Synaesthesia", March, 1995
"ABC News", "Old Glory" - The America Flag in contemporary art, 1996
"A+E Biography - Warhol", 1998
"American Masters" - PBS, "Lou Reed - Rock and roll Heart" 1998
"Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture", World of Wonder, 2002


Books and Catalogues:
Champions, NYC 1983, catalogue (Tony Shafrazi)
Comic Art by John Carlin & Sheena Wagstaff (Whitney Museum)
New Image/Pattern & Decoration, The Morton Newmann Family
Kalamazoo Institution of Arts, 1983
Visions of Childhood, March 28 - May 11, 1984 (Whitney)
Easter at the White House, 1984 Presidential Catalogue
Little Arena; Drawings and Sculptures from the collection ; Adri, Martin Geertjan Visser, 1984
Illuminations: The Watercolors of Ronnie Cutrone, 1984
Ronnie Cutrone: Paintings, 1985
New Used & Improved: Art in the 80's by Peter Frank & Michael McKenzie, 1987, Abbeville. Book Cover & Animated video opener
Comic Iconoclasm, Sheena Wagstaff, ICA London, 1987
Avante-Garde in the 80's, by Howard N. Fox, L.A. Country Museum of Art, 1987
Terrae Motus, Guida Editori, Naples (Italy), 1987
50 Artists/50 Flags, Gran Pavese, he Flag Project by Peter Frank, Therese Legierse and Umberto Barbieri, 1988
Hommage Demontage by Uli Bohnen, 1988
Shelf Life; Ronnie Cutrone, Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, 1990
Pop Art: A Continuing History by Marco Livingstone, Thames and Hudson, 1990
Art=Money, Catalogue, Achille Bonita Oliva, 1990
"Ronnie Cutrone Watercolors" Studio d/arte Raffaelli, 1991
"Cocart", Arte Contemporanea, 1992
"Ronnie Cutrone Watercolors" Associazione Culturale Contemporanea, Milan, 1994
"Old Glory" - The America Flag in contemporary art", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1994
"Archangles" Gallery otthem, Belgium, 1994
"Synaesthesia", curated and designed by Cutrone, Mary Anthony Galleries, NYC, 1995
"Ronnie Cutrone - Paintings", Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, 1995
"American Graffiti", Museum Catalogue for Rome and Naples Exhibition, 1997
"Andy Warhol - A Factory", Guggenheim Museum Catalogue
"Images we love - Popular art in America" By Michael McKenzie, Fotofolio books/American image books, 2003
"Work" art in progress, 2003
"DormiceŠ" collaboration catalogue, 2003
"Tataboo - Apostles, Superheroes, Ice-Cream, Crosses and Explosions", Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, 2003


Selected Bibliography:
Artforum, December 1981 "The Radiant Child", Rene Ricard
Flash Art, February 1982. Francesca Alinova
L'uomo Vogue, May 1982 Daniella Morera
Art in America, October 1982
Interview, November 1982, Robert Becker
L'uomo Vogue, September 1982 Francesca Alinovi
Artforum, March 1983
Critica D'Arte, 1983, Michele Bonuomo
The Print Collectors, Newsletter, Vol. VX,#5, Nov./Dec. '84
Vogue, October 1984 "The Art World", Calvin Tompkins
Duomo (Italy), Spring 1984
Flash Art, April 1984. Tammaso Trini, Interview
L'Uomo, Spring 1984
Orient Express, Spring 1984
Details December 1984, Cookie Mueller
Expresso Magazine, Spring 1984
Il Giornale, February 1984
ArtForum, September 1984 Lisa Lieberman
City Magazine International, June 1984
Viva, February 1984
Art Das Dunstmagazine, August 1984
Details April 1986, Cookie Mueller
Penthouse, December, 1986, "Taking it on Faith" Vinyl Magazine (Holland), December 1986
L.A. Times, October, 1987
Chicago Sun Times, February, 1988
L.A. Style, February, 1988
SunStorm, October, 1988
People, May 8th, 1989
People, May 15th, 1989
New York, May 29th, 1989
Fame, May, 1989
Fame, September, 1989
L'uomo Vogue, Italy, 1991
Flash Art, Italiana, December/January, 1991/1992
Art & Auction, November, 1992
Arte - February, 1992
Arte - November, 1992
Tema Celeste, Editions No. 34 and No. 36
Ecoista, February, 1992
Juliet, February-March, 1992
Rogue (Cover) Winter, 1992
Aristos, Fall, 1992
La Republica, Spring 1994
Envelope - Mag, 1994
Ocean Drive Magazine, December, 1996 "Supermodels"
GQ Magazine, September 2001
The New York Times, Westchester Edition, July 2004
The New York Times, Westchester Edition, October 2004


Selected Public and Private Collections:
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Boysmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
Rudolf Zwirner, Koln, Germany
Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Chicago
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Cindy Crawford
Elle MacPherson
Naomi Campbell
Claudia Schiffer
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
Mar. Martin Z. Margulies, Florida
The Eli Broad Family Foundations, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
Peter Brant Collection
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions:
1969
Richard Feigen Gallery, NYC
Central Park Outdoor Sculpture Show, NYC
1970
Museum of Modern Art, "Information", NYC
1975
Liciano Anselmino Gallery, Milan (Italy)
1979
Nivaeu Gallery, NYC
1981
Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC
PS 1, NYC "New York/New Wave"
1982
Patrick Verelst Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Patterson Museum, NJ "Response To Nuclear Peril"
PS 1, NYC "Animal Imagery"
1983
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC "Champions"
Gallery Fernando Vijande, Madrid (Spain)
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta "Champions"
Kalamazoo Institute of Art, "Motron Neumann Collection"
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC, "Intoxication"
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC "Paintings, Sculpture & 3D"
Whitney Museum (Downtown), NYC "Comic Art"
Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan (Italy)
Greenville County Museum of Art, "From the Streets"
Danceteria, NYC "I Don't Go Out Much Anymore"
Kamakazi, NYC "Curated by Cookie Mueller"
1984
Martin Visser Gallery, (Holland)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Naples (Italy)
Studio Cerrieri, Martina Franca (Italy)
Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan (Italy)
Vox Populi, NYC
Aperto 84, Venice Biennale (Italy)
North Store, NYC
Gallerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam (Holland)
Whitney Museum (Downtown), "Visions of Childhood"
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC
Pizza-a-Go-Go, New York "Halloween Show"
Galleria "Gruppo 102" San Marino (Italy)
The White House, Washington, D.C. "Easter Egg Show"
Group Material, NYC
B-Side Gallery, NYC
1985
Castelli Graphics, NYC "Drawing Show"
Gallerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland "Waterworks"
Bologna Galleire of Modern Art, (Italy) "The 80's"
High Museum of Art, Atlanta "Impressions of New Wave"
Kamikaze, NYC "American Occult"
Blackbird, NYC "Homage to America"
Eastman Wahmendorf Gallery, NYC, "Visions"
Area, NYC
Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC "Fashion Moda"
1986
B-Side Gallery, NYC
Luhring, Augustine & Hoges Gallery, NYC "Watercolors"
Springfield Art Museum, "Watercolor USA 1986"
Galerie Barbara Farber, "Art Contemporain Fimbaud", (France)
Arts Dolores Ormandy Neumann, NYC, "Illuminations"
Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC
Fashion Moda, Bronx, New York "Six Giants"
Whitney Museum, NYC "Sacred Images in Secular Art"
Haggerty Museum of Art, "Romantician & Cynician"
Thomas Cohn Gallery, (Brazil)
1987
American Image Gallery, NYC
L.A County Museum, "Avante Garde in the 80's"
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (England)
Kass Meridian Gallery, Cutrone/Warhol, Chicago
1988
Gran Pavese, "The Flag Project", Public exhibition throughout Europe
1988-89
Wilhelm-Heck Museum; Ludwigshafen am Rhein, "Homage Demontage", six museums throughout Europe 1990
Auction for Action, ACT UP, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Neo Pop; Martin Lawrence Modern Gallery, NYC
Freedom of Expression, Palace De Beaute, NYC
Liora Manne Gallery, NYC
Art=Money, The Gallery, NYC
Important Artists in the Eighties, Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
1991
Art=Money, Horwitch Gallery, Scotsdala, Arizona
Art=Money, Hokin Gallery, Miami, Florida
Art=Money, Riposati Gallery, Rome, Italy
Neo Pop; Martin Lawrence Modern Gallery, NYC
Pop Art - London's Royal Academy, England
TRUE LOVE and other stories, Gallery Stendhal, NYC
1992
Hokin Gallery, Miami, Florida
"Pop on Paper" - ARTE - Javits Center, NYC
"Art Around the Park" - Tompkins Square Park, NYC
"Reverb" - Horodner-Romley Gallery, NYC
"Graf/X" - Bess Cutler Gallery, NYC
1993
"Xenographia" - Nomadic Wall" - Venice Biennale, (Italy)
Art - In, On & Out of the Bag - Nevada Institution for Contemporary Art
Pop Art - Then & Now - David Leonardis Gallery, Chicago
1994
"Influential Works in the 90's", Hobbs Gallery, Boston
"Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio
"The Wall", Woodstock
1995
"Synaesthesia", Curated by Cutrone, Mary Anthony Galleries, NYC
1997
"American Graffiti", Rome and Naples Museum
1998
Pop International Galleries, NYC
"American Graffiti", San Paulo Museum
"Andy Warhol - A Factory", Selected German Museums, Traveling to the Guggenheim Museum in the Year 2000
Installation, 7th Floor, The Gershwin Hotel, NYC
Artefiera '98 Bologna, (Italy)
Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Bahia, Rio De Janeiro, San Paulo
1999-2000
"Pittura Dura", Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino (Italy)
2000
"Ronnie Cutrone and Jim Dine", Museum of San Martimo Valle Caudina
2003
"Kids are us/I bambini siamo noi", Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2004
"River Rats", Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY
"East Village asu", B-Side Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"Vintage East Village", Hal Bromm Gallery, New York NY