Born in Dallas, Texas in 1966
Pop iconoclast Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly onto hundreds of pirated billboards. English exists spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real-life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive media savvy, and Dali-meets-Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the momentum of the didactic approach to art and life, English offers up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there is always room for a little good-natured fun
Exhibitions :
2008 Shooting Gallery, San Francisco
The 3rd Annual Sundance Film Festival Art Show
Ron English in BLAB Art Show at Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles
Ron English in Dark Pop at Last Rites Gallery, NYC
Sport in Art: Beijing, China, Ron English at Today Art Museum through August 26
Abraham Obama Mural: West Coast Tour : Los Angeles
Pop Surrealism - Crime on Canvas
Las Vegas, July 18 - 19
Comic-Con San Diego, July 25 – 27
Ron English and Adam Neate - Elms Lesters Painting Rooms,London
Locked and Loaded: Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC
Bunnny Rabbbit Toy Signing Event, NYC
The Hustle Exhibition - The Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn NY
Made in New York: Warhol, Basquiat, English, Earley at the Opera Gallery, NYC
Sideshow: Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Locked and Loaded: Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC
depARTed - World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles
Scion Installation Event F.U.E.L. Collection
FURORE Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy
Popaganda Movie screening, Mesa AZ
Sundance Film Festival Art Show End of Show
2007 This Christmas in Bethlehem
BIG PICTURE POP, Opera Gallery NYC
RON ENGLISH AT COMIC CON
Ron English/Van Arno "AUTRES BIZARRERIES", Galerie D'Art Yves Laroche
DON’T DO THAT, Ron English, Dalek, Stash, Delta, Mark Dean Veca, Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London , England
2006 Ron English solo show, Berman/Turner Projects, BERGAMOT STATION, Santa Monica
Ron English and John Puglisi, Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa
RON ENGLISH Solo Artshow at the OPERA GALLERY NYC
2005 Son of Pop (solo exhibition), Varnish Fine Art, San Fransisco, CA
Superheroes of the Subversive, with Daniel Johnston, The Escapist Artspace, Austin, TX
Arte-vista Gallery, Badhoevedorp, Amsterdam
Pop Pluralism, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Premiere Party for the new McSupersized Portfolio, Marcoart Gallery, New York,
Pretty Aint Pretty, two person show with Van Arno, Tin Man Alley, Philadelphia,
Art show featuring paintings from the movie Super Size Me, Opera Gallery NY
2003 Raising the Brow, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Raising the Brow, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Morning Wood, Minna Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
Solo show of Ron English, Fifty 24 Gallery in association with Upperplayground, San Fr.
Ron English - A Solo Exhibition of New Works, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica,
New works by Ron English, The Opera Gallery, Paris/New York/Singapore
2002 8th Anniversary Art Show, Juxtapoz, Santa Monica, CA
Ron English - New Paintings, Minna Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
2001 Playerhaters Don’t Hate the Game, Hate the Player, MOCA DC, Washington, DC
Post-Pop, Post-Punk, MOCA DC, Washington DC
Opera Gallery, New-York
2000 Obey Popaganda, show with Shepard Fairey, Merry Karnowski Gallery, LA
Lords of the Lowbrow II, presented by Jonathan LeVine, CBGB’s 313 Gallery, NY
1999 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston
1999 MTV, New-York
1998 The Alternative Museum, New-York
1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC
1991-1992 Gallery Stendhal, New-York
1989 Stockwell Gallery, New-York
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2005 Ron English performs live body-paint art at “This is Not a Reading” series in Toronto,
Popaganda Documentary Screening, AFI International Film Festival, Boston Museum of Fine
THE ONION (America's Finest News Source) PRESENTS... POPAGANDA: THE ART & CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH Directed by Pedro Carvajal - In theatres Sept. 23rd,
2004 Chicago Underground Film Festival, 3 Penny Cinema, Chicago, IL
East Village Howl Film Festival, the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, New York, NY
“Listen with your Eyes Benefit”, The Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY
47th San Fransisco International Film Festival, AMC Kabuki 8 Theaters, San Fransisco
The Egytpian Theater (The Spielberg Theater) Hollywood, CA
2003 Key Club, Los Angeles, CA
25th IFP Market Spotlight on Documentaries Section, The Angelika Film Center, NY
Love Sexy, Showworld Club, New York, NY
