1968 Born in Washington, D.C., USA
1982-86 MCPS Art Center, Maryland, USA
1990 School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1991-92 Hunter College Graduate Fine Arts Program, New York, USA
Lives and works in Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Such Wet Eyes, Song Song, Wien, Austria
2019 Hurricane, Time, Image, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Wien, Austria
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Wien, Austria
2018 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Galería Senda, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Eleven Rivington, NYC
2012 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
Lisa Ruyter: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2011 Lisa Ruyter, LEEAHN GALLERY, Daegu / Seoul
2008 Atoms For Peace, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
The Comfort of Strangers, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2007 Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Naples
2006 Dialogue-Festival: Art Projects, Salzburg
An Obvious Moment of Happiness, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
I Am A Camera, Team Gallery, New York
2005 A Lady Mislaid, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Stations of the Cross, St. Wolfgang Church, Regensburg
2004 Can’t See The Forest For The Three, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Stations of the Cross, Dombergmuseum Freising
2003 Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Follow the Boys, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York
The Sun Also Rises, Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston
2001 Imitation of Life, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2000 New Paintings, Art + Public, Geneva
1999 Dorothée De Pauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
1998 Going Places, Kenny Schachter / Rove Gallery, New York
Being There, Mitchell Algus, New York
1996 One Great Jones, New York
1994 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1993 Wooster Gardens, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Winter Garden, Lyndsey Ingram, Mayfair, London, UK
2018 God in Reverse, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
History in the Making, Cristea Roberts Gallery, St. James's, London, UK
City Fabrics, ARCC, Wien, Austria
Queer, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria
2017 FOTG: The first of four shows marking the gallery’s first 25 years, Mitchell Algus Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, USA
Fall 2017, Ikon Ltd., Santa Monica, California, USA
Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
This is the Sea, Big Mak, Artmonte-Carlo Salon d'Art, Monaco
2016 Charity Exhibition ,Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Villa Kast ,Salzburg, Austria
Making Her Mark ,The Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center ,Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
In Conversation, Macy Art Gallery, New York, United States
Artificial Cinema Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 System of a Down ,Ellis King ,Dublin, Ireland
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition ,Cristea Roberts Gallery ,St. James's, London, UK
2013 Lisa Ruyter and Peter Sandbichler, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns Austria
The Distaff Side, curated by Melva Bucksbaum featuring works from the collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy,
The Granary, Sharon Connecticut
Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees – Past, St.Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire UK
2012 CANCER, gdm Galerie de Multiples, Paris
Exposition d'artistes né(e)s entre le 22 juin et le 22 juillet, Galerie de multiples, Paris
Die Sammlung / The Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna
2011 UK & US Contemporary Artists, Galería Pilar Serra, Madrid
POP ART 1960’s – 2000’s From Misumi Corporation, Kawaguchiko Museum, Yamanashi prefecture
2010–09 Wiener Musterzimmer (Viennese Model Rooms), Vienna
2010 Celebration: 10 years of Hydra School Projects The Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art, Athens
Living and working in Vienna III, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Engholm Galerie, Vienna
2009 Schenkung Thaddaeus Ropac, Das Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Just what is it that makes today’s painting so different, so appealing?, Gering & López Gallery, New York
Wiener Musterzimmer (Viennese Model Rooms), Vienna
Get It Right Back To Where We Started From…, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild. Das Porträt im Wandel der Zeit, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau
Alpha Exotica, Hydra School Projects (palio gymnasio), Hydra
Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art, Maramotti Collection / Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
Closet Cases: Artists’ Self Portraits, Happy, Los Angeles
2008 System Mensch, MdM Rupertinum (Museum der Moderne), Salzburg
Menagerie: Animals & Nature, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Busan Biennale, Busan
Lisa Ruyter & Thomas Ruff, LEEAHN GALLERY, Daegu
Inaugural Exhibition, Colecci—n Inelcom Arte Contempor‡neo, Madrid
2007 Imagery Play, PKM Gallery, Beijing
Cuesti—n Xeracional, Centro Galego de Arte Contempor‡nea (CGAC) Santiago de Compostela
Exposures, The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
GRUPS, Hydra School Projects, Hydra
Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen
POP ART 1960's - 2000's From Misumi Corporation, Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
Infinite Polar Bear Party, Kunstbuero, Vienna
Album covers for the Melvins, (the) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, Los Angeles
2006 Only the Paranoid Survive’, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Bucolica: The Contemporary Landscape, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
I Love My Scene, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 Contemporary Voice, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori
Painting The Edge, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul
(...) et le canard tait toujours vivant, Abbaye Saint-Andr Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac
Slices of Life: Blueprints of the Self in Paintingn Cultural Forum, New York
Now's The Time, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2003 My Way Home, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Pop-Thru-Out, Arario Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do
Painting Pictures-Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
2002 Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Ten Realists, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
Art | 33 | Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Love, 14 Wharf Road, London
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2001 Lobby Project, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Ghost World, CAIS Galerie, Seoul
Come on, Feel the Noise, Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York
How is everything? Everything is going to be...alright, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson
2000 FIAC (Galerie Frank), Paris
Sport, Galerie Frank, Paris
Pastoral Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
I Hate New York, Kenny Schachter/Rove, London
Wayne Gonzales, Lisa Ruyter, John Tremblay, Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Transporter, About Studio, Bangkok
Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall, Team Gallery, New York
1999 Other Paintings, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
eflny 1999, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
The Bastard Kids of Drella, Le Consortium, Dijon
Jeff Elrod & Lisa Ruyter, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Paradise 8: Permanent Resident, Exit Art, New York
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists From the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1998 Cambio, Museo Universitario del Chopo City
Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery & Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
White, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
A Delicate Condition, Kent Gallery, New York
1997 Diamond Dogs, Team Gallery, New York
Inside Out Art Fair, New York
1996 American Fine Arts, Co., New York
1995 Saturday Night Fever, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1994 Speed Trials, Team Gallery, Washington, D.C
Disfunction USA, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Punishment+Decoration, Hohenthal Und Bergen Gallery, Cologne
1993 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Fluff from New York, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Home Alone, 211 East 10th Street, New York
Some artists I've been thinking about..., Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Live in Your Head, Heiligenkreuzerhof, School for the Applied Arts, Vienna
Public Collections
Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Sharon, CT
Collection le Consortium, Dijon
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Colección INELCOM, Madrid
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Collection VAC (Valencia Arte Contemporáneo), Valencia
La Colección Jumex Mexico City; Museum der Moderne
Salzburg; Valencia Arte Contemporáneo
Valencia and Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
PECAR Collection, Cantabria, Spain
INELCOM Madrid, Spain