Ryan McNamara

Ryan Ponder McNamara

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Still Life

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Birthday Sex

To be sad is to be in sync with humanity. I can’t think of anything worse than quoting Nietzsche in a press release in 2020, so I’ll paraphrase: The truth of life cuts so deep that we need art as a salve. I’ve been an artist for decades, but I’m onl

The Consolations

What does patience mean in a pandemic? Ryan McNamara offers one answer with “Fleshcore” (above), a three-minute video whose percussive audio remixes the hold music that callers endure when trying to file unemployment claims with the New York State D

Fleshcore

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I.L.L.I.S. & I.S.L.I.F

Alien Intimacies

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Battleground

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Commedia dell'Arte

Ryan McNamara, To Be Titled (Self-Portrait), 2017

Objects

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Awareness Raising and Befriending Schemes

Salami

Salami

Osinato

Locker Room

PS1 Back to School

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Dimensions

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How To Hack Through the New York Times Paywall

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The Poseurs

Gently Used

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ME3M 4 Miami

Misty Malarky Ying Yang

Score

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Movement

Mickey Mahar, Sonia Stagg, Natasha Stagg

ME3M: A Story Ballet About the Internet

Survey

Dear Friend, Recently Elizabeth Dee approached me about doing something to introduce me to the gallery. In response, I have created And Introducing Ryan McNamara . From April 20-24 I will be in the gallery, equipped with photos, videos and memorab

And Introducing Ryan McNamara

“The images are spirited and wonderfully improvisatory…each being a collaboration or collision of Mr. McNamara’s sensibility with those of the participants, who clearly have ideas of their own. Fantasies are enacted, temporary instal

Still

I was asked by Barbara Gladstone Gallery to create a video made from unseen Jack Smith footage for their first posthumous show of the artist’s work. Knowing of Jack’s distaste for the commercial gallery world, I knew I couldn’t take the gallery’s a

Madame Happyrock Presents: Jack Smith, Thanks for Nothing

I went to Buenos Aires on an ArtMatters travel grant with the understanding I would create a project while down there. I discovered a nightclub with an amazing history and knew it would be my muse. I also discovered that two parallel economies exis

Dengue Dance Contest

II

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Collaboration with Michele Ables

Hallways

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Gay Pride Forever

I invited all styles of dancers and choreographers to come to the museum to teach me their craft. On October 16, in a work titled The Finale , I performed a museum-wide choreographic score that would have been impossible for me to do on the first

Make Ryan a Dancer

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Production

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Planes, Boats and Trains

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Whitney Houston Biennial

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Sacred Band of Thebes

The Star Parade

The Latest in Blood and Guts

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Bernie The Magic Lady

I Thought It Was You

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Spooky