Mark Ryden

Selected Works

Exhibitions

Ryden Exhibition
Mark Ryden, The Gay 90s West
Mark Ryden, The Gay 90s West

Selected Press

Featured
Mark Ryden - LA Weekly
Mark Ryden - LA Weekly

Reality and fantasy don’t collide in Mark Ryden’s art so much as they are equal halves of a more natural and dreamlike world.

Mark Ryden - Los Angeles Times
Mark Ryden - Los Angeles Times

Mark Ryden is on something of a sugar high. Backstage at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the painter giddily navigates a luscious candyland of his own creation — something he’s now seeing fully realized, onstage, for the first time.

Mark Ryden - The New York Times
Mark Ryden - The New York Times

A Viennese pastry shop, dancing sweets, a little boy who overindulges and a revolution by the lower pastry orders. An almost unknown Richard Strauss score. Décor and costumes by the pop-surrealist artist Mark Ryden. And a great title: “‘Whipped Cream’! It’s really wonderful,” Alexei Ratmansky said of his full-length work for American Ballet Theater after a long day of rehearsal last week.

Mark Ryden @ Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
Mark Ryden @ Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga

Mark Ryden will have a major restrospective of his work exhibited in Málaga, Spain at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga.

Mark Ryden & Camille Rose Garcia @ Riverside Art Museum
Mark Ryden & Camille Rose Garcia @ Riverside Art Museum

The Riverside Art Museum welcomes the return of the annual pop surrealist exhibition organized by Bob Self of Baby Tattoo Books, an alternative, underground publishing company based out of Los Angeles.

About the Artist
 

Mark Ryden came to preeminence in the 1990’s during a time when many artists, critics and collectors were quietly championing a return to the art of painting. With his masterful technique and disquieting content, Ryden quickly became one of the leaders of this movement on the West Coast.

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