Ricky Lee Gordon
b. 1984
Lives and works in Bali and Sri Lanka
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2024 - ‘We are the sea’ with Rodrigo Moran, Museo de Historia Natural Y Cultura Ambiental, Mexico City
2023 - Arte Vico Group Show, Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico City
2016 - Entry Point: Exploring the New Contemporary Movement, Fullerton Museum Center, California
ART FAIRS
2024 - Art Jakarta, SUN . CONTEMPORARY
2024 - ZONAMONACO, MAIA Contemporary
2023 - ZONAMONACO, MAIA Contemporary
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Falling Star / Rising Tide, SUN . CONTEMPORARY
2024 - The light between sky & sea, Circle Culture, Hamburg
2024 - A Midnight Cascade, MAIA Contemporary, Mexico City
2023 - Lily Garden, Circle Culture, Hamburg
2022 - TIDES, Times Beach Warung, Bali
2021 - The Ocean our Teacher of a Romantic Realism, The Slow, Bali
2015 - The Abstract and Absolute, Dangerfork Gallery, Melbourne
2015 - The Nature of Our Presence, Worldart Gallery, Cape Town
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Portals, group exhibition of past Śūnyatā artists-in-residence, MAIA Contemporary, Mexico City
2022 - The Ocean Our Teacher of a Romantic Realism, The Slow, Bali
2017 - Noa Noa, Martina’s Gallery, Milan
2017 - LADTW, Inner State Gallery, Detroit
2016 - Entry Point: Exploring the New Contemporary Movement, FullertonMuseum Center, California,
2016 - One Year Anniversary, Athen B Gallery, Oakland
2012 - Ways of Seeing, A WORD OF ART Gallery, Cape Town
COMMISSIONS
2023 - The Ocean Our Teacher Our Healer, United Nations, Houston
2018 - Horizon, Dubai Municipality, UAE
2018 - Waiting for Love in the Middle of the Sea/La Metamorphosis, Antonio Oriente, Sapri, Italy
2018 - Sunrise. Sunset. We all share the same sun, Fund Sobranie Moscow, Satka, Russia
2017 - Beautiful Orchestra, Live painting for Venice Family Clinic fundraiser, Google, Los Angeles
2016 - Migration, Bonobo album artwork
2016 - Edward Snowden: Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon
and the truth, Wright for Rights, Amnesty International, New Orleans
2016 - WAC Big Walls, Colombia College, Chicago
2016 - Anywhere, Everywhere, DO ART Foundation, Los Angeles
2014 - A Tribute to Nelson Mandela, Maboneng Precinct and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg
2014 - Google Doodle Freedom day, Google, Cape Town
2013 - Earth Hour, WWF, Cape Town & Johannesburg
2013 - Within the Wisdom of the Sands, 350.org Global Power Shift conference, Istanbul
2013 - Moving Mountains, The Philadelphia Mural Art Program, Philadelphia
2012 - Kings and Castles Floating on Acrylic Mountains, Open Walls Festival, Baltimore
2012 - Untitled, Langa Township Experience, Cape Town
2012 - Acrylic Walls, Cape Town & Johannesburg
2011 - Live Painting DO Lab Stage, Coachella music festival
MURALS
2019 - A sacred gesture the beautiful dance, St+art Festival, Goa, India
2018 - SORGE SULLA VALLE | UNA LUNA CHE INSEGNA UN PASSATO INFINITO , Fra.me.IT Festival, Frezzano, Sicily
2018 - Young Poseidon, Paxos Biennale, Greece
2018 - Landscapes in Ceremony, SODO Track Festival, Seattle
2018 - Monument, VukovART Festival, Vukovar, Croatia
2017 - A truth which is beauty. A beauty, which is truth, Amnesty international x NuArt Festival, Stavanger, Norway
2017 - Rest in stillness like sky, mountain lake, UPEA Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2017 - Throw a drop of water into the sea to prevent it from drying up, Crystal Ship Festival, Oostende, Belgium
2017 - Lyg jeros sro ves sus ieljame/ The river will lead you to the sea, EDIT Festival, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2017 - Die Sonne wird im Ozean versinken (The sun will sink into the ocean)
2017 - Der Mond und das Wasser werden steigen (The moon and tides will rise)
2017 - These kings and their castles will wash away), Urban Nation, Berlin
2016 - EVERY RIVER FLOWS TO THE SEA United Artists, Kiev
2016 - The Memory of Water, Memorie Urbane Festival, Gaeta, Italy
2016 - Gentle Hearts, #NotACrime Street Art Campaign for Education Equality, Harlem, New York
2016 - OCEAN POET, Pow Wow Hawaii Festival, Honolulu
2015 - The Road to Solidarity/ Rua de Soladrite, Walk & Talk Festival, Azores, Portugal
2015 - Untitled, Matharan Green Festival, Mumbai
2014 - A faded memory of an island, Festival D’art Urbain, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2013 - Untitled school rejuvenation mural, Muralist Festival, Kathmandu
2013 - Untitled, Wall Therapy, Rochester, New York
2013 - I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, Living Walls Festival, Atlanta
2013 - Kurema, Kureba, Kwiga collaborative mural with local artists, Kigali, Rwanda
RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS
2021 - Founded Śūnyatā, Sri Lanka
2018 - Underdogs Gallery, Lisbon
2017 - Noa Noa, Bali
2017 - RVCA Artist Network Program International Team Member (ongoing) Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Scholarship
2015 - La Zona Residency, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2015 - Everfresh Residency, Melbourne
2014 - Peace Revolution artist meditation retreat and residency, Bangkok
2011 - Happy Studios Residency, Portland