Ryan Mendoza is an American painter.

Counterbalancing old master techniques with contemporary themes, Mendoza is considered a rarity in the art world.

He works and lives between Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 and Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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Selected Exhibits

2010: The Possessed Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples

2009: Chocolate Crocodile Galerie Lelong, Paris

2008: Ryan Mendoza Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York

2007: Don't look at me Galerie Lelong, Paris

2006: Happily ever Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin

2005: Ryan Mendoza Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich

2004: Fear in a Time of Superheroes, Galleria Massimo Minini

2003: Sleeping Beauty Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan

2002: Join Now for Instant Access White Cube

White Cube

White Cube is a contemporary art gallery designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates in Hoxton Square in the East End of London Mason's Yard, in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London...

, London

2002: Almost American, Museo di Castel Nuovo, Naples

2001: Ryan Mendoza, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Luebeck

2000: Ryan Mendoza Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

Literature

2010: Ryan Mendoza The Possessed, Electa, MAdRE, Text by Tiziano Scarpa

Tiziano Scarpa

Tiziano Scarpa is an Italian novelist, playwright and poet.Born in Venice, he won the 2009 Strega Prize for his novel, Stabat mater.- References :*...

2007: Ryan Mendoza The End, Text by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...

2007: Ryan Mendoza Don't look at me, Galerie Lelong

2002: Ryan Mendoza Join Now for Instant Access, Text by Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life...

2003: Ryan Mendoza Sleeping Beauty, Taura, Japan

External links

• "Ryan Mendoza" Ryan Mendoza Website
• Join Now for Instant Access, White Cube
• Galerie Lelong