Solo Exhibitions
Añorando (with Marc Armitano)
Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City
April 2026 — June 2026
Yearbook
Shepparton Art Museum, AustraliaMarch 1st, 2024 – July 14th, 2024
Miss Adventure
Lands End Gallery, Provincetown, MAAugust 18th, 2023 – September 6th, 2023
Peak Swift
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CODecember 26th, 2022 – February 12th, 2023
I can’t, We can
Ratio 3 Gallery, SF, CA
April 16th — June 4th, 2022
Pretty Free
Marlborough Contemporary | London
March 21st – April 25th, 2020
Solo Booth with Ratio 3 Gallery
Fort Mason Center, Fog Design + Art Fair, San Francisco
2020
Yearbook
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
May 29th - September 8th, 2019
Mirror, Mirror
Team Gallery, NYC
June 29th – September 29th, 2018
The Spirit of Pride
Soft Opening, London
July 5th – July 8th, 2018
My NY
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
April 6th – May 19th, 2018
Paradiso
Ratio 3, SF, CA
January 13th – March 10th, 2018The Beautiful Escape
CFHill, Stockholm
2018
Early
Team Gallery, NYC
March 2017
The Kids Were Alright
MCA, Denver
February 2017 – August 2017
Yearbook
La Termica, Spain
November 2016 – February 2017
Body Loud
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
April 16th – July 10th, 2016
The Four Seasons
GAMeC, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Italy
February 19th – May 15th, 2016Masters of Photography: Ryan McGinley (curated by Dessislava Dimova)
Embassy of the United States, Sofia
2015
Fall
Team Gallery, NYC
November 15th – December 20th, 2015
Winter
306 Windward (Bungalow), Venice Beach CA
November 5th – December 20th, 2015
Art | 46 | Basel | Art Unlimited
June 18th – 21st, 2015
Kunsthal KAdE, Amsersfoort, The Netherlands
Ryan McGinley Photographs 1999-2015
May 30th – August 30th, 2015
Yearbook
Team Gallery, NYC
September 7th – October 12th, 2014
Vertical Color of Sound
Perrotin, Hong Kong
May 13th – June 21st, 2014
Body Loud
Perrotin, Paris
November 13th, 2013 – January 11th, 2014
Magic Magnifier
Daelim Museum, Seoul
November 6th, 2013 – February 23rd, 2014
Yearbook
Ratio 3, San Francisco
September 6th – October 26th, 2013
Frieze New York 2013
May 10th – 13th, 2013
Running Water, What Are You Running From?
Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt
April 9th – June 1st, 2013
Reach Out, I’m Right Here
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
September 1st – 29th, 2012
Art | 43 | Basel | Unlimited
June 12th – 17th, 2012
Animals
Team Gallery, NYC
May 2nd – June 2nd, 2012
Grids
Team Gallery, NYC
May 2nd – June 2nd, 2012
Wandering Comma
Alison Jacques, London
November 24th – December 22nd, 2011
Somewhere Place
Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 9th – May 14th, 2011
Life Adjustment Center
Ratio 3, San Francisco
October 29th – December 11th, 2010
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Team Gallery, NYC
March 18th – April 17th, 2010
Crooked Aisles
The Breeder, Athens, Greece
January 14th – February 27th, 2010
Moonmilk
Alison Jacques, London
Sept 11th – October 8th, 2009
Spring and by Summer Fall
Ratio 3, SF, CA
May 9th – June 21st, 2008
I Know Where the Summer Goes
Team Gallery, NYC
April 3rd – May 3rd, 2008Ryan McGinley
Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
November 1st, 2007 – January 6th, 2008
Showcase: Ryan McGinley
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
November 29th, 2006 — April 30th, 2007
Irregular Regulars
Team Gallery, NYC
January 4th – February 10th, 2007Sun and Health
Galerie du Jour, Agnes B, France
October 28th – December 2006
Laboratorio 987: Entre Nosotros
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
León, Spain
2005
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie
Arles, France
2005
MoMA PS1 New Photographs
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center / The Museum of Modern Art NY
2004
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2004
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
The Red Eye Gallery
2003
The Kids are Alright
The Whitney Museum of American Art
2003
Bailey Fine Arts
Toronto
2003
MC Magma, Milan
2002
Ryan McGinley: Photographien
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2002
The Kids are Alright
420 W. B'way, New York, NY
2000
Group Exhibitions
ICP Hard Copy New York
International Center of Photography, NYC
January 2026 — May 2026
Sky High Farm Biennial: Trees Never End and Houses Never End
Germantown, NY
October 2025 — January 2026
Tiny Vices
The Hole, NYC
February 8th — 23rd, 2025
Blue Dream
Shrine Gallery, LA
November 9 — December 21, 2024
Camera Roll Orgy (with Jack Pierson and Lyle Ashton Harris)
The Shop, LES, NYC
May — June 22, 2024.
Chasing the Light: Curated by Kathy Ryan
525 W 25th St, NYC
September 2024
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
Brooklyn Museum, NYC
November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, LondonMay 18th, 2024 — January 5th, 2025
Coming of Age (curated by Virgil Abloh)
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
April 13th — April 27th, 2022
Towards Utopia (curated by K.O. Nnamdie)
September 2020
Dog Days
Launch F18, NYC
2020
Abortion is Normal (curated by Jsamine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol)
Arsenal Contemporary, NYC
2020
Meet Me In The Bathroom: The Art Show
The Hole, NYC
September 4th – 22nd, 2019
Character Study
Ratio 3, San Francisco
2019
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
April 2, 2016 – Apr 2, 2017
Becoming Human
Skulptur Odense 17, Odense
2017
Youth
Daelim Museum, Seoul
2017
Amour, Amours…Dans Ma Collection De Photographiés: Selections From the Collection of Agnès B.
Isetan Museum, Kyoto
2017
Give Me Yesterday (curated by Francesco Zanot)
Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Milan
2016
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip (Curated by David Campany and Denise Wolff, with catalog)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
2016
The Public Body .01 (curated by Talia Linz and Alexie Glass-Kantor)
Artspace, Sydney
2016
Taguchi Art Collection – Correlation Diagram of Happiness
Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Tokyo
2016
On the Origin of Art
The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania
2016
Vogue 100 (organized by Patrick Kinmouth and Robin Muir)
National Portrait Gallery, London
2016
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
June 5 – September 9, 2015
Degrees of Freedom (organized by Fondazione Golinelli, curated by Cristiana Perrella & Giovanni Carrada)
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
2015
Framing Desire: Photography and Video
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
2015
Dries van Noten: Inspirations
Mode Museum, Paris
2015
The Marseillaise(s) (curated by Els Barents)
Museum Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
2014
Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
2014
Tattoo (curated by Liberty Paterson and Jon Nordstøm, with catalog)
Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense
2014
It’s an Invasion (curated by Kelsey Bennet, Joshua Hubbard and Lele Saveri)
National Arts Club, NYC
2014
Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited (curated by Michal Nanoru, with catalog)
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2014
Black Cake (curated by Alex Gartenfeld)
Sterling Ruby Ryan McGinley, Cecily Brown, Ed Atkins
Team Gallery, NYC
January 10th – February 17th, 2013Apparatus (curated by Tim Barber)
M+B, LA
2013
Folk Devil (curated by Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal)
David Zwirner, NYC
2013
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp
2013
Alchemical (curated by Kevin Moore)
Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC
2013
In Alle Staten: De Mens in De Hedendaagse Kunstcollectie Van De Fondation Francès
Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent
2013
Coconut Water
White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
2013
Une Affaire De Famille: La Photographie Dans Les Collections De Stéphane, Rodolphe Et Sébastien Janssen
Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi
2013
Magnetic North
Ratio 3, San Francisco
2013
Photography (curated by Ken Miller, travelled to Aperture Gallery)
Gallery Target, Tokyo
2013
Why not live for Art? II - 9 Collectors Reveal Their Treasures
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2013
(con)Text (curated by Tim Donovan)
Sharon Art Center, Peterborough
2013
The Kids Are All Right: An Exhibition about Family and Photography (curated by Alison Ferris, with catalog)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
2012 — 2013
Privacy (curated by Martina Weinhart)
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2012 — 2013
Audience as Subject Part 2: Extra Large (curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, with catalog)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2012
The Importance of Being Photographed (curated by Jane Simon)
University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa
2012
Do Your Thing (curated by Thomas Bullock and Eric Duncan)
White Columns, NYC
2012
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
2012
Out of Focus: Photography
Saatchi Gallery, London
2012
Photography (curated by Ken Miller)
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
2012
Pop Politics: Activism at 33 Revolutions (curated by Ivan Lopez Munuera)
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
2012
You and My Friends 1
Art | 43 | Basel | Unlimited, Basel
2012
Pubart (curated by Valerie Hersleven and Sophie Scheidecker)
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
2012
Photographic!
Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu
2012
Looking at Picasso
Huis Marseilles Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam
2012
The New Ages of Life
Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna
2012
Post 9-11
Morán Morán, LA
June 30 — August 27, 2011
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) (curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Neville Wakefield)
MoCA: Pacific Design Center, LA
2011
Involuntary (curated by Neville Wakefield)
fordProject, NYC
2011
The Trilogy Exhibition: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, Dash Snow
The Ring Art Center, Miami
2011
The Last First Decade (curated by Alexander Melo and Ivo André Braz)
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
2011
Ryan McGinley, Sam Samore, Tørbjorn Rødland
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2011
It’s All American (curated by Haley Mellin and Alex Gartenfeld)
New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, Asbury Park
2011
3+1 (Harmony Korine, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley)
La galerie du jour agnès b., Paris
2010
Roundtrip: New York Now Selections from the Domus Collection
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2010
Sweat (curated by Marilyn Minter and Fabienne Stephan)
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
2010
Summer Teeth
The Breeder, Athens
2010
Out of the Woods (curated by James Salomon and Leslie Tonkonow)
Leslie Tonkonow, NYC
2010
Calling Beauty (curated by James Voorhies)
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus
2010
New York The Loudest
Gallery Koko, Tokyo
2010
Emporte-Moi / Sweep Me Off My Feet (with catalog)
Musée National Des Beaux-Arts Du Québec, Québec
2009 — 2010
Ryan McGinley and Stanley Whitney
Art Basel, Miami Beach
December 3rd – 6th, 2009Who Shot Rock: Photographers of Rock and Roll (curated by Gail Buckland, with catalog)
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC
2009
New York Minute (curated by Kathy Grayson)
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
2009
The 2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Spencer Brownstone, NYC
2009
The Art of Caring (curated by Cynthia Goodman)
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
2009
KaraokeLike (curated by Thomas Seelig, with catalog)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
2009
The Station (curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman)
The Station at Midtown Miami, Miami
2008
Feature Photography (curated by Frank Goodyear)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
2008
Listen Darling...The World is Yours (curated by Lisa Phillips)
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
2008
Darkside (curated by Thomas Seelig, with catalog)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
2008
Boys of Summer (curated by Shelley Fox Aarons and Edsel Williams)
The Fireplace Project, East Hampton
2008
Fair Market (curated by Haley Mellin)
Rental, NYC
2008
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz
PPOW, NYC
2008
I Won’t Grow Up (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler)
Cheim & Read, NYC
2008
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (curated by Aaron Rose)
Marella Gallery, Milan
2007
People Take Pictures of Each Other (curated by Bob Nickas)
LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
2007
Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2007
Sweet Bird of Youth (curated by Hedi Slimane)
Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2007
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn (curated by Amy Kellner)
Smith Stewart, NYC
2007
Other Scenes (curated by Aaron Rose, with catalog)
Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
Now Playing: Artists Borrow Film
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton
2007
Young at Heart (curated by Alexandre Melo and Joaquin Garcia)
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2007
Rebel Rebel: A Tribute to Karlheinz Weinberger
Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC
2007
Defamation of Character (curated by Neville Wakefield)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC
2006
Into Me / Out of Me (curated by Klaus Biesenbach, with catalog and travelled to Kunstwerke, Berlin and MACRO, Rome)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC
2006
Americans 1940-2006: Masterpieces of American Photography (curated by Peter Weiermair, with catalog)
Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
2006
People
MADRE Museo d’Arte Donna Regina, Naples
2006
The Name of This Show Is Not Gay Art Now (curated by Jack Pierson)
Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC
2006
The 6th Annual Vice Magazine Photo Issue Exhibition
Silverstein Photography, NYC
2006
Youth of Today (curated by Matthias Ulrich, with catalog)
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2006
With Us Against Reality, or Against Us!
Galleri S.E., Oslo
2005
Greater New York 2005 (with catalog)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC
2005
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art, Skateboarding, & Street Culture
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2004
Fresh: Youth Culture in Contemporary Photographs
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock
2004
Summer Solstice with Sam Gordon, Ryan McGinley, and Collier Schorr
Ratio3, San Francisco
2004
Color Wheel Oblivion
Marella Arte Cotemporanea, Milan
2004
A New Scene: What About New York?
agnes b. Galerie du jour, Paris
2003
amfAR Portfolio
Cheim & Read, NYC
2003
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in Their Hair (But Now They're Content to Spray Stars From Your Boughs) curated by Bob Nickas
Charles Atlas, Roe Ethridge, Larry Clark, Leigh Bowery, Charles Henri Ford, Peter Hujar, Christian Holstad, Nick Mauss, Ryan McGinley, Mark Morrisroe, Walter Pfeiffer, Paul P., Jack Smith, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, and John Waters
Team Gallery, New York
October 18th – November 15th, 2003K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show
John Connelly Presents, NYC
2002
You’re Just a Summer Love, but I’ll Remember You When Winter Comes (Curated by Emily Sundblad and Hanna Liden)
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NYC
2002
Bystander
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
2002
Alleged at Space 1026
Space 1026, Philadelphia
2001
Raw: New York, New Work
Mamma Roma Ltd., NYC
2001
Publications
Yearbook
Publisher: Rizzoli
2024
Mirror Mirror
Publisher: Rizzoli Electra
2018
The Kids Were Alright
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
2017
Way Far
Publisher: Rizzoli
2015Whistle for the Wind
Publisher: Rizzoli
2012
You and I
Publisher: Twin Palms
2011Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Publisher: Dashwood Books
2010Moonmilk
Publisher: Morel Books
2009
• Sun and Health
Publisher: Galerie Du Jour Agnes B
2006