Born in New York City in 1966, Roxy Paine grew up in the suburbs of

Virginia. He spent time studying art at the College of Santa Fe (now

Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and the Pratt

Institute in New York. In 1997, Paine received the Trustees Award for

an Emerging Artist by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and,

in 2006, received the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

Foundation Fellowship. His work has been exhibited widely. Select solo

exhibitions include: Roxy Paine: Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Beeler

Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design (2016); Roxy Paine,

Gund Gallery, Kenyon College (2016); Natura Naturans, Villa Panza,

Varese, Italy (2015); Roxy Paine: Scumaks and Dendroids, Nelson-

Atkins Museum of Art (2012); Roxy Paine, WANAS Foundation,

Knislinge, Sweden (2010); Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom,

Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009); Roxy Paine, Madison Square Park

(2009); Roxy Paine: PMU, Portland Museum of Art (2006); Defunct,

Aspen Art Museum (2004); and Roxy Paine: Second Nature, Rose Art

Museum, Brandeis University (2002).

Roxy Paine’s work can be found in collections across the United States

and internationally, including the Broad Museum of Art at Eastern

Michigan University, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the

De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Art Museum, the

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum

and Sculpture Garden, Il Giardino Dei Lauri, the Israel Museum, the

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Modern Art, New

York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the National

Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Canada, the

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the New School for Social Research, the

North Carolina Museum of Art, the Fundación NMAC, the Olympic

Sculpture Park, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Saint

Louis Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska, the Wanas

Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.