CURRICULUM VITAE
Grants and Awards
1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors
2000 Silas H. Rhodes Merit Scholarship, School of Visual Arts
2000 Paula Rhodes Memorial Scholarship, School of Visual Arts
2020 Chet and Karen Opalka Award
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
“Shift”, 2023, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, NY
“Whereabouts: Matt LaFleur and Ruby Palmer”, 2022, Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY
“Assembly”, 2021, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, NY
“Parallel Play: Works by Joan Grubin and Ruby Palmer”, 2019, curated by Yura Adams, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
Ruby Palmer, 2018, TripodSpaceProjects, Busan, Korea
Ruby Palmer, 2018, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson NY
Subject to Change: a remote installation, 2017, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA
More Adventures with Structure and Light, 2015, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Project Space, 2014, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings and Constructions: Megan Lipke and Ruby Palmer, 2011, Philmont Cultural Center, Philmont, NY
New Works, 2011, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Landlife, 2008, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Ruby Palmer, 2003, Gallery 3A, Brooklyn, NY
Ruby Palmer: New Work, 2002, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Ruby Palmer: Recent Works, 2001, Art Design Digression Gallery, Hudson, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
XX, Morgan Lehman Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Show, 2022, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, NY
Holiday, 2020, 2021, 2022, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
Glean: Select Gallery Artists, 2020, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Holiday, 2020, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Unraveling, 2020, curated by Yura Adams, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
SpaceLab, 2020, curated by Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, Collarworks, Troy NY
Cut and Color, 2020, curated by Kathy Greenwood, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
The Making of…,2020, curated by Laurie DeChiara, ARTPORT Kingston, Kingston, NY
The Grand Floral Show, 2019, The Farm Salon at Greig Farm, Red Hook, NY
MIxed Tape 2: stuff to look at, 2019, salon show hosted by Amy Chase Gulden, NY, NY
Cosmic Garden, 2018, curated by Jeff Gleich, Orticolario, Lake Como, Italy
Casheesh 18, 2018, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Holiday, 2018, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
True North, 2018, curated by Julie Torres, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
NatureLAB, 2018, curated by Eric Wolf, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Matereality, 2018, curated by Sue and Phil Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Casheesh, 2017, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Taconic North, 2017, curated by Julie Torres, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Tabitha, 2016, Organized by Dawn Breeze, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY
Campsite: Hudson Valley Artists 2016, curated by Corinna Ripps Schaming, Samuel Dorsky Museum fo Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Casheesh, 2015, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Interventions II, 2015, Organized by Isidro Blasco, Hudson, NY
Casheesh, 2014, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Soundings For Fathoms, 2013, Curated by Andrew Zarou, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Bestiary, 2010, Wassaic Project, Curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, Wassaic, NY
Invisible Duck Tape, curated by Eun Young Choi, 2009, Gallery Satori, New York, NY
Double Bubble, 2007, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Regeneration Room, February 2006, LMAK Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Site 92, 2006, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Emerging: Franklin Evans, Greg Murr, Ruby Palmer, 2004, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
Colored Pencil, 2004, KS Art, New York, NY
A Bestiary, 2003, curated by Josh Dorman, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
A Group Show Four Artists, 2003, curated by Bradd Skubinna, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA
Art For Now, 2002, Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Big Show, 2000, curated by Loren Madsen, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the MFA Dept., 2000, organized by Elga Wimmer, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
New York Area MFA Exhibition, 2000, co-sponsored by the College Art Association, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Group Trope, 1999, curated by David Row, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
The Stroke, 1999, selected by Suzanne McClelland, Exit Art, New York, NY
Underexposed, 1998, Kendall Fine Art and Design, Hudson, NY
Education
2000 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1992 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Artist Residency
1991, 1993 Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT
Books
Architectural Inventions (Visionary Drawings), by Matt Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb, 2012 Lawrence King Publishing. (Page 305)
Press
https://artspiel.org/ruby-palmer-painter-with-a-kaleidoscope-eye/, Interview by Amy Talluto, 2023, ArtSpiel
“There’s an Unraveling at Sage’s Opalka Gallery”, by Indiana Nash, Oct. 28, 2020, Daily Gazette, Albany, NY https://dailygazette.com/2020/10/28/on-exhibit-theres-an-unraveling-at-opalka-gallery/
“Artists get Elbow Room for Opalka Exhibit”, by Tresca Weinstein, Nov. 19-25, Albany Times Union https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Artists-need-elbow-room-for-Opalka-s-Unraveling-15729895.php
“Unraveling at Opalka Gallery”, blog review, Get Visual: Things Seen and Heard in the Capital Region, by David Brickman, Dec. 2020
“Airport Gallery Gets Real and Textured with Cut and Color”, by William Jaeger, Aug.21, 2020, Albany Times Union https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Airport-gallery-gets-real-and-textured-with-Cut-15527026.php
Lex*i*con interview: Remote Dreams of Creation, an interview with Ruby Palmer, www.instarlodge.com, 2017 http://instarlodge.com/lexicon/2017/2/28/remote-dreams-of-creation-an-interview-with-artist-ruby-palmer
www.rollmagazine.com/campsite-hudson-valley-artists-2016-at-the-dorsky/
"Painting By Numbers," Penelope Green, New York Times, Home Section, Feb 5, 2015
carlgunhouse.blogspot.com/2014/03/sounding-for-fathoms-parallel-art-space.html
http://smackmellon.org/index.php/press/2006_habertarts_com/
"Dave Eggers Top 10 List," Artforum Magazine, April 2000