On October 18, 2023 my installation "The Spring of Hope Garden" was completed at
ICAI / The Institute for Cultural Activism International located in Delhi, New York.
This work is born of the fusion of the two earlier projects, The Horizon is
Nothing More than the Limit of Our Sight, commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City in 1990 curated by Charlotta Kotic, and Shake Up! presented by curator Lynn del Sol of {CTS} creative thriftshop in conjunction with the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in 2010. In revisiting this work my thought was to shift the focus from what was seen as a future awakening, to the present moment. The idea being that the calamity is upon us and we presently need the spring of hope that will help us envision this final step in addressing our problems. It is in this light that I welcome you as a witness and provocateur of the process.
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Two new video works featuring the music of Berlin based musician, Marian Neulant.
Announcing the successful launch of the exhibition Seht euch an! Look at each other! Organized by the German Cultural Affairs Department of the German Consulate in China. Celebrating their 50 years there and displaying some of my work in Germany from 1991 to 2008 opening December 3 - 11, 2022.
at: Hou Shan Art Gallery
Lv You Street, Mei Shi Pai Fan, Xiangzhou District
. Zhuhai, China
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Announcing my recent series of works in video M Nature Videos
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China Crossing (recorded in 2019 in transit from Guilin through Guangxi province in China)
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Falling Water was recorded in April of 2022 at Rainbow Falls Gorges State Park North Carolina USA.
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Golden Waters (filmed in 2022 in the Huitong village of Zhuhai, China)
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Lover's Walk was filmed in 2022 at MeiLiWan 'Beautiful Bay' a passage along what is named Lover's Road overlooking the Pearl Sea in Zhuhai, China.
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Puzhehei flmed in Yunnan, China in 2022. Puzhehei in the language of the Yi people of Yunnan means, "a pond teeming with fish and shrimp".
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When the Earth Moves recorded September 2022 at the White Lotus Cave Park in Zhuhai, China.
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Windblown recorded April 2022 in South Los Angeles, USA.
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Announcing my exhibition in Zhuhai, China
opening May 22- July 15, 2021.
at: XuYuHuanBian 须臾欢忭 / The Art Space
Unit 1, Hongqi Street, Shishan Road, Xiangzhou District
. Zhuhai, China 须臾欢忭艺术空间，珠海市香洲区狮山路红旗街4号1单元102
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I am pleased to announce that my photo titled 'Uplifting' made it as a Finalist for the Architizer's Prize for photos of architecture that tell a story about current events in society. I am excited it got this far.
view it at: https://architizer.com/blog/competitions/one-photo-challenge-2021-finalists-part-1/
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Dear friends, I am pleased to announce the release on Amazon of my new book.
In Real Life / My Life and Work in 3D Design, the Visual and Performing Arts.
Presentation: In coordination with Chateau d' Ax / Italia.
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Exhibition: Made in Zhuhai. Zhuhai, China June 2019
Featuring work from my recent Shoe Factory commission.
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The Purr of the Chinese Shoe Factory / 中国鞋厂的隆隆声 2019
Announcing the completion of two new artwork created on commision for the Longyuan Footwear Company at their Highland Shoe Factory.
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My installation NeoCon Light Camo Structure, the Shame and the Sorrow of May 14, 2018 as constructed for my first exhibition in Asia at Zhuhai's Beishan village as part of Art City - 2018 Summer Art Week presentation
Please visit this exhibition in Zhuhai, Beishan where I will be presenting several video works As well as some large sculptural installations. Check out the website for details at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8ZXk1DjDcSJ1IsefbxYvvw
at YSpace-Shenzhen, China. April 15, 2018 at 3:00pm
Designer, Ron Rocco speaking at YSpace-Shenzhen, China. April 15, 2018 at 3:00pm. Working in Design in China within the Co-working concept. https://www.facebook.com/ron.rocco.77/posts/10216366725822698
The following video was made during interviews for this event and the launching of the BCDC Creative Design space in Shenzhen, China. https://www.facebook.com/ron.rocco.77/posts/10216366725822698
TEDx Zhuhai, Presentation
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Chengchuan Gallery Interview
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
4 Container Projects
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Chengchuan Art Gallery
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Dangtu Museum
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
G Flowers Showroom
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Beishan Meditation Hall
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Contemporary Music Institute of Zhuhai
Ron Rocco - 3D Design
Qian Dao
a video by Ron Rocco
Shake Up!
an installation by Ron Rocco, presented at CTS Gallery
presented in coordination with Jeremy Dean's Back to Futurama at the Pulse Art Fair.
Scope Miami 2009
art works by Ron Rocco, presented by CTS Gallery
December 2 - December 6, 2009
Press preview: December 02, 2009 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
in the Wynwood Arts District
3000 NE 1st Ave.
Miami, Florida
Bloody State by Ron Rocco @ TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival
TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary art project, which strives
to combine the creative energy of the cultural scene in Central and Eastern Europe with emerging talents and trends from around
the world. TINA B. is held under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague.
New Video Works by Ron Rocco @ Kunstagenten Gallery
SNOW (c) Ron Rocco 2008
A screening of New Video Works by Ron Rocco will be presented on
Saturday, January 17, 2009 @ 20:00 at:
KUNSTAGENTEN GALLERY, Linienstrasse 155, 10115 Berlin
Directors: Stefanie Feldbusch and Andreas Wiesner
030-695041-42 fon
Window Installations by Ron Rocco @ Supermarkt 2.0, Wrangelstr. 20 Berlin, Germany
American Camouflage @ Berliner Liste 2008
Window Installation by Ron Rocco
International Print Center New York
opening Thursday, October 23, 2008 6
- 8:00 pm
Under the Umbrella of Homeland
Security by
Ron Rocco
The
artists list is as follows: Lauren Abshire, Glen Baldridge, J.
Catherine Bebout, Marieke Bolhuis, Matthew Brannon, Nicholas Brown, Ryan
Burkhart, Susan Goethel Campbell, Stacey Cann, Kerstin Cedell, Phillip Chen,
Briar Craig, Luke Dorman, Rick Finn, Quintin Gonzalez, Valerie Hammond, Adriane
Herman, Tatana Kellner, Damon Kowarsky, Janet Marcavage, Teresa Gomez
Martorell, Jiha Moon, Yoko Motomiya, Ethan Murrow, Heidi Neilson, Tom Orr,
Krista Peters, Raymond Pettibon, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Ron Rocco, Nick
Satinover, Joyce J. Scott, Scott Stephens, Sarah Sze, Ivanco Talevski, Richard
Tuttle and John Yau, Joe Waks, Allan Wexler, Wang Yuhui.
opening reception at Berliner Liste
Sept.29, 2007 - 6 p.m.
Luckenwalder Str. 4/6 10963 Berlin
open daily Sept.30-Oct 3 1-9 p.m. Oct.3 till 7 p.m.
opening reception at Supermarkt20
Sept.30, 2007 6 p.m.
Wrangelstr. 20
10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
In the windows at Supermarkt20, 10:00-22:00 and by appointment, till October 24, 2007
DesignMai at Supermarkt20
for Berlin's DesignMai
May 12 - 20, 2007
Supermarkt20 will exhibit work from:
Mikkel Wøldike Breum
ExelvanNeulant
Tobias Lehmann
Ron Rocco
Jan-Philipp Wittrin
Rockland Center for the Arts presents art work from:
Sydney Cash, Nancy Dwyer, Scott Frish, Frank Gillette, Sholom Gorewitz, Michael James, Germaine Keller, Grace Knowlton, Robert Michael Smith, Michael O'Rourke, Michael Rees, Ron Rocco, Miroslaw Rogola, Page Simon, Josh Simpson, Robert Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Robert Sperry, Kjeld Tidemand Johannessen, James Tyler, Michael Zansky.
Curators: Ned Harris and Bob Fisher
OCTOBER 10 through NOVEMBER 21, 2004
Opening reception Sunday | October 10, 2004 1pm - 4pm
Rockland Center for the Arts
275 Greenbush Rd. West Nyack, N.Y. 10994
(845) 358-0877 fx: (845) 358-0971
http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/digi2.html
Structures of Detention artwork by Ron Rocco
The Brooklyn House of Detention Silkscreen ink printed on bound Law Journal. 24"x35"x3"
Structures of Detention at The Brooklyn Public Library
April 8, 2004 to May 6, 2004
Meet the artist reception: April 10, 2004 3:00PM
The Brooklyn Public Library /Business and Law Branch
280 Cadman Plaza
Brooklyn , N.Y.
718 369-9385
My work often employs a mix of printmaking techniques and other technologies, in
fabrication. This results in the production of objects, where physical form or
object-context plays a role in the overall meaning of the work. The art work I am
presenting at the Brooklyn Business and Law Library at Cadman Plaza is one of my
more recent projects entitled Structures of Detention. This edition of photo-silk
screen prints are bound editions of The New York Law Journal. They document
several New York Houses of Detention, as well as Federal Buildings located in
Manhattan and Brooklyn. The art works juxtapose these structures, against a
background of text recording court proceedings and decisions from the 1980's and
90's. There is a dialog established between these pages and the buildings, which
provide an opportunity for social commentary and reflection.
RON ROCCO
In New York @ Scope Galerie Völcker & Freunde, Berlin presents the work of:
Jurgen Jansen, Ulrik Moeller and Ron Rocco
Freizeit #5 by Ron Rocco
Hotel Gansevoort /Rm.605
18 9th Avenue (at 13th Street)
New York, New York 10014
Friday, March 12, to Monday, March 15, 2004
Exhibitors Open 12 pm - 7 pm
Work by a NYFA (New York Foundation of the Arts) 2003 Fellow which explores
people's leisure time activities.
"This body of digital color prints explores the 'free time' activities of individuals in
social settings. In these works body language and image context join to encapsulate
a feeling for specific social dynamics or cultural phenomena. Other images within the
series play with metaphorical associations of objects or places from private or public
environments. These associations sometimes reflect upon the humor or isolation found
in these settings." RON ROCCO
Rocco was curator of "That Which Remains" at the
Lowe Gallery in 2001, and has shown several of his conceptual, highly original mixed
media pieces at the Guild, including some pieces from his series of silk screened prison
buildings on discarded law journals.
Guild Gallery II
Fulton Center
119 Ninth Avenue
New York, N.Y. www.hudsonguild.org/
For further information, please call 212-760-9800.
Sackgasse /Dead End
Opening April 19, 2002
Galerie Völcker & Freunde, Berlin presents:
307 West 121st Street (between Manhattan and 8th Avenues)
New York City
Tel: 212 316-2609
Collaborative Concepts
Inaugural Invitational
Trophy by Ron Rocco
with artists:
Derek Bernstein, Krystyna Borkowska
Katherine Bradford,
Moses Hoskins,
Barbara Klein,
Grace Knowlton,
Jenny Lee,
Ron Rocco,
Kathleen Sweeney
Don Voisine
Opening reception Saturday, March 10 2001 2-6PM
March 10 - May 5, 2001
Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-5PM and by appointment
Collaborative Concepts
P.O.Box 346
348 Main Street
Beacon, New York 12508
Tel: 845 838-1516
Review of Inaugural Invitational
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2001
A R T S & E N T E R T A I N M E N T
RON ROCCO’s “Work on What Has Been Spoiled” a mixed media piece comprised of cardboard, Plexiglas, photo-etched copper and artificial light, is the exhibition’s most potent piece.
Displayed directly on the floor, the brownish tones of the back-lighted image that covers the central piece of Plexiglas suggests, but does not limit itself to, the dangers of the pursuit of power. The image, which is difficult to decipher, looks like a bald eagle as roadkill. The thick layers of strapped-together, flattened cardboard boxes that frame the image is a stroke of genius, adding to the impermanent feeling of the work.
Open Studio with work by Donn Davis, Halona Hilbertz and Ron Rocco
Saturday - Sunday, September 23-24, 2000
Viewing Hours: 1pm-8pm Additional hours by appointment.
Bernadette Salvage Fine Art
59 Harrison Avenue, 2fl
Williamsburg-Brooklyn, New York 11211
tel:(718)-388-9641 fax:718-852-6350 b_salvage.11net.com/
CAIRN /City Artists in Response to Nature
OPENING: Tuesday, July 12, 2000 running through September 17, 2000
Viewing Hours: Wed-Sat 10-4, Sun 2-4:30 Additional hours by appointment.
Anthony Giordano Gallery
a satellite of Islip Art Museum at Dowling College
Biltmore Ave. and Idle Hour Blvd.
Oakdale, New York 11769
TEL: 516-244-3016
Collected Visions is a multi-media survey of private thoughts
and social commentary.
by Ron Rocco
November 10 - December 8, 1999
Tue-Fri 12- 3 and by appointment
The University Gallery at UMASS Lowell
McGauvran Student Union
Wilder St., South Campus
University of Massachusetts Lowell
978-934-3491
Twenty-six American Artists
Brooklyn Navy Yard by Ron Rocco
including: Richard Artschwager, Will Barnet, Chuck Close,
Arthur Dove, Judy Fox, Pamela Fraser, Eric Holzman,
Sharon Horvath, James Hyde, Ik Joong Kang, Marc Lambrechts,
Eva Lundsager, Donna Moylan, Thomas Nozkowski, Ouatara,
Rick Purdy, Ron Rocco, Amy Sillman, Sook Jin Jo and
Fred Stonehouse
September 17 - October 3, 1999
Opening reception: Thursday, September 16 8:30PM
Gallery Campo + Campo
Grote Steenweg 19/21
B-2600 Antwerpen, Belgium
tel:(32) 03.218.47.77
fax:(32) 03.218.53.63
This work is born of the fusion of the two earlier projects, The Horizon is
Nothing More than the Limit of Our Sight, commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City in 1990 curated by Charlotta Kotic, and Shake Up! presented by curator Lynn del Sol of {CTS} creative thriftshop in conjunction with the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in 2010. In revisiting this work my thought was to shift the focus from what was seen as a future awakening, to the present moment. The idea being that the calamity is upon us and we presently need the spring of hope that will help us envision this final step in addressing our problems. It is in this light that I welcome you as a witness and provocateur of the process.
