Ruth Root

Ruth Root (born 1967 in Chicago, USA) is an artist based in New York. She graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1990, and completed her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. She attended a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994. Her work includes paintings on thin, irregularly shaped pieces of aluminium and small painted paper pieces.
Root has participated in a number of exhibitions including Abstract Redux at the Danese Gallery in New York, Kosmobiologie at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, and Son-of-a-Guston at Clementine Gallery in New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries such as Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska in Austria, Galeria Marta Cervera in Spain, Seattle Art Museum, and Galleria Franco Noero, in Torino, Italy.
Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
She is represented by the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Maureen Paley in London and Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska in Salzburg.

1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting

1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting