Born in Riga in 1978, Brooklyn based artist Ella Kruglyanskaya earned her BFA from the Cooper Union in 2001 and her MFA from Yale in 2006. Kruglyanskaya is known for beautifully rendered vignettes, often featuring exaggerated, almost caricatured depictions of female bodies. She incorporates bold patterning, both in abstract backgrounds and woven into the composition of her scenes, and a highly expressive drawing style to evoke the vibrancy and immediacy of mid-century fashion illustration. Kruglyanskaya uses these characteristics to subvert the viewer's expectations regarding the relationship between her subject matter and the charged associations of this familiar, culturally anachronistic visual language.

Exhibitions

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Evening Lesson

Dec 12, 2020 - Jan 23, 2021

Selected Works

Education

2006
Master of Fine Arts
Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Cooper Union, New York, NY

Solo & Two Person

2021
Keep Walking
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Evening Lesson
Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
This is a Robbery
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
On the Verge
Feuilleton, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Fenix
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2018
Ella Kruglyanskaya: It Works on Paper
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2016
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
Ella Kruglyanskaya
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
2015
Fancy Problems
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2014
Grafika
The Power Station, Dallas, TX
How to work together
Studio Voltaire residency and show, London, UK
Little Vera, kim? with Sanya Kantarovsky
Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2013
Monster Bathers, Blue Scribble...
Oko, New York, NY
"Double Crossed
Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2012
Woman! Painting! Woman!
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Criminal Stickup in Yellow at the Eisenberg Collection
collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey
2011
Ladies Who Punch
Salon 94, Freemans, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya, White Room
White Columns, New York, NY

Group

2022
Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full Length Portrait
Art&Newport, Newport, RI
Luncheon on the Grass
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2021
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
The Stand Ins: Figurative painting...
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2020
The Winter Exhibition
Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA
2019
Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Max Beckmann in Dialogue...
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Tainted Love: Club Edit
Villa Arson, Nice, France
2018
Baltic Triennial 2018
Contemporary Art Centre, Villinus, Lithuania
Ella Kruglyanskaya & Matt Paweski
Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Any body suspended in space will remain...
Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2017
Tainted Love
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
The Brask Collection meets Willumsen
J.F. Willumsen Museum, Freferikssund, Denmark
31 Women
Breese/Little Gallery, London, UK
2016
Inside Out
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
8 Femmes
Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
Matthew Higgs: Lost for Words
Murray Guy, New York, NY
2015
Unrealism: Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
Moore Building, Art Basel, Miami FL
Women’s Art Society II
MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction
White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Call and Response
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2014
Everything falls faster than an anvil
Pace London, London, UK
Untitled
Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, Germany
We Play at Paste
Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
2013
DRAW GYM
247365 & KNOW MORE GAMES, New York, NY
Snail Salon
Regina Rex, Queens, NY
Notes on Neo-Camp
Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium; Studio Voltaire, London, UK
News from New York
Galleri Tom Chrisoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Leave it to Beavers
Gallery Diet, Miami FL
The Art of Cooking
Royal T, Los Angeles, CA
Sleep Late, My Lady Friend
Horton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
Magic Hand
ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya, Benjamin Senior
James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY
Paintings for Barneys windows
Barneys New York, New York, NY
White Columns Benefit Auction
White Columns, New York, NY
2010
Painting and Sculpture
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

Selected Projects

2011
Paintings for Barneys windows
Barneys New York, New York, NY
2010
Artists in Residence exhibition
Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

Residencies

2014
How to Work Together
Studio Voltaire residency, London, UK
2010
Artist in Residence Studio Program
Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

Monographs

2014
Sherlock, Amy ed. Ella Kruglyanskaya, London: Studio Voltaire and Koenig Books, 2014

Bibliography & Publications

2019
Max Beckmann im Dialog: Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Dana Shutz. Cologne: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019
Deitch, Jeffrey and Aria Dean. Unrealism: New Figurative Painting. Mew York: Rizzoli, 2019
Melick, Tom, Kathryn Rattee and Rebecca Morill eds. Vitamin P3:New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, 2019
2018
Honoré, Vincent ed. 13 Baltic Triennial. Give up the ghost. Rome: CURA Books, 2018
2017
Florine Stettheimer: painting poetry. New York: The Jewish Museum/New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017
2016
Melick, Tom and Rebecca Morill eds. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, 2016
2013
Elg, Jasper. Chicken or beef? New York: The Hole/Copenhagen: V1 Gallery

Public Collections

Tate Collection, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK