Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley (born 1977 in New Jersey, lives and works in New York) is considered one of the most important contemporary artists, so influential that the Whitney Museum and MoMA P.S.1 in New York devoted a solo exhibition to him in 2003 and 2004, respectively. In 2007 he received the Young Photographer Infinity Award from the prestigious International Center of Photography in New York. McGinley's work is part of the public collections of the world's most important museums, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Ellipse Foundation in Portugal, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain and the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia.