1320 S Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States
The Shalala Student Center at the University of Miami where Ursula von Rydingsvard received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degrees in painting in 1965.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
The Library of Columbia University where Ursula von Rydingsvard obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art in 1975.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
105 Main St, Durham, NH 03824, United States
The University of New Hampshire which Ursula von Rydingsvard attended from 1960 to 1962.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
The University of California, Berkeley which Ursula von Rydingsvard attended from 1969 to 1970.
Career
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
2009
44-19 Purves St, Long Island City, NY 11101, United States
(From left to right) Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Olga Viso and Cameron Keith Gainer at Sculpture Center Gala Honoring Dan Graham at Sculpture Center LIC on December 10, 2009, New York City. Photo by Shaun Mader.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
2019
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States
Ursula von Rydingsvard at MoMA's Party in the Garden 2019 held at the Museum of Modern Art on June 04, 2019, New York City. Photo by Andrew Toth.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard in her Bushwick studio. Photo by Alex John Beck.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard working in her Bushwick studio. Photo by Alex John Beck.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
Art curator Peter Murray (left) and Ursula von Rydingsvard near one of Rydingsvard's sculptures in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
375 Park Ave, New York, NY 10152, United States
(From left to right) Kiki Smith, Valerie Hammond, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Sarah Sze at the Studio in a School 40th Anniversary Gala at Seagram Building Plaza on May 3, 2017, New York City. Photo by Patrick McMullan.
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Ursula von Rydingsvard at the 40th Anniversary of Studio in a School at the Seagram Building on May 3, 2017, New York City. Photo by JP Yim.
Gallery of Ursula von Rydingsvard
11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States
(From left to right) Ursula von Rydingsvard, India Menuez, Rachel Feinstein, Agnes Gund, and Oberon Sinclair at Rachel Feinstein's the Last Days of Folly Performance Festival in Madison Square Park on September 3, 2014, New York City. Photo by Liam McMullan.
Achievements
‘5 Works: Five Cones’ by von Rydingsvard purchased at Sotheby's in New York City for $68,500 in 2012.
44-19 Purves St, Long Island City, NY 11101, United States
(From left to right) Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Olga Viso and Cameron Keith Gainer at Sculpture Center Gala Honoring Dan Graham at Sculpture Center LIC on December 10, 2009, New York City. Photo by Shaun Mader.
Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Madison Square Park Conservancy's "Party In The Park" at Madison Square Park on May 18, 2015, in New York City. Photo by JP Yim.
1320 S Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States
The Shalala Student Center at the University of Miami where Ursula von Rydingsvard received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degrees in painting in 1965.
32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11106, United States
Ursula Von Rydingsvard addresses the attendees at the first annual benefit for Socrates Sculpture Park Honoring Mark Di Suvero on September 18, 2007, in the Queens borough of New York City.
(From left to right) Kiki Smith, Valerie Hammond, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Sarah Sze at the Studio in a School 40th Anniversary Gala at Seagram Building Plaza on May 3, 2017, New York City. Photo by Patrick McMullan.
(From left to right) Ursula von Rydingsvard, India Menuez, Rachel Feinstein, Agnes Gund, and Oberon Sinclair at Rachel Feinstein's the Last Days of Folly Performance Festival in Madison Square Park on September 3, 2014, New York City. Photo by Liam McMullan.
Ursula von Rydingsvard was born on July 26, 1942, in Deensen, Germany. She is a daughter of Ignacy Karoliszyn, and Rozalia Karoliszyn (maiden name Stenral), peasant farmers.
Background
Ethnicity:
Ursula von Rydingsvard's parents were of a Ukrainian origin.
Ursula von Rydingsvard was born on July 26, 1942, in Deensen, Germany. She is a daughter of Ignacy Karoliszyn, and Rozalia Karoliszyn (maiden name Stenral).
Education
Ursula von Rydingsvard witnessed the struggles of the Polish occupation during World War II. She lived along with her parents, forced laborers of the Nazis, and her six siblings in nine refugee camps in Germany. In 1950, the family fled to the United States and settled down in Plainville, Connecticut.
Von Rydingsvard attended the University of New Hampshire from 1960 to 1962. Three years later, she received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degrees in painting from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. From 1969 to 1970 she attended the University of California, Berkeley. She entered Columbia University, New York City three years later and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art in 1975.
In 1991, von Rydingsvard obtained an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
Ursula von Rydingsvard emerged to the art scene in the middle of the 1970s. The first solo show of her utilitarian-like sculptures was held in 1992 at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York. Since the beginning of her artistic career, von Rydingsvard has widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including the major shows at Madison Square Park, New York City, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, and a 2014-2015 outdoor exhibition in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, the largest exhibition to date.
Apart from her favorite material, cedar, von Rydingsvard has experimented with other mediums in her at once massive and humble sculptures during the course of her career. She has used bronze, animal guts, textiles, and delicate handmade paper as well.
In addition, Ursula von Rydingsvard has been actively involved in academics. Beginning in 1978, she served as an assistant professor at Pratt Institute occupying the same post at Fordham University, both till 1982. She has also been an instructor at New York’s School of Visual Arts and an associate professor at Yale University. In 1986, von Rydingsvard joined the staff of the School of Visual Arts New York as an associate professor serving in that capacity till 2002.
Nowadays, von Rydingsvard lives and works in New York City where her art is represented by Galerie Lelong.
Quotations:
"I have made so many bowls, but my bowl is never a bowl,” she says. “Even when I say that word, it’s a huge lie. I don’t even have a reason. If I say what the reason is it always sounds so stupid, but there are urges that I have that are very intuitive, that I need to answer. I have something that I yearn for that the previous piece didn’t satisfy."
"I knew that what I saw was the thing I could trust, or maybe it was the thing that I was curious about or made the greatest impression. But it was my eyes. My eyes were the most potent thing in my life."
"Sculpture gives a greater sense of reality. That’s a ridiculous word to use, but they have a greater substance. You can grab a sculpture. You can’t grab a painting. There’s something about things that really exist in this world, which seems different to me than ideas that float."
"I can’t quite figure out how I would live without doing what I do with my sculpture."
Membership
Ursula von Rydingsvar became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008. Four years later, she was admitted to the National Academy of Design.
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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United States
2008
National Academy of Design
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United States
2012
Connections
Ursula von Rydingsvard is married to Paul Greengard.