b. 1973 in Westbury, USA
lives and works in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Riley has an MFA in painting from Yale University and a BA in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College.
Enrico Riley is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Visual Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize in Painting, and holds the George Frederick Jewitt Professorship in Art at Dartmouth College. Riley has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the American Academy in Rome, the University of New Hampshire and Jenkins Johnson Projects. He has participated in recent group exhibitions at “State of the Art 2020” at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art and “Black Bodies on the Cross” at The Hood Museum. His work is in institutions including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Hood Museum, and Nasher Sculpture Center.
Grants and Awards
2018
Friedman Family Fellowship, Dartmouth College
John Manley Huntington Award for Newly Promoted Faculty, Dartmouth
College
New Directions in Humanities Scholarship and Arts Practice, Dartmouth
College
2017
American Academy in Rome Project Fund Award
2016
Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome
2013
Jacobus Family Fellowship, Dartmouth College
2009 – 2012
Walter and Constance Burke Research Award, Dartmouth College
April 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
May 2004
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize
July 2000
Paul Harper Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship
1996 – 1998
Phillip Morris Fellowship
1997
Schollkopf Traveling Prize, Yale School of Art
1995 – 1996
Visual Studies Internship, Dartmouth College
Selected solo exhibitions
2019
Enrico Riley: New Work, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2018
The Receptors, Volta Art Fair, New York, New York, USA
2017
Infinite Receptors New Work, Jaffe Friede Gallery, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, USA
Open Studio, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Infinite Receptors, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy March
2015
Surfer’s Delight, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
2014
Enrico Riley: Recent Work, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, USA
2013
Portable Vision, Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
2012
Portable Vision, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, USA
2012
Nonthropology, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
The Open Window, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
2012
Around The Kitchen Table, The Painting Center, New York, USA
2011
Enrico Riley: Works on Paper, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, USA
Enrico Riley, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, USA
2009
Enrico Riley, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College
Stars and Constellations, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, USA
2008
Golden Cup, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2004
Sounding Silence, The Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State
University, Plymouth, USA
Selected Group exhibitions
2019
Untitled Art Fair SF, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Figuration, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, USA
2018
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2017
High Noon, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy
Spazi Aperti 2017, Metamorphosis: Before and After Rome, Accademia di
Romania, Rome, Italy
2017
The Tiny Biennale, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
Cinque Mostre, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Prescient Habits, Rhode Island School of Design Ehp, Rome, Italy
2016
Holiday Show, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
2015
Holiday Show, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
Walk the Line, Pagus Projects, Norristown, USA
The Abstract Body, Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, USA
Faculty Show, New Hampshire Institute for the Arts, Manchester, USA
2014
Prime Matter, SenaSpace Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, USA
Beyond Measure, SEABA Gallery Burlington, USA
2013
Mostly White, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
Overlap, Bennington Art Center, Bennington, USA
2012
The Figure, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, USA
FountainHead, The Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
Silent Auction, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, USA
SCOPE International Art Show, New York, USA
2011
Holiday Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, USA
Annual 100 x 100 Online Art Exhibition, Triangle Arts Association, New
York, USA
Summer Paper, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
Silent Auction, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, USA
2010
Small Works Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, USA
54th National Fall Open Exhibition, Southern Vermont Arts Center,
Manchester, USA
Public collections
2012 Columbus Museum, Columbus, USA
2012 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA
2008 Werner Kramarsky Drawing Collection, New York, USA
2005 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
1995 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA