Sculptor
· Born in 1952
- United States
Ronald Gonzalez
12 Artworks
Ronald Gonzalez
United States
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Established Artist
« My sculptures explore the emotive, social, and psychological associations of decaying, found objects that function as autobiographical metaphors. »
Ronald Gonzalez is a contemporary, figurative artist based in upstate New York. Since the mid seventies, Gonzalez has created elegiac sculptures and installations that evoke death and loss infused with grotesque narratives. Gonzalez works primarily with steel armatures, time worn objects, and detritus collected from his surroundings. The work is developed with metal filings, burned wax, glue, wire, and black soot creating a dramatic, tonal range that both obscures and reveals his anthropomorphic heads, torsos and figures imbued with a sense of primal energy.
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1952
- Mediums
- Sculptor
Individual Development Award, Binghamton University- Winner- New York, United States
Individual Development Award, Binghamton University- Winner- New York, United States
Foundation Award for Creative Work in the Fine Arts- Winner- New York, United States
In The Palm of My Hand / Curious Cabinet at EJECTA Projects - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States
Things Portrayed, Jonathan LeVine Projects / Mana Contemporary - Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Hat Figures / Exhibit A Contemporary Art - Corning, New York, United States
Figures / Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College - Oneonta, New York, United States
Object to figure / Ann Fulton Multicultural Art Center, Onondaga College - Onondaga, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Recent Sculpture / Margaret Colacino Gallery, Nazareth College - Rochester, New York, United States
Upright Objects: The Assemblage Sculpture of Ronald Gonzalez / Leader-Lockert-Bridge Galleries, and SUNY Geneseo - New York, United States
Smalls / Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, Fine, and Performing Arts Center - East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Seeing in the Dark / A.D Gallery, University of North Carolina - Pembroke, United States
Mind Things / Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva - New York, United States
My Own Little World / Exhibit A Contemporary Art - Corning, New York, United States
Soulless / Lear Gallery - Sag Harbor, New York, United States
Person, Place, Thing / Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts - Binghamton, New York, United States
Private Collection / Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Studies For Black Figures: Maquettes & Working Models / Suraci Gallery, Marywood University - Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
amned / Wehling McGill Galleries, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University - Indiana, United States
Ronald Gonzalez, Black Figures / Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts - Binghamton, New York, United States
Decompositions: Bundle, Compost, Hive, Profile, and Siren / Goodyear Gallery, Dickinson College - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States
Objects as Figures, Figures as Objects / Sumter County Gallery of Art - Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Fated Objects and Strange Progeny / The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Art, College of Art - Washington, D.C., United States
Reuniting the Head with the Body / Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York - Oswego, United States
Assemblages / Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University - Lawrence, Wisconsin, United States
The Monstrous And The Human / Tower Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York - Brockport NY, United States
Tour: Forty Demonic Heads / The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Still Life’s / Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art And Design - Savannah, Georgia, United States
Catacomb / Penelec Gallery, Allegheny College - Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States
Body Plans: Wrapped-Headed Figures, Drawings and Reliefs / Mingenbach Art Center, Bethany College - Lindsborg, Kansas, United States
Arches, Birds Fly Through Us / Laumeier Sculpture Park - St. Louis, Missouri, United States
So Ends This Day / Hudson D. Walker Gallery of Art - Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Traveled / Moss Thorn Gallery of Art, Visual Art Center - Fort Hays, Kansas, United States
Catacomb / Emporia Art Center - Emporia, Kansas, United States
Catacomb / Salina Art Center - Salina, Kansas, United States
Crosses / Everson Museum of Art - Syracuse, New York, United States
Skulls / Ute Stebich Gallery - Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
Stacked Skeletons / Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina - North Carolina, United States
Candlemen / Dowd Fine Arts Center, State University College - Cortland, New York, United States
Ascending and Falling / Fine Arts Gallery, Long Island University - South Hampton, New York, United States
Just Below Heaven / Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs - Connecticut, United States
Turning Bodies into Souls / INTAR Gallery - New York, United States
Inside My Big Eye / Second Street Gallery - Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Studies for Sculpture / Rahr West Art Museum - Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Figures - New Sculptures/Drawings / Edith Barrett Art Gallery - Utica, New York, United States
Sculpture/Drawings / Allan Stone Gallery - New York, United States
Beautiful Beings: The Sculpture of Ronald Gonzalez / Ahearn Gallery, Roberson Museum - Binghamton, New York, United States
Relief Sculpture: Assembled Dreams / MOCHA New York - New York, United States
Selected Small Work / 171 Art Center - Corning, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Recent Sculpture / University Art Gallery, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Recent Sculpture / Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University - Canton, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Maquettes / Large Sculpture / Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York - Oneonta, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Relief Sculpture / Germano Art Gallery - Rochester, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez: Sculpture / Arnot Art Museum - Elmira, New York, United States
Sculpture/Relief Sculpture / University Art Museum, State University of New York - Binghamton, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez, Sculpture / Reliefs / Studio Gallery - Johnson City, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez, Sculpture/Reliefs/Drawings / Studio Gallery - Johnson City, New York, United States
Ronald Gonzalez, Sculpture/Reliefs/Drawings / Studio Gallery - Johnson City, New York, United States
The Ego Bianchi Contemporary Art Triennial / The Associazione Culturale Ego Bianchi Foundation - Cuneo, Italy
Littletopia at L. A. Modern & Contemporary International Art Fair / Los Angeles Convention Center - Los Angles, California, United States
Miami Art Basel / Juxtapoz Clubhouse - Miami, Florida, United States
SOFA Art Fair: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art and Design / Navy Pier - Chicago, Illinois, United States
Scope Miami / Miami Beach Pavilion, x Juxtapoz Magazine Clubhouse - Miami, Florida, United States
New York Bound: International Book Art Biennial / Islip Art Museum - East Islip, New York, United States
Echo Art Fair / The Central L Building - Buffalo, New York, United States
3rd Rochester Biennial Invitational / Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, New York, United States
The Halpert Biennial / Turchin Center for the Arts - Boone, North Carolina, United States
The Roundabout Biennial Sculpture Exhibition / Kingston Urban Cultural Parks Center - Kingston, New York, United States
Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art / Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York Purchase - New York, United States
Art Miami ’91 / Miami Beach Convention Center Hall, OPUS Gallery - Miami, Florida, United States
Sculpture Biennial ’89 / The University of Texas - Tyler, Texas, United States
Everson Biennial / Everson Museum of Art - Syracuse, New York, United States
Eckler Foundation Grant Binghamton University - New York, United States
Jean-Pierre Mileur Faculty Research Grant Binghamton University - New York, United States
New York Foundation for the Arts SOS Grant - New York, United States
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation - New York, United States
The Corporation of Yaddo - Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Race Point Lighthouse Residency Grant, Provincetown Center for the Arts - Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist’s Grant - New York, United States
SCULPTURE SPACE - Utica, New York, United States
New York Foundation for the Arts SOS Grant - New York, United States
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Salina Arts Center - Salina, Kanas, United States
Latino/o Studies Program - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
New York Foundation for the Arts SOS Grant - New York, United States
SCULPTURE SPACE - Utica, New York, United States
New York State Council on the Arts Project Grant - New York, United States
Roberson Museum and Science Center, - Binghamton, New York, United States
New York State Council on the Arts, Artist in Community Grant - New York, United States
John Michael Kohler Arts and Industry Artists Residency - Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist’s Grant - New York, United States
Tower Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York, United States
Trout Gallery of Art, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dam, Indiana, United States
Sumter County Cultural Center, Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Spool MFG. Contemporary Art Space Johnson City, New York, United States
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, United States
South Bend Museum of Art, United States
Security Mutual Insurance Company, Binghamton, New York, United States
Roberson Museum of Art, Binghamton, New York, United States
Ricardo Pao-Llosa, Coral Gables, Florida, United States
Rahr West Art Museum, Manitowoc, United States
Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis, United States
Pear Design Company, Endicott, New York, United States
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University, United States
National Watch and Clock Museum, Columbia, United States
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, United States
Museum of Contemporary and Hispanic Art, New York, United States
Munson-William-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, United States
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, United States
Memorial Art Museum of the University of Rochester, United States
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, University of Kansas, United States
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, United States
Leader- Lockert-Bridge Galleries at SUNY Geneseo, United States
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, United States
Joseph Blank Contemporary Sculpture, Premium Point, New York, United States
John Michael Kohler Art Center, United States
Hobart and William Smith College, United States
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, United States
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, United States
Gibbs Museum of Art, Charlestown, United States
Walker Ford Collection, United States
Fort Hays University, United States
Folk Arts Gallery, Baltimore, United States
Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, United States
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Everson Museum of Art, United States
Everhart Museum, United States
Dowd Fine Arts Center, State University of New York, United States
DePaul University Art Gallery, United States
Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Capital Cities, ABC Incorporated, New York, United States
Cape Cod Museum of Art, United States
Betty Krulik Fine Art Limited. New York, United States
Brauer Museum, United States
Beej Nierengarten and James Smith Collection, United States
Art Theater, Binghamton, New York, United States
Amherst Gallery of Art, University of Massachusetts, United States
Allan Stone Collection, United States
Learn more about Ronald Gonzalez's artwork
Ronald Gonzalez in the Studio
Ronald Gonzalez on Social Media
Artworks trending now
Discover our most popular contemporary artworks for sale
