Ron Norsworthy

Biography

Ron Norsworthy is an interdisciplinary artist whose broad practice engages the fields of art, architecture, filmmaking and design. Informing his work is a foundational belief that the rooms, spaces and environments we inhabit and interact with speak volumes not only about who we are now, but also about our dreams, aspirations and our struggles as well. Through the creation of collaged reliefs, decorative objects, textiles and installations, his work carries the viewer through a non-linear, layered story of his life, one shaped by his lived experience as a queer person of the global majority.

 

Norsworthy was born in South Bend, Indiana and currently lives and works in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively. His work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem, NY; The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY; Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT; Standard Space, Sharon, CT; Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ; the International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE; the New York Historical Society, NYC; the Governor’s Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY; the Armory Show, NY; Paris Photo; and it is also in the permanent collection of the Newark Museum of Art. In 2023, Norsworthy was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in Visual Arts.

Works
  • Tonya Lewis Lee and Children
    Ron Norsworthy
    Tonya Lewis Lee and Children, 2005-2025
  • an interior room with wood paneling and two Black girls watching TV with checkered rug and other eclectic decoration and design by Ron Norsworthy
    Ron Norsworthy
    A Different World, 2025
  • More or Less
    Ron Norsworthy
    More or Less, 2025
  • Trying to Remember the Future
    Ron Norsworthy
    Trying to Remember the Future, 2025
  • Considering Narcissus
    Ron Norsworthy
    Considering Narcissus, 2024
  • Constructed interior with floral wallpaper and man in suit sitting at mirror, with woman in reflection and painted portrait of woman on the wall, by Ron Norsworthy
    Ron Norsworthy
    Narcissus and Echo, 2024
  • Ron Norsworthy, Open Door (Is This All There Is?), 2023
    Ron Norsworthy
    Open Door (Is This All There Is?), 2023
  • Poolside (They Can't Bother Us Today)
    Ron Norsworthy
    Poolside (They Can't Bother Us Today), 2023
  • bouquet of flowers made out of jewelry and representations of flowers with painted rose on table, by Ron Norsworthy
    Ron Norsworthy
    Vanitas #1 (Got to Be Real), 2024
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