Ron Norsworthy
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.
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Ron NorsworthyPoolside (They Can't Bother Us Today), 2023
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Ron NorsworthyFour Forty-Eight (She Had Something on Her Mind), 2023
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Ron NorsworthySold (We Had to Deal With What Has Passed), 2023
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Ron NorsworthyOpen Door (Is This All There Is?), 2023
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Ron NorsworthyVanitas #1 (Got to Be Real), 2024
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Ron NorsworthyNarcissus and Echo, 2024
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Ron NorsworthyNarcissus (Maybe It's Time), 2024
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Ron NorsworthyConsidering Narcissus, 2024
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Ron NorsworthyNarcissus in Rollers, 2024
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AIPAD Talks: Depth of Field with Ron Norsworthy
9 December 2024In this Depth of Field: Member Presentations talk, Ron Norsworthy and Edwynn Houk Gallery join Lydia Melamed Johnson, Executive Director of AIPAD, in conversation around Norsworthy’s latest show titled I, Narcissus, currently on view through December 21.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy in Hyperallergic
Interview with Damien Davis 20 November 2024Damien Davis and Ron Norsworthy at Project for Empty Space discuss their practices and explore shared themes. Their conversation touched on identity, beauty, and the...Read more -
Ron Norsworthy in Surface Magazine
Interview with Jenna Adrian-Diaz 14 November 2024In his newly opened exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Ron Norsworthy’s poignant collaged reliefs serve as a rich tableaux of his reflections on self-love, beauty, and adornment, all while slyly deflecting his viewer’s gaze.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy in Essence
Interview with Killian Wright-Jackson 5 November 2024Norsworthy reimagines classical notions of beauty with his latest exhibition I, Narcissus, subverting exclusionary ideals and celebrating Black glamourRead more -
Ron Norsworthy in designboom
Interview about I, Narcissus exhibition 28 October 2024Ron Norsworthy and Kat Barandy sit down for an interview about Norsworthy's series "I, Narcissus," the process behind the works, and his first exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery in November 2024.Read more -
Opening Reception for Ron Norsworthy: I, Narcissus
Thursday, November 14, 6-8pm 8 October 2024Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to present I, Narcissus, an exhibition of new work by Ron Norsworthy that will be the artist’s first with the...Read more -
DARNstudio's "G.O.A.T. The Art Game" at Newark Museum of Art
Featured in Architectural Digest January 2024 Issue 3 January 2024DARNstudio's "G.O.A.T. The Art Game" has been acquired by the Newark Museum of Art and is a part of the visitor experience at their newly restored Ballantine House.Read more -
The Kenyon Review, Winter 2024 Issue
Cover art by DARNstudio 1 January 2024DARNstudio's artwork is featured on the cover of the literary journal The Kenyon Review's Winter 2024 issue.Read more -
Multidisciplinary Authenticity: A Conversation with Artist Ron Norsworthy
Ron Norsworthy in White Hot Magazine 14 April 2023White Hot Magazine interviews artist Ron Norsworthy, discussing his multidisciplinary practice, his own lived experience in the world, and how he engages with his art.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy at the Newark Museum
Ongoing exhibition: Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century 1 April 2023Ron Norsworthy's work is included in the Newark Museum's long-term exhibition "Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century," an ongoing display of nearly 80 artworks that reframe The Museum’s historical American art collection to foreground slavery and Black and Indigenous history.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy is 2023 MacDowell Recipient
Visual Arts - Mixed Media Artist Grantee 28 February 2023Ron Norsworthy, a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work employs notions of space and decoration of space as narratives about his lived experience as a queer person of color as well as that of his communities.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy in The New York Times
1 October 2021Ron Norsworthy, a visual artist and designer, could slot easily into popular culture’s ideal of the hero: He is a man of relentless self-invention.Read more