 Born in London, England in  Currently lives in New York.  Got his BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London and also attended Boston University.  Has had exhibitions at Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; MASS MoCA; SFMoMA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami  Also has had exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial (1997), Sydney Biennale (2002), and São Paulo Bienale (2004)  Worked as a building superintendant before exhibiting art.

No Sign of the World 2004, Oil and marker on canvas, 99 x 154 inches

 Working in a morgue before becoming an artist showed him that all lives must die. He uses the idea of death as a concept in his works.  Principles of Thermodynamics and Quantum physics are worked into his paintings.  Mythological and religious explanations for the way things are part of his works.

Jeremy Mores McWreath Exploding Right This Minute, 2006 oil and ink on canvas 36 x 36 inches Mary Iverson Cargo 2, 2008 Oil and ink on canvas. 48 x 60 inches.

(left) The Dead: Belphegor 2004, Ink and graphite on Denril, 54 x 36 inches (below) detail of drawing “…I draw out all these different motifs, and then I lay them on top of each other...Out of that, you can pull this form that turns into the sculpture or the painting. It’s literally like pulling the narrative out…”

 Paper  Prints  Light-box drawings  Floor-to-wall installations  Freestanding sculpture  Web sites  Short stories  Drawing is central to his work. He scans his drawings into the computer so that images can be blown up, taken apart, made smaller or three-dimensional, re- shaped, transformed into digital games, or given to someone else to execute. One ongoing work that Ritchie calls an endless drawing contains everything he has drawn before.

 Judaeo-Christian religion  Occult practices  Gnostic traditions  Scientific elements and principles.

Place? Time? Ecology? Power? Paradox? Humor? Stories? Spirituality? Structures?

STRUCTURES!

His techniques

What is a structure? Is structure always a physical element? How is structure important?

Collaboration with Another Artist Interview with Ritchie