Ross Bleckner Untitled, 2025
Oil on linen
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed, dated, and inscribed verso
Ross Bleckner (b. 1949) emerged as a prominent artist in New York during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, with paintings investigating change, loss, memory, and the human body. In 1995, Bleckner received a midcareer retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York. Bleckner has exhibited widely at museums around the world including the SFMoMA; ICA Philadelphia; Kunsthalle Zurich; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Martin Museum of Art, Texas; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Reina Sofia, Madrid; LACMA; Kunstmuseum Luzern. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. For seventeen years, Bleckner served as the president of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, a non-profit, community-based AIDS research and treatment center. In 2009, he was awarded the title of Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations for his work helping to rehabilitate child soldiers in northern Uganda. He received a BA from New York University in 1971, and an MFA from CalArts in 1973.