Brie Ruais

Brie Ruais is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working in large “multi-faceted” ceramic sculptures, performance, and site-specific installation. body-conscious strain of feminist sculpture and addresses themes such as the environment, feminist theory, and embodiment. Her work falls in the lineage of body-based conceptual artists Janine Antoni, artists whose work engages with the land such as Michelle Stuart, She received her MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in 2011, where she studied with Jon Kessler.

Work Ruais’s abstract ceramic sculptures as well as the physical and psychological imprint of their maker. The titles of her work reference the gestures she performs, like “spreading out from center,” “compressing,” “pushing landscape,” and “making space from the inside.” Her process is highly physical and it is performed quickly from beginning to end, utilizing her entire body.

Ruais is known for her circular wall works The sculptures are made on the floor and then hung vertically on the wall. They resemble clocks, starbursts,

Exhibitions 2024 Brie Ruais: Bone Dice, Albertz Benda, New York, NY 2024 Brie Ruais: Oneness, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2021 Movement on the Edge of the Land, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX 2021 Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2021 This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany 2021 This Earth: Notes and Observations From Montello Foundation Artists, The Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT 2020 Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics, The Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2020 The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2020 Afterimages, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada 2019 Earth Piece, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 2019 America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 2019 Intimate Immensity, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2019 The Form Will Find its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2017 New Ruins, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC 2015 Crafted: Objects in Flux, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA 2015 The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA 2014 EAF14 Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 2013 Vessels, The Horticulture Society of New York, New York, NY 2011 BYTS Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Awards 2021 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2017 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, NY, NY 2017 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, Nevada 2016 Dieu Donne, Workspace Program Residency, NY, NY

Collections Ruais' work is in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, Matamoros Art In Embassies Collection, Mexico, Burger Collection, Hong Kong, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.