Artist Profile

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Outdoor set-up only. Masking and Social Distancing encouraged.

Ross Ford is an artist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. Countless afternoons spent in comic book stores informed the hours he would spend doodling and creating his own characters. Encouraged by his grandfather, a commercial artist, he also explored perspective, drafting and various pen and ink techniques. He was encouraged to explore the expressive and conceptual content of his work by a friendship with outsider artist Duane Penske when he lived in rural Minnesota during his middle school years. He studied film and video production at Hampshire College, with a secondary concentration in social psychology and entrepreneurship. He went on to study mass communication at the University of Florida.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Portraits, HQ Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

2011 Further Complications, Durham Art Guild (Suntrust Gallery), Durham, NC

2010 Iterative Expression, GAB Studio, Miami, FL

2008 Recent Paintings presented by Butter Gallery, Century Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

Group Exhibitions

2019 Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC

2017 Canvas Miami, Miami, FL

2016 The Beginning of Everything, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

  • The Annual Juried Show, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC

2015 Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

  • Reunion, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, FL

2014 Project Room, Brisky Gallery, Miami, FL

  • The New Post-Literate: Asemic Writing, Atelier Showroom, Rijika, Croatia

  • N.E.W., Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

  • Spring Group, Lasheras+Elliot, Mexico City, MX

  • Uncharted, Trespass Gallery, Clarksville, TN

  • Case Studies, Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2013 Ternary, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC

  • Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

2012 GAB Studio Basel 2012, GAB Studio, Miami, FL

  • 12x12x2012, Golden Belt, Durham, NC

  • This & That, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, FL

  • The Art of the Auction, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

  • Chapel Hill Public and Cultural Arts Office, Town Hall, Chapel Hill, NC

  • VAE Exchange Gallery, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

  • Art No Bull, 311 Martin Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2011 GAB Studio Basel 2011, GAB Studio, Miami, FL

  • 12x12, Golden Belt, Durham NC

  • Forum: Works by VAE’s Artists’ Groups, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

  • State of the Art/Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

  • The Art of the Auction, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

2010 GAB Studio Basel 2010, GAB Studio, Miami, FL

  • Lucky You 2, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL

  • Miami International Art Fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL

2009 Overthrow @ GenArt Vanguard, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL

  • BAC23, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL

  • Miami's Independent Thinkers, Mitrani Warehouse, Miami, FL

  • Current Works: Painting, Miami Art Exchange, Miami, FL

  • Recently Acquired, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL

2008 Timeline, 131 Projects, Miami, FL

  • Metamorphosis, Alt Space Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

  • Culture Couture, Alt Space Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

  • Loaded Deck, Alt Space Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

  • 1 Year Anniversary, Butter Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

2007 Cooler Art, Damien B. Art Center, Miami, FL

  • 2X Butter, Butter Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

  • The First Show, Butter Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL