Gryphon Rue (b. New York City) is an artist whose visual and sonic works weave disparate aesthetic languages into unexpected forms. Rue combines found and fabricated materials, the natural and the synthetic, and high and low fidelity, engaging a tactile, even improvisational approach to making. The artist’s wall pieces on cut metal, lenticular backpacks, and MDF board—at times encased in acrylic skylights—are collaged and abstracted from cross-cultural and ethnographic sources, registering as both poetic gestures and archival traces. His automatic drawings likewise reflect the spirit of listening and improvisation that animates his electroacoustic performances.
In Rue’s music, compositions are shaped from layered textures and field recordings (including material sourced from obscure corners of the internet), blurring the boundaries between the natural and the digitally transformed. Drawing from processes found in nature—feedback, cycles, emergence, and systemic interaction—the artist uses environmental sounds and processed acoustic instruments to emulate organic patterns and phenomena.
His 2025 album I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water has drawn acclaim for its unconventional instrumentation and ecological imagination: “Creaking and grumbling and humming with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical” (The Quietus); Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp. “A conjuror in stereo” (Electronic Sound) who “plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light” (The Quietus), Rue brings to his music “restless energy, offering up bright, sweet packet-sized servings of electroacoustic crispness, pulsing ambient techno, and Cluster’s proto-industrial chug” (The Wire).
For 2026, Rue is an inaugural commissioned artist for Calder Gardens in Philadelphia. As a 2023-2024 Jerome Artist resident at Roulette, he premiered Playing The Beetles with Ka Baird and Qasim Naqvi (Best New Experimental Music on Bandcamp), as well as North American premieres of Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile and Ananta. Other collaborators include Christine Sun Kim, Brandon Lopez, Susie Ibarra, Dean Wareham, Alex Waterman, Sean Meehan, Edwin Torres, Will Epstein, and Benton C Bainbridge. He has performed at venues such as Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Fondazione ICA Milano, de Young Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Hepworth Wakefield, Vector Hack Festival, Roulette Mixology. He has organized interdisciplinary exhibitions and festivals for institutions such as Ballroom Marfa, the Calder Foundation, and Printed Matter.
His programs with Montez Press Radio include conversations with figures such as David Behrman, “Blue” Gene Tryanny, Annea Lockwood, Phill Niblock, Clark Coolidge, and Fran Lebowitz. Rue edited and “composed” Strange Attractor (Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa), an artist book exploring the poetics of networks, environmental events, and sound through contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Merlin Sheldrake, Bernadette Mayer, Beatrice Gibson, Haroon Mirza, among others.
Contact: gryphonrue@gmail.com
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
2025. I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water, LP, Self-released
2024. 4n_Objx, LP, Self-released
2022. A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, Tape, Not Not Fun
2020. Foliage of Caves, Tape, Soap Library
GROUP DISCOGRAPHY
2024. Playing The Beetles, Gryphon Rue, Ka Baird, Qasim Naqvi, Bess beetles, Tape, Soap Library
2021. North of The Future, Gryphon Rue & Merche Blasco, Tape, Astral Editions
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby, Vertical Foliage (Gryphon Rue & Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, ft. Valentina Magaletti), Digital EP, CAMP Editions
SOUNDTRACKS
2025. No Contact, (short) dir. Meryl O’Connor
2024. Endurance, (feature) dir. Keren Cytter
2024. Queens in Queens, (short) dir. Keren Cytter
2023. In the Spirit of Calder, (feature documentary) dir. Marjoleine Boonstra
2023. SO UNREAL, (feature documentary) A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (song), dir. Amanda Kramer
2023. PSYCHOTHERAPIST (short), dir. Keren Cytter
2021. Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, and their dog Duke at 161 Essex St. (short), dir. Sandy Rower
2018. Gropius Memory Palace, (short) dir. Ben Thorp Brown
2012. Eucalyptus, (short) Calder Foundation
2012. Black Mobile with Hole, (short) Calder Foundation
2012. Bosquet is the Best Best,(short) Calder Foundation
ARTIST BOOKS
2023. Dinosaur Land, Foreign & Domestic Gallery
2019. Strange Attractor, Pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa (editor, author of texts “Elias Sime,” “Mark Lombardi,” “Douglas Ross,” and in conversation with Merlin Sheldrake). Contributions by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horwitz, Lucky Dragons, Herbert Matter, Haroon Mirza, Chloe Aridjis, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Douglas Kahn, Bernadette Mayer.)
WRITING
2026. Calder and Sound / Calder y el sonido in Tuning Calder’s Clouds, edited by Vic Brooks, Dr. Jennifer Burris, and Mariana Fernández, Athénée Press
2025. Calder and Sound in Open Space Magazine, ed. Dorota Czerner
2021. Duchamp Coping Techniques, The Lacanian Review (issue 11, The Art of Singularities)
2021. Mission statement for multidisciplinary arts center D R O N E, New York
2021. Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark, Printed Matter at Swiss Institute, New York
2020. Calder & Varèse excerpted from Calder and Sound, in Sounds Lasting and Leaving, Luxembourg & Dayan (exhibition catalogue)
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics, in Calder Stories, Centro Botín (exhibition catalogue)
2018. Storm Tracker, in Dis-assemb-blies 08, Will Work For Good (magazine)
2018. Calder y el sonido in Alexander Calder: Teatro de Encuentros, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (exhibition catalogue)
2014. PostcART: Jay Miriam, Contemporary Lynx
2013. Calder and Sound in Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (exhibition
catalogue)
PRESENTATIONS
2025. The Condensation of Sonic Pattern in Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy, Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, New York
2021. Calder’s Music: How The Mobile Changed The Sonic Arts, Calder-Picasso, de Young Museum, San Francisco
2019. Calder and Sound, Index Festival, The Hepworth Wakefield, England
2019. Panel discussion, The Lacanian Unconscious: A No-Brainer, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York
2018. Calder and Sound, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
2018. Rue Bainbridge, Center for Visual Music Symposium, Sonoma State University
2018. Playing The Beetles, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht
2013. Calder and Sound, Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
RADIO
Radio Raheem Milano (ongoing):
2025: Sean McCann’s The Leopard
2025: Echoes from Salted North: Studying :zoviet*france:
2025: Last Night I Heard the Dogstar Bark: New Works, Old Codes
2025: Brain B
Montez Press Radio:
(Click here and search M.P.R. under “Gryphon Rue”)
2024: The Struggle of the Magicians: What is Italian Minimalism?
2024: Phill Niblock tribute
2022: Phill Niblock (Earmark X)
2022: Rip Hayman (Earmark IX)
2022: David Behrman (Earmark VIII)
2022: Niagara & Merche Blasco (Earmark VII)
2022: Annea Lockwood & Zach Phillips (Earmark VI)
2022. Cosmos; a Modular Circus on Strange Attractor, Short Waves / Long Distance, Co-presented by Wave Farm, Montez Press Radio, and The North American Shortwave Association.
2021: Clark Coolidge (Earmark V)
2021: Ben Vida & Mauro Hertig (Earmark IV)
2021: Max Eastley & Ruth Garbus (Earmark III)
2021: Shelley Hirsch & Charmaine Lee (Earmark II)
2021: “Blue” Gene Tyranny & Matt Marble (Earmark I)
2020: Fran Lebowitz: The Designated New Yorker
2020: Clayton Patterson: Artist & Kulturträger
2020: Gryphon Rue: Strange Attractor
MUSIC VIDEOS
2024. Shibboleth, dir. Keren Cytter
2024. Rake’s Progress, dir. Keren Cytter
2023. Watercolor Virus, dir. Benton C Bainbridge
2023. Rainbow Serpent, dir. Keren Cytter
2023. Acoustic Temple, dir. B. Wurtz
2023. Glaciermilk, dir. Dante Lentz
2023. Optical & Magnetic, dir. Taietzel Ticalos
2023. A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, dir. Benton C Bainbridge
2023. Hologram in Prague, dir. Gryphon Rue & Taietzel Ticalos
2023. Eros, dir. DataSpaceTime
2023. Grass Light on Flesh, dir. Robert Buck
2023. Emotional Agility, dir. Abigail Child
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby (as Vertical Foliage), dir. Sandy Rower
2020. Chaotic Repeller Distance-Towers, dir. James Powers
2016. Beethoven for Relaxation, dir. Max Grey
2016. Insect Express, dir. Emily Pelstring
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), with Benton C Bainbridge
SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Here Come The Wormholes, with Benton C Bainbridge
2020. Rue Bainbridge: Biome, with Benton C Bainbridge
2018. Rue Bainbridge: Holocene Jitterbug, with Benton C Bainbridge
2018. L I C E N S E, with Robert Buck
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Christine Sun Kim & Dean Wareham), with Benton C Bainbridge
CURATION
2021. Buddhist Bubblegum: Esoteric Buddhism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell, Book launch for author Matt Marble and performance by Singing Tractors, Printed Matter/St Marks
2021. The Location of Serenity, D R O N E, New York
2021. Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark, Printed Matter/St Marks
2019. Calder Stories, Curator & editor of music for animated ballets,
Centro Botin
2017. Symbol Rush, Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum, New York
2017. Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2016. The Sump (now H0L0) event series, New York
2016. Earle Brown’s Calder Piece, 1963–66, Calder Foundation, Earle Brown Foundation, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Friends Seminary, New York
2015. Eureka, sound installations, Pace Gallery, New York
2013. They might well have been remnants of the boat, with Katherine Cohn and Victoria Brooks, Calder Foundation, The High Line Hotel, New York
2012. Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, with Katherine Cohn, Victoria Brooks, and Kevin Barry, Calder Foundation, The Mckittrick Hotel, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025. Paper Room, Halsey Mckay, New York
2025. Social Photography XI, Carriage Trade, New York
2024. Waste Yarn Project W/ Friends Cup Project, Paris
2023. AFTER LIVES, Foreign & Domestic, New York
2022. The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York
2021. Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York
RESIDENCIES
2023-2024. Roulette Jerome Artist Resident
2019. Rue Bainbridge: Andrew Freedman Home, New York
2019. Rue Bainbridge: CultureHub, New York
2017. Rue Bainbridge: Public Works Department, Governor’s Island, New York
2016. NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam
