Gryphon Rue (b. New York, NY) is an artist, composer, and musician based in Brooklyn, New York.

“A conjuror in stereo” (Electronic Sounds) who “plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light” (The Quietus), Rue has garnered critical acclaim for albums self-released as well as on labels such as Not Not Fun, Astral Editions, Tiger Sushi, and Soap Library.

His performances of electro-acoustic music span venues such as Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Fondazione ICA Milano, de Young Museum, The Hepworth Wakefield, Experimental Arts Intermedia, Roulette Mixology Festival, New Media Art & Sound Summit, Vector Hack Festival, and many others.

As a Roulette 2023-2024 Jerome Artist Resident, Rue presented North American Premieres of Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile and Ananta; Clepsydra (with Susie Ibarra and Will Epstein); and Playing The Beetles (with Ka Baird and Qasim Naqvi). He has collaborated extensively with Benton C Bainbridge in the light and sound duo Rue Bainbridge. 

He is the editor of Strange Attractor (pub. Inventory Press/Ballroom Marfa), exploring the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound (with contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Iannis Xenakis, Merlin Sheldrake, Mark Lombardi, and Bernadette Mayer, among others).

As a curator he has organized interdisciplinary exhibitions, performances, and festivals for institutions and alternative spaces such as Ballroom Marfa, the Calder Foundation, Printed Matter, Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, and D R O N E.

Video works are distributed through The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and collaborations with Robert Buck via Electronic Arts Intermix. His programs with Montez Press Radio include conversations with figures such as David Behrman, “Blue” Gene Tryanny, Annea Lockwood, Clark Coolidge, and Fran Lebowitz. 

Contact: gryphonrue@gmail.com

SOLO DISCOGRAPHY

2024. 4n_Objx (Vinyl & Digital album), No Label
2022. A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (Cassette & Digital album), Not Not Fun
2020. Foliage of Caves (Cassette & Digital album), Soap Library
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Dean Wareham & Christine Sun Kim) (single), Tiger Sushi
2015. Guilt Vacation as El Tryptophan (LP), Self-release

GROUP DISCOGRAPHY

2024. Playing The Beetles (Soap Library), Gryphon Rue, Ka Baird, Qasim Naqvi, Bess beetles
2022. Resounding: North of The Future (Tiger Sushi), Gryphon Rue, Merche Blasco, Bergsonist, Joakim, Ruth Garbus, Jenn Grossman, Léon & Sayed, Lee Gilboa, Bryce Hackford
2021. North of The Future (Astral Editions), Gryphon Rue & Merche Blasco
2020. Love is a Grasshopper Nearby (CAMP Editions), Vertical Foliage (Gryphon Rue & Heloise Tunstall-Behrens)
2016. Google Portrait (ft. Joakim), (Digital EP), Tiger Sushi

SOUNDTRACKS

2024. Endurance, (feature film) dir. Keren Cytter
2024. Queens in Queens, (short film) 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 film), dir. Keren Cytter
2021. Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, and their dog Duke at 161 Essex St. (short film), dir. Sandy Rower
2019. Ballet-Object Animatics (short films), Calder Stories, Centro Botín
2018. Gropius Memory Palace, (short film), dir. Ben Thorp Brown
2012. Eucalyptus (short film), Calder Foundation
2012. Black Mobile with Hole (short film), Calder Foundation
2012. Bosquet is the Best Best (short film), Calder Foundation

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, music video, 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. LICENSE, with Robert Buck
2018. Google Portrait (ft. Christine Sun Kim & Dean Wareham), with Benton C Bainbridge

ARTIST BOOKS

2023. Dinosaur Land, edition of 20, Foreign & Domestic Gallery
2019. Strange Attractor, Pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa (editor, author of “Elias Sime,” “Mark Lombardi,” “Douglas Ross,” and joined 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

2025. Calder and Sound in Open Space Magazine, ed. Dorota Czerner
2024. Calder and Sound / Calder y el sonido in Tuning Calder’s Clouds, edited by Vic Brooks, Dr. Jennifer Burris, and Mariana Fernández
2021. Duchamp Coping Techniques, The Lacanian Review (issue 11, The Art of Singularities)
2021. Mission statement for 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)

RADIO

Montez Press Radio programs:
(Click here for archive on Soundcloud)
(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

CURATORIAL

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

PRESENTATIONS

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

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
2013. Delusions, Rox Gallery, 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. Gryphon Rue: NDSM Treehouse, Amsterdam

GUEST APPEARANCES

2023. Will Epstein, Wendy LP, Fat Possum (Lyrics)
2019. Eliot Krimsky, Wave in Time LP, Pretty Purgatory (Singing saw)
2018. Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre LP, Gotta Groove (Singing saw)
2016. High Water, Crush LP, Other People (Lyrics, guitar)
2012. Odetta Hartman, Tally Marks EP, Self-released (Singing saw)