EXHIBITIONS / NEWS / BIO
Inside Recordings has licensed my image of John Trudell for his posthumous album "Wounded Indians." released December 2024
"Alchemy of Water," Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon, NY, August 2024
"Alchemy of Water," Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon, NY, August 2024
May 2024 Finalist, LUCIE Awards Open Call: Heritage (Family/Community Category).
"Like Water For Thirsy People," leporello, included in "Unfolding Vision & Corresponding Work Vol. 1 " Group exhibition, The Lofts at Beacon Gallery, curated by Ellen Smolen, 2023
"Walking The Watershed" book signing hosted at No 3 Reading Room and Photo Book Works as part of the global exhibition EXTRACTION, May 2022
"New York Water Towers" exhibition featuring photographs, paintings and a reconstructed water tank equipped with MP4 loop of city sounds recorded within Tom Fruin's Water Tank in DUMBO, Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, New York, 2013
"New York Water Towers", H2O oil painting grid, glass of water, panel from deconstructed NYC water tank, Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, New York, 2013
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Interconnected Bodies: Women, Water & Photographic Urgency, Lesly Deschler Canossi presenting Camille Seaman, Ronnie Farley, & Fabeha Monir, Fast Forward Women in Photography, 5th International Conference, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 18, 2024
Water Towers of New York, BBC Between The Ears, June 2017: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08skymz
Obsessions From Street Food To Rooftops" Bookshelf By Sam Roberts, New York Times October 2014: Obsessions, From Street Food to Rooftops - NYTimes.com
Rooftop Giants: New York Water Towers NPR: Studio 360 October 2014: http://www.studio360.org/story/sideshow-rooftop-giants-new-york-water-towers-ronnie-farley/
Water Towers Stand Guard Over Buildings In New York PRI: The World, October 2014:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-27/water-towers-stand-guard-over-buildings-new-york
Photojournalist Ronnie Farley Focuses The Lens On The Innate Strength Of Women In Her Work, Holly Price, Huffington Post, March 2012:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-cara-price/ronnie-farley_b_1221819.html
Photo Exhibit Features Elixir of Life, Julie Chibbaro, Poughkeepsie Journal, July 11, 2013
New York Water Towers, Sommer Hixon, The Paper, Phillipstown, July 7, 2013
Grit & Grace, Cowboy Culture; Western Horseman, January 2009
Contemporary Cowgirls Casper Star-Tribune, Weekender, Feb1, 2008
Women of the West, Amanda Cuda, Connecticut Post, 3/20/05
Capturing the Ephemeral City, Kathleen Willcox, The New York Sun, Weekend Edition, 11/ 5-7/ 04
Smile When You Call Us Girls, Stranger, Margot Mifflin, The New York Times Book Review, 9/17/95
Punching Cows, Riding Broncs, Joan Brunskill, The Associated Press, 4/30/95
New In Paperback, (Cowgirls) The Washington Post Book World, 4/2/95
Women of The Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimony of Native American Women by Ronnie Farley, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1995
Originals, (Women of the Native Struggle), Susan Curley, New York Newsday, 1/30/94
American Indian Women Depicted, Joan Brunskill, The Associated Press, 1/23/94
AWARDS
2024 Finalist, LUCIE Awards Open Call: Heritage (Family/Community Category)
2018 Catskill Watershed Corporation and the New York City Department Environmental Protection for Know Your Watershed water walk
2013 Ford Foundation for New York Water Towers publication
2012 Ford Foundation for New York Water Towers exhibition
2004 N.Y.S.C.A. Decentralization Program Individual Artist grant for Simply Schoharie monograph
2002 N.Y.S.C.A. Decentralization Program Individual Artist grant for Documentation of maple syrup production in Schoharie County
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
*Denotes artist talk with exhibition
2024 “The Alchemy of Water” Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, photographs and installation, Beacon, NY*
2021 “Walking The Watershed” Photo Book Works & Reading Room #3, Beacon, NY
2013 “New York Water Towers” Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, with reconstructed water tank & sound installation, Beacon, NY*
2011 “Diary of a Pedestrian” Photoplatz, Berlin, Germany
2007- 11 “Cowgirls” Exhibits USA tour, sponsored by Mid-America Arts Alliance & the NEA for the Humanities :
2011 Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendelton, OR
Symphony in the Flint Hills, Strong City, KS
No Man’s Land Historical Society, Goodwell, OK
2010 Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Red Cloud Opera House, Red Cloud, NE Bone Creek
Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE
Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, NE
2009 Western Heritage Museum, Hobbs, NM
Coffey County Museum and Historical Society, Burlington, KS
Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD
Mesquite Arts Council, Mesquite, TX
2008 Wichita Public Library, Wichita, KS
Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, Arkansas City, KS
The Nicolaysen Museum of Art and Discovery Center, Casper, WY *
Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, Lawrence, KS
2007 Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO*
Hays Public Library, Hays, KS
Red River Historical Museum, Sherman, TX 2010
2009 "Earth Keepers” Azarian McCullough Gallery, St.Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY*
2007 "Photo Journal: Sketches From An American Experience" Tri County Arts, Cobleskill, NY
2005 "Women’s History Month with Women in the Arts: Ronnie Farley” SCSU, New Haven, CT *
2000 "Diary of a Pedestrian" 20/20 Visions Gallery, Ashland, OR
1999 "Women of the Native Struggle" University of California, Berkeley Extension Center, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Women of the Native Struggle" Alfred Lowenherz Gallery, The Camera Club of New York, NYC
"Cowgirls" University of California, Berkeley Extension Center, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Women of the Native Struggle" University Art Gallery, University of Scranton, PA*
1994 "Women of the Native Struggle" Mars Gallery, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC*
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Unfolding Vision: Leporellos & Corresponding Work, Vol 1” Eleni Smolen, curator, ‘The Lofts,’ Beacon, NY
2021 “Becoming Visible: Longing And Emergence In The Time Of A Pandemic” Marymount College, Newburgh, NY
2019 “If You See Something, Say Something” Carriage House Gallery, Newburgh, NY
“Transit: The Movement of People, Animals, Goods and Things” Krasdale Galleries, White Plains, NY
“Newburgh Barbershops Shaping Community” Newburgh Community Photo Project, Newburgh, NY
2014 “Art Along The Hudson” Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties, NY*
2010 “Salem 2 Salem” Exhibition from artist residency, Neue Museum, Salem Germany
“Hudson Valley Cowgirls” Curated by Richard Timperio, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2009 "The Making Of The Dream: News Photographs From The Civil Rights Movement 1945-63" 400 Square, Beacon, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of the City of New York
The National Museum of the American Indian, New York City
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Cleveland, Ohio
The Nicolaysen Museum Casper, Wyoming
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Fort Worth Texas
Kultur Bodensee Salem, Germany
STUDIES
BFA Ohio University
Painting studies in New York City at School of Visual Arts, Art Students League, New York Academy of Art, 1983-90