SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Paintings by Lee Ruelle: Lepidoptera, New York Public Library, Ottendorfer, New York, NY

2022 Paintings by Lee Ruelle: Quercus, New York Public Library, Mulberry Street, New York, NY

1991 Paintings and Pastels, Jackson Studios, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Democracy, Theater for the New City Gallery, New York, NY 

2023 Crisis, Theater for the New City Gallery, New York, NY

2023 All Tomorrow’s Gardens, East Village Gallery, New York, NY

2022 Off the Grid, Theater for the New City Gallery, New York, NY

2022 Harvest Arts Festival, LaPlaza Cultural Armando Perez Garden, New York, NY

2022 Artists Embrace Liberty & Justice, Theater for the New City Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Members Show 2006, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

2006 Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2005 Salon 2005, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Vibrations, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts, Flushing, NY

2003 Handel’s Nightstand: The Seduction of Discontinuity, The New Yorker Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Recent Work: Peter Arakawa, Tommy Flynn, Ae Young Park, Lee Ruelle, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Winners Circle, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

2003 Salon 2003, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2002 Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Paradigms Lost: Art, Ambiguity, and the Decoding of the Unforeseen, The New Yorker Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Fresh Start, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

2002 Biennial 2002, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts, Flushing, NY

2002 Salon 2002, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2001 Art Frenzy, Jackson Studios, organized by Queens Council for the Arts, Long Island City, NY

2001 Salon 2001, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2001 Salon 2000, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2001 Y2K-aotic: Uncensored, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY

1999 Artists Invite Artists, Art Place, Westport, CT

1997 New Paintings: Mark La Riviere, Lee Ruelle, Judit Szombath, Reggio Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Flesh & Fruit, Jacklight Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Maximum Capacity, Art Initiatives, New York, NY

LECTURES

2024 Artist Talk, New York Public Library, Ottendorfer, New York, NY

RESEARCH TRAVEL

Essaouira, Morocco 2024

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI