CURRICULUM VITAE
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Lunchnotes | Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Jay Street Bar | Dumbo Brooklyn, NY
2021 SPRING/BREAK Buzzy Workshop| NYC | Curator Marly Hammer
2019 Spaceworks M.O.B (Monsters of Buzzy) | Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025. The Stairwell Space | Make. Believe. | Bridgeport, CT
2025 SpringBreak | Sabri Navigations | NY, NY
2024 Other Art Fair | Brooklyn, NY
2022 Established Gallery| Warm Wishes | Brooklyn, NY
Atlantic Ave| Art Walk | Brooklyn, NY
ToySpace| Toy Space | Brooklyn, NY
2021 Arts Gowanus | Old Stone House Fundraiser | Brooklyn, NY
2020 Old Stone House Art Works | Brooklyn, NY
2019 La Bodega Gallery Transformations | Brooklyn, NY
Shapeshifter Lab The Tower | Brooklyn, NY
Con Artist Gallery CONstitution | NYC
Pfizer Building Kollision Fashion Runway Show | Brooklyn, NY
2018 La Bodega Gallery small/Mighty | Brooklyn, NY
La Bodega Gallery Decked | Brooklyn, NY
Bridgette Mayer Gallery | Benefit Exhibition for Friends of the Rail
Park Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA
Van Der Plas Gallery Summer Rainbow | NYC
2017 The House of Yes Arts in Bushwick Community Day | Brooklyn, NY
Installation and Mural
2023 Mural- The Springs, Greenpoint. Brooklyn, NY sponsored by Hiatus Tequila
2022-2023 Window installation at Slope Suds, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Sculpture Garden at Châteaux Orquevaux
2021 Installation- Church of the Stranger, NYC
Press
2023 Brooklyn Paper
Hiatus Tequila
Canvas Rebel Magazine
2016 Feature in Create! Magazine Issue lV
Artist in Residence
2025 Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 The Canopy Program, NYC
2023 Alonso Hacienda, Cocoyoc, Mexico
2022 Chateau Orquevaux| Orquevaux, France
2021 Ludlow, Vermont (Independent)
2018 Akureyri Iceland (Independent)
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Education
1999- B.S. Biology, University of Maryland
2002- Master’s of Acupuncture, Maryland University of Integrative Health
Willow Ruth (Buzzy), b. 1976, is a Brooklyn-based artist working with painting, sculpture, and assemblage. Her work began with painted lunch notes made for her youngest son on scraps of packaging. These small works were made quickly every morning while having her coffee and became a daily ritual. They are the foundation for everything that followed.
Her assemblages carry that same instinctive directness into three dimensions. She sources materials from found scraps of wood off the streets of NYC, scavenged from her father’s woodworking shop as well as her friends’ studios. Buzzy intuitively assembles the pieces to create a map of what was and lets you figure out what will be from your own perspective.
Her current ceramic works are hand-built from stoneware and porcelain and finished with raw, textured surfaces. They are intentionally awkward, sitting in an “ugly-cute” category. Buzzy combines humor with seriousness, creating decidedly weird creatures with exaggerated features. The clay to speak for itself, the glazes are there to highlight the physical form of the creatures. Adorning them with 24K gold gives them an opulence that allows them to be taken seriously.
Her three children are her most important critics.
