Biography / CV
CV
Cody Rutty is an American painter based in San Francisco. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, he has sustained an independent full-time studio practice for nearly two decades, with work moving between drawing, painting, and densely built visual systems.
The first marks are often broad, instinctive, and structural. What follows is slower: an extended process of finding, editing, and intensifying what has appeared. The work draws on music and architecture, treating line as rhythm and the surface as a structure still in formation.
Commissions / Collections
- His work has entered private collections as well as architectural, technology, and public-facing commercial contexts, with commissioned projects including CTA Architects and Engineers, Microsoft, Regen Architects and Engineers, and Precious Metal Arts.
Selected exhibitions
- Solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Art Innovation Gallery, Milan; 1192 Folsom Gallery, San Francisco; Visual Arts Collective, Boise; and a New York benefit exhibition for Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Awards / Grants / Residencies
- Awards, grants, residencies, and public art support include National Endowment for the Arts; Idaho Commission on the Arts; The Alexa Rose Foundation Art Fund; Boise City Department of Arts & History; Treefort Public Works; and The Williston Northampton School / Grubbs Gallery.
Artist-led work
- Co-founder of Swell Artist Collective, an artist-led initiative supporting exhibitions, collaborations, and independent creative work.
Publications / Press
- Selected press and publication features include Juxtapoz, The Massachusetts Review, Yellow Book, Japan, and The Idaho Statesman.