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Sterling Ruby

(American, born 1972)

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Sterling Ruby

JIG 2, 2011

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Sterling Ruby

FLOWER (7935), 2022

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Sterling Ruby

REIF. 7937., 2022

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Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby: Drifting Altar, 2024

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Biography

Timeline

1972
Born in Bitburg, Germany
1992 - 1996
Studeid at Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
2000 - 2002
Received BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 - 2005
Received MFA at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Exhibitions

2016
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
THE JUNGLE, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Sterling Ruby, Winterpalais, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria(solo exhibition)
WORK WEAR: Garment and Textile Archive 2008-2016, Sprüth Magers, London, England(solo exhibition)
The Public Body, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
PISTONHEAD 2, Venus Over LA, Los Angeles, CA
Mount Analogue: A show of Symbolically Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing, Aspen, CO
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Omul Negru, Cantacuzino Palace, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Sèvres Outdoors 2016, Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, Sèvres, France
La Mia Ceramica, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
LEXICON, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
What’s Up, Soho Revu, London, England
A Whisper of Where It Came From, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Ilumination, Louisiana Art Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
Reveal The Rats, The Pit, Glendale, CA
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra; Manning Regional Art Gallery; NETS Australia, The Rocks, Australia
Material Considerations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
STOVES, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
STOVES, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
PARIS, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
PARIS, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Study #8. Monument Stalagmite/P.T.A.C., David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England(solo exhibition)
Spray, Memory: Sterling Ruby & Mike Kelley, Inigo Philbrick, London, England(solo exhibition)
SCALES, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
ECLPSE, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
Le Génie 2.0. - Excellence, création, innovation des industries textiles de Lyon et de sa région, Musée des Tissus, Lyons, France
Metaforms, tc: temporary contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Le Collezioni, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy, (permanent exhibition)
Art Basel Public, Collins Park, Miami Beach, FL
You’ve Got to Know the Rules.... To Break Them, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
The Shape of Time, Gagosian Gallery (Hong Kong, China) Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995-2015, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Good for Nothing (Cracks in the Mirror), GOODROOM, Munich, Germany
New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Losing the Compass, White Cube, London, England
Monday Me, Soccer Club Club (Drag City), Chicago, IL
Surface Tension, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
AMERICANAESOTERICA, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Civilization and Its Discontents: SAIC 150th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Selections from 1985–2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Être Chose (Being Thing), Treignac Projet and the Centre d’art de Vassiviere, île de Vassivière, France
Esprit Dior, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) (Seoul, South Korea) (traveling exhibition) Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
The Belgians: An Unexpected Fashion Story, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
“Z-ing”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Line, London, England
The Melting Point of Reason, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College for the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra; Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, Australia(traveling exhibition)
Selected Sculptures, Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium
Bound to Be Held: A Book Show, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
West Coast, Lefebvre & Fils Gallery, Paris, France
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
COOL – As a State of Mind, MAMO, Centre d’Art de La Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Boston
Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Obsession, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Matters of Pattern, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
EAGLES II, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2014
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
VIVIDS, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China(solo exhibition)
BC RIPS, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
SUNRISE SUNSET, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
STERLING RUBY, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD(solo exhibition)
Beneath the Surface, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
Esprit Dior, Tamaya AS Building, Tokyo, Japan(traveling exhibition)
Secret Passions: Private Flemish Collections, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
One Man’s Trash (is Another Man’s Treasure), Danjuma Collection, London, England
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia (traveling exhibition)
FIRE!, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Taipei Biennial 2014: The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Los Angeles Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Gwangju, South Korea
Variations: Conversations In and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Highlights, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Love Story – The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
1 + 1 = 1. When Collections Collide. The Musée d’art contemporain at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
2013
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
DROPPA BLOCKA, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium(solo exhibition)
CHRON II, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
STOVES & QUILTS, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
CHRON II, Fondazione MEMMO, Rome, Italy(traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
SOFT WORK, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, (traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
SP Paintings, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Sterling Ruby—Selected Works, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
Sterling Ruby, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea(solo exhibition)
EXHM, Hauser & Wirth, London, England(solo exhibition)
Summer in Gstaad, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Looking at Process, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
California Landscape into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach,CA
Abstraction/Figuration, Inigo Philbrick, London, England
Somos Libres, MATE - Museo Mario Testino, Lima, Peru
Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, England
ANAMERICANA, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Esprit Dior, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
t-shirts, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Dead Inside, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
Why Not Live for Art? II - 9 Collectors Reveal Their Treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Transforming the Known, Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands
Back To Earth. From Picasso to Ai Weiwei - Rediscovering Ceramics in Art, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
EXPO 1: NEW YORK, Cinema, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil
Contemporary Future: To Invent, Create and Imagine the Future, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
An Endless Theatre: The Convergence of Contemporary Art and Anthropology in Observational Cinema, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,Scotland
Fun House, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA(traveling exhibition)
Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
SOFT WORK, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden(traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
SOFT WORK, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France(traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
SOFT WORK, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland(traveling exhibition)(solo exhibition)
Pothole, Salon 94, New York, NY
Cellblock I & II, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
California, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Spheres 2012, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Crossing Mirrors, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
Americas, Modern Collections, London, England
Sõida tasa üle silla (Ride Gently Over the Bridge), ART IST KUKU NU UT, Tartu, Estonia
The Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the Present, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Prima Materia, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Spring Fever, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
Material, Salon 94, New York, NY
Generation Y – A celebration of the new generation of collectors, Museum of Mankind, London, England
2011
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
VAMPIRE, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China(solo exhibition)
Sterling Ruby & Lucio Fontana, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
PAINTINGS, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
WYSIWYG—What You(ngs) See Is What You Get, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
Structure & Absence, White Cube, London, England
Works in Ceramics, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Eslöv Wide Shut: 100 year Anniversary of Eslöv, Blomsterberg’s Warehouse, Eslöv, Sweden
Soft Machines, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Lustwarande ’11 – Raw, Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY
Silence and Time, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Greater LA, 483 Broadway, New York, NY
Dystopia, CAPC Musee D’Art Contemporain De Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Bowery, New York, NY
New York Minute, Garage Museum of Comteporary Arts, Moscow, Russia (traveling exhibition)
At Capacity: Large Scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s, Jepson Center, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (traveling exhibition) Artprojx Cinema, SVA Theatre, New York, NY
California Dreamin: Myths and Legends of Los Angeles, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Highways Connect and Divide, Foxy Production, New York, NY
13th San Francisco Indie Fest, Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2010
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Sterling Ruby, Ovitz Family Collection Project Space, Beverly Hills, CA(solo exhibition)
Metal Works, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
ASHTRAYS, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
New Works, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Melanie Schiff and Sterling Ruby, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Long Live the Amorphous Law: Videos by Sterling Ruby 2002-2009, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL(solo exhibition)
2TRAPS, Pace Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Aftermath, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
28th Torino Film Festival: Waves, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino, Italy
It’s All American, New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, Wickatunk, NJ
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s, The Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY(traveling exhibition)
P.P.P.-Public Private Paintings, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
The Transformation Show, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Misericordia, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
50 Years at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, John Chamberlain, George Condo, Thierry De Cordier, Michel François, Adam Fuss, Antony Gormley, Evan Holloway, Thomas Houseago, Alessandro Pessoli, Jack Pierson & Sterling Ruby, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris, France
Psychotrope, Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Ceramics & Alabasters, Fukutake House 2010—Art Galleries Around the World & Special Project, Setouchi International Art Festival, Megijima, Japan
Arte 10, Rossio Square,Lisbon, Portugal
Spray!, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Carol Bove / Sterling Ruby / Dana Schutz, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Simulation and Realis, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Other than Beauty, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY
New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Rethinking Location: Anytime Anywhere Everything, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Permanent Trouble: Art from the Collection Kopp Munich, East German Art Forum Gallery, Regensburg, Germany
The Quiet Edition, White Slab Palace, New York, NY
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX(traveling exhibition)
Supernature: An Exercise in Loads, AMP, Athens, Greece
Suitable Video: Works form the Suitable Exhibitions Archive, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2010-2011 Exhibition, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
2009
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Sterling Ruby & Robert Mapplethorpe, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium(solo exhibition)
The Masturbators, Foxy Production, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Sterling Ruby, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL(traveling exhibition)
In Bed Together, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
California Maximalism: Sticking a Spike into the Vein of Memory, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Cave Painting, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY
New Photography 2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Minute, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy(traveling exhibition)
Why Painting Now?, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Second Nature, The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN(traveling exhibition)
Breaking New Ground Underground, Stonescape, Calistoga, CA
Works on View, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Five, BAIBAKOV Art Projects, Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia
Nothingness and Being, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Beaufort03, Beaufort Collection Foundation, Ostend, Belgium
27 Dessins Pour Le Plaisir, New Galerie de Franc with Salon du Dessin, Paris, France
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
SPECTRUM RIPPER, Sprüth Magers, London, England(solo exhibition)
GRID RIPPER, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy(solo exhibition)
ZEN RIPPER, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy(solo exhibition)
SUPERMAX 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
CHRON, The Drawing Center, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Kiln Works, Metro Pictures, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
The Station, The Station, Miami, FL
Endless Summer, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Base:Object, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Begin Again Right Back Here, White Columns, New York, NY
If You Destroy the Image You Destroy the Thing Itself, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Desertshore, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Stray Alchemists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, (cat.)
Substraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
The Skat Players, Vilma Gold, London, England
Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Marc Foxx (Los Angeles, CA)
2007
Sterling Ruby Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Slasher Posters & Pillow Works, Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece(solo exhibition)
Paintings & Benches, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany(solo exhibition)
Killing the Recondite, Metro Pictures, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Superoverpass, Foxy Production, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Acquisitions 2, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
Raise High The Roof Beam, Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany
Circumventing the City, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Dark Mirror, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
I Want to Believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Material Photographs, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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