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Ed Ruscha

(American, born 1937)

Ed Ruscha

Books, 2001

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Ed Ruscha

GAL CHEWS GUM, 2019–2021

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Ed Ruscha

All Eyez On Me, 2022

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Biography

Timeline

1937: Born in Omaha, NE
1941: Moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, OK
1956 - 1960: Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1956: Received first prize in graphic design from the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma, OK
1967: Received an award in painting from the National Council on the Arts, Washington, DC
: National Council on the Arts Grant
1969 - 1970: Taught drawing and printmaking at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1969: Awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and received a two-month fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, CA
: National Endowment for the Arts Grant Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship
: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1971: Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1974: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Award in Graphic
1978: Received his second grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
: National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1988: Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Achievement in Printmaking Award
1990: Los Angeles Arts Council Honors
1995: California Arts Council, Governor’s Award for the Arts, Achievement in Visual Arts Award
2006: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Board of Trustees
2009: Artistic Excellence Award, Americans for the Arts

Exhibitions

2015: Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
2014: The Letter kills, but Spirit gives life! Galerie Gradiva, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: Paintings Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2013: Ed Ruscha – Los Angeles Apartments - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
In Focus: Ed Ruscha - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Le Grand Tout - 30 Ans Du Frac Limousin - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges
Word And Image - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Ed Ruscha: Made in California - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back - The Logan Collection At Sfmoma - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
Ed Ruscha - Artist Rooms On Tour - Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Time is Now - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Letters From Los Angeles Part II: Identity & Self Identity Through Text in Art - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
I'm Amazed - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
2012: Ed Ruscha - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY
Ed Ruscha - Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
Ed Ruscha: Standard - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Ed Ruscha: On The Road - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
2011: Ed Ruscha: On the Road - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Ed Ruscha: Nice, Hot Vegetables - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Edward Ruscha - Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Ed Ruscha: On the Road - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha ARTIST ROOMS - Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England)
Ed Ruscha - Psycho Spaghetti Westerns - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Ed Ruscha - Road Tested - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 2010
2010: Beauty is Diamond, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Selections from Hamiltion Press at Sylvia White Gallery
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stolkholm, Sweden
2009: Words Are Diamonds, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008: Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2007: Stains, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Ed Ruscha, Photographer, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2006: Two Artists ~ Two Worlds, the Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Course of Empire, United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005: Ed Ruscha and Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Ed Ruscha: The Drawings and Photographs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Ed Ruscha: Cotton Puffs, Q Tips, Smoke and Mirrors, L.A Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2003: Ed Ruscha Photographs, L.A Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Ed Ruscha: Recent works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ed Ruscha:Palindrome Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2000: Ed Ruscha: Mountains and Highways, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Ed Ruscha: Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1999: Edward Ruscha: The Complete Editions 1959-1999, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (solo)
Ed Ruscha: Metro Plots, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ed Ruscha. Kukje Gallery, Seoul , Korea (solo)
Ed Ruscha, Meta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1998: Ed Ruscha, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1997: Spaghetti Westerns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Edward Ruscha, Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Edward Ruscha: Cityscapes/O Books, Leo Castelli, New York, NY (solo)
1996: Edward Ruscha, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea (solo)
1995: Anamorphic Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
The End. Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1993: Edward Ruscha/Romance With Liquids, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992: Edward Ruscha/New Paintings & Drawings, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Ed Ruscha/Stains, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Ruscha and Dennis Hopper/New Works, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1990: Edward Ruscha, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (solo)
Edward Ruscha/Obra Sobre Paper, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Edward Ruscha, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Edward Ruscha, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NA (solo)
Ed Ruscha/new paintings and drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
Edward Ruscha Paintings and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Ed Ruscha/Paintings, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Los Angeles Apartments, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Edward Ruscha, Galeria Trisorio, Naples, Italy (solo)
1989: Edward Ruscha, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (solo)
New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, NY
New Paintings and Drawings, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1988: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go. Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL; WilliamEarly Paintings, Shafrizi Gallery, New York, NYs College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Changing Group Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK
Edward Ruscha: Recent Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
Edward Ruscha: Recent Works on Paper 1988, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1987: New Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Works of Ed Ruscha, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
1986: The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
4 x 6 Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, GermanGalerie Susan Wyss, Zürich, Switzerland
New Paintings, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1985: Ed Ruscha: Quelques Dessins, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France (solo)
New Paintings, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Octobre des Arts, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, France
1984: New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1983: New Drawings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982: Edward Ruscha/New Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Works of Edward Ruscha, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1981: Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Edward Ruscha/New Works, Arco Center for the Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Edward Ruscha/D Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980: Edward Ruscha:Paintings, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA (solo)
Nigel Greenwood, Inc., London, UK
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
: The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
: High Museum, Atlanta, GA
: The Irvine Company Collection, Irvine, CA
: Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
: Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
: The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Musée St Pierre, Lyon, France
: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: San Diego Museum of Arts, San Diego, CA
: Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: The Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
: University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
: Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Musée Départemental des Vosges, Epinal, France
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
: Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council, Oklahoma City, OK
: The Panza di Biumo Collection, Milan, Italy
: Reynolds House, Winston-Salem, NC
: Pomona College, Pomona, CA
: Main Library, Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, FL
: Metro-Dade Art in Public Places Collection, Miami, FL
: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Literature

2007: Weiner Lawrence, Hickey Dave and Robert Dean. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume III, 1983-1987. London, UK: Steidl The Masters, 2007
2005: Wollen, Peter and Reyner Banham. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II. , 1971-1982. London, UK: Steidl; Gagosian, 2005
2004: Bois, Yves-Alain and Walter Hopps. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I 1958-1970. London, UK: Steidl, 2004

Ed Ruscha

(American, born 1937)

Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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