Allen Ruppersberg

(American, born 1944)

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Allen Ruppersberg

Untitled, 2014

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Allen Ruppersberg

Mr. Art World 3, 1979–2016

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Allen Ruppersberg

Mr. Art World 2, 1979–2016

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Allen Ruppersberg

Mr. Art World 1, 1979–2016

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Allen Ruppersberg

The Novel That Writes Itself, 2017

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Biography

Timeline

1944
Born in Cleveland, OH
1967
BFA, Chouinard Institute, Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in New York and Santa Monica

Exhibitions

2014
Allen Ruppersberg Exhibitions in 2014:
Allen Ruppersberg, JBecker Galerie, Hamburg
Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again and Again, Wiels, Brussels
FOR COLLECTORS ONLY (everyone is a collector), Greengrassi, London
Drawing and Writing: 1972-1989, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
2013
Allen Ruppersberg Exhibitions in 2013:
The Umbrella Corner (6/6), curated by Moritz Küng, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 3 May –27 July (solo exhibition)
Paginations & Machinations, Air de Paris, Paris. 14 September – 31 October
Drawing Time, Reading Time, curated by Claire Gilman, The Drawing Center, New York. 10 October – 14 December
Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, curated by Germano Celant with Thomas Demand and Rem Koolhaas, Fondazione Prada, Venice. 1 June – 3 November
Kaboom! Comics in Art, Weserburg Museum für modern Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Bronx Museum, New York. 24 January – 2 June.
Made in Space, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2012
Allen Ruppersberg Exhibitions in 2012:
Allen Ruppersberg: The Birth and Death of Rock n' Roll, The Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago. 29 September – 6 January (solo exhibition)
old/New-New/Old, Michelene Swajcer, Antwerp, 10 May – 16 June (solo exhibition)
The Feverish Library, organized in cooperation with Matthew Higgs, Friederich Petzel Gallery, New York.
The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, 20 June – 10 August
Cultural Production, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 11 February – 24 March
2011
Dan Graham / Allen Ruppersberg, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2010
Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again 2, Air de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009
You and me or the art of give and take, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Allen Ruppersberg: As the Crow Flies/How I miss the Avant-garde, greengrassi, London, UK (solo)
2008
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Allen Ruppersberg and Allan McCollum, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Allen Ruppersberg: Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Alterations, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2006
Allen Ruppersberg: The Singing Posters, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg: Photoworks 1970-73, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg and Guy de Cointet, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Allen Ruppersberg: The Singing Posters, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2005
Allen Ruppersberg: One of Many - Origins and Variants, Kunsthalle Dorf, Dorf, Germany
Allen Ruppersberg: Free/Trade Art and Poetry, greengrassi, London, UK (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg: The Singing Posters, Parts II & III, Jurgen Becker; Karin Guenther / Nina Borgmann Galleries, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg: The New Five Foot Shelf, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Allen Ruppersberg: Line Drawings, Book Pages, Games and a Puzzle, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

1991
Evening Time is Reading Time, City of Utrecht, The Netherlands, outdoor lighted street signs
1993
Stichting Arnhemse Openbare en Gelderse Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheek, Arhem, Siste
Viator, The Netherlands, installation from Sonsbeek ‘93 exhibition, acquired 1995
1994
Psychiatric Centre Amsterdam, Sloten, The Netherlands
Sculpture Path Nordhorn, Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
De Appel. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, permanent library floor installation
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Literature

2013
Macmillan, Kyle. "Allen Ruppersberg.", Art in America, 6 January: Web.
Pollack, Maika. "'State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts." GalleristNY. 16 July: Web.
Ruppersberg, Allen. Interview with Brian Boucher. “Allen Ruppersberg Shows New York the Way.”, Art in America, 13 February: Web.
Scott, Andrea. "Critic's Notebook: Vital Signs.", The New Yorker, 11 & 18 February: 18.
Smith, Roberta. "Made in Space.",New York Times, 2 August: C25.
Vogel, Carol. "'You' on a Billboard.",The New York Times, 18 January: C29.
2012
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. "It Happened at PomonaL Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973.", Artforum, January: 227.
Woodward, Richard B. "Snapshot of a Movement.",The Wall Street Journal, 17 January: Web.
Worley, Sam. "Allen Ruppersberg's back pages.", Chicago Reader, 2 October: Web.
2011
Bernadini, Andrew. "There's hope that this is ore than some scraps of paper and a jumble of printed words: the art and ephemera of Allen Ruppersberg,",Mousse, 29: pp 173-179.