Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
- Sterling Ruby ,Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami ,Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, USA
- Sterling Ruby: ACTS + Table ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
- Sterling Ruby: Damnation ,Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sterling Ruby: Sculpture ,Nasher Sculpture Center ,Dallas, Texas, USA
2018
- Sterling Ruby: Ceramics ,MAD, Museum of Arts and Design ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Sterling Ruby: WIDW ,Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (St-Georges) ,Brussels, Belgium
- Sterling Ruby: DRFTRS ,Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (Rivoli) ,Brussels, Belgium
- Sterling Ruby: Hearts & Clubs ,Pierre Marie Giraud ,Brussels, Belgium
- Sterling Ruby: Ceramics ,Des Moines Art Center ,Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Sterling Ruby ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2017
2016
2015
2014
- Sterling Ruby: Vivids ,Gagosian, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Sterling Ruby: 鈥淏C RIPS" ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Sterling Ruby: SUNRISE SUNSET ,Hauser & Wirth, New York (18th Str) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Sterling Ruby ,Baltimore Museum of Art ,Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2013
2011
2010
2008
- Sterling Ruby: GRID RIPPER ,Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) ,Bergamo, Italy
- STERLING RUBY ZEN RIPPER ,Galleria Emi Fontana ,Milan, Italy
- Moca Focus: Sterling Ruby, Supermax 2008 ,Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Sterling Ruby, Chron ,The Drawing Center ,Soho, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Visual Rhythms: A Global Tapestry of Contemporary and Modern Art ,Gary Nader Gallery ,Brownsville, Miami, Florida, USA
- Intimate Visions ,White Cube, Paris ,8e, Paris, France
- Vintage20: Design for Living ,Tina Kim Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Collection 2: Undo, Redo ,National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) ,Osaka, Japan
2024
- Ceramics from Picasso to the present day ,Galerie de la Béraudière, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- Feed the Streets Benefit Show ,Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles ,Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- An Arena ,Barbati Gallery ,Venice, Italy
- Come One, Come All ,Anthony Gallery ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Andy Warhol鈥檚 Long Shadow ,Gagosian, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Halfway to Sanity ,The Pit, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- For What It鈥檚 Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 ,The Warehouse ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- The Love of the Marvelous and the Disbelief of the True ,Cirrus Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
2023
- Abstract Explorations: 100 Years on Paper ,Gagosian, Gstaad ,Gstaad, Switzerland
- Food for Thought ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Maebashi ,Gunma, Japan
- Room by Room: Concepts, Themes, and Artists in The Rachofsky Collection ,The Warehouse ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- Mondi Possibili ,Sprüth Magers, Seoul ,Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Wishing Well ,Parker Gallery ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Chaos ,Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles ,West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Desert X ,Christie鈥檚 Los Angeles ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- La Cité Universitaire de Jean Prouve ,Perrotin, Paris (8 Av Matignon) ,8e, Paris, France
- Video Store ,Foxy Production ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
2022
- Come As You Are ,Anthony Gallery ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Come As You Are ,Rebuild Foundation ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Against Nature ,MO.CO. Panacée ,Montpellier, France
- Uncanny Depths ,MAMO ,Marseille, France
- Entre chien et loup ,Charles Riva Collection ,Brussels, Belgium
- Vedo Rosso ,Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati ,Lugano, Switzerland
2021
- Yakimono ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Cracked ,Tristan Hoare ,London, UK
- Clay Pop ,Jeffrey Deitch, New York (Wooster Str) ,Soho, New York, USA
- Subtle Opulence ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- In the Meanwhile鈥ecent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Hong Kong Exchange ,Gagosian, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Eight Works From 2013, 2020, 2009, 1998, 2019, 2003, 2018, 1998 ,Wschód, Warsaw ,Warsaw, Poland
2020
- Sterling Ruby & Masaomi Yasunaga ,Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles ,Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Majeure Force. Part Two ,Night Gallery South ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- ONLINE: Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video: Chapter Three ,Gagosian, New York (Fifth Avenue) ,New York, USA
- Group Exhibition ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Majeure Force ,Night Gallery South ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Collective Care: A House With Many Guests ,M WOODS ,Chaoyang, Beijing, China
- Recent Acquisitions Of Contemporary Art ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- American Pastoral ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
2019
- Opulent Minimalism ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Matt Black X Gana Art: Reflections ,Gana Art Center ,Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived! ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- An Exhibition for Notre-Dame ,Gagosian, Paris (rue de Ponthieu) ,8e, Paris, France
- Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art ,National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) ,Osaka, Japan
- A Collection in Progress. Nature is what we see ,Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati ,Lugano, Switzerland
- Gold Standard: Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition ,Ever Gold Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2018
- Marginal Editions / Ten Marginal Years ,Foxy Production ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Tables, Carpets & Dead Flowers ,Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (Limmatstrausse) ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Fire and Clay ,Gagosian, Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Present Tense: Selections from the Lenhardt Collection ,Phoenix Art Museum ,Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Playlist ,Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Group Exhibition ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Close at Hand: A Sculpture Survey ,Gagosian, San Francisco ,San Francisco, California, USA
2017
- LA Invitational ,Gagosian, New York (555 W 24th) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Grinding ,Ever Gold Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Group Exhibition ,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (complex665) ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Steps to Aeration ,Tanya Leighton, Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Discomposure ,Richard Telles Fine Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- 99 Cents or Less ,MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Selections from the Permanent Collection: Catherine Opie and Sterling Ruby ,The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Build: Sculptural Ceramics ,Elizabeth Leach Gallery ,Portland, Oregon, USA
- Concrete Island ,Venus Over Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction ,Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz ,St. Moritz, Switzerland
2016
- L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- THE PUBLIC BODY .01 ,Artspace, Sydney ,Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
- Omul Negru ,Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Piston Head II: Artists Engage the Automobile ,Venus Over Los Angeles ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Milk of the Poppy ,Capital ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Group Show ,Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris ,3e, Paris, France
- Omul Negru ,Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest ,Bucharest, Romania
- La mia ceramica ,Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris ,4e, Paris, France
- LEXICON ,Gagosian, Paris (rue de Ponthieu) ,8e, Paris, France
- A Whisper of Where It Came From ,Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- ILLUMINATION: New contemporary art at Louisiana ,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ,Humlebæk, Denmark
- Nice Weather ,Skarstedt, New York (Upper East Side) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Material Considerations ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2015
- The World is Made of Stories ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
- You've Got To Know The Rules... To Break Them ,de la Cruz Collection ,Miami, Florida, USA
- The Shape of Time ,Gagosian, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- The Milky Way 2 ,Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri ,Rome, Italy
- Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995鈥�2015 ,Gagosian, Beverly Hills ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Benefit Art Auction ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Losing the Compass ,White Cube, London (Mason's Yard) ,St. James's, London, UK
- Surface Tension ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- AMERICANAESOTERICA ,Sariev Contemporary ,Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Theories on Forgetting ,Gagosian, Beverly Hills ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sprayed: Works from 1929-2015 ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
- Z-ING ,Richard Telles Fine Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Pretty Raw: After And Around Helen Frankenthaler ,The Rose Art Museum ,Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- Chromophobia ,Gagosian, Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Matters of Pattern ,Skarstedt, New York (Chelsea) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- EAGLES II ,Marlborough, New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2014
- Beneath The Surface ,de la Cruz Collection ,Miami, Florida, USA
- FIRE! ,Venus Over Manhattan (Uptown) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Love Story: Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection ,Lower Belvedere ,Vienna, Austria
- Whitney Biennial 2014 ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2013
- Monica Bonvicini & Sterling Ruby ,Kunsthalle Mainz ,Mainz, Germany
- Island ,The Dairy Center for the Arts ,Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Why Not Live for Art? II ,Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery ,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Parcours ,Art Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
- Transforming the Known ,Kunstmuseum Den Haag ,The Hague, Netherlands
- The Gesture and the Sign ,White Cube, São Paulo ,Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Beg Borrow and Steal ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Beg Borrow and Steal ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Black Cake ,Team Gallery, Grand Street ,Soho, New York, USA
2012
2011
- AMERICAN EXUBERANCE ,Rubell Museum Miami ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Structure鈥夆��&鈥夆�夾bsence ,White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street) ,London, UK
- Structure鈥夆��&鈥夆�夾bsence ,White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street) ,London, UK
- Lucio Fontana and Sterling Ruby ,Andrea Rosen Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Soft Machines ,Pace New York (508 West 25th Street) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) ,MOCA Pacific Design Center ,West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Paul Clay ,Salon 94 Bowery ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Silence and Time ,DMA, Dallas Museum of Art ,Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Texas, USA
- The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
- After Hours: Murals on the Bowery ,New Museum, New York ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- New York Minute ,Garage Museum of Contemporary Art ,Moscow, Russia
- Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s ,Telfair Museums, Telfair Academy ,Savannah, Georgia, USA
2010
- Group Exhibition ,Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (St-Georges) ,Brussels, Belgium
- Rive Gauche / Rive Droite ,Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York ,57th Street, New York, USA
- California Dreamin鈥� ,Portugal Arte ,Lisbon, Portugal
- Spray! ,D'Amelio Terras ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz ,Andrea Rosen Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Realism and Simulation ,GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin ,Torino, Italy
- Rethinking Location: Anytime, Anywhere, Everything ,Sprüth Magers, Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Melanie Schiff and Sterling Ruby ,Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin ,Berlin, Germany
- Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s ,San Antonio Museum of Art ,San Antonio, Texas, USA
2009
- Sterling Ruby & Robert Mapplethorpe ,Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (St-Georges) ,Brussels, Belgium
- New Photography 2009 ,MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Works On View ,Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (20th Street) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Cris Brodahl, Brian Calvin, Anne Collier, Brian Fahlstrom, Jason Meadows, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, Mateo Tannatt ,Marc Foxx Gallery ,West Beverly, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Your Gold Teeth II ,Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY Chelsea (509 W) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Abstract America: New Painting And Sculpture ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
- On From Here ,Guild & Greyshkul ,Soho, New York, USA
2008
The work of German-born artist Sterling Ruby shifts from one medium to another yet the social themes he deals with stay consistent throughout. Ruby's work often deals with topics related to the violence and pressures found in society, art history and even his own life. His work is also deeply influenced by underground urban groups such as graffiti and punk. Ruby's work is often exhibited in the form of large and intricate installations. New York Times critic Roberta Smith proclaimed Ruby as one of the most interesting artists to emerge in the twentieth century.