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Ed Ruscha, a pivotal figure in contemporary art, has reshaped the boundaries of visual expression through his iconic works that blend text, imagery, and cultural commentary. Born in 1937, Ruscha emerged as a leading voice in the Pop Art movement, with a career spanning more than six decades. His art uniquely captures the essence of American life—its landscapes, vernacular, and idiosyncrasies—offering viewers a fresh lens through which to interpret the world. Known for his innovative use of typography and unconventional mediums, Ruscha often explores themes of urbanization, consumerism, and nostalgia.
Visiting professor, UCLA Los Angeles
Layout designer, Artforum magazine
Layout artist, Carson-Roberts Advertising Agency, Los Angeles
Chouinard Art Institute (i.e.. California Institute of the Arts)
Painting class of Richard Goetz
Artistic Excellence Award, Americans for the Arts
California Arts Council, Governor’s Award for the Arts, Achievement in Visual Arts Award
Los Angeles Arts Council Honors
Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Achievement in Printmaking Award
Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Medal in graphics from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Two-month fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles
Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Award in painting from the National Council on the Arts
First prize in graphic design from Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
Ed Ruscha: Now Then, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ed Ruscha: Roads and Insects, The British Museum, Bloomsbury, London, UK
Ed Ruscha: Now Then, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Written In The Sky: Works by Ed Ruscha, Philips New York, New York, USA
Ed Ruscha Works on Paper, Craig Starr Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Printworks:Recent Gifts from the Archives de Young Museum, FAMSF, San Francisco, California, USA
Ed Ruscha, L.A. Restaurants, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, St.James´s, London, UK
Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings, Gagosian Gallery Paris, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: Travel Log, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California, USA
Ed Ruscha, Drum Skings, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
Joe Goode, Ed Rusch. Yesterday’s Treasures, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Ed Ruscha: Double Americanisms. Secession, Vienna, Austria
Ed Ruscha: Gumbo of Gravel. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA
Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Ed Ruscha – VERY. KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen, Norway;
traveling to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Word/Play: Prints, Photographs, and Paintings by Ed Ruscha. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA
Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire. The National Gallery of Art, London, UK
Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings. Gagosian, New York, USA
Music From the Balconies: Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Ed Ruscha: Extremes and In-Betweens. Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London, UK
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
Ed Ruscha; Mountain Prints. Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words. Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, USA
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West. De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
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, 980 Madison Ave, New York, USA
Ed Ruscha: Standard, The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Ed Ruscha In Focus, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ed Ruscha Los Angeles Apartments, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ed Ruscha – Bücher und Bilder, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Ed Ruscha Standard, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Ed Ruscha – On the road, Moca Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA (travelling exhibition)
Ed Ruscha, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Ed Ruscha: Fifty years of painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
50 Jahre Malerei, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Edward Ruscha: The Complete Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Spaghetti Westerns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
The End, Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Edward Ruscha, Centre Cultural de la Fundacio, Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain
Edward Ruscha, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska
Ed Ruscha/Paintings, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles Apartments, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Edward Ruscha, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ed Ruscha, Fundacio Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain
Ed Ruscha, Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain
Ed Ruscha, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
New Paintings and Drawings, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Edward Ruscha, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Edward Ruscha/Recent Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
The Works of Ed Ruscha, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
4 x 6, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
The Works of Ed Ruscha – Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (travelling exhibition)
Neue Ausstellungen im InK, Halle für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edward Ruscha/Prints and Publications 1962-74. The Art Council of Great Britain, travelling exhibition to twelve Council member galleries Miracle, The Art Council of Great Britain, New York, USA
A Dark Hymn: Highlights from the Hill Collection, Hill Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York, USA
(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, Montgomery Museum of Arts, Alabama, USA
Contem’Plate, Museums West, Tisbury, UK
Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Ink! 50 Years Of American Graphics, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, USA
The Collecting Eye of Ray Graham, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Moment in Time, OCMA, Orange County, CA, USA
Paper Trails, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Art in Words: Prints from the 20th Century to Today, Harry Ransom Museum, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Visual Conversations: Selections from the Orlando Museum of Art Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
Gertrude Stein & Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language, Musee Du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Everything at Once: Postmodernity, 1967-1992, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Impressions: Modern & Contemporary Editions, Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA
Implosion: Conceptual Art in the CGAC Collection, CGAC, Spain
The Circle of Sam Francis: Experimenting in California, Bakersfield Museum of Art, California, USA
Valuable Reserve, MAH, MUSÉE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE DE GENÈVE, Geneva, Switzerland
The Art of Food, Asheville Art Museum, USA
Hollywood, Museum Für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
Ruscha & Roth: The 1960s Artist Book Revolution, The Grace Museum, Texas, USA
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, LACMA, LA, CA, USA
On the Edge: Los Angeles Art 1970s – 1990s from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection, Bakersfield Museum of Art, CA, USA
OK/LA, Fred Jones JR. Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA
Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha: Yesterday’s Treasures. Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany
West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
A Journey That Wasn’t. The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
Sea of Desire. Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
The Solace of Amnesia. Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
About Photography. Gagosian, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Invitational. Gagosian, West 24th St., New York, NY
Unsettled. Nevada Museum of Art, Rene, NV; traveled to Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The American Dream: Pop to Present. The British Museum, London, England
Ed Ruscha / Jonas Wood: Notepads, Holograms, and Books, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967-2017, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
California Dreaming: Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945–1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Sleep. Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Desire (curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso), Moore Building, Miami, FL
I still believe in miracles. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
Aspects of Minimalism. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Landschaft in Bewegung, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
In Barcelona: a portfolio of prints by eight Los Angeles artists, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The City Lost and Found, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Belle Haleine – Der Duft der Kunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel
A man walks into a bar. . . ., me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
Arbeiten auf Papier, Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern
Ed Ruscha: Mixmaster. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Double Standard: Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams, 1956–1971. Alden Projects, New York, NY
The Mini Show, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
La Vie Moderne. La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Ce fabuleux monde moderne. MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
Tamarind Insitute and The Rebirth of Lithography. Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead
Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Milk & Honey: Contemporary Art in California. Slow Culture, Los Angeles, CA
Theories on Forgetting. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
America Is Hard to See. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
COOL / As a State of Mind. MAMO — Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseilles, France
Pliure. Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
Rascal House. Half Gallery, New York, NY
Remain in Light: Photography from the Museum of Contemporary Art collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery – MRAG, Canberra, ACT
Damage Control – Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pop to popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
American Pop: The Prints, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Literary Devices, Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, NY
In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Small Museum for the American Metaphor, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Art=Text=Art – Private Languages / Public Systems – UB Art Galleries – University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
The Avant-Garde Collection – Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Road Trip – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
The Water Tank Project, The Water Tank Project, New York, NY
Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Damage Control – MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
(Mis)Understanding – Werke und Manifeste zur Fotografie, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Crossroads, Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the ‘60s and the Materials that they used, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
Künstlerbücher _ Artists’ Books – Internationale Künstlerbücher Von 1960 Bis Heute, Museum Stift Admont, Admont
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, T-B A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Las lágrimas de las cosas – Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Remain in Light: Photography from the Museum of Contemporary Art collection, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Ipswich (QL)
Natural Unnatural Supernatural, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
CounterIntelligence, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Vues d’en haut / Views from above, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich, Öffentlicher Raum München, Munich, Germany
Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Die Sammlung Bayer, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Lewis Baltz, John McLaughlin, Ed Ruscha, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, MAM – Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964 – 1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Frames and Documents, Conceptualist Practices, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, Florida, USA
Wide-Eyed: Panoramic Photographs, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Material and Document: Experiments in Photography during the 1970s, Henry Art Gallery University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN – CALIFORNIA ART 1974-1981, MOCA at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, USA
Through the looking brain, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
Hyper Real, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The View from Here, San Fancisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Collectie XXII Fantasy, MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Matrix/Redux, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA
Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
For the Spirit – From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Photopeintries, FRAC – Limousin, Limoges, France
Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles, LACMA – County Museum of Art
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain
Medium Fotografie, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Rockers Island. Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum & Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Artists’ Favourite Act II, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;Great Britain
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, USA (travelling exhibition
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960 – 1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (travelling exhibition)
Outlook, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Affinities… Now and Then, Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA
Talking pieces. Text und Bild in der neuen Kunst, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
JASPER JOHNS TO JEFF KOONS – FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM THE BROAD COLLECTIONS, MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
A Room of Their Own – From Arbus to Gober, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
The Universe: Contemporary Art and the Cosmos, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
How You Look at It – 20th Century Photography, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Landmark Pictures in Boston: Ed Ruscha/Andreas Gursky, Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Sert Gallery, Cambridge, USA
How You Look at It – 20th Century Photography, Städelsches Kunstinstitut/ Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Examining Pictures, MCA – The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (travelling exhibition)
Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha: Grosse Illusionen, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany, (travelling exhibition)
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
American Painting of the 1970s, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA (travelling exhibition)
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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