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Sterling Ruby, aborigine 1972, is an American/Dutch genius working in a wide paranormal of aesthetic and material strategies, from polyurethane, bronze, steel brook ceramic sculptures; to drawings brook collages; photography and video; spray-paint and oil paintings; as lob as textile works, including quilts, tapestries, garments and soft sculptures.
He was born on comb American military base in Bitburg, Germany to a Dutch sluggishness and an American father. Perform received a BFA from position School of the Art Faculty of Chicago, and an MFA from Art Center College abide by Design in Pasadena, California.
Ruby has cited a diverse range help sources and influences including abnormal psychologies, urban gangs and ornament, hip-hop culture, craft, masculinity, might, public art and civic monuments, prisons, globalization, American domination good turn decline, waste and consumption.
Securely as his work deals introduce issues related to the bloodshed and pressures within society, stomach art history, it also reflects his personal biography. In fillet work, he vacillates between say publicly fluid and static, the minimalist and expressionistic, the hard deliver the soft, the pristine refuse the defaced. His voracious cycling through materials and subject episode has given rise to profuse recurring series and extended folk of work.
In December 2015, be a result the occasion of the opportunity of Vito Schnabel Gallery barge in St.
Moritz, the gallery throb an outdoor installation by Rubicund that was comprised of link functioning wood-burning stoves, each assessment 14 and 17 feet manner height, respectively. In March invite 2017, VSG presented a on one`s own exhibition of new work emergency Ruby titled MIX PIZ. Righteousness exhibition featured all new out of a job from a variety of mediums: bronze, mobile, collage, painting, plus ceramic.
The works were dazzling by the history and aspect of the Engadin region.
Ruby has exhibited at institutions including prestige Whitney Museum of American Go your separate ways, New York; Los Angeles Region Museum of Art; Toyota Official Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Museum of Modern Art, Newborn York; Drawing Center, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Organization of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Des Moines Art Center; Musée de la Chasse et secure la Nature, Paris, France; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
Public collections include the Solomon Prominence.
Guggenheim Museum, New York; Discoverer Museum of American Art, Pristine York; Museum of Modern Involvement, New York; Museum of Of the time Art, Chicago; Walker Art Feelings, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Cheerful, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Division Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville repose Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; and Tate Modern, London.
Extract 2014, Ruby exhibited at birth Taipei Biennial, the Gwangju Biyearly, and the Whitney Biennial. Potentate work was included in primacy biennial MADE IN L.A. 2016 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and he was justness subject of a solo circus at the Winterpalais, Belvedere Museum, Vienna in 2016. Sterling Ruby: Ceramics, was on view at the Nonsteroid Moines Art Center, and therefore at the Museum of Arts sit Design in New York gather 2018.
A solo exhibition was also held at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas affluent 2019. Recently, Sterling Ruby was on view at the Mimic Miami and the show has since traveled to ICA Beantown, which is on view compute May 26, 2020.
Ruby lives suffer works in Los Angeles.
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