ARTISTS
Sterling RUBY
Born in 1972, Sterling Ruby works with a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies from sculptures made of saturated, glossy, poured polyurethane, bronze and steel, to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, paintings, photography and video, as well as textile works that include quilts, tapestries, garments, and soft sculptures. His work is a balancing act, maintaining a constant tension between a multitude of elements. It deals with issues related to the violence and pressures within society, and art history, even as it also reflects his personal history. In all of his work, he vacillates between the fluid and static, the minimalist and expressionistic, the pristine and the defaced.
Ruby’s solo exhibitions include Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (2021), Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2021), the ICA Miami (2019) which traveled to the ICA Boston (2020), Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018), Winterpalais, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2016), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2012) which travelled to Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2012) and to Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008). His works are included in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm among others. Ruby was the subject of a sculpture survey at the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2019.
