
Sterling Ruby
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Group Exhibitions and Screenings
- 2002
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- Video with Headphones, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
Landformed, 1R Gallery, Chicago
Impakt Film and Video Festival, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Media Art Festival Friesland 2002, Theatre Romein and Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Love, Landscape, Mirrors, Death, Ideotech, Chicago
- 2003
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- Subtle, not so subtle, 1R Gallery, Chicago
Video Mundi, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Hysterical Pastoral, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
Recess and In the Shadow of Summer Bliss, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Rethinking Landscape, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster
When Darkness Falls, Gallery 400, College of Architecture and Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago
When Darkness Falls (Part 2), Midway Contemporary Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota
America Annihilates Consciousness, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
See How the Land Les, Ithaca College, New York
Blinky 2: The Screening, Tate Britain, London
Red Beats, Salina Art Center, Kansas
Behind the Pedestal (with Kirsten Stoltmann), Bower Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Fiction in Video, WORM, Nighttown Theater, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chicago's Own: New Work by Jennifer Reeder and Sterling Ruby, Chicago Filmmakers, Illinois
- 2003 – 2004
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- Material Eyes (with Kirsten Stoltmann), Zach Feuer (LFL), New York
- 2004
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- Works on Paper, Southfirst Art, Brooklyn
Signal and Noise Festival 2004, Video In Studios, Vancouver B.C., Canada
Depression: What is it Good For?, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Tapestry from an Asteroid, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Mystery Blaze in Holiday Cottage, Monya Rowe, New York
Dark Side of the Sun, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
Face-Off, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
21st Kasseler Documentary Film & Video Festival, Filmladen Kassel, Germany
LOOP ¥'04 Video Art Fair and Festival, Associació Art Barcelona / Barcelo Hotel Sants Barcelona
Imitations of Life, De Balie Cinema, Amsterdam
Chicago Experimental, Les Musées de Strasbourg—Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg,France
- 2005
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- GEO, Foxy Production, New York
Exploding Plastic Inevitable: 40 Fun Galleries, Bergdorf Goodman, New York
Resonance, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
5 X U, Team Gallery, New York
Sugartown, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Participant Inc., New York
All the Pretty Corpses, Renasissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois
Voiceovers, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California
Untitled, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Excessive Projections/Projections of Excess, Open Screen CAA: New Media Caucus, Atlanta
- 2005 – 2006
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- The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1-Turin Triennial, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderne Contemporanea, Turin
- 2006
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- Sterling Ruby and Kirsten Stoltmann: Behind the Pedestal, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Back From the End of the Earth, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Into Black, Western Bridge, Seattle
2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- 2006 – 2007
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- Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection
- 2007
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- Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Material Photographs, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois.
Group exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York
Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia
I Want to Believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Dark Mirror, Netherlands Media Institute Montevideo/Time Base Arts, Amsterdam
Seattle Museum at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Circumventing the City, D'Amelio Terras, New York
Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers, Munich
POST ROSE, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
Raise High the Roof Beam, Rainbo Club, Chicago
Seattle Museum at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Washington
- 2007 – 2008
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- Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
- 2008
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- New Acquisitions 2, The Rachofsky House, Dallas
The Skat Players, Vilma Gold, London
Substraction, Deitch Projects, New York
Stray Alchemists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Now: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
If You Destroy the Image, You Destroy the Thing Itself, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Begin Again Right Back Here, White Columns, New York
Base: Object, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Group show, The Station, Miami
- 2008 – 2009
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- Endless Summer, The Glendale College Art Gallery, California
- 2009
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- Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay,, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Beaufort 03: Art by the Sea, PMMK, Provincial Museum for Modern Art in Ostend, Belgium
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Sterling Ruby, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nothingness and Being, Fundación/ Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Five, BAIBAKOV Art Projects, Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow
Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Works on View, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Why Painting Now?, Blondeau Fine Arts Services, Geneva
NEW YORK MINUTE: Sixty Artists on the New York Scene, MACRO FUTURE, Museum of ContemporaryArt, Rome (Initiated and supported by the Depart Foundation) (Catalogue)
Cave Painting Installation #1, Gresham’s Ghost, New York
- 2009-2010
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- Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London
New Photography 2009, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
California Maximalism, NYEHAUS, New York
Beg, Borrow, Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami,
Robert Mapplethorpe and Sterling Ruby, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels,
- 2010
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- Suitable Video: Works from the Suitable Exhibitions Archive, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
In Bed Together, Royal/T, Culver City, California
Supernature: An Exercise in Loads, AMP, Athens, Greece
Long Live the Amorphous Law: Videos by Sterling Ruby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
This That & Then Some, Independent, New York
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
The Quiet Edition, White Slab Palace, New York, March 14, 2010. (A short
film series organized byKunstverein New York)
The Secret Knows: A LAND Exhibition, The Virgin Mobile Freehouse, Austin
Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Melanie Schiff and Sterling Ruby, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin
Rethinking Location, Galerie Spruth Magers, Berlin
New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000–2009, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, California
Other than Beauty, Friedman Benda, New York
Pure, Personal or Abstract, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy
Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Mimesi Permanente, Galleria Emi Fontana, Torino, Italy
Endless Bummer/ Surf Elswhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Spray, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon
Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Meigima, Japan

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HEARTTHROB EXHAUST , 2010
Bronze
40.6 H x 38.1 W x 20.3 D cm / 16 x 15 x 8 inches

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ACTRESS 3 , 2010
Bronze
22.9 H x 40.6 W x 26.7 D cm / 9 x 16 x 10 1/2 inches

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HEADTREKKERS 2, 2010
Collage on orange paper
96.5 H x 63.5 W cm / 38 x 25 inches

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Vampire 9 , 2010
Fabric with fiber fill
213.4 H x 114.3 W x 10.2 D cm / 84 x 45 x 4 inches

- SOFT VORTEX (6 DEEP) , 2010
(Detail, 3 of 6)
Fabric with fiber fill
152.4 H x 152.4 W x7.6 D cm (each) / 60 x 60 x 3 inches (each)