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Sterling Ruby

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Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2002
  • 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
  • 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
  • Material Eyes (with Kirsten Stoltmann), Zach Feuer (LFL), New York
2004
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1-Turin Triennial, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderne Contemporanea, Turin
2006
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2008
  • 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
  • Endless Summer, The Glendale College Art Gallery, California
2009
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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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)