Ed Ruscha
People Yawning, 1982

Born 1937
Omaha, NE
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1960
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angles, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Ed Ruscha: Drum Skins, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2019
Ed Ruscha: Eilshemius & Me. Gagosian, Davies Street, London, England
2018
Ed Ruscha: Ace Radio Honk Boss, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Double Americanisms, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Ed Ruscha: Gumbo of Gravel, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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, NE
Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire, The National Gallery of Art, London, England
2017
Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings, Gagosian, New York, NY
Music From the Balconies: Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2016
Ed Ruscha: Extremes and In-Betweens, Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill, London, England
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Ed Ruscha; Mountain Prints, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2015
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
2014
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, NY
2013
In Focus: Ed Ruscha, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha Books & Co, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Books and Paintings, Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany
Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles Apartments, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
2012
Ed Ruscha: Standard, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveling to The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
ARTIST ROOMS on Tour: Ed Ruscha, Tate, London, England; traveling to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Reading Ed Ruscha, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles, Then and Now, Peter Lund Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Reading Ed Ruscha, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2011
Nice, Hot Vegetables: Ed Ruscha Works on Paper, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: On the Road, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Ed Ruscha: Psycho Spaghetti Westerns, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: Road Tested Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2010
Ed Ruscha: Artist Rooms, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland; traveled to Swanson Gallery, Thurso, Scotland; Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
Ed Ruscha: Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others: Films, Photographs and Drawings from 1961 to 1975, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Ed Ruscha, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Ed Ruscha: Libros, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain
2009
Landscape in the Prints, Photographs, and Books of Ed Ruscha, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden ; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ed Rusha: On the Road, An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac, Gagosian Gallery, Brittani Street, London, England
Ed Ruscha, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Ed Rusha: Artist’s Books, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2008
Ed Ruscha: Oeuvres sur Papier, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: New Wood/Old Wood, Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: Industrial Strength, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Ed Ruscha, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Ed Ruscha: Standard Stations, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha and Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England
Ed Ruscha: Early Graphic Work 1960–1977, Griffin, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Ruscha Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings, Craig F. Starr Associates, New York, NY
Views of Los Angeles, The City Beautiful: Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ed Ruscha: Busted Glass, Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, England
Rozenkranz Kubus III: Ed Ruscha, Museum der bildenden Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Artists Who Make Pieces: Ed Ruscha’s Fugitive Productions, Fuji Xerox Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2006
OOO: Early Prints by Ed Ruscha, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Ed Ruscha: Signs+Streets+Streets+Signs, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Since 2001: Recent Prints by Ed Ruscha, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, San Francisco, CA
Ed Ruscha: Rooftops and Vacants Lots, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: La mirada distanciada, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporàneo, México City, México
Ed Ruscha: Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Insect (1972), Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
The Prints of Ed Ruscha: A Selection from the Gift of Jane and Marc Nathanson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha, Photographer, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2005
Ed Ruscha: Books, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Ed Ruscha: Then & Now, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Ruscha: Pools, Parking Lots, & Gas Stations, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Selected Works, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY
Edward Ruscha (Ed-werd Rew-shay), Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha, 51st Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: A Selection of Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Ikon Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
Ed Ruscha and Photography, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ed Ruscha, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ed Ruscha: Mountain Paintings, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2003
Ed Ruscha: Parking Lots and Pools, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: The Drawn Word, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, FL
Ed Ruscha: Prints 1969–2003, Godt-Clearly Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Ed Ruscha: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964–2002, Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Words, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Ed Ruscha: L.A.S.F. #1–3, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Elongated Subjects, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA
Ed Ruscha: Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Works on Paper by Edward Ruscha, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Petro-plots, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: With and Without Words, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
Edward Ruscha: Made in Los Angeles, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Ed Ruscha: Country/Cityscapes, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: Birds, Fish, and Offspring, C&M Arts, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Country Cityscapes, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Graphic Works, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY
2001
Acquisition of the Archive: The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Ed Ruscha: New Prints: “Los Francisco/San Angeles,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Ed Ruscha: S Books, O Book and Other Books, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Edward Ruscha: Paintings of/an Books, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Edward Ruscha: Sunliners, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Ed Ruscha ‘90s, Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
Ed Ruscha: The Mountains, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000
Ed Ruscha: A Graphic View, National University of Ireland for the Galway Arts Festival, Galay, Ireland; traveled to Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: Mountains and Portraits, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
Ed Ruscha, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Ed Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains, Monika Sprüth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany,
Edward Ruscha: Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, in association with James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
1999
Edward Ruscha: Works on Paper, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959–1999, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Ed Ruscha: Bolt Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
Edward Ruscha, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Edward Ruscha, Metta Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Edward Ruscha, Brownstone, Corréard & Cie, Paris, France
1998
Opere Recenti, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Ed Ruscha: Metro Plots, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA; traveled to Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Ed Ruscha: Works from the 60’s and 70’s, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
Archi-Props, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha: Photographs, Giohn Foundation, Nambe, NM
Ed Ruscha: Inventors, Boxers, Racecar Drivers, Artists, Etc., Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
Ed Ruscha’s Light, J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha, New Editions and Earlier Work, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Awards and Honors
2009
Artistic Excellence Award, Americans for the Arts
2006
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Board of Trustees
1995
California Arts Council, Governor’s Award for the Arts, Achievement in Visual Arts Award
1990
Los Angeles Arts Council Honors
1988
Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Achievement in Printmaking Award
1978
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1974
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Award in Graphic
1971
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1969
National Endowment for the Arts Grant Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship
1967
National Council on the Arts Grant
Selected Permanent Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Irvine Company Collection, Irvine, CA
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Main Library, Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Metro-Dade Art in Public Places Collection, Miami, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée Départemental des Vosges, Epinal, France
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council, Oklahoma City, OK
The Panza di Biumo Collection, Milan, Italy
Pomona College, Pomona, CA
Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC
San Diego Museum of Arts, San Diego, CA
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT