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ED RUSCHA - Works and History

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ED RUSCHA

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by ED RUSCHA

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Curriculum Vitae

1937
Born in Omaha, NE

1941
Moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, OK

1956
Received first prize in graphic design from the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma, OK

1956 – 1960
Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

1967
Received an award in painting from the National Council on the Arts, Washington, DC

1967
National Council on the Arts Grant

1969
Awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and received a two-month fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, CA

1969
National Endowment for the Arts Grant Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship

1969 – 1970
Taught drawing and printmaking at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1971
Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

1971
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

1974
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Award in Graphic

1978
Received his second grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

1978
National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1988
Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Achievement in Printmaking Award

1990
Los Angeles Arts Council Honors

1995
California Arts Council, Governor’s Award for the Arts, Achievement in Visual Arts Award

2006
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Board of Trustees

2009
Artistic Excellence Award, Americans for the Arts

Selected Exhibitions

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, New York, NY

2013
Ed Ruscha – Los Angeles Apartments – Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Word And Image – Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Ed Ruscha: Made in California – Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Ed Ruscha – Artist Rooms On Tour – Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Letters From Los Angeles Part II: Identity & Self Identity Through Text in Art – Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Ed Ruscha – Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
Ed Ruscha – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
Ed Ruscha – Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Ed Ruscha: On The Road – Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL

2011
Ed Ruscha: On the Road – Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Ed Ruscha: Nice, Hot Vegetables – Richard Gray Gallery – New York, New York City, NY
Edward Ruscha – Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Ed Ruscha – Road Tested – The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 2010

2010
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stolkholm, Sweden

2009
Words Are Diamonds, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

2008
Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2007
Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2006
Two Artists ~ Two Worlds, the Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2005
Ed Ruscha and Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)

2004
Ed Ruscha: The Drawings and Photographs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Ed Ruscha: Cotton Puffs, Q Tips, Smoke and Mirrors, L.A Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)

2003
Ed Ruscha Photographs, L.A Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Ed Ruscha: Recent works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ed Ruscha:Palindrome Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)

2000
Ed Ruscha: Mountains and Highways, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Ed Ruscha: Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)

1999
Edward Ruscha: The Complete 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 (solo)

1998
Ed Ruscha, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)

1997
Edward Ruscha: Cityscapes/O Books, Leo Castelli, New York, NY (solo)

1996
Edward Ruscha, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea (solo)

1995
Anamorphic Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
The End. Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

1993
Edward Ruscha/Romance With Liquids, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1992
Edward Ruscha/New Paintings & Drawings, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Ed Ruscha/Stains, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Ruscha and Dennis Hopper/New Works, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY

1990
Edward Ruscha, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (solo)
Edward Ruscha/Obra Sobre Paper, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Edward Ruscha, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Edward Ruscha, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NA (solo)
Ed Ruscha/new paintings and drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
Edward Ruscha Paintings and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Ed Ruscha/Paintings, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

1989
New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, NY
New Paintings and Drawings, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1988
Edward Ruscha: Recent Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
Edward Ruscha: Recent Works on Paper 1988, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1987
New Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
The Works of Ed Ruscha, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)

1986
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Ed Ruscha: Quelques Dessins, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France (solo)
New Paintings, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Octobre des Arts, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, France

1984
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1983
New Drawings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982
Edward Ruscha/New Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)

1981
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Edward Ruscha/New Works, Arco Center for the Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Edward Ruscha/D Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1980
Edward Ruscha:Paintings, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA (solo)
Nigel Greenwood, Inc., London, UK
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY