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Biography - Ed Ruscha

Born

December 16, 1937 Omaha, NE. Currently lives in Los Angeles, CA

Education

1960 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2010 “The Road to Here”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 “Ed Ruscha and Photography” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 “Ed Ruscha” Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
“Ed Ruscha: Busted Glass” Gagosian Gallery, London, England
“Ed Ruscha”, Hamilton Press, Venice, CA
2006 “Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Nov. 2005 – Jan. 2006
“Los Angeles, 1955-1985” Centre Pompidou, Paris France
“Ed Ruscha: Grand Horizontals” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
“Ed Ruscha: Photographer” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Travelled to Jeu de Paume, Paris France, Kunsthaus Zurich Switzerland
“The Prints of Ed Ruscha” Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
“Ed Ruscha - Selected Works” Edward Tyler Nahem, New York, NY
“Ed Ruscha - Rooftops and Vacant Lots” Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
“Ed Ruscha – Drawings” Gagosian Gallery - New York, New York, NY
“Since 2001- Recent Prints by Ed Ruscha” The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha”, the United State’s contribution to the 51st
Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
“Ed Ruscha”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Traveled to MOCA, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.
“Ed Ruscha” Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
“Ed Ruscha - Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2002” Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island
2004 “Ed Ruscha: New Drawings”, Gagosian Gallery, NY, New York
“Ed Ruscha” MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
2003 “Ed Ruscha: Photographs”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
“Ruscha Revisited & Working In London - The Pop Years” Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2002 “Ed Ruscha” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
“Ed Ruscha – Paintings” Gagosian Gallery - Chelsea, New York, NY
“Ed Ruscha - Birds, Fish and Offspring” L&M Arts, New York, NY
“Ed Ruscha - Country Citiscapes” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Ed Ruscha” Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich
2001 Gagosian Gallery (Chelsea), New York, NY
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
“S Books, O Books, And Other Books,” James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2000 “Ed Ruscha: A Graphic View,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
“Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999,” Los Angeles County Museum
Traveled to Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; MoCA, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, FL; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; MoMA, Oxford, England.
“Mountains and Highways,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
“Edward Ruscha: Retrospective,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Monika Spruth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
“Powders, Pressure and Other Drawings,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Metro Plots,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
“Edward Ruscha: Editions 1958-1999,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York., NY
“Ed Ruscha” Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Retrospective of Works on Paper by Edward Ruscha,” J. Paul Getty Museum, LosAngeles, CA, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
1997 “Edward Ruscha, Current Works: Painting and Drawing,” Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
“Ed Ruscha: Cityscapes Of Books,” Leo Castelli Gallery- SoHo, New York, NY
1996 Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Vowels: Paintings on Book Covers,” Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
1995 Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Edward Ruscha, Sayings from Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “Ed Ruscha—Clockworks,” Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “Romance With Liquids: Paintings 1966-1969,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
“Cameo Cuts, 1992,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Space Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1992 “Edward Ruscha Stains 1971-1975,” Robert Miller Gallery, NY
“Edward Ruscha: Neue Bilder (New Paintings),” Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
“New Work,” in conjunction with an exhibition by Dennis Hopper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1991 “Recent Editions,” Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
“Ed Ruscha: Recent Editions,” Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Carola Mosch Multiples and Editions, Berlin, Germany
1990 Galerie Bébert, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Ed Ruscha Prints,” Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper,” Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
“Prints from the ’60s & ’70s,” Judith Goldberg Fine Arts, New York, NY
Centre Cultural de La Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
“Ed Ruscha: Gasoline Stations 1962 (photo editions),” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Trisorio, Naples, Italy
“Edward Ruscha - Los Angeles Apartments,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Edward Ruscha,” Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, England
1989 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
“Edward Ruscha: Drawing and Prints,” Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Ed Ruscha Drawings,” Michael Maloney Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 “Ed Ruscha: Recent Paintings,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Drawings ThroughtheYears,”Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Henry Vincent Gallery, San Diego, CA
“New Works,” Karsten Scubert, London, England
“Early Paintings,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL
1987 “New Paintings,” Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“35 Lunette Paintings Commissioned by the Metro‑Dade Art in Public Places Trust for Miami Dade Public Library,” Leo Castelli, New York, NY
“New Works,” Karsten Schubert Ltd.
Westfalische Kunstverein Munster, Munster, Germany
Ed Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts,” Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL
1986 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1985 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Gilbert Brownstone & Coe, Paris, France
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
1982 “The Works of Edward Ruscha,” a retrospective exhibition, traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; San Antonio Museum of Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Castelli Graphics, NY; Jacobson/Hochman Gallery, NY
1981 Arco Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1980 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
InK, Zurich, Switzerland
Foster‑Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Douglas Dean Courtenier, East Hampton, NY
1978 Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
MTL Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Getler Pall Gallery, NY
1977 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
1976 Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Paintings, Drawings and Other Works by Ed Ruscha,” Stedelijk Musuem, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dootson/Calderhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sable/Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
1975 Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Jared Sable, Toronto, Canada
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ
The Glaser Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Fox Venice Theater (Films: “Miracle” and “Premium”)
The Arts Council of Great Britain traveling exhibition
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Leo Castelli, NY
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
H. Peter Findlay Works of Art, NY
1973 University of California at San Diego, CA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
Nigel Greenwood, London, England
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ronald Greenberg, St. Louis, MO
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Projection, Ursula Wevers, Cologne, Germany
1972 University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
Corcoran and Corcoran Gallery, Miami, FL
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
D‑M Gallery, London, England
1971 Contract Graphics Gallery, Houston, TX
1970 Alexander Iolas Gallery, NY
Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris, France
Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany
Nigel Greenwood, London, England
1969 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, West Germany
1967 Alexander Iolas Gallery, NY
1965 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 “The Shape of Time” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Vertigo - The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web” MAMbo - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
“Darling, take Fountain” Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
“If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition” Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
“California Context” MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
“L´Horizon Chimerique” Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
“Equal, That is, to the Real itself” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“An Incomplete World - Works from The UBS Art Collection” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
“News on Paper” Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann • Düsseldorf, Germany
“Held together with Water / Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund” Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
“What does the jellyfish want?” Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Love Chief” Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
“Based on Paper - Die Sammlung Marzona - Revolution der Kunst 1960-1975” Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
“Mapping the City” Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
“Not For Sale” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
“Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Contemporary Art on Paper” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Two Artists ~ Two Worlds, the Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California
“Super Vision” ICA Boston, Boston, MA
“Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images” Los Angeles County
Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
“Multiplicity” Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
“Selected Works” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Twice Drawn” Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Newark Between Us” Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Works on Paper” Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
“Imposing Order - Contemporary Photography and the Archive” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
“Surprise, Surprise” ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
“Drawn into the World” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
“LA: Remix” Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
“In Sight - Resent additions to the permanent collection” MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
“Pop Goes the Press - Prints from the Permanent Collection, 1960-1990” Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
“In Edition: Books, Prints & Multiples from the 1960s & 1970s” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
“Le mouvement des images” Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
“Great American Drawings” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“LA: The Four” Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
“LACMA at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s Anniversary” Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
“Crisis of Modernism: The Post-Minimal Rebellion” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon - The Holy Bible and THE END” Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
“La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
“Hollywood Boulevard” Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
“Selected Works” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “The Pleasure of your Company: Private View Cards and Invitations from
The Collection”, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Southern Exposure”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“Highlights: New Acquisitions”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Ordering the Ordinary”, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
“51st International Exhibition: Always a Little Further”, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
“Summer Exhibition 2005”, Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Contemporary Voices” Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
“Made for this World - Contemporary Art and the Places We Build” Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
“Mapping Space” MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
“Superstars: Von Warhol bis Madonna”. BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
“Looking at Words” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005” Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
“Overhead / Underfoot - The Topographical Perspective in Photography” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Old News” LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
“Kramlich Collection” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
“100 Artists See God” Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
“The Artist Turns to the Book” The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Getting Emotional” ICA Boston, Boston, MA
“A Window on the West - California Art from the Permanent Collection” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
“L´Art de Vivre” Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
“Landscape” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982” Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
“Logical Conclusions” Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2004 “What’s Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
“Chocolate Room”, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
“Hard Light”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center. Long Island, NY
“Richard Artschwager/Ed Ruscha”, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
“Pop! From San Francisco Collections”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“100 Artists See God” ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England); Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
“13” Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“Modern in Europe” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman – Prints” Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
“2048 KM” Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“Living Dust” Norwich Gallery, Norwich (England)
“5th Gwangju Biennal 2004 - A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water” Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju
“Printed light - photographic vision and the modern print” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
“Sign Language” MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
“Topographies” Pasadena Museum of California Art- PMCA, Pasadena, CA
“V.I.P. - Die Neuen” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
“Contemporánea Arte, Colección Pilar Citoler” Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño
“Everyday Minimal” Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
“Topographies” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Photo Image in American Prints: 1960s–1990s” Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
“The Armory Show” Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
“The Game Show” James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Pop Art”, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
“Site Specific”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Dust Memories”, SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY
“Selected Prints”, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
“Air”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
“Minimal to the Max - The Brownstone Collection” Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
“Outlook” Benaki Museum, Athens
“The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“From Here to There - Maps as Muse” Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
“7e Biennale de Lyon - Cest arrivé demain” La biennale dart contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
“Bibliocosmos” The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR
“A Way with Words” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic - Permanent Collection and Loans” ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
“American Tableaux - Many Voices, Many Stories” MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
“Embracing the Present - The UBS Art Collection” Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
“Selected Aquisitionts” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Ameri©an Dre@m: A Survey” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York, NY
“Affinities… Now and Then” H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
“TALKING PIECES - Text und Bild in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2002 “Crisis Response”, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
“HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB”, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
“Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons- Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
“Accrochage II: Paintings” Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
“Ferus” Gagosian Gallery - Chelsea, New York, NY
“Representing Nature” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection” Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland)
“Independent Visions” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Recent Works on Paper” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Vues darchitectures, Photographies XIX et XX” Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble
“Scandal and Myth - A survey of the archives of documenta 5 (1972)” Kunsthalle Wien (project / public space Karlsplatz), Vienna
“Looking at America” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Goya to Cage - Pomona Collects” Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
“Western States” MARK MOORE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
“Amerika - Europa - Ein künstlerischer Dialog” Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
“Imagining LA” Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
“Privat Space” Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
2001 “Evidence of Love, Romance, Desire & Fantasy,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
“Maurizio Cattelan, Doug Aitken, Jack Pierson, Ed Rusha, Terry Richardson, Jeff Burton” Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin - Paris, Paris
“Rotating Group Exhibition” Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
“Letters, Signs & Symbols - Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper” Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
“Pay Attention…I Hope You Learned Your Lesson” The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
“Conception - The Conceptual Document 1968-1972” The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons - Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections” Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
“Selected Landscapes” Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
“Monets Vermächtnis - Serie - Ordnung und Obsession” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
“SITE Santa Fes Fourth International Biennial” International Biennial Exhibition Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
“Out of L.A. - Six Californian artists” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
“A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober” MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
2000 “David Deutsch/ Ed Ruscha” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“La collection – Installations” Musée dArt Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
“Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha/Andreas Gursky” Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA
How you look at it. Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
“Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Master Prints & Drawings” Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 “Pop,” Winston Wachter Fine Art LLC, Seattle, WA
“Why Draw a Landscape?” Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Looking West,” CollectFineArt.com, Venic, CA
“20th Anniversary Exhibition Part I” Modernism, San Francisco, CA
“Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection”The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
“Examining Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Grosse Illusionen” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
“The Permanent Collection - Into the 21st Century” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Pools and Other Objects,” Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen
1998 “Three Catholics: Warhol, Ruscha, Mapplethorpe,” Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY
“PhotoImage/Printmaking/60s to 90s,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Hollywood Satan” MARK MOORE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
“A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1997 “Oceans + Gallaxies,” Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York, NY
“The 1997 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban,” The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY
“Patrick Painter Editions,” Lehamann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
“Forty Years of Exploration and Innovation: The Artists of the Castelli Gallery,” Leo Castelli Gallery SoHo, New York, NY
“Great Graphics,” Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Future, Present, Past: A Labyrinth,” XLVII Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Allegory,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
“Spaghetti Western,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“In Visible Light/Photography and Classification in Art, Science, and the Everyday,”
Museum of Modern Art. Oxford, England
1996 “Structuring the South/1860 to the Present,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1995 “Chocolate!” The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
“Printmaking in America: Collaborative Press and Prints, 1960-1990,” The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers; The State Univeristy of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. “Photo Works,” Brooke Alexander/Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
1994 “Animal Farm,” James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Desire and Loss,” Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
“Arte Contemporanea dalla Collezione della Federazione Cooperativa Migros,” Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
“Landscape as Metaphor—Visions of America in the Late 20th Century,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“Meditation,” Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 “15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Pop on Paper,” ARTE, Javits Center, New York, NY “Group Show,” Salander O’Reilly & Fred Hoffman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
“The Pop Show,” Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Hand Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955-1962,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Group Show,” Galeria Breton, Valencia, Spain
“American Art in the 20th Century - Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993,” Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; Royal Academy, London, England
“Azur,” La Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
“Graphics,” Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia
“The Broken Mirror: Approaches to Painting,” curated by Kasper Konig and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
1991 “Large Scale Works on Paper,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Painted World,” Beth Urdang Fine Art, Boston, MA
1990 “Silhouettes: Prints & Multiples,” University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, MA
“Joan Nelson/Ed Ruscha,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Abstraction as Landscape,” Gallery Urban, NY
“Landscape,” Vrej Baghoomian, New York, NY
“A Group Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“Hommage to Leo Castelli,” Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
“Print National Overview,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Repetition 1969-1989,” Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY
1988 “Imprimatur,” Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC. Traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
“Vision/Verite,” Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
“As Far as the Eye Can See,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“New Drawings” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
1987 “1987 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Leo Castelli Y Sus Artistas,” Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
“Some Sixties Works,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
“Romance,” Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Pictorial Grammar,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press,” Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Comic Iconoclasm,” ICA, London
“Made in U.S.A.,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1986 “In Other Words … ” Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Drawing,” an exhibition curated by Tom Drum, Gallery Two Nine One, Atlanta, GA. Traveled to Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
“Salute to Leo Castelli,” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
“Leo Castelli at Gagosian,” Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 “Pop Art 1955‑1970,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
“Currents 7: Words in Action,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“The Public Art Show,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1984 “Autoscape: The Automobile in American Landscape,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Farifield County, CT
“The Skohegan Celebration Exhibition,” Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
“The Innovative Landscape,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Selections from the Collection: A Focus on California,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
“Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1983 “1984—A Preview,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Recent Publications,” Jacobson‑Hochman, New York, NY
Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
“Drawing Conclusions: A Survey of American Drawings,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
“Language,Drama, Source and Vision,” The New Museum, New York, NY
“The Master Print: America Since 1960,” Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1982 “Artists Photographs,” Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
“Painting,” Metro Pictures, New York, NY
“Livres d’Artistes,” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
“Documenta VII,” Kassel, Germany
“Postminimalism,” The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
“The Destroyed Print,” Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY
1981 “Selections from Castelli: Drawings and Works on Paper,” Neil Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The 1970’s: New American Painting,” The New Museum, New York, NY
“White Walls: Words as Images,” Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
“Internationale Ausstellung Koln 1981,” Cologne, Germany
“The Americans: The Landscape,” Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
“Seventeen Painters of the Sixties: The Museum as Site,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1980 “Object Transformed: Contemporary American Drawings,” The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
“Printed Art: A View of Two Decades,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Twenty Questions,” Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
“Contemporary Art In Southern California,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
“American Drawing in Black and White,” Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
1979 “Words, Words,” Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
“Reflections of Realism,” The Albuquerque Musuem, Albuquerque, NM
“Artists and Books: The Literal Use of Time,” Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1978 “Three Generations: Studies in Collage,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Retrospective of the Biennales of Paris 1959‑1975,” Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Narration,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“20th Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“American Painting of the 70’s,” Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1977 “Bookworks,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Words,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Annex, New York, NY
“Time in Three Parts,” Philadelphia College of Art, PA
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
“Some Color Photographs,” Castelli Graphics, NY
“The Dada/Surrealist Heritage,” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
“20th Century American Art from Friend’s Collections,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“A View of a Decade,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“American Drawing 1927‑1977,” Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
“Illusion and Reality,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
“For Collectors Only,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1976 “Critical Perspectives in American Art,” 37th Venice Biennale, Italy
“Art that Involves Words,” Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1975 “Current Concerns, Part 1,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
“New Media 1,” Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
“Graphica Creativa,” Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
“North, East, West, South and Middle,” traveling show organized by Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“America: The Third Century,” a traveling Bicentennial show sponsored by Mobil Oil Corporation
1974 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Pop Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Castelli at Berggruen,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Artisti Della West Coast,” Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
“Small Prints,” Gallerie 15, Basel, Switzerland
“Images, Words,” The new Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1973 “Dimensional Prints,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
“Some Recent Graphics,” Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“American Drawings 1963‑1973,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“American Drawing 1970‑73,” Yale University, New Haven, CT
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Ricognizione ‘73,”Rome, Italy
1972 “Joe Goode, Kenneth Price en Edward Ruscha: Grafiek en Boeken,”
Museum Boumans‑van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1971 “32nd Biennial,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Made in California,” Grunwald Foundation, UCLA, CA
“Continuing Surrealism,” La Jolla Museum ofContemporary Art, CA
“Arte de Sistemas,” Centro de Art y Communicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“11 Los Angeles Artists,” Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
“Art Systems,” Centro de Arte y Coomunicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970 “American Drawings,” Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
“Three California Friends,” (With Joe Goode and Billy Al Bengston) Oklaholma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
“The Highway,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“American Realism,” Goteborg Kusthallen, Germany
“17th National Print Exhibition,” The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Drawings 1970,” University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
“American Paintings 1970,” Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
“The Arrested Image,” Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
“The Word as Image,” Jewish Museum, NY
“Artists and Photographs,” Multiples, Inc, NY
“Information,” Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects,” The New York Cultural Center, NY
“XXXV Venice Biennial,” Venice, Italy
“Looking West,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
“California Color,” The Pace Gallery, NY
“Hollywood Collects,” Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
“Ed Ruscha Graphics, Don Bachardy Drawings,” Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969 “Three Modern Masters: Billy Al Bengston, Edward Ruscha, Frank Lloyd Wright,” Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA
“Tamarind: Homage to Lithography,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Contemporary Drawings Show,” Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
“Kompas IV,” Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
“Pop Art,” The Hayward Gallery, London, England
“Group Show‑Drawings,” Galeire Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Other City,” Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Conception,”Stadtischen Museum, Leverkunsen, Germany
“Superlimited: Books, Boxes and Things,” The Jewish Museum, NY
1968 “Joe Goode and Edward Ruscha,” Pavillion Gallery, Balboa, CA
“40 New California Painters,” Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL
“West Coast Now,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Small Paintings for Museum Collections:, American Federation of Arts, NY
1967 “IX Sao Paulo Biennale,” Sao Paulo, Brazil
“V Paris Biennale,” Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
“Annual Exhibition, Painting,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“18th Salon of Young Painters,” Museum of Modern Art of Paris, France
1966 “Ten from Los Angeles,” Seattle Art Museum, WA
“Los Angeles Now,” Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England
1965 “Words and Images,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
“Five at Pace,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1964 “American Drawings,” Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
“Collector’s Show,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1963 “Six More,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1962 “New Paintings of Common Objects,” Pasadena Art Museum, CA
1960 “Four Oklahoma Artists” (With Patrick Blackwell, Joe Goode and Jerry McMillan) Oklahoma City Art Center, OK

Public Collections

The Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
de Young Museum, San Francisco