Sterling Ruby (b. 1972) is an American artist born in Bitburg, Germany, and based in Los Angeles, who earned his MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He took part in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, has collaborated with Raf Simons, and his work is held by MoMA, the Guggenheim and Tate. His ceramics, collages, paintings, textiles, sculpture and fashion often look scratched, stained or splattered and are shown in dense, large-scale installations.
Sterling Ruby (b. 1972, Bitburg, Germany) is an American artist. Born on a US military base in West Germany to a Dutch mother and an American father, he grew up in rural New Freedom, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2003. Based in Los Angeles, Ruby works across ceramics, collage, drawing, painting, textiles, photography, sculpture, video and fashion. His works often look scratched, stained, splattered or camouflaged, and are frequently shown in dense, large-scale installations. Major exhibitions include “SUPERMAX 2008” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the travelling exhibition “SOFT WORK” (2012–2013), the 2014 Whitney Biennial and “Sterling Ruby: Sculpture” at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2019). He has collaborated with Raf Simons and in 2019 launched his own fashion label, S.R. STUDIO. LA. CA. His work is held by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate, the Whitney Museum of American Art and SFMOMA. The work “Found Fabric Print 1 / True Love Always, Trans Los Angeles”, a lambda print mounted on sintra with plexiglass in an edition numbered 3/3, is offered by TUMO Gallery and relates to his use of found and worn textiles.
