The terms disruptions and chaos seem to describe the best art of Sterling Ruby since his large body of work is well thought and wisely built hybrid. The fascination with various social phenomenon from subcultures, over difficult mental states like paranoia and schizophrenia, to globalization, is notable and contributes to the artist’s peculiar aesthetic of landfill, defaced artifacts. Therefore, those works are some form of the anthropological survey, primarily focused on the notion of abjection and alienation and are critically inclined, mainly, towards consumerism.
Sterling Ruby was born in 1972, on an American military base in Bitburg, Germany. The family relocated to the United States shortly after his birth, first to Baltimore, Maryland, and then to the rural town of New Freedom in Pennsylvania. There he attended the Kennard-Dale High School, and after graduation, Ruby has started working on construction sites in Washington D.C. Nevertheless, he attended The Pennsylvania School of Art and Design. In 2001 he received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and simultaneously with that the artist worked for the Video Data Bank, then under the direction of Kate Horsfield.
After two years, Ruby moved to Los Angeles in order to attend the MFA program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Interestingly, while at Art Center he studied with artists Diana Thater and Richard Hawkins, and theorists Sylvère Lotringer and Laurence Rickels. While attending graduate school at Art Center he was the teaching assistant for artist Mike Kelley. The surrounding was extremely stimulating and additionally supplied him with important theoretical knowledge. The artist embraced the city and settled there with a studio located in Vernon, south of downtown Los Angeles.
The artist is known for working in a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and video. Usually, all of those elements form peculiar and densely packed installations. Since he uses strange and discarded materials like saturated, glossy, poured polyurethane, textile or nail polish, it can be said that Ruby performs some kind of recycling process. Although the artist is operating with sculptures, drawings, collages, ceramics, paintings, photography, video, and textile as well, perhaps the strategy he uses can be found somewhere in between Duchamp’s ready-made and object art of French Nouveau realism. Nevertheless, besides working with traditional media, Sterling Ruby has been successfully using video and photography. Due to the previous experience of working at Video Data Bank in Chicago, many of the artist’s video works are distributed by them.
In one point of his career, the artist’s has introduced a series of soft sculptures. Namely, they are made from fabric stuffed with fiberfill and presented in the form of large, doubled vampire mouths with fabric blood drops that hang from their fabric teeth. On the other side is Sterling Ruby’s ceramic work which is reminiscent of California craft movement and German hot lava vessels from the 1970s as well as by the amateurish biomorphic shapes made in an art therapy class. These DIY looking forms feature thick, vivid glazes and charred and gouged surfaces resembling baskets, vessels, or body parts.
The collage plays an important role in the artist’s prolific and interdisciplinary practice. The approach to this media is perhaps the most distinct since the formal and thematic concerns are reflected by an exhaustive range of subject matter which is developed over the course of a number of years. Besides collages, the notable role does have the series of poured urethane sculptures titled Monument Stalagmites. Vibrantly colored, these rather tall sculptures, resemble the stalactites and stalagmites that can be found in caves. The pieces are created described as monumental gestures by the accumulation and pouring of a quick drying polyurethane over an underlying armature.
In 2012, a series of fully functional stoves of the artist’s own design were produced. These stoves, executed in bronze, cast iron or steel, were based on the kind of cast iron stoves found in farm houses. A year later, the artist installed a 17-foot tall STOVE in during Art Basel; it was lit at the beginning of the fair, and a fire was maintained in the stove during the run of the fair. Then, in 2014 Ruby exhibited Flags, monumental textile works which often resemble the American flag. The artist designed a large-scale quilt that served as a backdrop for the traveling performances of the L.A. Dance Projects: Murder Ballades.
In 2005, the Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons visited Ruby’s studio after seeing his works for the first time. Namely, Simons was dazzled with his ceramics, resembling colored placentas, and bought on though knew nothing about the artist, while the artist knew even less about Simons, a former industrial designer who had become the most influential man in men’s wear. Simons referenced Ruby’s paintings in his debut haute-couture collection for Christian Dior in 2012, while in 2014, Ruby created sacks out of stuffed American flags, similar to ones he has made in his sculptures, for Simons’s Paris Fashion Week show. The collaboration is an ongoing journey for both artist’s since they’ve met.
The astonishing production is framed with innovation and wit. During the years, Ruby has shown his works in galleries and museums around the globe. Around 2008, the established art critic Roberta Smith allocated him as the most interesting artist of 21st century undermining that his work examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint. By absorbing various alternative influences, refereeing to an art history momentous phenomenon, and interfering with pop culture, Sterling Ruby has made quite an effort to position his art practice as the communication tool not just in the purely aesthetic sense, but in social and political as well.
Featured image: Artist Sterling Ruby in his California studio – image courtesy of W Magazine
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Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group | |
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2014 | VIVIDS | Gagosian Gallery, Central, Hong Kong | Solo | |
2014 | BC RIPS | Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | Solo | |
2014 | SUNRISE SUNSET | Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2014 | STERLING RUBY | Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, United States | Solo | |
2014 | FIRE! | Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2014 | Secret Passions:Private Flemish Collections | Tripostal, Lille, France | Group | |
2014 | The Los Angeles Project | Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | Group | |
2014 | Taipei Biennial 2014 | Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC) | Group | |
2014 | The 10th Gwangju Biennale:Burning Down the House | Gwangju, South Korea | Group | |
2014 | Variations:Conversations in and around Abstract Painting | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2014 | Summer Highlights | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States | Group | |
2014 | Love Story–The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection | Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria | Group | |
2014 | Man in the Mirror | Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium | Group | |
2014 | STALACTICA | Galerie Utopia, Brussels, Belgium | Group | |
2014 | 2014 Whitney Biennial | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2014 | Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections | The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, United States | Group | |
2014 | 1 + 1 = 1. When the Collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Collide | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada | Group | |
2014 | Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia | Group | |
2013 | DROPPA BLOCKA | Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium | Solo | |
2013 | CHRON II | Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2013 | STOVES & QUILTS | Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium, (cat.) | Solo | |
2013 | SOFT WORK | Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2013 | CHRON II | Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2013 | Sterling Ruby:SP Paintings | Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2013 | Sterling Ruby-Selected Works | Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium | Solo | |
2013 | Sterling Ruby | Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, (cat.) | Solo | |
2013 | EXHM | Hauser & Wirth, London, England | Solo | |
2013 | Summer in Gstaad | Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland | Group | |
2013 | California Landscape into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2013 | From the Collection: “Looking at Process” | De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, United States | Group | |
2013 | Abstraction/Figuration | Inigo Philbrick, London, England | Group | |
2013 | Somos Libres | MATE, Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru, (cat.) | Group | |
2013 | Island | Dairy Art Centre, London, England | Group | |
2013 | ANAMERICANA | American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy | Group | |
2013 | Esprit Dior | Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, (cat.) | Group | |
2013 | t-shirts | Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | Group | |
2013 | Dead Inside | Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2013 | Why Not Live for Art? II: K.N. Collection | Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | Group | |
2013 | Transforming the Known , Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands | Group | |
2013 | Back To Earth. From Picasso to Ai Weiwei – Rediscovering Ceramics in Art | Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany | Group | |
2013 | EXPO 1: NEW YORK, Cinema Module | MoMA PS1, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2013 | The Gesture and the Sign | White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil | Group | |
2013 | Contemporary Future: To Invent, Create and Imagine the Future | CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium | Group | |
2013 | An Endless Theatre: the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, England | Group | |
2013 | Fun House | Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2013 | Beg, Borrow and Steal | Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, United States, (traveling exhibition) | Group | |
2013 | Black Cake | Team Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2012 | SOFT WORK | Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2012 | SOFT WORK | FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2012 | SOFT WORK | Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, (traveling exhibition) | Solo | |
2012 | Pothole | Salon 94, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2012 | Cellblock I & II | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2012 | California | Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium | Group | |
2012 | Spheres 2012 | GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France | Group | |
2012 | Crossing Mirrors | Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France | Group | |
2012 | Americas | Modern Collections, London, England | Group | |
2012 | Sõida tasa üle silla (ride gently over the bridge) | ART IST KUKU NU UT, Tartu, Estonia | Group | |
2012 | The Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the Present | L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2012 | Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2012 | The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2012 | Prima Materia | Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium | Group | |
2012 | Spring Fever | Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2012 | Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection | Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain | Group | |
2012 | Material | Salon 94, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | VAMPIRE | The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China | Solo | |
2011 | Sterling Ruby & Lucio Fontana | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2011 | I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME | Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany | Solo | |
2011 | PAINTINGS | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, (cat.) | Solo | |
2011 | American Exuberance | Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, United States | Group | |
2011 | WYSIWYG—What You(ngs) See Is What You Get | Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France | Group | |
2011 | Structure & Absence | White Cube, London, England | Group | |
2011 | New Works in Ceramics | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, (cat.) | Group | |
2011 | Eslöv Wide Shut: 100 year Anniversary of Eslöv | Blomsterberg’s Warehouse, Eslöv, Sweden, (cat.) | Group | |
2011 | Soft Machines | The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) | Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2011 | Lustwarande ’11 – Raw , Park De Oude Warande | Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands, (cat.) | Group | |
2011 | Paul Clay | Salon 94, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | Silence and Time | Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, United States | Group | |
2011 | The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture | Saatchi Gallery, London, England | Group | |
2011 | Greater L.A. | SoHo Loft (483 Broadway), New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | Dystopia | CAPC Musee D’Art Contemporain De Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, (cat.) | Group | |
2011 | After Hours: Murals on the Bowery | Bowery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | New York Minute | The Garage: Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, (traveling exhibition) | Group | |
2011 | At Capacity: Large Scale Works from the Permanent Collection | Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, United States | Group | |
2011 | Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s | Jepson Center, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2011 | Artprojx Cinema | SVA Theatre, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | California Dreamin’—Myths and Legends of Los Angeles | Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France | Group | |
2011 | Highways Connect and Divide | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2011 | 13th San Francisco Indie Fest | Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, CA, United States | Group | |
2010 | Metal Works | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium | Solo | |
2010 | ASHTRAYS | Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium, (cat.) | Solo | |
2010 | New Works | Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | Solo | |
2010 | 2TRAPS | The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2010 | Aftermath | Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan | Group | |
2010 | 28th Torino Film Festival: Waves | Museo Nazionale Del Cinema, Torino, Italy | Group | |
2010 | It’s All American | New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, Wickatunk, NJ, United States | Group | |
2010 | Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s | The Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | P.P.P.-Public Private Paintings | Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium | Group | |
2010 | The Transformation Show | Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2010 | Painting Extravaganza | Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy | Group | |
2010 | Misericordia | Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2010 | 50 Years at Pace | The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Rive Gauche/Rive Droite | Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris, France, (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Psychotrope , Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, United States | Group | |
2010 | Ceramic & Alabaster , Fukutake House 2010—Art Galleries Around the World & Special Project | Setouchi International Art Festival, Megijima, Japan, (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Arte 10 | Rossio Square, Lisbon, Portugal | Group | |
2010 | Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2010 | The Pencil Show | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2010 | Carol Bove / Sterling Ruby / Dana Schutz | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2010 | Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition on Realism and Simulation | Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Spray! | D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2010 | Other than Beauty | Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2010 | Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s | San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Rethinking Location: Anytime Anywhere Everything | Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany | Group | |
2010 | New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009 | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, United States | Group | |
2010 | Melanie Schiff and Sterling Ruby | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany | Group | |
2010 | Permanent Trouble: Art from the Collection Kopp Munich | East German Art Forum Gallery, Regensburg, Germany, (cat.) | Group | |
2010 | Supernature: An Exercise in Loads | AMP, Athens, Greece | Group | |
2010 | Suitable Video: Works form the Suitable Exhibitions Archive | Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2010 | Long Live the Amorphous Law: Videos by Sterling Ruby 2002-2009 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2010 | The Quiet Edition | White Slab Palace, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | Sterling Ruby & Robert Mapplethorpe | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, (cat.) | Solo | |
2009 | The Masturbators | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2009 | Beg, Borrow, and Steal | Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2009 | California Maximalism: Sticking a Spike into the Vein of Memory | Nyehaus, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | Cave Painting | Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | New Photography | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | New York Minute | Macro Future Museum, Rome, Italy, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2009 | Why Painting Now? | Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland | Group | |
2009 | Second Nature , The Valentine-Adelson Collection | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2009 | Dirt on Delight | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2009 | Your Gold Teeth II | Marianne Boesky, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | Works on View | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture | Saatchi Gallery, London, England | Group | |
2009 | Five , Baibakov Art Projects | Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia, (cat.) | Group | |
2009 | Modern Mondays: An Evening with Sterling Ruby | Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2009 | Beaufort 03 , Art by the Sea | Ostend, Belgium | Group | |
2009 | Dirt on Delight | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (traveling exhibition), (cat.) | Group | |
2009 | In Bed Together | Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2009 | Breaking New Ground Underground | Stonescape, Calistoga, CA, United States | Group | |
2009 | Nothingness and Being , Seventh Interpretation of La Colección Jumex | Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico | Group | |
2008 | Spectrum Ripper | Sprüth Magers, London, England | Solo | |
2008 | Grid Ripper | Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, (cat.) | Solo | |
2008 | Zen Ripper | Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy | Solo | |
2008 | SUPERMAX 2008 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (cat.) | Solo | |
2008 | CHRON | The Drawing Center, New York, NY, United States, (cat.) | Solo | |
2008 | Kiln Works | Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2008 | The Station | The Station, Miami, FL, United States | Group | |
2008 | Endless Summer | Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, United States | Group | |
2008 | Base: Object | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2008 | Begin Again Right Back Here | White Columns, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2008 | If You Destroy the Image You Destroy the Thing Itself | Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, (cat.) | Group | |
2008 | NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection | Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, United States | Group | |
2008 | Stray Alchemists | Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, (cat.) | Group | |
2008 | Substraction | Deitch Projects, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2008 | Skat Players | Vilma Gold, London, England | Group | |
2007 | Slasher Posters & Pillow Works | Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece | Solo | |
2007 | Paintings & Benches | Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany | Solo | |
2007 | Killing the Recondite | Metro Pictures, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2007 | Superoverpass | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2007 | Fearful Objects | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2007 | New Acquisitions 2 | The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX, United States | Group | |
2007 | Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles | Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany | Group | |
2007 | Circumventing the City | D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2007 | Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron | Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, United States | Group | |
2007 | SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, United States | Group | |
2007 | Dark Mirror | Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Group | |
2007 | I Want to Believe | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland | Group | |
2007 | The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art | Moscow, Russia | Group | |
2007 | Material Photographs | Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, United States | Group | |
2007 | Mixed Signals | Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2007 | Raise High The Roof Beam | Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2006 | Interior Designer | Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Solo | |
2006 | Recombines | Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy | Solo | |
2006 | SUPERMAX 2006 | Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany | Solo | |
2006 | Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection | Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2006 | LA Trash and Treasure | Miliken Galerie, Stockholm, Sweden | Group | |
2006 | 2006 California Biennial | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2006 | Only The Paranoid Survive | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2006 | Into Black | Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, United States | Group | |
2006 | Having New Eyes | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, United States | Group | |
2006 | Behind the Pedestal | Jonathan Viner, London, England | Group | |
2006 | Back From the End of the Earth | Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin, Germany | Group | |
2005 | New Work | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2005 | SUPERMAX 2005 | Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Solo | |
2005 | This Range | Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2005 | Adjoining The Voids:Sterling Ruby & Kirsten Stoltmann | Sister, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Solo | |
2005 | All the Pretty Corpses | The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2005 | T1-Turin Triennial: The Pantagruel Syndrome | Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, (cat.) | Group | |
2005 | Voiceovers | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2005 | 5 X U | Team Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2005 | Sugartown | Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Participant Inc, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2005 | Resonance | Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Group | |
2005 | Untitled | Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2005 | GEO | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2005 | Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2004 | Disintegrating Identities Morph into One Solid Rainbow | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Solo | |
2004 | Interior Burnout | 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL, United States | Solo | |
2004 | 21st Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival | Filmladen Kassel, Kassel, Germany | Group | |
2004 | Face-Off | Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2004 | Dark Side of the Sun | Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (cat.) | Group | |
2004 | The Infinite Fill Show | Foxy Production, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2004 | Mystery Blaze in Holiday Cottage | Monya Rowe, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2004 | Tapestry from an Asteroid | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States | Group | |
2004 | Depression: What Is It Good For? | Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2004 | Imitations of Life | De Balie Cinema, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Group | |
2004 | Chicago Expérimental , Les Musees de Strasbourg | Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France | Group | |
2004 | Signal and Noise Festival | Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada | Group | |
2003 | Material Eyes | Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, United States | Group | |
2003 | When Darkness Falls | Gallery 400, UIC College of Architecture & Arts, Chicago, IL, United States, (traveling exhibition) | Group | |
2003 | See How The Land Lies | Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, United States | Group | |
2003 | Hysterical Pastoral | The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2003 | Chicago’s Own: New Work by Jennifer Reeder and Sterling Ruby | Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, United States | Group | |
2003 | America Annihilates Consciousness | Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Group | |
2003 | When Darkness Falls | Midway Contemporary Art, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (traveling exhibition) | Group | |
2003 | Blinky 2: The Screening | Tate Britain, London, England | Group | |
2003 | Behind the Pedestal | Bower Gallery, San Antonio, TX, United States | Group | |
2003 | Fiction In Video | WORM, Nighttown Theater, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Group | |
2003 | Video Mundi | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, United States | Group |