Sterling Ruby
Biography
Sterling Ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice, which encompasses painting, ceramics, collage, video and photography, textiles, sculpture and installations. Working in a wide range of media, from the traditional to the unconventional, Ruby has created an oeuvre that, while remarkably diverse, is firmly rooted within a complex and coherent artistic strategy.
Often drawing upon autobiographical, art historical or sociological sources, Ruby’s work is frequently referred to as ‘post-humanist’ – a term that broadly describes a society which, thanks in part to technological advancement, has evolved beyond fixed categories of being (e.g. time/place), or predetermining classifications (e.g. animal/human). The seemingly ‘incomprehensible’ visual range of Ruby’s practice thus embodies a schizophrenic, ‘post-everything’ state of perpetual fragmentation and synthesis. A world in which, according to Ruby, ‘there is just too much information for anything to be coherent or whole.’ His practice involves a combination of philosophical enquiry and material investigation, the latter involving the seemingly endless repurposing, combining and recombining of different techniques and media. This too mirrors a shifting condition of constant deconstruction and reconfiguration, and the idea of a non-hierarchical, boundary-less universe.
Sterling Ruby (b. 1972) lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2014 his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, the 10th Gwangju Biennale and the 9th Taipei Biennial. Public collections include the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; MoMA, NY; MoCA, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoCA, Los Angeles; LACMA, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MMFA, Montreal; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; and Tate Modern, London.
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Exhibitions
Sterling Ruby: A RELIEF LASHED +
A STILL POSE
18 June—1 August 2020
44 rue Van Eyck | Van Eyckstraat
Sterling Ruby: DRFTRS
7 September—20 October 2018
107 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: WIDW
7 September—20 October 2018
6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: ECLPSE
24 April—23 May 2015
6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: SCALES
24 April—23 May 2015
107 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: PAINTINGS
24 February—9 April 2011
6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: Metal Works
4 November—11 December 2010
6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Sterling Ruby: Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe
10 December 2009—14 January 2010
6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat
Publications
Sterling Ruby,
Robert Mapplethorpe
Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe
essay by Ed Schad, exhibition notes by Sterling Ruby, revised edition published by Xavier Hufkens in 2020, 72 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
A RELIEF LASHED + A STILL POSE
text by Jeffrey De Blois, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2020, 128 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
WIDW
text by Sterling Ruby, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2018, 74 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
DRFTRS
text by Tyler Britt, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2018, 108 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
ECLPSE
text by Natasha Garcia-Lomas, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2015, 84 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
SCALES
text by Sterling Ruby, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2015, 60 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
PAINTINGS
text by Sterling Ruby, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2011, 34 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
text by Franklin Sirmans, Jessica Morgan and Sterling Ruby, interview by Kate Fowle, published by Phaidon, 2016, 160 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby
SOFT WORK
text by Julian Myers-Szupinska, published by Koenig Books, 2014, 160 pages, English
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Sterling Ruby,
Robert Mapplethorpe
Sterling Ruby/
Robert Mapplethorpe
essay by Ed Schad, exhibition notes by Sterling Ruby, published by Xavier Hufkens, 2010, 64 pages, English
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