Receivedfirst 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
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 - 1970
Thaugt drawing and printmaking at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1971
Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1978
Received his second grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
Lives and work in Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitions
2009
Laleh June Galerie, Words Are Diamonds, 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
Stains, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Ed Ruscha, Photographer, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France 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 Course of Empire, United States Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 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) Ed Ruscha: Metro Plots, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Ed Ruscha. Kukje Gallery, Seoul , Korea (solo) Ed Ruscha, Meta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1998
Ed Ruscha, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1997
Spaghetti Westerns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Edward Ruscha, Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany (solo) 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) Los Angeles Apartments, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Edward Ruscha, Galeria Trisorio, Naples, Italy (solo)
1989
Edward Ruscha, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (solo) New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, NY New Paintings and Drawings, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go. Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL; WilliamEarly Paintings, Shafrizi Gallery, New York, NYs College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Changing Group Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK 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
The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 4 x 6 Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, GermanGalerie Susan Wyss, Zürich, Switzerland y New Paintings, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 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) The Works of Edward Ruscha, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 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
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Tate Gallery, London, UK
Literature
2007
Weiner Lawrence, Hickey Dave and Robert Dean. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume III, 1983-1987. London, UK: Steidl The Masters, 2007
2005
Wollen, Peter and Reyner Banham. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II. , 1971-1982. London, UK: Steidl; Gagosian, 2005
2004
Bois, Yves-Alain and Walter Hopps. Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I 1958-1970. London, UK: Steidl, 2004
