Born 16 december 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Lives and works in Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (from May 26th until July 3rd 2010)

2006
Books, Bernier/Eliades , Athens, Greece
Ed Ruscha, Jeu de Paume-Site Concorde, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, Mexico
Rooftops / Vacant lots‹, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Photographs, Arte Fine Art Photography Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Photographer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Photographer, Museum Liudwig, Köln, Germany
Ed Ruscha : Drawings ; Gagosian Gallery; New York ; USA
Project Room : Ed Ruscha : Insects (1972); Griffin ; Californie ; USA

2005
Scottish National Portraits Gallery, Edimbourg, Ecosse
The Venice Biennale- USA Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Pools, Parking Lots, Gasoline Stations, and Sunset Strip, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Then & Now, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Ed Ruscha : Then & Now; Gagosian Gallery ; Californie ; USA

2004
Ed Ruscha, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, USA
Ed Ruscha, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Ed Ruscha, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Ed Ruscha and Photograhy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2003
With and Without Word, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Allemagne
Ed Ruscha : Photographs; Gagosian Gallery ; Californie ; USA

2002
Galerie Trabant, Vienne, Autriche
Ed Ruscha : Paintings; Gagosian Gallery ; New York ; USA

1991
MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

1990
Musée Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, Hollande
Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelone, Espagne

1989
Nouvelles Peintures, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Nouvelles Peintures et dessins, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
Ed Ruscha, Drawings and Peints, Thomas Babeor Gallery, la Jolla, CA, USA
Edward Ruscha, Peintures, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France

1988
Changing Group Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Early Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Edward Ruscha : Recent Paintings, Museum, of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Edward Ruscha : Recent Works on Paper, Karsten Schubert Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

1987
Edward Ruscha/ Drawings 1962-1972, Acme Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Drawings Through the Years, Cirrus Gallery , Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leo Castelli, New York, USA
New Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1986
New paintings, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland
Janie Beggs Fine Arts Ltd, Aspen, Colorado, USA
New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
4 x 6, Westälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

1985
Fischer Gallery, University of South Califormia, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Octobre des Arts, Musée St Pierre, Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Allemagne

1984
New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
Recent Paintings and works on paper, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

1983
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1982
Edward Ruscha/ A Selection of Drawings from 1967 to 1972, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Edward Ruscha : New Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York, USA
Edward Ruscha : 1960-1970, Castelli, Feigen, Corcoran, New York, USA
New Paintings and Drawings, Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Works of Ed Ruscha, San Francsico Museum of American Art, San Francisco, USA

1981
Edward Ruscha/ New Works, Arco Center for the Visual Art, Los Angeles, USA
Edward Ruscha/Drawings, Leo Castelli, New York, USA

1980
Edward Ruscha : Paintings, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
Edward Ruscha : Paintings and Drawings, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon, USA
New Paintings, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
Ruscha : Selected Works 1966-1980, Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA, and Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1979
Edward Ruscha/ New Works, the Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Neue Austellungen im Ink, Ink Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Edward Ruscha : New Works, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, USA
Edward Ruscha : New Works, Richard, Hines Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA

1978
A Selection of Paintings and Pastels 1974-1977, Galerie MTL Bruxelles, Castelli Uptown, New York, USA

1977
Ace Gallery, Venice et Los Angeles, USA
Edward Ruscha : Recent Drawings, Elmwood Arts Foundation et The Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

1976
Dootson/Calderhead Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
Exhibitions and Presentations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
ICA, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

1975
Edward Ruscha/Drawings/Selected Prins, The Glaser Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
Various drawings, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, USA
Various Miracles, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, USA

1974
Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
Recent Paintings, The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

1973
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Ed Ruscha : drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1972
Colored People, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Ed Ruscha : drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
D-M Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

1970
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, USA
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1969
Graphics, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA, USA

1968
Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Köln, Germany

1967
Gunpowder Drawings, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, USA

1965
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1964
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1963
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Imposing Order : Contemporary Photography and the Archive, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
busy going crazy – the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Super Vision, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Vertigo, Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Into the Landscape, Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norvège
L’HORIZON CHIMÉRIQUE, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists (Ed Ruscha and Andrew Bennett) ; Marty Walker Gallery ; Texas ; USA

2006
Die Wahrnehmung der Horizontale, Museum für moderne und zeitgenösssische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
Beyond Delirious, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
Portraits of Artists, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
L.A. : The Four, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
Medium Fotografie, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
PHOTOGRAPHY, Gagosian Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Two Artists – Two Worlds, The Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams; Shanghai, China

2005
100 Artists see God, ICA, Londres, United Kingdom
The Last Picture Show – Künstler verwenden Fotografie 1960-1982, Fotomuseum Wintertur, Switzerland
Ed Ruscha (Photo) , Robert Frank , Walker Evans; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Walk to remember, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Los Angeles, USA
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami, USA
Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Collector, Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Venice Biennale – 51st International Art Exhibition » The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Overhead / Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography », Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Art of the Archive, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Contemporary Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005 », Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
90 Years: Nurturing the New, The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA
Park, The Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada

2004
C’est arrivé, 7ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
OUTLOOK . International Art Exhibition Athens 2003 Arena – Society for the Advancement of Contemporary Art in Athens, Geece
Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, USA
The Game Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Photo Image in American Prints 1960-1990, The Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
Group Show, The Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver, Canada
Support, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Power, Corruption and Lies, Andrew Roth, New York, USA
The Weakest Link, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, USA
Hard Light, PS1-MoMA, New York, USA
Fiction: truth in photography and painting, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2004 . RECHERCHE – ENTDECKT! Bildarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten‹, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Allemagne
Sign Language, MOCA at the Greffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
Artists’ Favourites Act II, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Londres, United Kingdom
Printed light – photographic vision and the modern print, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Gwangju Biennale 2004, The Gwangju Biennal Foundation, Gwangjiu, South Korea
Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman : Prints; Jim Kempner Fine Art ; New York ; USA

2003
Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999 . ‘A landmark exhibition ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Air, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Selected Prints : Mel Ramos, John Register, Edward Ruscha, Mark Stock and Wayne Thiebaud; San Francisco ; USA

2002
Hollywood is a Verb, Gagosian Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1998
Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha & Robert Mapplethorpe, « Three Catholics » ; Galerie Cheim & Read ; New York, USA