Ed Ruscha | Zoot Soot (2019) | Art & Prints

Courtesy of the Artist
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Ed Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. His family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1941. In 1956, Ruscha moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Chouinard Art Institute, from which he graduated in 1960. Ruscha’s early paintings attracted notice as part of the Pop art movement of the 1960s; his art also has antecedents in Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, and would be central to Conceptual art. His work includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, artist’s books, and films, and is in the collections of major national and international museums. Ruscha lives and works in Los Angeles. He is represented by Gagosian Gallery.
Ed Ruscha’s expansive oeuvre defies easy categorization, though it’s all infused with a kind of deadpan California cool. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has made photographic books, tongue-in-cheek photo collages, paintings, and drawings that demonstrate a keen interest in language and the idiosyncrasies of life in Los Angeles, where the artist has lived since the 1950s. In his most famous works, he places words and phrases from the colloquial and consumerist vernacular atop photographic images or fields of color—a strategy that situates him within a larger Pop art lineage. Ruscha often paints and draws with unusual materials such as gunpowder, blood, and Pepto Bismol, drawing attention to the deterioration of language and the pervasive clichés in American culture. Ruscha’s work has been exhibited across the globe, and the artist has enjoyed solo shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Moderna Museet, in addition to the Venice Biennale, where he represented the United States in 2005. At auction, his work has sold for eight figures.

The Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper are an ongoing project documenting the artist’s entire corpus in painting and unique works on paper. Seven volumes of the paintings series and one volume of the works on paper series have been published.

Solo shows
2021
Three New Etchings by Ed Ruscha, Crown Point Press
Ed Ruscha, Leslie Sacks Gallery
2020
Artwork in Focus: Ed Ruscha ‘Ghost Station’ 2011, Olivier Malingue
ON TIME: Prints by Ed Ruscha, Mixografia
2019
Ed Ruscha: Six Decades of Printmaking, David Benrimon Fine Art
Ed Ruscha: Intersections, Leslie Sacks Gallery
2018
Ed Ruscha: Gumbo of Gravel, Lora Reynolds Gallery
KIND OF BLUE: Works by Ed Ruscha, IKON Ltd. Contemporary Art
Louisiana on Paper: Ed Ruscha – VERY, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Ed Ruscha – Works 1978 – 2017, Asher Grey Gallery
2017
Ed Ruscha: Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings 1974–1984, Gagosian
2016
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co., Gagosian
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs, Gagosian
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, de Young Museum
MADE IN SAN FRANCISCO, Ed Ruscha Etchings: 1982-2014, Crown Point Press
ED RUSCHA: RIBBON WORDS, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC
Ed Ruscha: Mountain Prints, Gagosian
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Contemporary
2015
Straight From LA…Drawings and Paintings by Ed Ruscha, Casterline | Goodman Gallery
Ed Ruscha, Crown Point Press
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs, Gagosian
2014
Ed Ruscha: Prints and Photographs, Gagosian
2013
Ed Ruscha: Books & Co., Gagosian
Ed Ruscha: I’m Amazed, Bernard Jacobson Gallery
2012
Ed Ruscha, Gagosian
2011
Ed Ruscha: Psycho Spaghetti Westerns, Gagosian
2010
Ed Ruscha: On The Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac, Gagosian
Group shows
2022
Mark Moore Fine Art: Resale Works Available, Mark Moore Fine Art

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