Images
BONNET (7478)2020
Ceramic
14 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 23 1/4 in
36.2 x 64.1 x 59.1 cm
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer.
Courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio. © Sterling Ruby
Overview

Sterling Ruby (American/Dutch, b. 1972) works in a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies, from polyurethane, bronze, steel, and ceramic sculptures; to drawings and collages; photography and video; spray-paint and oil paintings; as well as textile works, including quilts, tapestries, garments, and soft sculptures.

 

Public collections include the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; LACMA, Los Angeles; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MMFA, Montreal; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; MCA, Chicago; MOCA, Los Angeles; MoMA, NY; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sterling Ruby, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2020 (travelled from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, 2019-2020); Sterling Ruby: Sculpture, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, 2019; Sterling Ruby: Ceramics, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, (travelled to Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, NY), 2018; Sterling Ruby, Winterpalais, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2016. 

 

Works
  • AGARICUS (7484)
    Sterling Ruby
    AGARICUS (7484), 2020
    Ceramic
    18 1/4 x 20 5/8 x 20 in
    46.4 x 52.4 x 50.8 cm
  • FELINE (7479)
    Sterling Ruby
    FELINE (7479), 2020
    Ceramic
    8 1/2 x 23 7/8 x 5 1/4 in
    21.6 x 60.6 x 13.3 cm
  • BONNET (7483)
    Sterling Ruby
    BONNET (7483), 2020
    Ceramic
    15 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
    39.4 x 52.1 x 57.2 cm
  • BONNET (7478)
    Sterling Ruby
    BONNET (7478), 2020
    Ceramic
    14 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 23 1/4 in
    36.2 x 64.1 x 59.1 cm
  • FLOWER (7473)
    Sterling Ruby
    FLOWER (7473), 2020
    Ceramic
    30 5/8 x 15 7/8 x 2 1/4 in
    77.8 x 40.3 x 5.7 cm
  • BALLET (7474)
    Sterling Ruby
    BALLET (7474), 2020
    Ceramic
    5 x 35 3/4 x 20 1/8 in
    12.7 x 90.8 x 51.1 cm
  • BALLET (7475)
    Sterling Ruby
    BALLET (7475), 2020
    Ceramic
    24 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 5 3/8 in
    61.6 x 33.7 x 13.7 cm
  • FLOWER (7467)
    Sterling Ruby
    FLOWER (7467), 2020
    Ceramic
    32 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/4 in
    82.6 x 41.9 x 5.7 cm
  • CLUB (7465)
    Sterling Ruby
    CLUB (7465), 2020
    Ceramic
    33 1/8 x 12 1/2 x 2 1/4 in
    84.1 x 31.8 x 5.7 cm
  • CLUB (7464)
    Sterling Ruby
    CLUB (7464), 2020
    Ceramic
    46 1/4 x 17 3/8 x 2 3/4 in
    117.5 x 44.1 x 7 cm
  • CLUB (7463)
    Sterling Ruby
    CLUB (7463), 2020
    Ceramic
    38 x 12 x 2 3/4 in
    96.5 x 30.5 x 7 cm
  • MORTAR (7377)
    Sterling Ruby
    MORTAR (7377), 2020
    Ceramic
    10 3/4 x 19 1/2 x 22 in
    27.3 x 49.5 x 55.9 cm
  • MORTAR (7390)
    Sterling Ruby
    MORTAR (7390), 2020
    Ceramic
    6 1/2 x 16 7/8 x 24 1/2 in
    16.5 x 42.9 x 62.2 cm
  • BALLET (7355)
    Sterling Ruby
    BALLET (7355), 2020
    Ceramic.
    4 3/8 x 33 1/2 x 17 inches
    11.1 x 85.1 x 43.2 cm
  • Basin Theology / TROPHIC CASCADE
    Sterling Ruby
    Basin Theology / TROPHIC CASCADE, 2020
    Ceramic
    71 3/4 x 95 x 49 1/2 in
    182.2 x 241.3 x 125.7 cm
  • ASHTRAY 548
    Sterling Ruby
    ASHTRAY 548, 2019
    Ceramic
    2 7/8 x 16 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
    7.3 x 41.9 x 57.2 cm
  • CLUB (7165)
    Sterling Ruby
    CLUB (7165), 2019
    Ceramic
    32 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches
    82.6 x 36.8 x 3.2 cm
  • MORTAR (7168)
    Sterling Ruby
    MORTAR (7168), 2019
    Ceramic.
    29 1/4 x 30 3/4 x 2 3/4
    74.3 x 78.1 x 7 cm
  • HEART (7119)
    Sterling Ruby
    HEART (7119), 2019
    Ceramic
    25 x 20 x 3 in
    63.5 x 50.8 x 7.6 cm
  • ASHTRAY 501
    Sterling Ruby
    ASHTRAY 501, 2019
    Ceramic
    2 1/8 x 13 1/4 x 20 in
    5.4 x 33.7 x 50.8 cm
Exhibitions