ED RUSCHA

Important solo exhibitions have included Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2004, which was subsequently exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Furthermore, during the same year the Whitney Museum initiated the exhibition Ed Ruscha and Photography. Likewise in 2004, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney presented an exhibition with a selection of Ruscha’s photographs as well as paintings, drawings, and artist-books, which was subseqently shown at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome, as well as at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. A further exhibition of Ruscha’s photographs entitled Ed Ruscha and Photography was mounted in 2006 by the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2009 the Hayward Gallery in London organized what is certainly the most comprehensive retrospective of Ruscha’s paintings up to now with the exhibition Fifty Years of Painting, which after the Haus der Kunst in Munich may currently be seen until the beginning of September at its final station, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Courtesy Sprüth Magers