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Education

Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles  1956-1960




Solo Exhibitions

2000-01 Edward Ruscha, Hirshhorn  Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.  Traveling to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, FL;  Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford,  England.*

2000 Ed Ruscha: New Work, Anthony d'Offay Gallery,  London Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery,  San Francisco*

1999 Ed Ruscha: Metro Plots, Gagosian Gallery, New  York Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,  MN. Traveling to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of South  Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. Edward Ruscha, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea* Ed Ruscha, Meta Gallery, Madrid, Spain

1998 Ed  Ruscha's Light, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Inventors, Boxers,  Racecar Drivers, Artists, Etc., Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France Ed  Ruscha, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England Ed Ruscha: New Paintings,  Gasgosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

1997 Spaghetti Westerns, Milwaukee Art  Museum, WI* Edward Ruscha, Jurgen Becker, Hamburg Germany Edward Ruscha:  Cityscapes/O Books, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York* Miracle, Royal Academy of  Arts film screening in association with Anthony d'Offay Gallery,  London

1996 Ed Ruscha, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles VOWELS: Paintings on  Book Covers, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

1995 New Editions, Remba  Gallery, Los Angeles Anamorphic Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New  York Recent Drawings and Prints, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton,  NY Sayings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York The End, Close Range Gallery,  Denver Art Museum, CO

1994 Clockworks, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

1993 Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Gagosian Gallery, New York  * Edward Ruscha: Standard Stations, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX  * Edward Ruscha: New York, Space Gallery, Casino Knokke, Brussels,  Belgium The Books of Ed Ruscha, Gund Hall, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA *

1992 Edward Ruscha: Stains, Robert Miller  Gallery, New York * Edward Ruscha: New Paintings & Drawings, Galerie  Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria *

1991 Ed Ruscha: Early Drawings,  Modernism Gallery, San Francisco Ed Ruscha Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery,  New York Edward Ruscha, Galerie Carola Mosch Multiples and Editions, Berlin,  Germany

1990 Ed Ruscha Prints, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica,  CA Edward Ruscha, Galerie Trisorio, Naples, Italy Edward Ruscha, Thomas  Segal Gallery and Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA Ed Ruscha: Prints from  the 1960s & 1970s, Judith Goldberg Gallery Edward Ruscha, Galerie  Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France Edward Ruscha: Obra Sobre Papel, Galeria  Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain Edward Ruscha: Obra Gravada, Galeria Joan Prats,  Barcelona, Spain
Edward Ruscha, Centre Cultural de la Fundacio la Caixa,  Barcelona, Spain
Edward Ruscha, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of  Nebraska at
Lincoln, NE * Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and Drawings, Karsten  Schubert Ltd., London Edward Ruscha: Paintings and Drawings, The Texas  Gallery, Houston, TX
Ed Ruscha: Selected Portfolios, Castelli Graphics,  Robert Miller Gallery,
New York Edward Ruscha: Works on Paper, Galerie  Bebert, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Los Angeles Apartments, Whitney Museum of  American Art, New York* Ed Ruscha: Paintings, The Museum of Contemporary Art,  Los Angeles

1989 Dreams and Other Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York New Paintings and Drawings, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art,  Japan Ed Ruscha, Drawings and Prints, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla,  CA Ed Ruscha: Selected Works of the 80s, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa  Monica, CA Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Rhona Hoffman  Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Ed  Ruscha: Drawings, Michael Maloney Contemporary Art Inc., Santa Monica, CA Edward Ruscha, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou,  Paris. Traveled to: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The  Netherlands; Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Serpentine  Gallery, London, England; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

1988  Edward Ruscha: Early Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York * Edward  Ruscha: Recent Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Edward Ruscha:  Recent Works on Paper, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London Prints, Gallery Takagi,  Nagoya, Japan Drawing and Prints, Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich,  Switzerland Henry Vincent Gallery, Santa Diego, CA New Paintings and  Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan * New Drawings, Leo  Castelli Gallery, New York Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, Lannan  Museum, Lake Worth, FL. Traveled to: Williams College Museum of Art,  Williamstown, MA *

1987 Edward Ruscha: Drawings, Acme Art, San  Francisco Drawing Through the Years, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles Edward  Ruscha: 35 Lunette Paintings Commissioned by Metro-Dade Art in Public Places  Trust for Miami Dade Public Library, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York New  Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York The Works of Ed Ruscha,  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1986 New Paintings, Fuller Goldeen  Gallery, San Francisco Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland Janie Beggs  Fine Arts, Ltd., Aspen, CO New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New  York Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 4 x 6: Zeichungen von Edward Ruscha,  Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany *

1985 Fischer Gallery,  University of Southern California, Los Angeles Ed Ruscha: Quelques Dessins,  Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France New Paintings, James Corcoran  Gallery, Los Angeles Octobre des Arts, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon,  France Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany

1984 New Paintings, Leo Castelli  Gallery, New York Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Morgan Gallery,  MO

1983 New Drawings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
Ed Ruscha:  Selection of Graphic Works 1970-1982, Cirrus Editions Ltd.,  Los
Angeles Drawings, Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy Edward  Ruscha: Drawings and Prints, Route 66, Philadelphia, PA

1982 Edward Ruscha: A  Selection of Drawings from 1967 to 1972, John
Berggruen Gallery, San  Francisco Edward Ruscha: New Drawings, Castelli Uptown, New York Edward  Ruscha: 1960-70, Castelli, Feigen, Corcoran, New York Prints,  Jacobson/Hochman Gallery, New York New Paintings and Drawings, Flow Ace  Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Works of Ed Ruscha (Retrospective), San  Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to: Whitney Museum of American Art,  New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; Los  Angeles County Museum of Art. Steve's House of Fine Art, Los  Angeles

1981 Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Ed Ruscha: Drawings, Douglas  Dean Courtenier, Inc., East Hampton, NY Castelli, Goodman, Solomon, East  Hampton, NY Edward Ruscha: New Works, ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los  Angeles*
Edward Ruscha: Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1980  Edward Ruscha: Paintings, Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
Edward Ruscha: Paintings  and Drawings, Portland Center for the Visual Arts,
OR Nigel Greenwood,  Inc., London New Paintings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Ruscha:  Selected Works 1966-1980, Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco

1979  Edward Ruscha: New Works, The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX heue Ausstellungen  im InK, InK Halle fur Internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland  * Edward Ruscha: New Works, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Ed Ruscha: New  Works, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA

1978 A Selection of Paintings and  Pastels 1974-1977, MTL Gallery, Brussels,
Belgium Drawings and Prints,  Castelli Uptown, New York Edward Ruscha: Books, Rudiger Schottle, Munich,  Germany Edward Ruscha: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Ace Gallery, Vancouver,  Canada Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany Graphic Works by Edward Ruscha,  Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand* Peppers Art Gallery, University of  Redlands, Los Angeles 1977 Recent Paintings, Ace Gallery, Venice,  CA Edward Ruscha: Recent Drawings, Elmwood Arts Foundation and The Fort  Worth Art Museum, TX Drawings by Joe Goode and Edward Ruscha, The Texas  Gallery, Houston, TX Prints and Books, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery,  Alberta, Canada

1976 Various Drawings, Ace Gallery, Vancouver,  Canada Dootson/Calderhead Gallery, Seattle, WA Exhibitions and  Presentations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Institute of  Contemporary Art, London
Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works by Ed Ruscha,  Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY*
Sable Castelli Gallery Ltd.,  Toronto, Canada
Edward Ruscha, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  *
Various Cheese Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Wadsworth Atheneum,  Matirx Gallery, Hartford, CT *

1975 Edward Ruscha/Drawings/Selected Prints,  The Glasser Gallery, La Jolla,
CA
Edward Ruscha: Prints and Publications  1962-74, The Arts Council of Great
Britain, traveled to twelve Arts Council  Member Galleries; Northern Kentucky
State University, Highland Heights, KY;  Ace Gallery, CA.*
Edward Ruscha: Prints, Northern Kentucky State University,  Highland Heights,
KY
Miracle and Premium film screening, Fox Venice  Theater, CA
Paintings, Drawings and Film "Miracle", Galerie Ricke, Cologne,  Germany
Jared Sable Gallery Ltd., Toronto, Canada
Leo Castelli, New  York
Books, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe,  AZ
Tropical Fish Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
University of North  Dakota Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND
Various Drawings, Ace Gallery, Los  Angeles

1974 Works by Edward Ruscha, Francoise Lambert, Milan,  Italy
Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Edward  Ruscha: Prints and Books, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton,
NY  *
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
H. Peter Findlay Gallery, New  York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Recent Paintings, The Texas Gallery,  Houston, TX

1973 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Books by Ed Ruscha, UCSD Art  Gallery, University of San Diego, CA
Ed Ruscha: Drawings, Leo Castelli  Gallery, New York
Edward Ruscha: Graphics from the Collection of Donald  Marron, Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York
Edward Ruscha: Projection, Galerie  Ursula Weavers, Cologne, Germany
Stains/Edward Ruscha, Francoise Lambert,  Milan, Italy
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Edward Ruscha: Young  Artist, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Nigel Greenwood Inc.,  London
Works by Edward Ruscha from the Collection of Paul J. Schupf '58, The  Picker
Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY *

1972 Corcoran &  Corcoran Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Colored People, Leo Castelli Gallery, New  York
DM Gallery, London
Ed Ruscha: Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New  York
Ed Ruscha: Books and Prints, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University  of
California, Santa Cruz*
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
Minneapolis  Institute of Arts, MN *

1971 Books, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
Drawings,  Contract Graphics Associates, Houston, TX

1970 Alexander Iolas Gallery, New  York *
Books by Edward Ruscha, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany  *
Edward Ruscha: Prints 1966-1970, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San  Francisco
Galerie Alexander Iolas, Paris, France

1969 Edward Ruscha: New  Graphics, Multiples Inc., Los Angeles
Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
La  Jolla Museum of Art, CA

1968 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie  Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

1967 Gunpowder Drawings, Alexander Iolas  Gallery, New York

1965 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

1964 Ferus Gallery, Los  Angeles

1963 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

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