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<p><b>Sterling Ruby</b> (* <a href="1972" title="1972">1972</a> in <a href="Bitburg" title="Bitburg">Bitburg</a>) ist ein in <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> lebender und arbeitender, US-amerikanischer Künstler. Ruby wurde als Sohn einer niederländischen Mutter und eines amerikanischen Vaters in Bitburg, Deutschland, geboren und wuchs in Baltimore, Maryland, und in der Nähe von Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania auf.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben">Leben</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ausbildung">Ausbildung</h3></div>
<p>Sterling Ruby ging auf eine Landwirtschaftsschule und arbeitete auf dem Bau, bevor er Kunst an der Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in <a href="Lancaster_(Pennsylvania)" title="Lancaster (Pennsylvania)">Lancaster</a>, PA studierte.<sup id="cite_ref-Glass_magazine_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glass_magazine-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Im Jahr 2001 bekam er seinen Bachelor of Arts von der Schule vom <a href="Art_Institute_of_Chicago" title="Art Institute of Chicago">Art Institute of Chicago</a>. 2003 zog er nach Los Angeles und schrieb sich beim MFA-Programm im <a href="Art_Center_College_of_Design" title="Art Center College of Design">Art Center College of Design</a> in <a href="Pasadena_(Kalifornien)" title="Pasadena (Kalifornien)">Pasadena</a> ein.<sup id="cite_ref-foxyproduction.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foxyproduction.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arbeit">Arbeit</h3></div>
<p>Sterling Ruby ist ein fachübergreifender Künstler, der bekannt wurde für reich verzierte biomorphe Keramiken, großflächig besprühte Leinwände, gegossene Urethan-Skulpturen, verschiedene Formen der Collage und Videoarbeiten. In einem Rückblick der New York Times 2008 bezeichnete die Kunstkritikerin <a href="Roberta_Smith" title="Roberta Smith">Roberta Smith</a> Ruby als einen der interessantesten Künstler, der sich in diesem Jahrhundert hervorgetan hat. Und auch wenn dies bisher nur acht Jahre gewesen wären, könnte sich diese Behauptung beweisen.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die Themen seiner Arbeiten bezieht er aus vielen Quellen, einschließlich marginalisierten Gesellschaften, Hochsicherheitsgefängnissen, moderner Architektur, Artefakten und Antiquitäten, sowie Graffiti, den Mechanismen der Kriegsführung und städtischen Banden. Seine Arbeit wurde oft zitiert als aufrufender Minimalismus, mit dem Ziel zu Grunde liegende gesellschaftliche Strukturen und soziale Machtstrukturen aufzudecken.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ausstellungen">Ausstellungen</h2></div>
<ul><li>2013: <a href="Kunsthalle_Mainz" title="Kunsthalle Mainz">Kunsthalle Mainz</a>, <a href="Monica_Bonvicini" title="Monica Bonvicini">Monica Bonvicini</a>, Sterling Ruby.</li>
<li>2016: <a href="Spr%C3%BCth_Magers_(Galerie)" title="Sprüth Magers (Galerie)">Sprüth Magers London</a>: Work Wear: Garment and Textile archive 2008 – 2016, 1. März 2016 – 9. April 2016.</li>
<li>2021: <i><a href="TinyBE" title="TinyBE">tinyBE • living in a sculpture</a></i>, Metzlerpark des Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/Main, <i>BLACK STOVE 3, 2014</i> & <i>REMNANT MEMORIAL, 2021</i>, Kuratorin Cornelia Saalfrank<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veröffentlichungen"><span id="Ver.C3.B6ffentlichungen"></span>Veröffentlichungen</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Sterling Ruby.</i> Winterpalais, Belvedere, Wien 2016.</li>
<li><i>Misericordia.</i> Prism, Los Angeles CA 2010.</li>
<li><i>Permanent Mimesis. An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism.</i> GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo 2010.</li>
<li><i>Permanent Trouble – Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp Munchen.</i> Snoeck, Köln 2010, ISBN 3-940953-46-6</li>
<li><i>Psychedelic. Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s.</i> Text by David S. Rubin. San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas 2010, ISBN 0-262-01404-1</li>
<li><i>Rive Droite – Rive Gauche.</i> JRP/Ringier, Zürich/Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris 2010.</li>
<li>Sterling Ruby: <i>Ashtrays.</i> Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels Belg 2010.</li>
<li>Sterling Ruby: <i>Ceramics 2007-2010.</i> Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio Jap 2010.</li>
<li><i>Beg, Borrow, and Steal.</i> Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2009.</li>
<li><i>New York Minute.</i> Kathy Grayson. O.H.W.O.W, Miami Fla 2009.</li>
<li>Bob Nickas: <i>Painting Abstraction. New Elements in Abstract Painting.</i> Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.</li>
<li>Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby: <i>Sterling Ruby.</i> JRP Ringier, 2009.</li>
<li><i>Sterling Ruby Robert Mappelthorpe.</i> Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Belg 2009.</li>
<li><i>The Shape of Things to Come. New Sculpture.</i> Saatchi Gallery. Rizzoli International Publications, 2009.</li>
<li><i>Vitamin 3-D. New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation.</i> Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.</li>
<li><i>If You Destroy the Image, You'll Destroy the Thing in Itself.</i> Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen 2008.</li>
<li><i>Stray Alchemists.</i> Ullens Center for the Arts, Beijing Ch 2008.</li>
<li><i>Sterling Ruby Chron.</i> The Drawing Center, New York 2008.</li>
<li><i>Sterling Ruby Supermax 2008.</i> The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2008.</li>
<li><i>Red Eye – L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection.</i> Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2007.</li>
<li><i>2006 California Biennial. Orange County Museum of Art.</i> Michael Ned Holte, Orange County Cal 2006.</li>
<li><i>The Pantagruel Syndrome.</i> T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, Turin 2005.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Daniel Kunitz: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35400/carol-bove-sterling-ruby-dana-schutz/">Carol Bove - Sterling Ruby – Dana Schutz.</a></i> Modern Painters. In: <i>artinfo.com</i> August 5, 2010.</li>
<li>Marina Cashdan: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marina-cashdan/the-promise-land-will-por_b_666653.html">The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar?</a></i> In: <i>Huffingtonpost.com.</i> August 3, 2010.</li>
<li>Merrily Kerr: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art/77070/carol-bove-sterling-ruby-dana-schutz">Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz.</a></i> In: <i>Time Out New York.</i> Aug. 2, 2010.</li>
<li>Degan Pener, Paul Young, Andrew Berardini: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://losangeles.modernluxury.com/style/masculine-mystique-houseago-ruby-kyack">The Masculine Mystique – Houseago, Ruby & Kyack.</a></i> In: <i>Angeleno Magazine.</i> April 7, 2010.</li>
<li>Matt Kelley: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/art_and_incarceration_sterling_rubys_stark_cages">Art and Incarceration. Sterling Ruby’s Stark Cages.</a></i> In: <i>Criminal Justice.</i> March 25, 2010.</li>
<li>João Ribas: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=529&det=ok&title=STERLING-RUBY">Sterling Ruby – Sincerely Hostile.</a></i> In: <i>Flash Art int. Ed.</i> XLIII.271, Mar.–Apr. 2010, S. 80–84.</li>
<li>Linda Yablonsky: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/best-in-show-sterling-rubys-caged-heat/">Best in Show -Sterling Ruby’s Cage Heat.</a></i> In: <i>T Magazine.</i> The New York Times Style Magazine. 11. Februar 2010.</li>
<li>Roberta Smith: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/arts/design/03emerge.html">New York Times Round Up. Make Room for Video, Performances and Paint.</a></i> In: <i>The New York Times.</i> 31. Dezember 2009.</li>
<li>Jerry Saltz: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/best_of_art_2009.html">Unearthed Classics and Reinvented Forms. The Best Art of 2009.</a></i> In: <i>New York Magazine.</i> 20. Dezember 2009.</li>
<li>Andrew Russeth: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33159/sterling-ruby-in-new-york/">Sterling Ruby in New York.</a></i> In: <i> Artinfo.com.</i> 6. November 2009.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2009/11/art_ruby">Sterling Ruby: Kevin West.</a></i> In: <i>W Magazine.</i> November 2009.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://moma.org/visit/alendar/exhibitions/891">New Photography 2009.</a></i> Museum of Modern Art, New York 2009. (MoMA Multimedia Video Interview)</li>
<li>Walter Robinson: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/sterling-ruby6-20-09.asp">Weekend Update.</a></i> In: <i>artnet Magazine.</i> Juni 2009.</li>
<li>Julian Myers: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/who_is_sterling_ruby/">Who is Sterling Ruby?</a></i> In: <i>Frieze Magazine.</i> April 2009.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://icallitoranges.blogspot.com/2008/07/brief-reflection-on-sterling-ruby.html">Brief Reflection on Sterling Ruby.</a></i> Ed Schad. I call it ORANGES blog, 22. Juli 2008.</li>
<li>Roberta Smith: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/arts/design/21gall.html">Art in Review, Sterling Ruby, Chron, Kiln Works.</a></i> In: <i>The New York Times.</i> 21. März 2008.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<div class="sisterproject" style="margin:0.1em 0 0 0;"><div class="noresize noviewer" style="display:inline-block; line-height:10px; min-width:1.6em; text-align:center;" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Commons"></span></span></div><b><span class=""><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sterling_Ruby?uselang=de"><span lang="en">Commons</span>: Sterling Ruby</a></span></b> – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien</div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://artinwords.de/sterling-ruby"><i>Alexandra Matzner über die Ausstellung “Sterling Ruby”</i></a> im Winterpalais, Belvedere, Wien 2016.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://art.sugarhigh.de/homecoming/">Homecoming – a conversation with Sterling Ruby</a>.</i> 27. April 2011.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/?artist_intro=Sterling_Ruby">Sterling Ruby</a>.</i> In: <i>xavierhufkens.com.</i> Brüssel.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-Glass_magazine-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Glass_magazine_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Peter Yeoh: <cite style="font-style:italic">Artistic Transgressor</cite>. In: <cite style="font-style:italic">Glass Magazine</cite>. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Nr.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>4</span>, 2010, <a href="Internationale_Standardnummer_f%C3%BCr_fortlaufende_Sammelwerke" title="Internationale Standardnummer für fortlaufende Sammelwerke">ISSN</a> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=iss%3D%222041-6318%22&key=cql">2041-6318</a></span>, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>179</span> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theglassmagazine.com/">theglassmagazine.com</a>).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Sterling+Ruby&rft.atitle=Artistic+Transgressor&rft.au=Peter+Yeoh&rft.date=2010&rft.genre=journal&rft.issn=2041-6318&rft.issue=4&rft.jtitle=Glass+Magazine&rft.pages=179&rft.place=London" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-foxyproduction.com-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-foxyproduction.com_2-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxyproduction.com/artist/view/6">Foxy Production, Artist Bio, Sterling Ruby</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Roberta Smith: <i>Art in Review, Sterling Ruby.</i> In: <i>New York Times.</i> New York March 21, 2008, S. E29.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini, Sterling Ruby: <i>Sterling Ruby.</i> Gallery d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, Bergamo 2009.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tinybe.org/artists/sterling-ruby/"><i>STERLING RUBY - tinyBE.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 22. April 2025</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ASterling+Ruby&rft.title=STERLING+RUBY+-+tinyBE&rft.description=STERLING+RUBY+-+tinyBE&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Ftinybe.org%2Fartists%2Fsterling-ruby%2F"> </span></span>
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