18 Facts About Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby was born on January 21,1972 and is an American artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, video, and textiles.

Sterling Ruby's studio is located in Vernon, south of downtown Los Angeles.

Sterling Ruby was born on an American military base in Bitburg, Germany to a Dutch mother and an American father.

Sterling Ruby's family relocated to the United States shortly after his birth, first to Baltimore, Maryland, and then to the rural town of New Freedom, Pennsylvania.

Sterling Ruby attended The Pennsylvania School of Art and Design,.

Sterling Ruby has said of these compositions: 'They continue with themes, theories and concepts that have been central to my previous work, but I have been trying to make them abstract and formal, my attempt to connect to the historical lineage of Suprematism.

Sterling Ruby himself plays a bum, who transits a marginal landscape, neither nature nor manmade, where he occupies himself crafting what can only be called artworks from string, cast-offs and other bits of trash.

Sterling Ruby has long explored the architecture of prisons, and in 2019 he exhibited STATE, a single-channel video projection of aerial views of the 35 adult state prisons of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Sterling Ruby designed the cover for Pusha's album, "It's Almost Dry".

In 2008, Sterling Ruby designed the interior for clothing designer Raf Simons' Tokyo store, using images of bleached fabric to create a splattered wallpaper that covered its walls and ceilings.

In 2017, after Simons moved over to Calvin Klein, Sterling Ruby was enlisted to redesign the interior of their New York showroom, as well as the brand's Paris headquarters.

Sterling Ruby designed two runways for Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein RTW Fall 2017 in February 2017, and RTW Spring 2018 runway in September 2017.

Sterling Ruby reimagined the interior of Calvin Klein's Madison Avenue flagship store, painting the walls safety yellow, constructing matching yellow floor-to-ceiling scaffolding and filling the space with geometric plinths and large-scale soft sculpture candles.

Sterling Ruby's designs were very unique as they incorporated much of his past contemporary art skills and works.

Sterling Ruby added a print of another one of his past sculptures onto some garments; this pattern was of animal skulls in different types of wigs.

When Sterling Ruby described the difference between the production of fashion and art, he said he doesn't see any difference in the making.

For "SUPERMAX 2008," a solo exhibition curated by Philipp Kaiser at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, Sterling Ruby correlated the architecture of the museum with the architecture of the California prison system.

Sterling Ruby had exhibited at institutions including the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Saatchi Gallery, London; MACRO, Rome; Baibokov Projects, Moscow.