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Books and Catalogs


2012 Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol. (exhibition catalog) MOCA, Los Angeles and Skira Rizzoli, New York, 2012:188-199.

2011 Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Schwabsky, Barry. Text by Jan Tumlir. London:  Phaidon Press, 2011: 260-261

2011 Flood, Richard. MapplethorpeX7. teNues Publishing Group, Kempen, Germany, 2011: 126-151

2011 Sterling Ruby Desktop Vol.1. The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, 2011

2011 Von Shlegell, Mark. New Dystopia. Sternberg Press, Berlin in collaboration with CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain de Bourdeaux, France, 2011.

2011 Eslöv Wide Shut: 100 year Anniversary of Eslöv. (exhibition catalog) Eslöv, Sweden and Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2011:  110-113.

2011 Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Schwabsky, Barry. Text by Jan Tumlir. London: Phaidon Press, 2011: 260-261.

2011 American Exuberance. (exhibition catalog) The Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts

2011 Structure & Absence. (exhibition catalog) White Cube, Bermondsey, 2011

2011 Sterling Ruby Paintings. (exhibition catalog) Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2011.

2011 American Exuberance. (exhibition catalog) The Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida, 2011

2011 Eslöv Wide Shut: 100 year Anniversary of Eslöv. (exhibition catalog) Eslöv, Sweden and Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2011

2010 Misericordia. (exhibition catalogue) Prism, Los Angeles, CA. 2010.

2010 Sterling Ruby: Ashtrays. (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium (monograph)

2010 Rive Droite/ Rive Gauche (exhibition catalog). Zurich:JRP/Ringier, Paris: Marc Jancou Contemporary, 2010.

2010 Sterling Ruby/Robert Mapplethorpe. (exhibition catalogue) Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2010. (monograph)

2010 Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism. (exhibition catalog). Italy: Electa Mondadori, 2010.

2010 Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp Munchen (exhibition catalog). Germany: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010.

2010 Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s (exhibition catalog). Text by David S. Rubin. Texas: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2010.

2010 The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Rizzoli Int. Publication Inc. NY: 320-343, 2010.

2009 Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay (exhibition catalog). Text by Ingrid Schaffer and Janelle Porter. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2009: 38–39.

2009 Beg, Borrow, Steal (exhibition catalog). Miami: The Rubell Family Collection, 2009: 206–207.

2009 NEW YORK MINUTE: Sixty Artists on the New York Scene. (exhibition catalog). Rome: MACRO FUTURE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2009.

2009 Sterling Ruby. (exhibition catalog). Texts by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Alessandro Rabottini et al. Zurich:JRP/Ringier, 2009. Published with GAMeC in collaboration with Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan and West of Rome, Los Angeles, 2009

2008 Sterling Ruby - Supermax, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2008 Sterling Ruby: Chron. Drawing Papers 76 (exhibition catalog). New York: The Drawing Center, 2008. (monograph)

2008 If You Destroy the Image You Destroy the Thing Itself. (exhibition catalog). Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

2008 Fowle, Kate (ed.) Stray Alchemists. (exhibition catalog). Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2008

2007 Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami.

2006 T1-Turin Triennial: The Pantagruel Syndrome. (exhibition catalogue) Skira Editore S.p.A,

2006 California Biennial 2006. (exhibition catalog). Texts by Elizabeth Armstrong, Rita Gonzalez, Karen Moss et al. New Port Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2006

2004 Natalie Jeremijenko. AIM V Syzgy. University of Southern California.


Selected Articles and Reviews


2012 Adam, Georgina. The Art Market: Space Hoppers. The Financial Times, December 14, 2012.

2012 Crow, Kelley. “Searching for the Next Art-World Star.” The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2012.

2012 Yablonsky, Linda. “Art Basel: ART UNLIMITED 2012.” www.artnet.com, June 19, 2012.

2012 Jetzer, Gianni. “From Snake-Wrangling to Toxic Water Lilies: Gianni Jetzer on curating Art 2012 Basel’s Super-Sized Art Unlimited Projects.” www.artinfo.com, June 11, 2012.

2012 Argyroglo, Martin. “A Hard Look at “Soft Work” Sterling Ruby’s Cushy and

2012 Satirical Solo Exhibition in France.” www.artinfo.com, June 3, 2012.

2012 “50 Next Most Collectible Artists.” Art + Auction, June 2012.

2012 Siti, Walter. “Body Builders.” Nero Magazine, No. 29 Spring/Summer 2012.

2012 Kantor, Jordan. “The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol.” www.artforum.com, May 17, 2012.

2012 Miles, Christopher. “Review: Warhol odd man out in MOCA’s The Painting Factory.” www.latimes.com, May 3, 2012.

2012 McGrarry, Kevin. “Out There: Factory Fresh.” The New York Times Style Magazine, May 3, 2012.

2012 Asfour, Nana. “The New Abstractionists: Following in Andy Warhol’s Footsteps at L.A.’s MOCA.” Vogue, April 2012.

2012 “Mike Kelley (1954-2012): Ten Tributes.” Frieze, Issue 146, April 2012.

2012 “Sterling Ruby interviews Ron Nagle.” Kaleidoscope, 2012.

2012 Tschida, Anne. “In Miami, Rubell Family points the way to contemporary art collecting.” The Miami Herald, March 18, 2012.

2012 Ollman, Leah. “Peering Into ‘Clay’s Tectonic Shift’.” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2012.

2012 Rawsthorn, Alice. “What Makes Raf Run?” W Magazine, March 2012: 300.

2012 Braithwaite, Hunter. “Event Horizon: Sterling Ruby at the Rubell Family Collection.” www.thereisnothere.com, January 3, 2012.

2011 Raw Stardust: Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture II. Drissen, Chris and van Mierto, Heidi. Fundament Foundation, 2011: 88-89.

2011 Structure & Absence. (exhibition catalog) White Cube, Bermondsey, 2011: 15.

2011 Russeth, Andrew. “Groupthink in Miami: Visiting the de la Cruz Collection.” www.galleristny.com, December 9, 2011.

2011 Liu, Penny. “A Vampire or a Catcher in Psychology.” Harper’s Bazaar, November 2011.

2011 Spalding, David. “Sterling Ruby’s Vampire.” Art Agenda, November 8, 2011.

2011 Whittaker, Iona. “The Inchoate Muse: Sterling Ruby.” www.Randian-online.com, November 30, 2011.

2011 Katz, Marisa Mazria. “Being Scene-Los Angeles.” Monocle, Issue 48. Volume 05, November 2011: 107-112.

2011 Richard, Frances. “Review: Sterling Ruby and Lucio Fontana.” Artforum, November 2011: 268-269.

2011 O’Dea, Madeline. “Artist Sterling Ruby on Why Beijing is the New L.A.” www.Artinfo.com, November 2, 2011.

2011 Griffin, Jonathan. “George Herms: Xenophilia.” Frieze, October 2011: 254.

2011 Zhao, Sasha. “Sterling Ruby: Truncated Malleability.” Leap: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China, October 2011:70-73.

2011 Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Schwabsky, Barry. Text by Jan Tumlir. London:  Phaidon Press, 2011: 260-261.

2011 Bodin, Claudia. “L.A. Cool: Sterling Ruby.” Art Das Kunstmagazin, October 2011: 33.

2011 Ruby, Sterling. “Highlights: Ron Nagle, Custom Clay.” Kaleidoscope Issue 12, October 2011:44-49.

2011 “21 Questions for Sterling Ruby.” www.artinfo.com, October 11, 2011.

2011 Corbett, Rachel. “The Principles of Eternity.” Artnet.com  

2011 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Sterling Ruby and Lucio Fontana.” The New York Times, September 22, 2011.

2011 Vargas, Whitney. “The show of the Season.” The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2011.

2011 Von Shlegell, Mark. New Dystopia. Sternberg Press, Berlin in collaboration with CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain de Bourdeaux, France, 2011.

2011 Sterling Ruby Desktop Vol.1. The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, 2011.

2011 Baker, Allese Thomson. “Soft Machines: Critic’s Picks.” www.artforum.com, August 9, 2011.

2011 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Soft Machines.” The New York Times, July 28, 2011.

2011 Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Paul Clay.” The New York Times, June 30, 2011.

2011 Burns, Charlotte. “The market can launch careers, but museums still matter.” www.theartnewspaper.com, June 17, 2011.

2011 Jeffreys, Tom. “The Shape of Things to Come at the Saatchi Gallery.” www.spoonfed.co.uk, May 27, 2011.

2011 Honigman, Ana Finel. “Homecoming: A Conversation with Sterling Ruby.” www.berlinartjournal.com, April 27, 2011.

2011 Sterling Ruby Paintings. (exhibition catalog) Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2011 Smith, Roberta. “A bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel.” New York Times, May 31, 2011.

2011 Honigman, Ana Finel. “L is for look and learn: Sterling Ruby.” i-D Magazine, Summer 2011: 252-253.

2011 Flood, Richard. MapplethorpeX7. teNues Publishing Group, Kempen, Germany, 2011: 126-151.

2011 Honigman, Ana Finel. “Critic’s Pick: Sterling Ruby.” www.artforum.com, May 2011.

2011 Dunlop, Beth. “A new exhibition underscores the biggest need of North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art-more space.” The Miami Herald, May 1, 2011.

2011 Walsh, Brienne. “The Survivalist: Q+A With Sterling Ruby.” Art In America, March 2011.

2011 Abrams, Janet. “The Performative Gesture.” Ceramic Review, March/April 2011: 52-57.

2011 Adam, Georgina. “The Hard Sell.” The Financial Times, February 25, 2011: 5.

2011 “Works in Progress.” V Magazine, Spring 2011: 105.

2011 Austin, Tom. “Smart art from the de la Cruz Collection.” The Miami Herald, January 9, 2011.

2010 Yeoh, Peter. “Artistic Transgressor.” Glass Magazine, Winter 2010: 179.

2010 Adam, Georgina. Burns, Charlotte. Gerlis, Melanie. Katz, Marissa Mazria. “Art Market Report: Who Needs Celebrities? It’s the Serious Collectors that Count.” The Art Newspaper, December, 2010.

2010 Bollen, Christopher. “L.A. Artworld: Sterling Ruby.” Interview Magazine, December 2010: 114.

2010 Maschietti, Giacomo Nicolella. “Painting Extranvaganza.” Flast Art, December 2010.

2010 Pulimood, Steven. “2TRAPS SUPERMAX.” 032c, Issue #20, Winter: 116-131.

2010 Conner, Jill. “Sterling Ruby.” ArtUS 29, 2010: 93.

2010 Griffin, Jonathan. “Fluid Nature.” Mousse Magazine, Issue # 25, September-October 2010.

2010 Kawashima, Takuhito. Takase, Yasuyuki. “Sterling Ruby.” Huge, No. 074 November 2010: 9.

2010 Misericordia. (exhibition catalogue) Prism, Los Angeles, CA. 2010.

2010 Sterling Ruby: Ashtrays. (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium, 2010. (monograph)

2010 Sterling Ruby: Ceramics 2007-2010.Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2010. (monograph)

2010 Rive Droite/ Rive Gauche (exhibition catalogue). Zurich:JRP/Ringier, Paris: Marc Jancou Contemporary, 2010.

2010 Braat, Manon. “Portfolio: Sterling Ruby.” K: Kunstbeeld.nl, 2010.

2010 Kunitz, Daniel. “Carol Bove/Sterling Ruby/Dana Schutz.” Modern Painters, August 5, 2010.

2010 Kerr, Merrily. “Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz.” Time Out New York, Issue 775, 2010.

2010 Cashdan, Marina. “The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar?” Huffingtonpost.com, August 3, 2010.

2010 Sterling Ruby/Robert Mapplethorpe. (exhibition catalogue) Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2010. (monograph)

2010 Smith, Roberta. “Spray!: Polly Apfelbaum/Nicole Cherubini Studiowork.” Art in Review: The New York Times. July 16, 2010.

2010 Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism. (exhibition catalogue). Italy: Electa Mondadori, 2010.

2010 Olivares, Jonathan. “Sterling Ruby.” Interni Magazine, Numero 600, April 2010.

2010 Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp Munchen (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010.

2010 Young, Paul. “The Masculine Mystique.” Angelino Magazine, April 2010: 56.

2010 Kelley, Matt. “Art and Incarceration: Sterling Ruby’s Stark Cages.” change.org. March 25, 2010.

2010 Rubin, David S. Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s. (cat.) MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachussets. 2010. P 106. pp 138.

2010 Ribas, Joao. “Sterling Ruby: Sincerely Hostile” Flash Art Magazine. Vol. XLIII, March – April 2010, pp 80-84.

2010 Kazakina, Katya. Bloomberg.com, 2010.

2010 Holborn, Mark. (ed.), The Shape of Things to Come, Rizzoli Int. Publication Inc. NY, NY. p320-343, (cat.).

2010 Glisson, James, Sterling Ruby, Critic’s Picks, Artforum.com, February 25, 2010.

2010 Smith, Roberta. “Swagger and Sideburns: Bad Boys in Galleries.” The New York Times. February 12, 2010.

2010 Yablonsky, Linda. “Best in Show: Sterling Ruby’s Caged Heat.” New York Times Style Magazine. February 10, 2010.

2010 Birnbaum, Brent. “Sterling Ruby at Pace? Sterling Ruby at Pace!” Artcards Review.cc

2010 Walsh, Brienne. “Sterling Ruby’s Evening Trap.” Art in America. February, 2010.

2010 Finch, Charlie. “Cagey.” Artnet.com, February 10, 2010

2009 Kaleidoscope, November Issue. Interview between Sterling Ruby and Alessandro Rabottini.

2009 West, Kevin. Sterling Ruby. W, November Issue.

2009 Flash Art, October Issue. Top 100 list of artists.

2009 Smith, Roberta. “New York Times Round Up: Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint.” The New York Times, December 31, 2009.

2009 Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay (exhibition catalogue). Text by Ingrid Schaffer and Janelle Porter. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2009, 38–39.

2009 Beg, Borrow, Steal (exhibition catalogue). Miami: The Rubell Family Collection, 2009: 206–207.

2009 Bancroft, Shelly, Peter Nesbett, Rebecca Sears, eds. Diaries of a Young Artist. New York: Darte Publishing, 2009: 45–47.

2009 NEW YORK MINUTE: Sixty Artists on the New York Scene. (exhibition catalogue). Rome: MACRO FUTURE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2009.

2009 Saltz, Jerry. “Unearthed Classics and Reinvented Forms: The Best Art of 2009.” New York Magazine, 2009.

2009 K.W. “Seeing Stars.” W Magazine: The Art Issue. November 2009.

2009 Russeth, Andrew. “Sterling Ruby in New York.” Artinfo.com. November 6.

2009 Rabottini, Alessandro. “Ruin Value” Kaleidoscope. p 50–55.

2009 Nickas, Bob. “Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting.” Phaidon p 220-223.

2009 Saltz, Jerry. “A New Kind of Boom,” New York Magazine. October 4, 2009.

2009 Momin, Shamim. Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon pp. 256–259

2009 Rabottini, Alessandro (ed). Sterling Ruby. JRP Ringier. Published with GAMeC in collaboration with Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan and West of Rome, Los Angeles. Pp 178 (monograph)

2009 Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update, Filmmaker Sterling Ruby.” Aesthetica Artnet.com.

2009 Myers, Julian. “Who is Sterling Ruby?” Frieze: Issue 22, April 2009.

2009 Kazakina, Katya. “MoMA Fast-Tracks Six Young Artists for New Photography Show,” Bloomberg Press. March 25, 2009.

2009 Smith, Roberta. “Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art.” The New York Times. March 20.

2009 Mulleavy, Laura and Kate. “Inside Out.” V Magazine. Issue 58, Spring 2009: 86.

2008 Sterling Ruby: Chron. Drawing Papers 76 (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Drawing Center, 2008 (monograph)

2008 Campagnola, Sonia. “Sterling Ruby: MOCA Los Angeles,” Flash Art, October : 135.

2008 Auerbach, Tauba. “Top Ten: Sterling Ruby “SUPERMAX 2008,” MoCA, Los Angeles, Artforum October: 205.

2008 If You Destroy the Image You Destroy the Thing Itself, Curated by Solveig Ovstebo & Steinar Sekkingstad, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. p 31-49 (cat)

2008 Fowle, Kate (ed.) “Stray Alchemists”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing: 93-108. (cat.)

2008 Farronato, Milovan. “Spray-painted Vandalism,” Mousse, Issue #15, October/November: 15-17.

2008 Miles, Christopher. “Baroque Then and Now.” LA Weekly. September 4.

2008 Taft, Catherine. “In Focus: Sterling Ruby.” The Journal. Entry 23: 172-183.

2008 Ed Schad, Ed. “Sterling Ruby: Supermax 2008,” Art Review, September: 145.

2008 “Diaries of a Young Artist,” Art on Paper, July/August: 51.

2008 Kaiser, Philipp. Sterling Ruby: SUPERMAX 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, pp 152 (cat)

2008 McMehen, Emily. “Interview with Sterling Ruby: Artworker of the Week #71.”  Kultureflash 263. Nov. 13, 2008.

2008 Trezzi, Nicola. “Sterling Ruby.” Flash Art, May-June 2008: 153.

2008 Smith, Roberta. “Substraction.” The New York Times, April 25, 2008.

2008 Smith, Roberta. “Sterling Ruby / CHRON & Kiln Works,” The New York Times, March 21, 2008.

2008 Eaker, Adam. “One to Watch,” ArtKrush. March 19, 2008.

2007 Smith, Roberta. “It’s Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect.” The New York Times, September 7, 2007.

2007 Smith, Roberta. “In These Shows, the Material is the Message.” The New York Times. August 10 2007.

2007 Red EyeL L.A. Artists form the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007: 72-

2007 Tumlir, Jan. “Sci-Fi Historicism: part 2 Desertshore.” Flash Art, May-June 2007:118-121.

2007 Banai, Nuit. “Sterling Ruby.” Time Out New York, 24-30 May 2007: 89.

2007 Foumberg, Jason. “Eye Eyam: External Pleasure.” New City Chicago, December 27, 2007.

2007 McClemont, Doug. “Doug Mc Clemont on Sterling Ruby at Metro Pictures and Foxy Production,

2007 New York.” Saatchi Gallery Daily Magazine. June 9, 2007

2007 Yablonsky, Linda. “Black Reign.” The Village Voice, May 9, 2007, p. 53.

2007 Orden, Abraham. “The Minute.” artnet.com, May 7, 2007

2006 Holte, Michael Ned. "Sterling Ruby", 2006 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art, p. 136-139

2006 Holte, Michael Ned. “Sterling Ruby.” Artforum. December: 315 – 316.

2006 Myers, Holly. “Shape Shifter,” Art Review, Issue 6, December 2006: 52-56.

2006 Duncan, Michael. “Opening Salvos in L.A.” Art in America, December 2006: 76-83.

2006 Taft, Catherine. “Introducing.” Modern Painters, December 2006: 75-77.

2006 Taft, Catherine. “Sterling Ruby,” Modern Painters, November 2006: 104-105.

2006 Hawkins, Richard. “Sterling Ruby: Long Live the Amorphous Law.” Flash Art. October 2006.

2006 Gray, Emma. “LA Confidential.” Artnet.com. October 12, 2006.

2006 Knight, Christopher. “The Faces of This Place.” The Los Angeles Times. October 7, 2006.

2006 Brooks, Amra. “Must See Art: Sterling Ruby Interior Designer at Marc Foxx," LA Weekly, September 20, 2006

2006 Meyers, Holly. "Freeways Connect and Divide," Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2006

2006 Campagnola, Sonia. "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, No. 246 January-Febuary 2006: 74

2006 Bonacossa, Ilaria. " T1-Turin Triennial: The Pantagruel Syndrome", (cat.) Skira Editore S.p.A, p. 404

2006 Muchnic, Susanne. “Art Explosion.” The Los Angeles Times. October 1, 2006

2006 Armstrong, Elizabeth, Rita Gonzales, and Karen Moss. “No World Order: Extreme Object Makers.” 2006 California Biennial. October 2006: 43-44.

2006 Alemani, Cecilia. “Sterling Ruby Milan Critics’ Picks”, Artforum.com. July 2006.

2006 Taft, Catherine. “Sterling Ruby.” Flash Art. January-February 2006.

2005 Brian Sholis. Miami Price. Artforum / DIARY, December 2.

2005 Stuart Comer. Double Deutsche. Artforum / DIARY, November 22.

2005 Holland Cotter. Art in Review: 5 x U at Team Gallery. The New York Times, July 22.

2005 Michael Ned Holte. Untitled at Marc Foxx. Artforum.com, March.

2005 James Wagner. Sterling Ruby. JamesWagner.com, January 22.

2004 Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, November 26, 2004, p.E41

2004 Henderson, Lee. “Contemporary.” Idea Records: 61.

2004 Rosenfeld, Kathryn. “That Kind of Fall”, Artnet com, October 14, 2004.

2004 Jeremijenko, Natalie. AIM V Syzygy (catalogue) University of Southern California

2004 LaBelle, Charles. “Kirsten Stoltmann and Sterling Ruby,” Frieze, Issue 81.

2004 Cotter, Holland. ‘Works on Paper’ The New York Times, January 30, 2004, p. E38


Interviews


2008 Kultureflash, Artworker of the week No. 71: Sterling Ruby

2009 Kaleidoscope, November Issue. Interview between Sterling Ruby and Alessandro Rabottini.

2009 Interview with Eva Respini, photo curator at MoMA