Lives and works in Los Angeles

1972 Born in Bitburg, Germany

Education

2003–05 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2000–02 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1992–96 Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA

Curatorial Projects

2014 Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2014 Taka Ishii Gallery Modern, Tokyo, Japan

2011 SELECTIONS: MORRIS, TROCKEL, HOLZER + PINK, Curated by Sterling Ruby, Sprüth Magers, Berlin

2007 Post Rose: Artists in and out of the Hazard Park Complex, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany

2005 Automony, Foxy Production, New York

Collaboration and Special Projects

2017 ‘Sterling Ruby’, NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, Gagosian Gallery booth, New York, US

2017 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC Spring 2018 Runway Design, New York, NY, United States

2017 ‘FLASH FLASH FLASH’, LA Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, Gagosian Gallery booth, Los Angeles, US

2017 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC Showroom, New York, NY, United States

2017 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC Fall 2017 Runway Design, New York, US

2017 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC Pop Ups and Window Displays, Babochka, St. Petersburg, Russia; Bergdorf Goodman, New York, US; The Broken Arm, Paris, F; The Corner Berlin, Berlin, D; Galeries Lafayette, Paris, F; Gente Roma, Rome, I; Isetan Mens & Womens, Tokyo, J; Jeffreys, New York, US; Lane Crawford Canton Road, HIFC Atrium, and IFC Mens, Hong Kong, RC; Lane Crawford, Seasons Place, Beijing, RC; Lane Crawford, Times Square, Shanghai, RC

2017 CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, 654 Madison Avenue Flagship Store, New York, US

2017 L.A. Dance Project: Murder Ballades: Boch Center Shubert Theatre, Boston, US; The Joyce Theater, New York, US (traveling exhibition)

2017 Calvin Klein Showroom and Look Space, Calvin Klein, 205 W 39th St, New York

2016 L.A. Dance Project: Murder Ballades, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC, United States (traveling exhibition)

2016 Ship of Fools, Video Databank TV, Chicago, IL, United States

2015 L.A. Dance Project: Murder Ballads, Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA, United States (traveling exhibition)

2014 Basilica SoundSpace, Basilica Hudson , Hudson, NY, United States

2014 L.A. Dance Project: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France (traveling exhibition)

2014 Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby FW 2014, Paris, France

2012 Drawing Surrealism Walkthrough, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2012 Christian Dior FW 2012-2013, Paris, France

2011 Tresspass Parade, West of Rome Public Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2010 STERLING RUBY for the inaugural installation of the Ovitz Family Collection Project Space, Beverly Hills, CA

2009 RSSR, Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby collaborative denim line

2008 Raf Simons Store, Aoyama, Tokyo

Awards

2017  MAD Ball Annual Visionaries! Awards, The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, US

Selected Museum and Public Collections

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Candada
Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
The Guggenheim, New York
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Netherlands Media Art Institute - Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
The Seattle Art Museum
Sender Collection, New York
The Saatchi Gallery, London