Publications

2002 Schwartz, Alexandra (ed.): Leave any information at the signal: Ruscha's writings, interviews, bits, pages. October Book, MIT Press.

Artists' books

1978 Hard Light. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications  (with Lawrence Weiner)

1972 Records. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications.

1971 A Few Palm Trees. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications

1971 Colored People

1970 Story by Mason Williams

1970 Babycakes. New York: Multiples, Inc

1970 Real Estate Opportunities

1969 Stains. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications

1969 Crackers. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications (with Mason Williams)

1968 Business Cards. Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications (with Billy Al Bengston)

1968 Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass

1967 Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles

1967 Royal Road Test (with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell)

1966 Every Building on the Sunset Strip

1965 Some Los Angeles Apartments

1964 Various Small Fires and Milk

1963 Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Catalogues

2007 Robert Dean and Erin Wright: Edward Ruscha. Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York.

2007 Candy Coleman: Ed Ruscha. Bustes Glass, Gagosian Gallery, London.

2007 Karola Grässlin: Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er und 90er Jahre. Bas Jan Ader, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Douglas Huebler, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, William Leavitt, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Prina, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Williams, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Köln.

2006 Margit Rowell: Ed Ruscha – Photographer, Jeu de paume, Paris; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2005 Andreas Hapkemeyer: The Perception of the Horizontal: Caspar David Friedrich, Albin Egger-Lienz, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Ferdinand Hodler, Lyonel Feininger, Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Jan Dibbets, Ed Ruscha, Agnes Martin, Wim Wenders, Lawrence Weiner, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky, Kimsooja, Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen.

2005 Donna de Salvo and Linda Norden: Course of Empire. Paintings by Ed Ruscha. United States Pavillion, 51st Venice Biennale, Ostfildern-Ruit.

2005 Richard D. Marshall: Ed Ruscha, Phaidon, London.

2005 Ed Ruscha: Then & Now. Hollywood Boulevard 1973 – 2004, Göttingen.

2004 Petrus Schaesberg: Konzept der Collage: Paradigmenwechsel in der Entwicklung der Collage von Pablo Picasso bis Edward Ruscha, o. O.

2004 Mona Jensen: Pop Classics. Allan d'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Edward Kienholz, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus; Museum Ludwig, Köln.

2004 I told you ought never to fight him, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museo Nazionale delle Arti dell XXI Secolo, Rom; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

2004 Sylvia Wolf: Ed Ruscha and photography, Whitney Mueum of American Art, New York.

2004 Margit Rowell: Cottonpuffs, Q-tips, smoke and mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

2004 Sylvia Wolf: Ed Ruscha and Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

2003 Ed Ruscha, Olivier Berggruen and Alannah Weston: The Drawn Word, Vero Beach.

2002 Richard D. Marshall: Edward Ruscha. Made in Los Angeles, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

2002 Bob Monk and Jennifer Loh: Ed Ruscha. Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York

2000 Philomene Magers: Gunpowder and Stains, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Galerie, Munich.

2000 Neal David Benezra: Ed Ruscha, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

1999 Stefan Gronert: Große Illusionen. Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Edward Ruscha, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

1999 Edward Ruscha Editions 1959 – 1999. Catalogue raisonné, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.

2002 Sarah M. Howard and Tim Baker: Me and The, Tampa.

1998 Dieter Ronte: Leaf Spine Word Sign. Artists Books from the Workshop of Hank Hine: Georg Baselitz, James Brown, Bruce Conner, Günther Förg, Hank Hine, Markus Lüpertz, Joan Mitchell, Jürgen Partenheimer, Norbert Prangenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Davis Salle, Richard Tuttle, Düsseldorf.

1998 Anthony d’Offay: Ed Ruscha. New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

1993 Eva Meyer-Hermann: John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Soll LeWitt, Richard Long, Edward Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Künstlerbücher, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld.

1993 Yve-Alain Bois: Romance with Liquids. Paintings 1966 – 1969, Gagosian Gallery, New York.

1992 Dave Hickey: Edward Ruscha, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg.

1992 John Cheim: Edward Ruscha. Stains 1971 to 1975, Robert Miller Gallery, New York.

1990 Sheila Schwartz: Ed Ruscha – Los Angeles Apartments 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1989 Bernard Blistène: Edward Ruscha. Paintings, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Musée National d’art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

1989 Sue Scott: Joe Godde, Jerry McMillan, Edward Ruscha, Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando.

1998 Rainer Crone u. a.: Paul Klee und Edward Ruscha: Projekt der Moderne. Sprache und Bild, Regensburg.

1988 Edward Ruscha: Early Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

1988 Edward Ruscha, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya.

1987 Ed Ruscha, Robert Miller Gallery, New York.

1986 Vier mal sechs, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.

1985 Edward Ruscha, Ville de Lyon Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon.

1980 Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha and Patrick Blackwell: Royal Road Test, Los Angeles.

Articles and Reviews

2007 Peter Schjedahl: Ed Ruscha. Traffic and Laughter, 1985. In: The Artists’s Joke. Documents of Contemporary Art (ed. By Jennifer Higgie), Cambridge.

2007 Konstanze Crüwell: Zufallsernte. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28.2.2007, p. 37.

2007 Larisa Dryansky: Images stéréo. L’illusion dans l’Œuvre de Ed Ruscha. Les cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne. Histoire et théorie de l’art, Paris, p. 32 – 51.

2006 Larisa Dryansky: Clichés d’architecture: La photographie d’Ed Ruscha et les sources de l’architecture postmoderne aux États-Unis. In: Histoire de l’art, Paris, p. 129 – 139.

2006 Claudia Steinberg: Der kühle Ed. Portrait Ed Ruscha. In: ArtInvestor, Bd. 6, 5, p. 48-54.

2006 Michael Stoeber: Ed Ruscha. In: Artist, Bremen, p. 46 – 51.

2005 Alexandra Schwartz, Yve-Alain Bois, Lisa Pasquariello: Ed Ruscha. In: October: Art, Theory, Criticism, Politics, 111, p. 23 – 142.

2005 Heinz-Norbert Jocks: Zur Allianz von Auge und Gedächtnis: Über die Bilder von Ed Ruscha im amerikanischen Pavillon. In: 51. Biennale Venedig, Ruppichteroth, Bd. 177, p. 233 – 239.

2005 Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Edward Ruscha (Interview). In: Contemporary: Visual Arts, Architecture, Books, Fashion. London, 74, p. 90 – 93.

2005 Hal Foster: From windscreen to widescreen. On Set with Ed Ruscha. In: Modern Painters, London, Bd. 18, 6, p. 74 – 79.

2005 Margit Rowell: Ed Ruscha et ses biennales de Venise. In: Art Press, English Edition, Paris, p. 34 – 39.

2005 Fred Fehlau: Tantalizing Memory – Inside the Mind of Ed Ruscha. In: Flash Art International. The World’s Leading Art Magazine, Milan, Bd. 38, 241, S 84 – 86.

2005 Jan Tumlir: Ed Ruscha – Plane Words In: Flash Art International. The World’s Leading Art Magazine, Milan, Bd. 38, 241, p. 80 – 83.

2005 Jaleh Mansoor: Ed Ruscha's one-way street . In: October, 111, S.127-142.

2005 Kevin Hatch: "Something else". Ed Ruscha's photographic books, In: October, 111, S.107- 126.

2005 Lisa Pasquariello: HYPERLINK "http://kavia.gbv.de:80/DB=2.1/SET=1/TTL=11/SHW?FRST=11&PRS=HOL"Ed Ruscha and the language that he used. In: October, 111, p. 81 – 106.

2005 Ed Ruscha: Blue collar drawings: 1992. In: October, 111, p. 44 – 60.

2005 Alexandra Schwartz: Second City. Ed Ruscha and the Reception of Los Angeles Pop. In: October, 111, p. 23 – 43.

2004 Doug Aitken: Earth is the Alien Planet. Doug Aitken Talk to Ed Ruscha. In: Frieze, London, p. 100 – 105.

2003 Geoff Nicholson: Ed is on no side: Where do Ed Ruscha’s words come from, and where are they going? In: Modern Painters, Londond, Bd. 16, 1, p. 54 – 61.

2000 Peter Plagens: Two Pops: Edward Ruscha and Wayne Thiebaud. In: Artform, Denville, p. 156 – 161.

2002 Neal Benezra: Ed Ruscha, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.

2000 Cornelia Gockel: Flecken & Pulver. Ed Ruscha mit „Gunpowder and Stains“ bei Sprüth/Magers“. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 10.5.2000, p. 21.

1999 Edward Ruscha – Andrea Slominski – Sam Taylor Wood. In: Parkett, 55.

1998 Jörn Ebner: Das Wort ist im Bild. Arbeiten von Ed Ruscha bei Anthony d’Offay in London. In: FAZ Kunstmarkt, 26.9.1998.

1988 Collaboration Edward Ruscha, Parkett, 18, Zurich/ New York