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Books and Catalogs


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

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

2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art.

2006 Ilaria Bonacossa. T1-Turin Triennial: The Pantagruel Syndrome. Skira Editore S.p.A.

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


Selected Articles and Reviews


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 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.

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