Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1937 and he studied painting, photography, and graphic design at the Chouinard Art Institute. His work is collected by museums worldwide and major retrospectives of his work have been organized by the San Francisco MOMA in 1982-1983, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2004-2005), and in 2009 Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting opened at the Hayward Gallery, London, which traveled to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (both 2010). Ed Ruscha lives and works in Los Angeles.