Sterling Ruby
About the Artist
Sterling Ruby is an American multi-disciplinary artist. Sterling Ruby was born in 1972 in Bitburg, Germany. Sterling Ruby currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Sterling Ruby is well known for his layered ceramic work, large canvases, urethane sculptures, nail polish sketches, collage and films.
Sterling Ruby’s work stands on its own as an intensive form of power that attacks the mediums he engages in and society at the same time. Through examining the world of those that exist at the outskirts, marginalized populations, graffiti, war, the occult and prison his works explodes into new frontiers.
Works in our Collection
Sterling Ruby
(Mapping) Maybeline
Wetshine Cherry Rain
2005
Nail Polish and sharpie
pen on card
32 x 40 inches
On loan to the Belvedere Museum, Vienna from 2013 - Present
Sterling Ruby
SP180
2011
Spray paint on canvas
145 x 213 x 2 inches
On loan to the Belvedere Museum, Vienna from 2013 - Present