Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby is an American artist born in 1972 on a military base in Bitburg, Germany, to an American father and a Dutch mother. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where early exposure to Amish quilt-making and Pennsylvania redware pottery shaped his interest in craft traditions. Ruby works across a wide range of media, including spray-paint canvases, glazed ceramics, poured polyurethane sculptures, textile collages, and video, often presented in densely packed installations. He operates a 120,000-square-foot studio complex in Vernon, Los Angeles, with specialized departments for each medium, including three car kilns for his monumental ceramics.