Solo Exhibitions
2024
Ruth Laskey: Loops & Circles, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2022
Ruth Laskey: Circles, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK
2021
Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2018
Ruth Laskey & Josh Brand, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show)
2016
Quadrants, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
2014
Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2010
Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2009
Six Weavings, Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin, Germany
2008
Song Song, Vienna, Austria
7 Weavings, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2004
Disarticulate, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2019
From Narrow Provinces, Cample Line, Scotland
2017
A line can go anywhere, James Cohan, New York, NY
Stitch, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2016
Ruth Laskey, Ara Peterson, Noam Rappaport, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Confluence/Influence: Mingei in Contemporary Abstraction, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2015
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - Present, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (Traveled: Des Moines Art Center, IA)
2014
Fiber: Sculpture 1960 - Present, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Color Shift, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2013
Threaded Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2012
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Christopher Baird, Todd Bura, Ruth Laskey, Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
2010 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Figures in Space, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany
A Terrible Beauty is Born, 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
The Literal Line: Minimalism Then and Now, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
New Shadow Old Legs, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2010
The Craft, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Weigand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
Abstract, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
SOLACE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2009
Liberation Upon Contact, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2008
Dogtooth & Tessellate, The Approach, London, UK
here's why patterns, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Artists of Invention : A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
By Our Hands, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
Four Generations of Women at CCA, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006
Material World, Alliance Francaise, San Francisco, CA
2005
The Sleight of Hand, the Artist's Touch, Linc Art, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
New American Paintings: M.F.A. Annual, Open Studios Press, Wellesly, MA
2004
Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, S.F. Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Taqueria Cancun, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Education
M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2005
B.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1999
B.A. Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997
Awards
Artadia Award, San Francisco, 2016
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2010
San Francisco Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery (GOLDIE) Award in Visual Arts, 2010
Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of the Arts, 2005
Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship Award, San Francisco Foundation, 2004
All College Honors, First Honorable Mention, California College of the Arts, 2004
Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2000
Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1999
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