Education
2005 M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999 B.F.A. Painting/Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1997 B.A. Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Ruth Laskey, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2009 Six Weavings, Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin, Germany
2008 Ruth Laskey, Song Song, Vienna, Austria
2008 7 Weavings, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2004 Disarticulate, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2011 The Literal Line: Minimalism Then and Now, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
2011 New Shadow Old Legs, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2010 The Craft, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space art, Weigand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
2010 Abstract, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
2010 SOLACE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2009 Liberation Upon Contact, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2008 Dogtooth & Tessellate, The Approach, London, UK
2008 here's why patterns, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Artists of Invention : A Century
of CCA, Oakland
Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007 Blank Canvas presented by Condé Nast & 7 For All Mankind, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2007 Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2007 By Our Hands, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
2007 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
2005 Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, CA
2005 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
2004 All College Honors and Scholarship Awards Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2003 Taqueria Cancun, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Awards
2010 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2010 San Francisco Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery (GOLDIE) Award in Visual Arts
2005 Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of the Arts
2004 Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship Award, San Francisco Foundation
2004 All College Honors, First Honorable Mention, California College of the Arts
2000 Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
1999 Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of Arts and Crafts
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