Born 1944 in Cleveland, OH,
lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION
B.F.A. 1967; Chouinard Institute, Los Angeles, CA


EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008        
Camden Arts Centre, London

2007        
Alterations, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

2006   
Photo Works 1970-1973, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
One of Many – Origins and Variants, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee and Air de Paris, Paris
Poetry and Rearrangement, Galeria Martin Janda, Vienna

2005        
Free/Trade: Art and Poetry, greengrassi, London
Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
The Singing Posters, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Parts II & III, Karin Guenther & Nina Borgmann, Hamburg
Line Drawings, Book Pages, Games and a Puzzle, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

2004    
No, Sir, This library is mine not yours. But you may have this, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
The new five foot shelf, De Hallen, Frans Hais Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2003       
The Singing Posters, Studio Guenzani, Milan
The Singing Posters, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York

2001       
Allen Ruppersberg Drawings 1973-1980, Christine Burgin, New York
The New Five Foot Shelf, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
The Novel That Writes Itself, Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

2000       
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection To Show That We Are Nice People, Christine Burgin, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008        
Hotel California, Vallois, Paris

2007    
Who Remebers Where They Are From, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Passage Du Temps, Collection Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
If Everybody Had An Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art, Tate Museum, St. Ives, United Kingdom, Curated by Alex Farquarson

2006       
Los Angeles 1955 – 1985, Pomidou Centre, Paris

2005
Spring Summer, Program Gallery, London
A to B and back again, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris

2004       
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2003       
Raid the Icebox, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002   
To Whom It May Concern, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
JRP Editions, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Lost Past 2002 - 1941 Memorial signs for the present, Anno 02 in corporation with Stedelijke Musea Ieper, Ieper, Belgium
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Gorney Bravin Lee, New York, NY
ConArt, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK   
My Modern Summer, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001       
Chouinard: A Living Legacy, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
A Private Reading, The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Art Express: Art minimal et conceptual américain: état d’un collection’, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2000       
Allen Ruppersberg: The Novel That Writes Itself, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
Protest & Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Higgs and Paul Noble
Das Gedachtnis der Kunst, Schirn Kunsthalle and Historisches Museum, Frankfurt
LA : David Deutsch & Phil Grauer, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Rachel Khedoori, SharonLockhart, Paul McCarthy, Jason Meadows, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Allen Ruppersberg, Paul Sietsma, Frances Stark, James Welling, Monika Sprüth Gallerie, Cologne

BOOK BY ALLEN RUPPERSBERG
1997 The Best of All Possible Worlds, published for Skulptur. Projects in Münster


BIBLIOGRAPHY SOLO EXHIBITION
1996 Allen Ruppersberg: Where’s Al?, Magasin, Centre national d’ art contemporain, Grenoble, France, 19 October - 5 January 1997


AWARDS
1997 Guggenheim Fellowship, Laurenz-Hans Foundation, Basel