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Harry Ransom Lecture: Ed Ruscha

Presented by Harry Ransom Center at AT&T Conference Center

April 2, 2009

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As part of the Harry Ransom Lectures, artist Ed Ruscha discusses his life and work on Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. at the AT&T Conference Center Amphitheatre, located at 1900 University Avenue. Seating is free, but limited. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. This event will be webcast at www.hrc.utexas.edu/webcast. Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to attend the Chouinard Art Institute. He had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. He currently shows with the Gagosian Gallery in New York, Beverly Hills, and London. Encompassing photography, drawing, painting, and artists’ books, Ruscha’s work has been the subject of retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1983), the Centre Georges Pompidou (1989), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2000). In 2001, Ruscha was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member of the Department of Art. The following year a major exhibition of Ruscha’s work opened in Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Leave Any Information at the Signal, a volume of Ruscha’s writings, was published by MIT Press in 2002. The Harry Ransom Lectures honor former University of Texas Chancellor Harry Ransom and highlight the Ransom Center’s vital role in the University’s intellectual and cultural life. The program brings internationally renowned writers, artists, and scholars to Austin for a public event and conversations with University students. The lectures are made possible by the generous support of the University Co-operative Society.