Edward Joseph Ruscha is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.

Publications

1963 - Twentysix Gasoline Stations
1964 - Various Small Fires
1965 - Some Los Angeles Apartments
1966 - Every Building on the Sunset Strip
1967 - Thirtyfour Parking Lots
1967 - Royal Road Test (with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell)
1968 - Business Cards (with Billy Al Bengston)
1968 - Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass
1969 - Crackers (with Mason Williams)
1970 - Real Estate Opportunities
1970 - Babycakes with Weights
1971 - A Few Palm Trees
1971 - Records
1971 - Dutch Details
1972 - Colored People
1978 - Hard Light (with Lawrence Weiner)
2001 - ountry Cityscapes
2002 - ME and THE
2004 - Ed Ruscha and Photography (with Sylvia Wolf)
2008 - OH / NO
2010 - Dirty Baby (with Nels Cline and David Breskin)

Awards

2001 - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member of the Department of Art, after having previously received its Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund Award in 1992'.
2001 - Honorary doctorate degree from California College of the Arts
2002 - amfAR’s Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS
2004 - Honorary Royal Academician of London’s Royal Academy of Arts
2006 - The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh)
2008 - Aspen Award for Art
2008 - Honorary doctorate degree from Rhode Island School of Design
2009 - National Arts Award for Artistic Excellence
2009 - Honorary doctorate degree from San Francisco Art Institute
2013 - Named in Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world
2013 - Honored on the occasion of the Whitney Museum of American Art's annual gala event
2019 - J. Paul Getty Medal

Books from Ed RUSCHA