Background
Allen Ruppersberg was born on March 1, 1944, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
Santa Clarita, California, United States
Allen Ruppersberg graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1967.
Santa Clarita, California, United States
Allen Ruppersberg graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1967.
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Allen Ruppersberg was born on March 1, 1944, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
Ruppersberg became fascinated with animation and commercial art after visiting Disneyland as a young boy. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles where he struck up significant relationships with notable artists such as John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha. He graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
In 1969, two years after earning his BFA, Allen Ruppersberg staged his first solo show, a conceptual act of dislocation called "Location Piece". He participated in the 1969 exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form," and is recognized as a seminal practitioner of installation art, having produced works including "Al's Cafe" (1969), Al's Grand Hotel" (1971) and "The Novel that Writes Itself" (1978). Ruppersberg currently lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City.
Allen Ruppersberg is the winner of several prestigious prizes such as National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1982) and Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.
His work has been the subject of over sixty solo exhibitions and nearly two hundred group shows such as When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Bern, 1969; Documenta V, 1972; Biennale de Lyon, 1996, etc.
Ruppersberg's work can be found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Le Fonds Ronal d’Art, etc.
