Born in New York City
Lives and works in Ojai and Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1993 M.F.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY; 1990-1993
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Independent Residency Grant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1987-1988
1987 B.F.A., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, New York, NY; 1984-1987
State University of New York College at Purchase, NY; 1982-1984
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2023 Light as Air, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
2022 Inner Eye, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Ruth Pastine: ONE, 2, 3, 4, Quint Gallery ONE, La Jolla, CA
2020 Spectrum Depths, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Depths, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Ruth Pastine: Depths, Pop-Up Exhibition Curated by Emily Friedman Fine Art, Ochi Projects, LA
2019 Sublime Terror, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Sequence at Expo Chicago, Solo Booth Presentation, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Chicago, IL
BroadBands, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA
Ruth Pastine In Residence, The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2017 Mirroring, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Matter of Light, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Witness, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2016 Matter of Light, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2015 The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Ruth Pastine: Present Tense, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper 2010-2015, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2014 Mind’s Eye: Sense Certainty, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Ruth Pastine: Attraction 1993-2013, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2013 Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2012 Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS continued
2012 Imminence, Primary Color Series and Secondary Color Series Paintings, Quintenz Gallery, Aspen, CO
2011 Immaterial Matters, Primary Red Blue Series Paintings & Pastel Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA CA
Conquer Surrender, Green Orange Violet Secondary Color Series Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Transcendent Boundaries, Paintings: 1997-2011, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Present Fugitive, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series Paintings, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
2009 Limitless, Red Green Series Paintings, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Phase and Shifting, Gray Series Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 Convergence, Saturated Red Blue Series Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Ever Present, Saturated Red Blue Series Paintings, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
2007 Black Light, Red Green, Blue Orange, and Yellow Violet Series Paintings, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Ruth Pastine: Focus on the Masters, Documentary Series and Exhibition, Brooks Institute, Ventura, CA
2004 Luminesce Red Green, Equivalence Red Green & Sameness & Difference Series, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
2003 Expedition, Yellow Violet Double Square Series, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2000 Yellow Magenta Violet Series, Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Yellow Magenta Series Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Red Green Series and Yellow Magenta Series Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 New Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1998 Ray Paintings: Blue Orange Violet Series, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Ray Paintings: Blue Yellow Violet Series, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1996 Mergings, New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
East Meets West, New Paintings, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1993 Diffusion Paintings, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
1987 Arc Paintings, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
2025 Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 Women Making History, CGBF + Ojai Institute, Ojai, CA
Pazo Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Endless Summer, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued
2023 California Art: Contemporary Art Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, CSUN Main Art Gallery,
California State University Northridge, CA
Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2022 The Technological Sublime: Works by Beverly Fishman, Rockne Krebs & Ruth Pastine, Pazo Fine Art,
Kensington, MD
Pattern I Nature, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2022 GESTURE/COLOR/FORM, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
We Are LA: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Framed, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
I Love the Light in California, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Inner Eye, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 It’s All About Light, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, High Line Nine, New York, NY
Light, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
The Light of Space, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Calm, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Between Worlds, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Accrochage 2019, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Made in California, Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery,
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles Painting, Curated by Cooper Johnson, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Simply Red, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Fierce Generosity 2.0, Curated by Frederick Janka, Burnet Fine Art, Wayzata, MN
Paintings from the Interior, curated by Andi Campognone, Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA
2018 Water and Light, Ochi Gallery & Emily Friedman Fine Art, Ketchum, ID
North / South: California Art, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Art on Paper, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Sublime Abstraction, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2017 Between Two Worlds: Art of California, Light, Space, and Quality Air, Curated by Gary Garrels, Nancy Lim, Janet Bishop, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, August 5, 2017 – February 5, 2018.
California Dreaming: Contemporary Art from the Weisman Art Foundation, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Curated by Billie Milam Weisman, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
California Connections: Selections from The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Center for the Arts,
Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA
LA Painting: Formalism to Street Art, Curated by Andi Campognone, Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, MO
Spectral Hues: artists + color, Guest curated by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
On the Road: American Abstraction, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 MOAH Collection 30th Anniversary: Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Color: Stained, Brushed and Poured, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ruth Pastine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued
2016 L.A. Today, Curated by Carl Schlosberg, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Light, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Color and Light, Art in Embassies (AIE), U.S. Embassy, Panama City, Panama
Replay: Gallery Selections, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Curated by Billie Milam Weisman, Mana
Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Holiday Group Show 2015, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Curated by Billie Milam Weisman, Mana
Wynwood, Miami, FL
RE-OP: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After – Visual Perception Today, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
San Diego Collects, MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Minimalist Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Is it… Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Unbound, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Black + Blue, KM Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA
Is it… Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Surface to Edge, Curated by Carl F. Berg, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2014 A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Black and White: Reductive and Conceptual Art, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Colorimetry, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Convergence, Ruth Pastine and Marietta Patricia Leis, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
2013 Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Spring Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2012 Collectors Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Transcending Abstraction lll, Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Cool Calm Collected, Danese, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Selections, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Summer Pop, Edward Cella Art + Architecture @ Ilan Dei Studio, Venice, CA
Next Generation, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Transcending Abstraction ll: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Accrochage 2012, Celebrating 21 Years, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Transcending Abstraction: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 The Gleam in the Young Bastard’s Eye, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California Contemporary, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Art in Public Places, Peter Blake Gallery, Riviera Art Space, Newport Beach, CA
Latitude 34-40, Los Angeles incontra Napoli, Art 1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy
Winter Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued
2010 Sulle Tracce di Luca Giordano, Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Fresh Figures & Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
In House, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2009 QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA
Accrochage 2009, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Non- Objective Object, Four Abstract Painters, California State University Channel Islands Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2008 Supermarket, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
15 Years 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
History is Now, Photographic Portraits by Donna Granata, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Thousand Oaks, CA
2007 X Invitational, California State University Channel Islands, SCIART, Camarillo, CA
2006 Transformative, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
2005 Good Clean Fun, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Installations, Yellow Violet Paintings, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Summer Sensation, White Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2004 Inaugural Exhibition: Celebrating 23 Years, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Grand Opening Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2002 Breathing Room: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Signals, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
Crossover, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan
2001 Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Monochrome/Monochrome? Curated by Lilly Wei, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2000 Abstraction: Form to Field, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
(In)tangible, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Overcast, Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA
1999 Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Core, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Sudden Incandescence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
1998 4th Annual Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery Artists, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Jewel Box Project, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Portrait, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
10 Year Anniversary Group Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Ruth Pastine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued
1998 What’s on The Wall, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
1997 Abstraction Index, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Art Without Curves, Invitational, Phoenix, AZ
Benefit Exhibition, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
On the Wall- Current Expressions in Contemporary Art, TIAA/CREF, New York, NY
Presentational Painting II, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Pools of Light, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY
1996 A Large Show of Small Works, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Formal Abstraction/New York, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Places of the Imagination, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
Summer 1996, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Vulnerability, The Dahn Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Outreach Alumni 2, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1993 MFA Selection, Wexler Library, Hunter College, New York, NY
1991 Voorhees Painting Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
1987 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Grumbacher Emerging Artists Exhibition 1987, National Arts Club, New York, NY and National Traveling Exhibition
National Arts Club Annual Art Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1986 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Group Show, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1985 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1984 Annual Exhibition, State University of New York College at Purchase, NY
Small Works Exhibition, State University of New York College at Purchase, NY
1983 Annual Exhibition, State University of New York College at Purchase, NY
1982 Honorary Group Exhibition, School Art League of New York City, NY
Honorary Award Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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PUBLIC WORKS & COMMISSIONS
2019 Circle Square Diamond, Blue Series, United Airlines Polaris Lounge, LAX, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Blue Light, Painting Installation, Tarsadia Investments Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA
2015 Square Diamond Triptych, Painting Installation, CIM Group Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Counterpoint Installation, Proskauer, Washington, DC
2009 Limitless, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series, North and South Lobby Public Painting Commission Installation,
Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS/HONORS
2023 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., permanent collection acquisition
2021 MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, permanent collection acquisition
2019 United Airlines Polaris Lounge, LAX, Los Angeles, CA, permanent collection acquisition
2018 Ruth Pastine in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2017 SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, permanent collection acquisition and exhibition
Blue Light, Painting Installation, Tarsadia Investments Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA
2016 MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, permanent collection acquisition and exhibitions
MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, permanent collection acquisition and exhibitions
Square Diamond Triptych Installation, CIM Group Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, permanent collection acquisition
2015 Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, permanent collection acquisition and traveling exhibitions
Ruth Pastine: Present Tense, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper 2010-2015, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2014 Ruth Pastine: Attraction 20-year survey curated by Andi Campognone, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History,
Lancaster, CA
2013 Proskauer, Washington, DC, permanent collection acquisition
PIMCO, Global Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA, permanent collection acquisition
2012 De Young Museum, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, permanent
collection acquisition
2010 Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, permanent collection acquisition
2009 Limitless, North and South Lobby Public Painting Installation Commission, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
2000 The Shifting Foundation Matching Grant
1999 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant
1993 Hunter College Graduate Study Award
1992 Hunter College Graduate Study Award
Esther Fish Perry Scholarship Award, Hunter College
1990 Harriet Rutter Eagleson Scholarship Award, Hunter College
1987 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Independent Residency Grant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Cooper Union, Independent Residency Study Abroad Grant
Grumbacher Emerging Artist Award, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1984 Four Year Scholarship, The Cooper Union
1982 Alexander Medal, Merit in Art, School Art League of New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Award and Exhibition inclusion