Anders Herwald Ruhwald
Work inquiryAbout the artist
Anders Herwald Ruhwald (b. 1974 in Randers, Denmark) lives and works in Denmark. Anders Herwald Ruhwald is a Danish visual artist working with contemporary ceramics and sculptural installation. Ruhwald is known for working with installation and sculpture, often using ceramics as a key element. Ruhwald is drawn to clay for its ubiquity, as well as its dual applications in both design and sculpture. He usually employs both of these histories in his work, while challenging traditional perceptions of the material and its spatial implications.
He has spent the past 20 years living in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2024, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York and has had more than 35 solo exhibitions and 150 group exhibitions at museums and galleries across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
His work has been widely covered by international media including Sightunseen, Forbes, Artspace, Hyperallergic, Contemporary Art Review and Louisiana Channel.
Education
2005
Royal College of Art, London, UK
2000
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Copenhagen, DK
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Lithium Bliss, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Plant Works, Moran Moran Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2024
In the Woods, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
2023
Maybe the Sun is Tired too, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, US
2022
This the Living Vessel: Body, Moran Moran Gallery, Mexico City
Ruhwald vs. Stålhane, Rian Design Museum, SE
2021
None of these Shapes are Inevitable, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2020
Century Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, US
2019
Unit 1: 3583 Dubois St, Permanent installation in Detroit, MI
The Vessel is a Body is a Scull is a Mask, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
2018
The Hand is the Mind is the Bomb that Blows, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Canada
The Body, The Mind, This Constructed World, Casa Museo Asger Jorn, Albissola Marina, IT
The Thing in Your Mind, Officine Saffi, Milano, IT
2017
The Hand is the Mind is the Bomb that Blows, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, US
Glasur Stykker, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
2016
Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, MOCA Cleveland, 2
2015
The Charred Room, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
2014
The View from the Sides of my Nose, Galleri Format, Oslo, NO
You in between, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
One Thing Follows Another (and you make it happen), The Agnes Varis Art Center, Urban Glass, New York, US
Almost everything, Harrison Gallery, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia,US
2013
The View from the Sides of my Nose, Galerie NeC, Hong Kong
One thing follows the other (and you make it happen), The David Owsley Museum of Art, US
The Anatomy of a Home, Saarinen House, Cranbrook Art Museum, US
2012
Borderline, Galerie NeC, Paris, FR
You will see, Copenhagen Ceramics,, Copenhagen, DK
2011
You will see, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale (Detroit), MI
2010
Temperance!, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, US
2009
Almost nothing, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, US
Nästan Allting, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, SE
2008
You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Anders Ruhwald 2004-07, Espace Grandjean, Vallauris, FR
One is never so close to change when life seems unbearable in even the smallest and most everyday things, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, US
Form & Function, Sixpm Project Space, London, UK
2007
We Float in space and cannot perceive the new order, M.Y. Artprospects, New York, US
Form & Function, Gallery IngerMolin, Stockholm, SE
If all mans products were well designed, joy and harmony would emerge eternally triumphant, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Frictions, John Michael Kohler Art Center, US
2005
Frictions, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, US
2004
The State of Things, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, SE
The State of Things, Design Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
New Work, Galleri Puls, Bruxelles, BE
New Work, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, DK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Kunst, Hånd, Værk, Nasjonal Museet, Oslo, NO
2024
Muda#10, Casa Museo Asger Jorn, Albisola, IT
Craft Front and Center, Museum of Art & Design, New York, US
2023
Slip Tease, Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
Argilos, Carvan Gallery, Athens, Greece
Private Quarters IV, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US2
2022
Chart in Tivoli, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, DK
BornholmsmalereTur Retur, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, DK
2021
Travel as Tool, Museum Vandalorum, SE
Vessels, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, US
Objects USA, R&Company, New York, US
Clay is Life, Clay Museum, Middlefart, DK 20
2020
Travel as Tool, Design Museum Helsinki, Finland
The Body The Object The Other, Craft Contemporary, US
Main Dishes, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
2019
Morfologia della Meravigle, Officine Saffi, Puglia, IT
Summer, Friedman Benda, New York, US
Form Will Find its Way, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, US
Perfect Darkness, Officine Saffi, Milan, IT
Ceramic Momentum, Clay Museum, Middlefart, DK
2018
Objects to Identify, Moran Moran Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Under the Night Sky, Friedman Benda and Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, US
PremioFaenza, The International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, IT
From The Studio, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, US
Private Quarters, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
Transformations, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, US
At Large, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, US
2017
Hill People, Darrow Contemporary, Aspen, CO
Danish Design Now, Design Museum, Copenhagen, DK
Mindnight Special, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
Mindcraft, San Simpliciano, Milan, IT
2016
War Games, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Moran Moran Gallery, Detroit, US
Fireworks, Gallery SO, London, UK
One from Each, Paris London Hong Kong Gallery, Chicago, US
Copenhagen Ceramics, Galleria Salvatore Lanteri, Milan, IT
2015
Showing off: Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, US
Fusion: Three Views/One Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, US
2014
Material Matters, Cave Gallery, US
The Crystal Chain, Volume Gallery, Chicago, US
Crafting a continuum, Boise Art Museum, US
Things about things, Two person show with Stephen Rehber, Three Walls, Chicago, US
Nocturnal Labyrinth, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, US
2013
Crafting a continuum, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, US
Summer show, Wasserman Projects, Birmingham, US
Group Show d’ete, Gallerie Nillson et Chiglien, Paris, FR
2012
Metadomestic, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Biennale Internationale de Vallauris, FR
Scanceram, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring, DK
Decade, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, US
Here and there, The Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, US
No object is an island, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, US
Forty for Forty, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, US
2011
Echo Chamber, Schein-Joseph International Museum, New York, US
Metadomestic, Landesgalerie, Linz, AT
Gyeonggi International Biennale 2011, Icheon Ceramic Center, Icheon City, South Korea
Graft, Galleri Format, Oslo, NO
Overthrown, Denver Art Museum, US
Fortællespor, Grimmerhus, Middelfart, DK
The Shape of Things to Come, Vertigo Gallery, Denver, US
Interiors, Miyako Yoshinga Art Prospects, New York, US
WANI, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
You will see, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, US
2010
Kabinett 3, Devening Projects, Chicago, US
På tværs, St. Hof, Ny Tap- Carlsberg, Copenhagen, DK
Korero, Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Spark!, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, US
2009
Homewreckage, Devening Editions and projects, Chicago, US
The illusion of reality, Bomuldfabrikkens Kunsthall, NO
That was then, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NO
Our Objects, Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, UK
Summer Action 1, Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, FR
Dissolving views, The Cheongju Biennale, Korea
Prospection and perspectives, Favadin & de Verneuil, Paris, FR
Irreverant, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Maxmultiple, Devening Projects & Editions, Chicago, US
65th Scripps College Annual, Claremont, US
The Margins, The Icehouse, Phoenix, US
Down to earth, Cultuurcentrum Stroembeek, Grimbergen, BE
Our Objects, Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Summermix, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, US
Everyday, Galleri Nordsu, Helsinki, FI
Mindcraft, FuoriSalone, Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, IT
2007
Everyday, National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, NO
RCA, Bank of America, Canary Warf, London, UK
Func Art, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Places, University of Art and Design, Halle Burg, DE
Facts and Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, NL
Places, Contemporary Applied Art, London, UK
Present 2007, Bomuldfabrikens Kunsthall, Arndal, NO
2006
Facts and Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, NL
How to Love Juicy Jam and Jacks, Drud & Køppe Gallery, DK
Places, Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, AT
40 European Ceramic Artists, Cassius Clay, Bornholm, DK
Salon d’Hiver, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, SE
Danish- Framing the future of Design, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin, DE
Keramik under jorden - över Jord, Blås og Knåda, Stockholm, SE
2005
54th Premio Faenza, Faenza, IT
Danish- Framing the future of design, DDC, Copenhagen, DK
New Danish Ceramics, Museum De Tiendschuu, Tegelen, NL
The Autumn Exhibition,, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
My Room, Sophienholm, Copenhagen, DK
Conversation Pieces, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, DK
Strata, Skulpturen Hus, Stockholm, SE
Contain Memory, The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London, UK
Like Nowhere Else, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004
Generations, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Made in Scandinavia, Rikutstillingerne, Norway (2004-06)
Stuff. Ingenuity and Critique., Harbour Front Center, Toronto, Canada
Ceramics Underground, Bunker nr. 73, Copenhagen, DK
Pays invité Le Danemark, La Borne, FR
Keramiske veje, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
2003
Scandinavian Design Beyond The Myth, Museums in Berlin, Budapest, Milan, Prague, Genz and more, (2003-2005)
The 1st International Taiwan Ceramics Biennial, Taipei County
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
The 6th International Ceramics Biennial, Museo De Manises, ES
The 2nd World Ceramics Biennial, Icheon, Korea
Derfor, Paustian, Copenhagen, DK
Bare Boundaries, Museum of Decorative Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Talente, Handwerkskammer, Munich, DE
2002
DK/SA Project, Claymuseum, Capetown, Gallery Thompson, Johannesburg, Rep. of South Africa
Made in Scandinavia, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NO
The 2002 Biennial, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, DK
The XIV Panevezys Ceramics Symposium, Civic Art Gallery, Panevezys, Lithuania
Nordic Network, Gallery Reykjavik, Iceland and Grimmerhus
Museum, Middelfart, Denmark
2001
On The Birthpot, Ruhwaldruhwald, Copenhagen, DK
Finery and Embellishment, Ruhwaldruhwald, Copenhagen, DK
The Boleslawiec International Sculpture Symposium, Miesen in Germany, and Boleslawiec, Legnica, Wroclaw in Poland
2000
Possession, The Applied Art Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
The Altec Ceramics Biennale, Johannesburg, Rep. of South Africa
1998
K.E., Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, DK
1995
Poly-arte, Rungstedgaard, Rungsted, DK
Collections
Part of public collection
The Art Institute of Chicago, US
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, US
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, US
The Detroit Institute of Art, US
The Cranbrook Art Museum, US
The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, US
The Denver Art Museum, US
The Museum of Art and Design, New York, US
The Arizona State University Art Museum, US
The John Michael Kohler Art Center, US
The David Owsley Museum, US
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
The British Crafts Council, UK
Musee des Arts decoratifs, Paris, FR
Musee Magnelli, Vallauris, FR
Collection de Sèvres – Cité de la céramique, Paris, FR
The National Museum of Art, NO
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO
National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, NO
Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland
The Swedish National Museum,
The Swedish Council for the Arts,
The Röhsska Museum, SE
The Art Museum of Bornholm, DK
The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts,
The Danish Arts Council,
The Danish Ceramicsmuseum, Guldagergård
Clay, Middelfart, DK
The Artcouncil of Westerpark, NL
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
The Association of Potters of South Africa,
Prizes and awards
2025
Appreciation Award, The Danish National Bank Foundation, DK
2024
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, US
2011
Gold prize, Gyeonggi International Biennale, South Korea
2007
The Sotheby Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2005
The Anni and Otto Johs. Detlefs' award for young experimental ceramic artists,
2001
1st. Prize, The Biennial, The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, DK
Grants
2025
Project Grant, The Danish Art Foundation,
2018
Annie og Otto Detlefs Almennyttige Fond,
The Danish Art Foundation,
2017
The Graham Foundation,
The Danish Art Foundation,
2016
The Graham Foundation,
2015
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,
2014
The Danish Art Foundation,
2010
The Danish Art Foundation’s three-year working stipend,
2009
The Ole Haslunds Artist Fund,
The Danish Art Foundation,
2008
The Henry Moore Foundation,
The Danish Art Foundation,
The Danish National Bank’s Anniversary Foundation of 1968,
2007
The Danish Art Foundation,
2006
Danish Crafts,
The Danish Swedish Foundation,
Danish Cultural Ministry Travelgrant,
2005
The Danish Art Foundation, Travelgrant,
Teaching
2023
Associate Professor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
2018-2022
Professor II, National Academy of Art, Oslo, NO
2008-2017
Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, US
2007-2008
Associate Professor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
2007
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, US
2006
Assistant Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, CA
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Sat: 11:00 – 15:00
Sun-Tue: Closed