Anders Herwald Ruhwald

Anders Herwald Ruhwald- a sculptor and installation artist whose practice is grounded in ceramics- lives and works between Copenhagen, Detroit and Chicago. He received his MFA at Royal College of Art in London in 2005 and has had more than 40 solo-exhibitions including Indianapolis Museum of Art (USA), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (UK), Casa Museo Jorn (Italy) and MOCA Cleveland (USA) and more than 100 group-shows at venues like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Fondation d’entreprise Richard (Paris), Denver Art Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark). In 2019 Ruhwald opened the permanent installation, “Unit 1: 3583 Dubois,” inside an apartment on Detroit’s east side. Ruhwald worked for six years on this immersive 7 room installation which considers the effects of fire in the context of the domestic and intimate. His work is represented in over 30 public collections internationally including The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Musée des Arts décoratifs (France) and The National Museum (Norway). He has held an associate professorship at the Art Institute of Chicago and was Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 2008-17.