Anders Herwald Ruhwald (born 1974 in Denmark) is a sculptor and installation artist whose practice is grounded in ceramics. He lives and works between Copenhagen and Chicago and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005.
Solo exhibitions include Century Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA (2020); The Anatomy of a Home at Saarinen House, Detroit, (2012), You in Between at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2008) and more than 35 gallery and museum solo-shows and over 120 group-exhibitions around the world.
His work is represented in over 25 public collections internationally including The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Musée des Arts décoratifs (France), The Art Institute of Chicago, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, LACMA (USA), The National Museum (Sweden) and The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark),
He has was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York (2024), The Gold Prize at the Gyeonggi International Biennale, South Korea, (2011) and The Sotheby Prize in London (2007).
Ruhwald has taught at several universities and has held an associate professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2008-2017 he was the Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA.
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