Small School presents Anders Ruhwald

This event is part of the Small School fall visiting artist lecture series at the NCMA.

About the lecturer
Anders Ruhwald (born 1974, Denmark) is a sculptor and installation artist whose practice is grounded in ceramics. He lives and works in Detroit and Chicago and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. He’s had more than 30 gallery and museum solo exhibitions, including Century Garden, Indianapolis Museum of Art (2020); The Anatomy of a Home, Saarinen House (2012); and You in Between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2008). Ruhwald has also participated in more than 100 group exhibitions around the world. His work is represented in over 25 public collections internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts.

Ruhwald has lectured and taught at universities in Europe and North America and has held an associate professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2008 to 2017 he was the head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He was a visiting professor at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo, Norway, from 2018 to 2022.

Image: Courtesy of the artist