Ruth Marten

Geboren in New York, lebt und arbeitet in New York

Ruth Marten

Geboren in New York, lebt und arbeitet in New York

Ruth Marten
The Burden of Beauty, 2025
ink, watercolor, 18th century engraving, 24,5 x 19,4 cm

Ruth Marten
The Golden Antilope, 2025
ink, watercolor, 18th century engraving, 27,7 x 21,2 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
A Japanese Antilope, 2025
ink, watercolor, 18th century engraving, 27,7 x 21,2 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
Oh! Rainy Day, 2025
ink, watercolor, 18th century engraving, 27,7 x 21,2 cm

Ruth Marten
Zeitgeist, 2025
ink, watercolor, 18c. engraving, 27,7 x 21,2 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 81, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
No 90 from the series "All about Eve", 2025
gouache on photogravure from 1923, image 22,8 x 16,8 cm on 30,3 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 92, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 16,9 x 22,9 cm on 29,5 x 23,4 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 80, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,8 x 16,9 cm on 30,5 23,2 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 93, 2026
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 91, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm
Sold

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 84, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 83, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,5 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
No 5 from the series "All about Eve", 2022
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 87, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,8 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
"All about Eve", No 79, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 14,9 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
No 45 from the series "All about Eve", 2024
Gouache on heliogravure, 31 x 24 cm

Ruth Marten
No 44 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
SOLD

Ruth Marten
Untitled, 2025
Gouache on photogravure, 22,7 x 16,8 cm on 30,5 x 23 cm

Ruth Marten
No 56 from the series "All about Eve", 2024
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 57 from the series "All about Eve", 2024
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 46 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 54 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
SOLD

Ruth Marten
No 52 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 4 from the series "All about Eve", 2022
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 37 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache with vintage heliogravure cut-out, ca. 25,2 x 36,5 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 36 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 35 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 22 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 20 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 19 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 14 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 33 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 31 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 30a from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 29 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 28 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 27 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 26 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 25 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 24b from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 23 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 21b from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 21a from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 12 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 15 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 62 from the series "All about Eve", 2024
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 61 from the series "All about Eve", 2024
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 53 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 11 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 9 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 10 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Ruth Marten
No 13 from the series "All about Eve", 2023
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm
sold

Ruth Marten
No 3 from the series "All about Eve", 2022
Gouache on vintage heliogravure, ca. 31 x 23,8 cm

Bob 2019
Gouache on archival print
55,9 x 91,8 cm

Island Girl 2022
Collage & gouache on paper
63,5 x 43,5 cm

Children and Fools, 2022
watercolor and collage on 18th century print
38,1 x 23,5 cm

The Prodigy 2022
Gouache on photoengraving
17,5 x 16,5 cm

Illumination 2019
Gouache on archival print
81,2 x 50,2 cm

My 20th Century 2019
Gouache on archival print
86,5 x 55,9 cm

Green Man 2014
Colored pencil and watercolor on 19c. lithograph
74 x 50,5 cm

Proud Man, 2019
Walnut Ink on archival print
80 x 50,8 cm

Furnishing, 2016
Watercolor, ink and collage on 18th century print, 31 x 26,5 cm

Ruth Marten
Hommage to Sibylla Marian, 2022
Aquarell auf Druckgrafik aus dem 18. Jh, 19 x 23 cm

The female gaze, 2020
Watercolor and collage on 18th century print
25,4 x 18,3 cm

Exhibition View Ruth Marten, All About Eve, Dec 2024 - April 2025
@ Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Foto: Thomas Merzenich

Exhibition View Ruth Marten, All About Eve, Dec 2024 - April 2025
@ Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Foto: Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

Curriculum Vitae

	Born in New York / US
1967	High School of Art and Design, New York / US
1971	Graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / US
Current	Lives and works in New York / US

Grants and awards

1999	Anonymous Was a Woman, New York

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2025	All About Eve, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach /DE
2024	All About Eve, co-curated by Laura Ten Eyck and Ken Buhler, Argosy Book Store, New York /USA
	Pixerina Witcherina, Curated by Julie Heffernan, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, New York / USA
	All About Eve, part I, Project Space @ National Arts Club, New York / USA
2021	The Moon’s Mirror, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE
2019	Afterlife, My 20th Century, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE
2018-19	Dream Lover, Max-Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl / DE
2017	The Birds, John Marchant Gallery & Eagle Gallery, London / UK/ DE
2016	Fountains & Alligators, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE
2013	The Unvarnished Truth, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE
2012	A Treasure Hunt in a Lazare House, Isis Gallery, London / UK
	Strange Bedfellows, Hosfelt Gallery, New York / US
2011	New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York / US
2009	Side-Saddle, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco / US
2008	Histore un-Naturelle, Isis Gallery, London / UK
2003	Red Planet, New Painting by Ruth Marten, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
1999	The Hurricane Series, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York / US
1997	The Wavy Bang, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York / US
1988	Bockley Gallery, New York / US

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2022	The Schuh Show, Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln / DE
2018/2019	A Sight to Behold, Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln, / DE
2017/2018	What's New? Recent Acquisitions, New York Public Library, Wachenheim Gallery, New York / USA
2017/2018	Wiesenstück, Van der Grinten galerie, Köln / DE
	Wunderkammer, Emma Hill Fine Art Eagle Gallery, London / UK
2017	Erwarten Sie Wunder! Das Museum als Kuriositätenkabinett und Wunderkammer, Ulmer Museum / DE
	Wiesenstück, Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne / DE
	Tattooed New York, New-York Historical Society, New York / USA
2014	Reality Sandwich, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne / DE
	Holding it Together – Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco / US
2010/2011	Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion and Anthropomorphism, Kohler Arts Center, NY / US
2010	Surreal Reinventions, (with John Hundt), Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto / US
2009–2010	New Drawings, Arin Contemporary, Laguna Beach / US
2009	789 Gallery Beijing, Comme des Garcons graphics installation / CN
	Hair Stories, Halsey Institute, Charleston / US
	Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot , Germany (travelled throughout Germany) / DE
2008	100 Stories, Hosfelt Gallery, New York / US
	Fine Line, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
	On Line, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY / US
2007	Drawn To The Edge, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
2006	Under The Skin, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville / USA
	Twice Drawn, The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs / USA
2005	Idols of Perversity, Bellwether, New York / USA
	Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT / US
	Words in Pictures, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
2004	Merry, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn / US
	Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York / US
	Mindscapes, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York / US
	Headgames, Revolution, Ferndale / US
2003	Word Works, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
	New Work, New Acquisitions, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
	40 x 40, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
	Double Visions, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
2002	Hair Stories, curated by Ruth Marten, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
2000	Summer Show, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York / US
	Quirky, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York / US
1999	Marks of Identity, American Museum of Natural History, New York / US
	Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City / US
	Shy, curated by Nan Goldin, Artists Space, New York / US
1978	Punk Art Exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC / USA
1977	X' Biennale de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris / FR
1970	Crafts '70, Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts / USA

Ruth Marten « Dream Lover“ Retrospektive (Trailer) @ Marx Ernst Museum, Germany

„Ruth Marten – Dream Lover“ 14.10.2018 – 24.02.2019 Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, anläßlich des 70. Geburtstag der Künstlerin

Dream Lover

Trailer, 2018

2019	Book: Ruth Marten, Afterlife, My 20th Century, published by Van der Grinten Galerie, Verlag Kettler, 2019
2018	Book: Ruth Marten, Dream Lover, published by Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR (editor Achim Sommer), Wienand Verlag, Köln, 2018
2016	Book: Ruth Marten, Fountains & Alligators, published by Van der Grinten Galerie & BEL EPOK, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, 2016
2013	Book: Ruth Marten, The Unvarnished Truth, published by Van der Grinten Galerie, Stefan Schülke Verlag Köln, 2013
	Weird Fiction Review, 04/2013: The Subversive, Surreal and Irrepressibly Weird World of Ruth Marten, by Katie Lavers
2009	Hautnah – Das Haar in Kunst und Kultur, Museum Villa Rot
	Trunk Volumen One: Hair, Boccalatte Pty. Ltd
	Haare, Herlinde Koelbl, Hatje Cantz
2008	Carlo McCormack, Paper Magazine, April, 2008 New York
2007	Ruth Marten – Histoire-un-Naturelle, (w. essays by Dominque Nahas & Roger P. Thomas) Isis Editions, London
2004	Paul Klee and the Decorative Modern Art, Jenny Anger
2001	Tenderheaded, Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson
1999	ohnson, Ken, “Ruth Marten at Littlejohn Contemporary.” The New York Times, Oct 22, 1999. Exhibition review
	The New Yorker, Oct. 1999, Exhibition review