Anders Ruhwald, born 1974 in Randers, Denmark
Lives and works in London, UK and Detroit, USA

Solo Exhibitions
Almost nothing, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2009
Nästan Allting, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
You in between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2008-9
Anders Ruhwald: Recent work 2004-07, Espace Grandjean, Vallauris, France
One is never so close to change when life seem unbearble even in the smallest and most everyday things, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, 2008
Form & Function, sixpm project space, London, United Kingdom, 2008
We float in space and cannot percieve the new order, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, USA, 2007
Form & Function, Galleri IngerMolin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
If all man's products were well designed, harmony and joy would emerge eternally triumphant, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, 2007
Frictions, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA, 2007-06
Frictions, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, USA, 2005
The State of Things, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004
The State of Things, The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, 2004
New Work, Galleri Puls, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2003
New Work, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003

Selected Group Exhibitions
The illusion of reality, Bomuldfabrikkens Kunsthall, Norway, 2009
That was then, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, 2009
Our Objects, Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, UK, 2009
Summer Action 1, Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France, 2009
Dissolving views, The Cheongju Biennale, Korea, 2009.
Our Objects, Hillsborough Court House, Northern Ireland, 2009
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA, 2009
Prospection and perspectives, Favadin & de Verneuil, Paris, 2009
Irreverant, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, 2009
Maxmultiple, Devening Projects & Editions, Chicago, USA, 2009
65th Scripps College Annual, Claremont, CA, USA, 2009
Down to earth, Cultuurcentrum Stroembeek, Grimbergen, 2009
Our Objects, Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2009
Summer Mix, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI, USA, 2008
Everydaylife, Galleria Norsu, Helsinki, Finland, 2008
Mindcraft, FuoriSalone, Milan Furniture Fair, Milano, Italy, 2008
Everydaylife, National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, Norway, 2007
RCA, Bank of America, Canary Warf, London, United Kingdom, 2007
Places, University of Art and Design, Halle Burg, Germany, 2007
Facts and Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland, 2007
Present 2007, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway, 2007
Places, CAA, London, United Kingdom, 2007
Salon d'hiver, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
Places, Landesmuseum Linz, Austria, 2006
How to love juicy jam and jacks, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
40 European ceramic artists, Cassius Clay, Bornholm, Denmark, 2006
Danish- Framing the future of Design, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin, 2006
Keramik under jorden - över Jord, Blås og Knåda, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
54th Premio Faenza, Faenza, Italy, 2005
Danish- Framing the future of Design , DDC, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005
New Danish Ceramics, Museum De Tiendschuu, Tegelen,
Holland, 2005
The Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005
My Room, Sophienholm, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005
Conversation Pieces, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005
Strata, Skulpturen Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
Contain Memory, The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London, England, 2005
Like Nowhere Else, Royal College of Art, London, England, 2005
Generations, Rosenthal, Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich,
Germany, 2004
Made in Scandinavia, Rikutstillingerne, Norway, 2004-06
Stuff. Ingenuity and Critique. Harbour Front Center, Toronto,
Canada, 2004.
Ceramics Underground, Bunker nr. 73, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 2004
Pays invité Le Danemark. La Borne, France, 2004
Keramiske veje, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 2004
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, 2004
The 6th International Ceramics Biennial, Museo De Manises,
Spain, 2003
The 2nd World Ceramics Biennial, Icheon, Korea, 2003
Derfor, Paustian, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003
Bare Boundaries, Museum of Decorative Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, 2003
Talente 2003, Handwerkskammer Munich, Germany, 2003
DK/SA Project, Claymuseum, Capetown, Gallery Thompson, Johannesburg, Rep. of South Africa, 2002
Made in Scandinavia, Hordaland Kunstsenter/Galleri Temp, Bergen, Norway, 2002
The 2002 Biennial, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art,
Copenhagen, 2002
The XIV Panevezys Ceramics Symposium, Civic Art Gallery, Panevezys, Lithuania, 2002
Nordic Network, Gallery Reykjavik, Iceland, Grimmerhus Museum, Middelfart, Denmark, 2002
On The Birthpot, Ruhwaldruhwald, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001
Finery and Embellishment, Ruhwaldruhwald, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 2001
The Boleslawiec International Sculpture Symposium, Miesen in Germany, and Boleslawiec, Legnica, Wroclaw in Poland, 2001-2000
Possession, The Applied Art Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia, 2000
The Altec Ceramics Biennale, Johannesburg,
Rep. of South Africa, 2000
K.E., Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998
Poly-arte, Rungstedgaard, Rungsted, Denmark, 1995

Education
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom, 2005-2003
The Glass and Ceramics School on Bornholm, Denmark, 2000-1997

Residencies
National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Art/industry, John Michael Kohler Art Center/Kohler Co., USA, 2005
National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004
The Panevezys International Ceramics Symposium, Lithuania, 2002
International Ceramics Center, Denmark, 2001
The Boleslawiec International Sculpture Symposium, Poland, 2000

Collections
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Swedish National Museum, Stockholm
The National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway
The Swedish Council for the Arts
The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen
The Danish Arts Council
Bornholm Art Museum, Denmark
Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, France
The Art Council of Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland
The Private Collection of Christian Lacroix
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Prizes and awards
The Sotheby Award, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007
The Anni and Otto Johs. Detlefs' award for young experimental ceramic
artists, 2005
1st. Prize, The 2002 Biennial, The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, 2002

Grants
Ole Haslunds Artist Fund, 2009
The Danish Arts Foundation, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2003, 2002
Danish Crafts, 2008, 2007
The Danish-Swedish Foundation, 2006
Sleipnir, 2006, 2003, 2002
The Danish Cultural Ministry's Travelscholarship, 2006
The Danish Art Foundation, Travelscholarship, 2005
The Roblon Foundation, 2004
The Danish Nationalbank's Anniversary Foundation, 2008, 2004, 2003, 2002
The Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Foundation, 2003
The Knud Højgaards Foundation 2004, 2003
The Oticon Foundation, 2004, 2003
The Aalborg Foundation, 2003
The L. F. Foghts Foundation, 2003
The Glashandler Johan Rohges Foundation, 2002
Letterstedska Föreningen, 2002
Det Reiersenske Fond, 2001
C.W. Obels Fond, 1998, 2000
NOJ-Fonden, 1999

Exhibition Catalogues (monographs):
You In Between, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, 2009
We Float in Space and Cannot Perceive the New Order, M.Y. Artprospects, New York, 2007
Form & Function, Galleri Inger Molin, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
Kohler, Rowlandcontemporary, Chicago, USA, 2006
The State of Things, The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, 2004

Publications
Gaspar, Mònica and Love Jönsson (ed.): Place(s), think tank edition 03, Gmunden, Austria, 2007
Hanaor, Cigalle (ed.): Breaking the Mould, Black Dog Publishing, 2007
pp.29, 56-59
Jönsson, Love (ed): Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in Change, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
Ljungstrom, Hanna and Ulf Beckman (eds): Re: Form-Contemporary Swedish Art Crafts, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
Cooper, Emmanuel: Contemporary Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, 2009
Mazanti, Louise: Superobjekter, Danmarks Designskole & The Royal Academy of Fine Arts- School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006 pp 135-140

Catalogues
The Margins, The Ice House, Phoenix, Arizona, 2009
Michigan Masters, The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA, 2009
Céramique contemporaine Biennale Internationale Vallauris 2008, Musée Magnelli- musée de la Céramique, Vallauris Golfe-Juan, France, 2008 p. 170-73
Facts & Figures, Westerpark, Amsterdam, Holland, 2007
How to Love Juicy Jam and Jacks, Drud & Køppe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Keramik under Jorden- över jord, Blås og Knåda, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
54 Premio Faenza, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Italy, 2005
My Room & my friends room, Sophienholm, Denmark, 2005
Strata, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden 2005
Keramik under Jorden, Exhibition Catalogue, Copenhagen, 2004
Tingenes Tilstand/The State of Things, The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, 2004
VI biennal internacional de Ceràmica Manises, Ayuntamiento de Manises- Museu de Ceràmica, ISBN 849217773X
The 1st Taiwan international ceramics biennale, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics museum, 2004, ISBN 91024073
Lagedad Piirid/Bare Boundaries, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society/Tarbekunstimuuseum, 2003, ISBN 9949103010
Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth, Halèn & Wickman (ed), Arvenius Förlag Stockholm, ISBN 91-85213-01-2, 2003
The 2nd World Ceramics Biennale 2003 Korea international Competition, World Ceramics Exposition Foundation, Korea, ISBN 89-89748-20-8-03630
Derfor, Danish Crafts, ISBN 87-988900-2-6
Talente 2003, Edition Handwerk, Tyskland, 2003, ISBN 9333363-15-2
Young Nordic Ceramics, 2003, ISBN 87-989292-0-8
Kunsthåndværk og Design Biennalen 2002. Kunstindustrimuseet.
XIV International Ceramics Symposium, Panevezys Poland, 2002
Nordic Network, Internationalt Keramiks Center Guldagergård, 2002
Possession. Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, 2000 Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society, Tarbekunstimuuseum, 2003
Altech Ceramics Biennale 2000. The Association of Potters of South Africa
The 36th international ceramics and Sculpture Workshop, Boleslawiec, Polen 2000, ISBN-83-0905054-3-9
Afgang 2000, Glas og Keramikskolen, ISBN 87-989772

Selected reviews
Aaron Parazette: Air Drop and Anders Ruhwald: Almost Nothing By Matt Stromberg, Shotgun Review, Posted October 4, 2009
Between the furnace and the figure, MAP, issue 18, 2009, UK
Positive Connections to the past, Crafts Magazine, March, 2009, UK
Against the grain, American Craft Magazine, April/May, 2009, USA
Tingtwisteren, Living Design, Spring edition, 2009, Denmark
Exhibition preview: Anders Ruhwald, The Guardian, Dec 27th, 2008, UK
Chicago: Anders Ruhwald, Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August, 2008, USA
New York: Anders Ruhwald, Sculpture Magazine, March 2008, USA
Weekendavisen, Kultur, 4-10 May, Denmark, 2008
Not to be Glazed over, How to spend it, Financial Times UK edition, April 2007
En krydda av osäkerhet, Svenske Dagbladet, April 20th, 2007, Sweden
Ceramics Monthly, May, 2007, USA
Ceramics Magazine Europe, Feb/Mar No. 1, 2007, pp 42-46, Germany
Politiken, January 12th, 2006, Denmark
Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 25, No 6, Oct. 2006, USA
Crafts Magazine, #194 May/June, 2005, United Kingdom
Weekend Avisen, Kultur, 3-9 september, 2004, p. 9, Denmark
Kunststuff, No. 2, 2004, p.23-25, Denmark
Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 54, 2003 p. 58-60, Australia
Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, no. 3, 2003. P.14-17
Jyllandsposten, kultur, 29-4-2003, p. 9, Denmark
Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, nr 2, 2003, Denmark
Dansk Kunsthåndværk/Danish Crafts, nr. 4, 2002, p. 28, 34-35, Denmark
rI_Id, Nr 4, 2002, p 20-21, Slovenia
Pottery in Australia: The journal of Australian Ceramics, pp. 53-55 Vol. 41, Number 3, 2002, Australia

Teaching
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, USA. Artist-in-Residence and Head of Department, 2008-
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, Associate professor, 2007-08
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, Instructor, 2007
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, Assistant professor, 2006
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, Guest teacher, 2005
Bath Spa University College, England, Guest teacher, 2005
Glass and ceramicsschool on Bornholm, Denmark, Guest teacher, 2003

Lectures
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, 2009
Corcoran College of Art and Design/The Danish Embassy, Washington, DC, USA, 2009 
Virginia Commenwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, 2009
The Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, 2009
Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA, 2009
California College for the Arts, San Francisco, USA, 2009
Haute École D'art et de Design, Geneve, Switzerland, 2008
University of Ulster, Belfast, Nothern Ireland, 2008
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 2007
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, 2007
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, USA, 2007
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, 2007
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom, 2007
University of the Creative Arts, Rochester, United Kingdom, 2007
Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Canada, 2007
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA, 2007 Contemporary Applied Art, London, United Kingdom, 2007
The Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
European Ceramic Context, The Art Museum of Bornholm, Denmark, 2006
Sunderland University, Sunderland, England, 2006
California State University, Long Beach, Los Angeles, USA, 2006
University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 2006
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA, 2006
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2005
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA 2005
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2005
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, 2005
Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005
Bath Spa University College, Bath, United Kingdom, 2005
The Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004
The Glass and Ceramicsshool on Bornholm, Denmark, 2004
The Museum of Decorative Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, 2003
Glass and Ceramicsshool on Bornholm, Denmark, 2003
The Iceland Academy of Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2002
The Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002
The Clay Museum, Capetown, Rep. of South Africa, 2002
Civic Art Gallery, Panevezys, Lithuania, 2002
Danish Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002
International Ceramic Center, Skælskør, Denmark, 2001
Boleslaviec Civic Art Gallery, Boleslaviec, Poland, 2000