Bio
b. Bethlehem, PA, 1954
EDUCATION
1983
M.F.A. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
1978
B.F.A. Kutztown State College, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
ACADEMIC POSTS
Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 2002-2017
Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1984-2001
Guest Faculty, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, halifax, Canada, Summer, 2000
Documentary Photographer, King County Office of Historic Preservation, Seattle, WA, 1983-1984, 1986
Custom Printer, V.I.P. Color, Bethlehem, PA, 1979-1980
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Between: Artist Books, Albums, and Portfolios from the Mark Ruwedel Photography Archive at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019
Mark Ruwedel, Les Recontres d’Arles 2019, Arles, France
Westward the Course of Empire, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2018
Ouarzazate, Museum of Art and Culture of Marrakech, Marrakech, Morrocco
Mark Ruwedel, Tate Modern, London, UK
2017
HELL and HOME, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Scotiabank Photography Award, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
Pictures of Hell, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2012
Dusk, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Records, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Shelter, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
2010
Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Transphotographiques, Palais Rameau, Lille, France
2009
Westward the Course of Empire, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Mark Ruwedel, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Earth Work, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Nouvelles images, Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
2007
Shelter, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006
Mark Ruwedel, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land, Musee d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
2005
Westward, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
2004
Written on the Land, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2003
Selections from the Ice Age Project, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Art Gallery of the South Okanogan, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
2002
Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mark Ruwedel, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2001
Mark Ruwedel, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1998
Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
Chinati Foundation: Installation for Art and Architecture Symposium, Marfa, TX
1997
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Mark Ruwedel: Along the Shores of Departed Lakes, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, WA
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1995
Mark Ruwedel: The Navigator Has Safely Landed in the New World, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Galerie Art 45, Montreal, Canada
Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
1994
Doris E. Roberts Gallery, Richland Public Library, Richland, WA
Springville Art Museum, Springville, UT
The Hanford Stretch, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1993
Galerie Vox, Montreal, Canada
1992
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1991
Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal, Canada
1990
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada
Heritage Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1989
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Galerie Art 45, Montreal, Canada
1988
King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, WA
Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Canada
1987
Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1985
Galerie Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
Donnally/Hayes Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983
Photographies, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
1982
The New Brunswick Craft School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2020
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Walker Evans Revisited, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2019
Imaging Change: History, Memory, and Social Justice, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Nuclear Visions: The Atomic Photographers Guild, John and June Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Fil Noir, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
UNLIMITED: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Public Lands, Private Hands: An Exhibition Depicting the Exploration and Exploitation of
the American West, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
2018
Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
American Surfaces and the Photobook, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Bombhead, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Journey Through the Desert, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Extended Moment: The Collection of the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2017
Frontera: Views of the U.S.-Mexico Border, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Notions of Home, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Sites of Assembly, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2016
After Industry, Fotofocus Biennial 2016, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
After Industry, Fotofocus Biennial 2016, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2014
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Following the Prescribed Path, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Staking Claim: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
New West: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Fralin Museum of Art in Charlottesville, VA
Land Marks, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012
Builders: Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Permanent Way, Apex Art, New York, NY
L’Arbe et le photographe, Beaux-arts de Paris, L’Ecole Nationale Superieure, Paris, France
2011
American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Rhapsodies Nucleaires, Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
The Atomic Photographers Guild, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Aftershocks, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
Discovery Award Exhibition, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
California: Adulterated Landscapes and Deflated Icons, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Points of View, Les Recontres d’Arles 2011, Arles, France
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Noir, Art 45, Montreal, Canada
2010
Masterworks of American Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Edge of Town, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Grand View: Arizona Landscape Photography,1871-2010, Etherton Gallery,Tucson, AZ
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, The Tate Modern, London, UK
Photographing the American West, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Critical Messages, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 2010
Pieces of Nine, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
After Robert Adams, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2009
Night-Town, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2008
You Have Seen Their Faces, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Oikos/Habitacles, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
Photographies scientifiques, Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
2007
Time in the West: Photographs by Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe and Mark Ruwedel, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Re-SITE-ing the West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
On Death and Dying, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Blyn, IL
Landscape: Fact and Fiction, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Ingenuity, Photography and Engineering, 1845-2005, Calouste Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
The Road to Utopia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Histoires de Chaussure, 100 photographes, Maison Artcurial, Paris, France
The Earth, Houston FotoFest, Houston, TX
A Complex Eden: Photographs of the American West, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2005
Imaging a Shattering Earth, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1995 - 2005, Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris
Real Pictures: Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Tree, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Picturing the Land: From the Sublime to the Document, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Faces, Places, Traces: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Altered Landscape: The Nevada Museum of Art Collection, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Lewis and Clark Territory, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Consuming Nature, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Crime Scene, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004/3
Consuming Nature, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2003
Shorelines: Responding to Place, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Histories of Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Rocks and Stones, Photographic Archives of the City of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
The New World’s Old World, Axa Gallery, New York, NY
Industry and Entropy, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
2002
Photo Works from the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Animal Logic, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Re-Viewing Photography: The Photo Review at 25, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Railroad Vision, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Visibility and Invisibility in the Nuclear Era, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Canada (Touring)
Nous n’irons plus au bois, Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris, France
White, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999
L’Evocation, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal, Canada
From Tornadoes to Tractors: Photographers of the Rural Landscape, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Vie de Chien, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada
The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (Touring)
1998
The Paving of Paradise, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Reve d’Egypte, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
Poetic Evidence, National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada
1997
Landscapes: Denis Farley and Mark Ruwedel, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Water: The Renewable Metaphor, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1996
Crossing the Frontier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Around Wendover, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT
Before the Land, Behind the Camera, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (Touring)
Illuminating the Story of Projection, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal and National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Canada
Images of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
1995
Shadow of the Cloud, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Fragile Landscapes, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
1994
Re: Place, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
1993
Crossing Territories, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1992
Selections 6, Polaroid Collections, Photokina 92, Cologne, Germany
Atomic Photographers Guild, International Radiation Victims Conference, Berlin; World Uranium Hearings, Salzburg, Germany, (Touring Germany)
Montreal: Ville de Cinema, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada
1991
Paysage/Paysages, Galerie Occurance, Montreal, Canada
1990
Selections 5, Polaroid Collections, Photokina 90, Cologne, Germany
The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada (Touring)
1989
Une Ville en heritage/memoire photographique, Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal, Canada
1988
Gallery Artists, Art 45, Montreal, QC
Photoperspectives 88, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
1987
Winter City, Institute for Future Studies, University of Akron , Akron, OH
Pennsylvania Photographers, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1985
Photoperspectives 85, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
1979
Pennsylvania Photographers: A Selection of Current Work, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014
Scotiabank Photography Award, Toronto, ON, Canada
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, New York, NY
2010
Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarly and Creative Activities, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2009
California State University, Long Beach, SCAC Grant, Long Beach, CA
2007
California State University, Long Beach, SCAC Grant, Long Beach, CA
2005
Canada Council Travel Grant, Ontario, Canada
California State University, Long Beach, SCAC Grant
2004
California State University, Long Beach, SCAC Grant
2003
PASTA Artist Residency, Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, California, CA
2001
Canada Council “A” Grant, Ontario, Canada
1999
Canada Council “A” Grant, Ontario, Canada
Canada Council Travel Grant, Ontario, Canada
Center For Land Use Interpretation Artist Residency, Wendover Studio, Wendover, UT
1998
Concordia University CASA Grant, Montreal, Canada
Canada Council Travel Grant, Ontario, Canada
1997
Concordia University CASA Grant, Montreal, Canada
1995
Concordia University Fine Arts Special Projects Grant, Montreal, Canada
1994
Canada Council Short Term Grant, Ontario, Canada
Concordia University Fine Arts Special Projects Grant, Montreal, Canada
1993
Concordia University Fine Arts Special Projects Grant, Montreal, Canada
Canada Council Short Term Grant, Ontario, Canada
1992
Concordia University Fine Arts Special Projects Grant, Montreal, Canada
1991
Minister des Affaires culturelles du Quebec, Bourse Type “B”, Quebec, Canada
1989
McGill-Queens University Press: Commission to photograph McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Site Survey Commission, Ottowa, Canada
1988
King County Office of Historic Preservation: Commission to photograph King County Courthouse, Seattle, WA
1987
Ministere des Affaires culturelles du Quebec, Soutien a la creation, Quebec, Canada
1980-1981
Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, Montreal, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Artothèque d’Auxerre, France
Artothèque de Pessac, France
Artothèque d’Annecy, France
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada
Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Copenhagen National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
King County Office of Historic Presentation, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Maison Europeenne de la photographie, Paris, France
McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Michael Wilson Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Musee du Quebec, Ville de Quebec, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
National Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Hallmark Cards Collection, Kansas City, MO
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Polaroid Collections, Cambridge, MA
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
St. Michaels College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, UK
The Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Phillips, Sandra S. and Sally Martin Katz. American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present, Radius Books, 2021 [book]
Feeney, Mark. “These works of art shows why cities will endure.” Boston Globe 22 April 2021
Dickerman, Kenneth. “This photographer spent three years crisscrossing Los Angeles in ‘an exercise in solitude.” Washington Post</u< 18 January 2021
Ruwedel, Mark. Seventy-two and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles MACK, November 2020 [book]
2020
Ruwedel, Mark. “Los Angeles as you’ve never seen it.” Financial Times . 21 November 2020
“Retraced Steps.” Aesthetica Magazine. 17 November 2020
2019
Ruwedel, Mark. Palms and Capri, Nazraeli, Paso Robles December 2019
Pacheco, Antonio. “Getty Center spotlights contemporary shifts in landscape photography.” The Architect’s Newspaper 6 May 2019
Ruwedel, Mark. One Picture Book Two #5 : Studio E.R., Nazraeli, Paso Robles 2019
“Unfamiliar Thoughts of the Landscape.” Photo District News 1 February 2019
Goldberg, Vicki. “Ansel Adams in a New Light.” The New York Times 17 January 2019
Feuerhelm, Brad. “Mark Ruwedel: Transcendental Plates; Ouarzazate.” American Suburb X 5 January 2019
2018
Whyte, Murray. “You probably remember Ansel Adams from dorm-room calendars. But there’s much more.” The Boston Globe 7 December 2018
Maddox, Amanda. "John Divola & Mark Ruwedel." Aperture 4 September 2018
Ruwedel, Mark. Ouarzazate, Mack, London 2018
2017
Ruwedel, Mark. Dog Houses, August Editions, New York, NY 2017
Woodward, Richard B. “Mark Ruwedel, HELL and HOME @Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 19 June 2017
“Mark Ruwedel at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.” Blouin ArtInfo 14 June 2017
Hutt, John. “Exhibition Review: Mark Ruwedel at Yossi Milo.” Musée 30 May 2017
Vertaldi, Raffaele. “Cartoline dall’Inferno.” Il Sole 24 Ore 2 May 2017
Shinkle, Eugenie. “Settings of a Life: Mark Ruwedel’s Message from the Exterior.” American Suburb X 13 January 2017
2016
Ruwedel, Mark. Mark Ruwedel: Message from the Exterior Mack, London 2016
Shinkle, Eugenie. “Human Endeavour and Historical Process: The Landscape Photography of Mark Ruwedel,” 17 June 2016
2015
Ruwedel, Mark, and Grant Arnold. Mark Ruwedel Scotiabank/Steidl,Göttingen, Germany, 2015
Haeusslein, Alile. “Mark Ruwedel. [book review]” Photo-eye Blog 23 July 2015
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. “Into the Abyss: Mark Ruwedel’s Pictures of Hell.” The Great Leap Sideways August 2015
Whyte, Murray. “Mark Ruwedel: The lonesome, crowded west.” The Toronto Star 6 May 2015
Adams, James. “A photography show that rewards the act of slow looking.” The Globe and Mail 4 May 2015
Ollman, Leah. “Mark Ruwedel’s photographs are hell on the eyes.” Los Angeles Times 11
2014
Ruwedel, Mark, Simon Baker and Chiara Siravo. Pictures of Hell, Ram, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Ruwedel, Mark. Mark Ruwedel: Message from the Exterior, Steidl, Germany, 2014
Bento, Joao. “In a world where architecture has gone to the dogs, photographer Mark Ruwedel explores beautifully decaying doghouse in the Wild West.” Four & Sons Spring/Summer 2014
Walker, David. “Mark Ruwedel Wins 2014 Scotiabank Photography Award.” Photo District News 29 April 2014
2012
Knoblauch, Loring. “Mark Ruwedel, Records @ Milo.” Collector Daily 26 March 2012
Laluyan, Oscar A. “Mark Ruwedel: Let the Records Show.” Arte Fuse 2 March 2012
2011
Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography 2011, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2011
Wolfe, Ann,ed., The Altered Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, and Skira/Rizzoli, New York, 2011
2010
Mallison, Constance. “Mark Ruwedel: Now it is Dark.” Art LTD September/October 2010
Benechou, Anne, ed., Ouvrir le document, Les presses du reel, France, 2010 (illustration, page 125)
Clark-Langager, Sarah, ed., Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 2010
Donovan, Daniel, The Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, ON, 2010
Jurovics, Toby, Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2010
Miles, Christopher. “Mark Ruwedel: Now it is Dark.” LA Weekly 15 July 2010
Knight, Christopher. “Mark Ruwedel at Gallery Luisotti” Los Angeles Times 9 July 2010
“Mark Ruwedel: Westward the Course of Empire.” Purpose 10, Spring 2010
Ruwedel, Mark, One Thousand Two Hundred Twelve Palms, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Sandra Phillips, ed., Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Publishing, London, 2010
Feeney, Mark. “Western Exposure.” The Boston Globe, July 17 July, 2010, “Western Exposure.” (review)
Mallinson, Constance. “Now it is Dark.” The Times Quotidian, 30 July 30, 2010, www.timesquotidian.com/2010/07, “Now it is Dark.” (review)
2009
Reed, Justin James. “Mark Ruwedel: Westward the Course of Empire.” Ahorn Magazine #4, 2009, www.ahornmagazine.com, “Mark Ruwedel: Westward the Course of Empire.”
Sholis, Brian. “Mark Ruwedel: Yossi Milo Gallery.” Artforum, April, 2009, “Mark Ruwedel: Yossi Milo Gallery.” (review)
“A Panorama of the Sweeping Western Landscape.” Railroad History 200, Spring/Summer, 2009
Debat, Michelle, L’Impossible Image, Lettres volee, Brussels, 2009
“Going On About Town.” The New Yorker 9 March 2009
Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review.” The New York Times 27 February 2009
“Along Western Rails.” The Morning News 23 February 2009
2008
Campeau, Sylvain, OIKOS: Habitacles/Habitable Places, SBC Galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC, 2008
Culley, Peter, To The Dogs, Presentation House/Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC “Photographer Mark Ruwedel: Ticket to nowhere.” The Guardian 4 December 2008
“Cover to Cover.” Atlantic Monthly November 2008
“Haunting Images of Expansion.” Los Angeles Times 28 November 2008
“Vanishing Points.” Los Angeles Times 23 November 2008
L’insense photo #6 Paris, France 2008
“Mark Ruwedel: The Last Photographer Heading West.” Function Magazine 2008
“In Review: Mark Ruwedel.” Canadian Art, vol. 25, no. 1 Spring 2008
Round, Phillip, The Impossible Land, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2008
Ruwedel, Mark, Westward the Course of Empire, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2008
2007
“Powers of Ten.” Art LTD January 2007
“Alfa Omega.” Blind Spot Issue 34 2007
Calado, Jorge. Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering 1846-2006 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007
“Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land.” CV Photo #73 September 2006
“Camera Obscura: Photography as Critique.” X-TRA vol. 10, no. 2, Winter 2007
Wiesen, Barbara, On Death and Dying, Colllege of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2007
2006
“Mark Ruwedel at Gallery Luisotti.” Artweek vol. 37, no. 6 July/August 2006
“Mark Ruwedel: Water gone these thousand years.” Blackflash Vol. 23, No. 2 2006
“Los Angeles Exhibition Reviews.” Focus August 2006
Houston Fotofest, Fotofest 2006 Catalog, Houston, TX, 2006
Lienart, Amel and Frederique. Histoires de chaussure, Editions Nicolas Chaudun, Paris, France, 2006.
“Around the Galleries.” Los Angeles Times 26 May 2006
Wallace, Doug, ed., Carte Blanche: Photography 1, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, 2006
2005
Arnold, Grant. Real Pictures: photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver Art Gallery,Vancouver, BC, 2005
“Mark Ruwedel: Westward at Stephen Bulger Gallery.” Art On Paper July/August 2005
Baillargeon, Claude. Imaging a Shattering Earth, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 2005
Cooke, Lynne and Kelly, Karen, eds., Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, Dia Art, 2005
Cooke Cooper, Marilyn and Hough, Katherine, Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 2005
Crist, Steve, ed., The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography, Taschen, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
“How The West Was Lost.” The Globe and Mail 26 February 2005
Hushka, Rock. Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place 2005
Lyden, Anne. Paul Strand The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, CA (“A Vital Spirit”:round table discussion) 2005
“The Big Picture” The National Post 26 March 2005
2004
Arnold, Grant, Robert Smithson in Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“Behind the Earth Movers.” Art In America April 2004
“Nature Under Construction” Chicago Reader 6 February 2004
“Late Night With Aaron Brown” CNN 21 April 2004
Race and Memory Tacoma Art Museum and University of Washington Press, 2004
Robert Smithson in Vancouver Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2004
“Points West” Western Interiors Sept/Oct 2004
2003
“Written on the Land.” Afterimage May/June 2003
Calado, Jorge, Pedras & Rochas en fotografia, IFT Press, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003.
Castleberry, May, ed., The New World’s Old World, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2003
Cousineau-Levine. Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, QC, 2003
Youngs, Christopher. Industry and Entropy. Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, 2003
“Mark Ruwedel: Mondo Novo” Le Monde diplomatique October 2003
“Humanity and landscape in ‘The Ice Age.’” Los Angeles Times 17 October 2003
Lyden Anne, Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel and Perception, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003
2002
Blue Sky Gallery, Blue Sky #36, Portland, OR, 2002
Boettger, Suzaan, Earthworks: Art and Landscape of the Sixties University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2002
“Photographs Tell Narratives in Landscape.” The Georgia Straight 26 September 2002
Love, Karen, Ed., Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, 2002
“Re-Viewing Photography.” The Photo Review, vol. 25 #1 Winter 2002
2001
“Atomic Photographers Guild.” Canadian Art Summer 2001
“Mark Ruwedel- Westward: The Course of Empire.” Canadian Art Winter 2001
Fitzpatrick, Blake. Visibility and Invisibility in the Nuclear Era Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, ON, 2001
“At work in the fields of the blast.” The Globe and Mail 3 March 2001
“Mark Ruwedel at Stephen Bulger Gallery.” The Globe and Mail 10 November 2001
Jeffries, Bill, Ed. Land, Relationship and Community, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, 2001
“Cosa mentale, paysage(s).” Pour Voir May 2001
Ruwedel, Mark. The Italian Navigator, Art 45, Stephen Bulger and Francoise Paviot, Montreal, QC, 2001
“Photos Document Atomic Devastation.” The Toronto Star 26 February 2001
1999
“Mark Ruwedel: Ice Age.” Calapooya Literary Review October 1999 Eastern Oregon University, Neon, Winter 1999-2000
Vox Populi, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal, QC, 1999
1998
“Monuments.” Artweek July/August 1998
Coolidge, Mathew. Around Wendover, Center For Land Use Interpretation Culver City, CA 1998
“Pictures of Hell.” CV Photo #43 Summer 1998
Humbert, Jean-Marcel. Reve d’Egypte: L’architecture egyptisante vu par trois photographes Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, France 1998
Humbert, Jean-Marcel. France-Egypte: Dialogue entre deux cultures Editions des musees de la ville de Paris, Paris, France 1998
Trepanier, Esther. Univers Urbains Musee du Quebec, Quebec City, Canada 1998
1997
“The Italian Navigator? The New World.” Descant 96 Spring 1997
Garvey, Susan-Gibson. Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS 1997
“Cultured Landscapes.” The Globe and Mail 19 April 1997
Slemmons, Rod. Water: The Renewable Metaphor University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR 1997
“The Land as Historical Archive.” American Art Spring 1996, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
“The Italian Navigator Has Safely Landed In The New World.” Arts Atlantic Winter 1996,
“Terre des Hommes.” Descant 94 Fall 1996
“Recent Ruins: On Mark Ruwedel’s The Hanford Stretch.” High Ground 1996
Phillips, Sandra. Crossing the Frontier San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1996
1995
“Land Art Revisite.” Espace Sculpture #34 Winter 1995-1996
Le Devoir 21 September 1995
Lessard, Michel. Montreal au XXe siecle Les Editions de l’Homme, Montreal, Canada 1995
“The Italian Navigator Has Landed- The Photographs of Mark Ruwedel.” Matrix #46 1995-1996
Montreal Gazette 23 September 1995
Photography Quarterly #62, vol. 16, #1, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY 1995
1994
Semiotext(e): Canadas Semiotext(e) and Marginal Editions, NY, 1994
1993
Ruwedel, Mark, The Hanford Stretch, self-published, Montreal, Canada, 1993
1992
Hirsch, Robert. Exploring Color Photography Brown and Benchmark Madison, WS 1992
CV Photo #20 Automne 1992
1991
Matrix #35 Fall 1991
McGill: A Celebration, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, Canada 1991
The Photo Review, vol.14, #3, Summer 1991
1990
Barbour, David. The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON 1990
Ciel Variable #12 Summer 1990
Marsan, Jean-Claude. Sauver Montreal Les Editions du Boreal, Montreal, Canada 1990
“In Praise of Older Venues.” Montreal Mirror 27 September 1990
“Photographer sees the light in old movie theatres.” Montreal Gazette 16 September 1990
“Screening Rooms.” Photo Life vol.15, #7 September 1990
“Mark Ruwedel: Walker Evans’ Lehigh Valley.” The Photo Review vol. 13, #2 Spring 1990
Selections 5: Photographs from the International Polaroid Collection Polaroid Corporation Cambridge, MA, 1990
“Cine-Nostalgie.” Voir 13 September 1990
1989
Montreal Gazette 21 January 1989
1988
The Photo Review Summer 1988
1987
King County Landmarks Commission Anniversary Report, King County Office of Historic Preservation, Seattle, WA 1987
1986
King County Heritage Resource Protection Plan, King County Department of Planning and Development, Seattle, WA 1986
“The Theaters of Montreal.” Marquee: Journal of the Theater Historical Society vol. 18, #44 1986
1985
Photoperspectives 85, Presentation House, North Vancouver, Canada 1985
Views, vol. 5, #1 Toronto Photographers Workshop May 1985
Vie des Arts Montreal, Canada June 1985
1978
Portfolio #1 Dannemora, NY Fall 1978