Thomas Ruff, born in 1958 in Zell, Germany, now lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has been described as a “master of editing and reinventing images”. Focusing on aesthetics and process, Ruff has built an eclectic body of work defined not by genre, method or subject matter, but by stark images, the relative conceptual sequentiality of subject matter, and the subtle subversion of the printed image.

Solo exhibitions include Metropolitan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea (2003).” New Works,” Contemporary Art, Berlin (2004); “Works from the Pierre Huber Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, Switzerland (2004); Sprengel Museum, Germany (2007); “Jpegs,” Moderna Museet, Sweden (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2011); Kunstverein, Munich Museum (2012); “Lichten,” S.M.A.K., Belgium (2014, traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany); and “Object Relations,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2016).