Ellen Rutt
she/her & they/them
b. 1989
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Distinction, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Loughborough University, UK
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Both/And, Louis Buhl, Detroit, MI
2020 A Garden Or A Grave, Pt.2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 This Must Be The Place, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2016 Getting in Shape, Inner State Gallery, Detroit.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sun Contemporary, Bali, Indonesia (Forthcoming)
2023 The Jaunt, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles California
Lobster Club, New York, NYC
Get Together, Reyes | Finn, Detroit, MI
2022 Tunde Made a Universe, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Lobster Club, Los Angeles, CA
It Takes A Village, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
2021 The Jaunt, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
In The Abstract, Hashimoto Contemporary, SF
2020 Soothe, Curated by Kristin Texeira, Sugarlift Gallery, NYC
Future Sun, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
Indexical, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2019 Kindred Spirits, Curated by Temple Children,
East Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, Hilo,HI
Signs Of The Time, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2018 Gala, MoCAD, Detroit, MI
Hell Yes, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
One Way Through, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
Murals In The Market, 1xRUN, Detroit, MI
Less is More, First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Syncopate, Contre-Temps, Strasbourg, France
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
Lately, First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Comm (Unity), Playground Detroit, Detroit
Juxtapoz Clubhouse, Miami, Fl.
Which Way, This Way, First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco
DTW/LAX, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Alternative Process, David Klein Gallery
The Detroiter, Heron Arts, San Francisco
Friends of Friends, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit
2015 Small Victories, Inner State Gallery (offsite), Detroit
We Have A Dream, Inner State Gallery, Detroit
2013 It’s In The Water, Inner State Gallery, Detroit
PUBLIC ART & SELECTED PROJECTS
2024 Queer Ecology Lab, Detroit, MI
2022 City of Detroit, Detroit, MI
2021 Hermès, Rochester HIlls, MI
Facebook, New Albany, OH
2020 Logistics Property Company, Chicago, IL
Albright Knox Museum Public Art Initiative, Buffalo, NY
2019 Signs Of The Time, Curation for the Save Arts Space Billboard Exhibition for
Detroit Art Week, Detroit, MI
Partners in Public Art with the Detroit Institute of Art, Mural for the Warren
Community Center, Warren, MI
2018 Shared Space Studies, Collaboration with Carson Davis Brown at Arcosanti, AZ
I’m Here, Set design and fabrication for Tunde Olaniran’s music video
Sun Through The Smoke, Commissioned by the City of Victoria, Canada
Van’s US Open, Huntington Beach, CA
Family Quilt, The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
Sight Specific, The Belt & Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
L'esprit D'escalier, Trumbull & Porter, Detroit, MI
Scene & Seen, Grand Rapids, MI
2017 Nothing Is Separate: A Collaboration with Nature, Site-specific installations at the
Temple Children Artist Residency, Hilo, HI
Tile Quilts, Calder Plaza for Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Serendipity, Festival Les Escales, St. Nazaire, France
UICA Exit Space, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Brain Storm, Facebook Artist in Residence, Detroit, MI
2016 Detroit Design Festival, creative direction, branding, print and web promotional material
for DDF, Detroit, MI
Murals in the Market, branding, print and web promotional material for Murals In The Market festival, Detroit, MI
Lincoln Park Patchwork, LED installation in collaboration with Patrick Ethen for Broder Construction, Chicago, IL.
Patchwork Cleveland, InterUrban Arts, Cleveland, OH
GRANTS:
2024 Flourish Fund Grant
Michigan Arts and Culture Council Grant
RESIDENCIES:
2024 Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, MX (Forthcoming)
2023 Sable Project, Stockbridge, VT
2022 Jana Koya, Landers, CA
2021 Art Farm, NE
2020 Art Farm, NE
2019 Temple Children, Hilo, HI
2018 Maple Terrace, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Temple Children, Hilo, HI
2013 Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS:
2023-Present Studio For Now
2020 Frontline Detroit
2019 Sunrise Movement Detroit
Detroit Climate Strike Coalition
2018 United Community Housing Coalition
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Dovetail Magazine
2020 Hour Detroit - Named one of 24 Changemakers in 2020
Street Art Today - Forthcoming
2019 Wmag - October
Juxtapoz - July
Alive Magazine - print- July
LOAM - print- August
2018 Juxtapoz - January
Booooooom - January
Ignant - February
Virtute - February
Polaroid Originals - March
Forbes - March
Gross Magazine - December