Kris Ruhs

Kris Ruhs is an artist and designer born in New York in 1952. He studied at the School of Visual Arts between 1972 and 1975 and kept a studio in the city until 1996, when he moved to Milan and Paris, where he has worked since. His first sculptures came from wood discarded in the street next to his studio on lower Broadway: the Boxes, cut, scraped, carved and burned, set the template for everything after.

Treating any material and any technique as available has produced an output running from stabile and hanging sculpture, reliefs and wall lights to installations, paintings, collages and drawings, alongside jewellery in pearl, silver and gold, ebony and rope, and design work in lighting, vases and textiles. He has shown repeatedly at Galleria Carla Sozzani since 1991, and his studio is now based at Fondazione Sozzani in Milan.