Born in Pennsylvania in 1954, Mark Ruwedel currently lives in Long Beach, California. Ruwedel has exhibited and published internationally for almost thirty years and his work is held in museums including Tate Modern, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He received this year’s Guggenheim Fellowship and Scotia Bank Award.