Ruth Ewan is an artist based in Glasgow. Her practice takes a pluralistic approach which includes creating installations and writing alongside events, objects and places. In contrast to this varied approach to form she creates deeply focused, context specific projects which emerge from immersed research and collaboration, often drawing on conversations with others.
She has shown extensively in galleries and museums including The National Gallery London, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, CAPC Bordeux, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, New Museum, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, São Paulo Biennial, Camden Arts Centre and Tate Britain. She has developed public projects with Artangel, High Line and Folkestone Triennial. She is currently developing a permanent multi-sited public project, Everything Must Change, an alternative perpetual time system for the urban space around Korsvägen Station in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2024 she was awarded Stuttgart’s Major Public Art commission for The Green Fuse, an urban forest and arboreal calendar.
She has lectured at numerous art schools and universities and created workshops with museums, galleries, schools, hospitals and gardening groups. She has published several artists books including Twenty-Nine Thousand Nights and Liberties of the Savoy with Book Works. Her writing has also appeared in In One Woman’s Life – Celebrating Mary Brooksbank, 2022 and she is co-author of Ploughing the City: Art and Future Public Space in Scotland with Sorcha Carey, 2022.
Her work is in the collection of Tate London, McManus Galleries Dundee, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh University and CAAC Seville.