Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1952 Museum Art School, Portland, OR
1950 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1949 University of Fine Arts, San Miguel, Mexico
1946 Meinzinger School of Art, Detroit, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Paintings 1970s-1990s, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Paintings 1970-1990, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Spray Paintings 1965-1970, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Free Zone: Works from the 1970s & 80s, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Leonard Ruder at PDX, Portland International Airport, Portland, OR
2014 Paintings, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Constructed Spaces, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Evidence of a Life's Work, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1960 White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1956 Drawings, The Junior Museum, Portland, OR
1950s Paul Hebb's 13th Street Gallery, Portland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Group Exhibition, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 What to Paint and Why: Modern Painters at Cranbrook, 1936-1974, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012, 2011 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2011 Augen Drawing Invitational, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Fifth Annual Group Show, 12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
2000-1960 Rental Sales Gallery, Portland OR
1977 B&P Gallery, Beaverton, OR
1977 Carnegie Center, Walla Walla, WA
1975, 1968, 1967, 1960, 1958, 1957, 1953, 1952 Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1968 Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
1951-1952 Six American Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (traveling show)
COLLECTIONS
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
PUBLICATIONS / INTERVIEWS
Oregon Painters: Landscape to Modernism, 1859-1959, Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit, 2021
Life of the Mind, Art & Antiques magazine, October 2018
Leonard Ruder: Making Sense of the Universe, The Ruder Family, 2015
KBOO Art Focus with Eva Lake, Rhea Ruder Sleeman & Rhine Ruder on artist Leonard Ruder, Portland, OR, February 25, 2014
What to Paint and Why: Modern Painters of Cranbrook, 1963-1974, Chad Alligood, Curator, Cranbrook Art Museum, 2013
Quiet Passion in Paint, Katy Muldoon, Leonard Ruder obituary, The Oregonian, November 13, 2010
Leonard Ruder: Evidence of a Life's Work, Silas B. Cook, Guest Curator, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 2008
Drawing Out a Hidden Talent, Katy Muldoon, feature interview, The Sunday Oregonian, January 13, 2008
Six American Painters, Frederick S. Wight, Associate Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1951