Ed Ruscha (b. 1937, Omaha, Nebraska) is a leading figure of American Pop and Conceptual art, renowned for his text-based imagery and meditations on the urban and cultural landscape of the United States. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has explored the intersections between language, image, and place, often reflecting on the iconography of Los Angeles and the American West.

Ruscha’s paintings are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Getty. His retrospectives at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2000), the Hayward Gallery, London (2009), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013) have confirmed his standing as one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era.