Ruby Ellerin (b. 2005) is an American artist based in Chicago and New England. She currently studies studio art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I move across my studio from the wheel to the wooden table, my beads and shells strewn about, working across mediums while treasuring forms and underlying secrets. My practice spans ceramic vessels, silkscreen and offset prints that combine drawn and photographic imagery, and iterative rainbow plaster casts of ritual objects. I examine the forms of naturally occurring phenomena and associate them with fragments of my memory and personal history, creating biographical, instinctual work. Symbolism and play are central to my practice. I exaggerate and extend color as I explore the uniqueness of lived moments and of existing within our world. 

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Exhibitions 

Spring Art Sale, SAIC, Chicago IL, 2026

Artist Night, Summer Arts at Fayerweather, Cambridge MA, 2025

ArtBash 24.48.12, SAIC, Chicago IL, 2024

Professional Experience

2026 Teaching Assistant, Continuing Studies (Summer Program), SAIC, Chicago, IL

2025-2026 Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Practices Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2022-2025 Art Teacher, Summer Arts at Fayerweather, Cambridge MA

Awards

24.48.12, Second Prize, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024

Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023-2027

Gerard Condon Memorial Art Award, Needham High School, 2023