Ruby Roth

Featured on Today, CNN, FOX, in Glamour, Washington Post, and other major media, Ruby Roth is an award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator, designer, and artist. Native to Los Angeles, her personal artwork is defined by the female form and depicts the inner lives of women through emotionally visceral representations of the bodies they inhabit.

Roth’s work most often features solitary women navigating inner and outer wildernesses. In vast emptiness, surrounded by hints of nature, or in quiet communion with the moon, her wild
women and “girl gods” find their way through physical and spiritual dimensions of darkness and light, bondage and freedom, apocalypse and utopia, life and death forces, always seeking equilibrium in the act of transmutation—turning either nourishing or toxic forces into usable means.

Roth has observed the body from the inside out since age 4, when she first saw an X-ray diagnosis of her S-shaped spinal curvature. For the following 15 years, she would undergo aggressive and painful treatment for Scoliosis. Art became an outlet as she cultivated an inner world of senses, discipline, and coping mechanisms that would help her come to grips with
her squared ribs, dented hips, and permanent welts—scars from ele...

BA, Art; University of California at Santa Cruz
BA, American Studies; University of California at Santa Cruz