Allen Ruppersberg lives and works in New York and Santa Monica, California. Recent solo exhibitions include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018), which traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in 2019; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada (2016); Skirball Culture Center, Los Angeles (2015); Greene Naftali, New York (2014); MFC-Michèle Didier, Paris (2014); Greengrassi, London (2014); WIELS, Brussels (2014); and The Art Institute of Chicago (2012).

His work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Denver Art Museum; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.