born in Riga, Latvia

business school of Riga, certificate as a seamstress

education and collaboration at the “V.E.E.“ studio in Riga
in the class of Gunãrs Birkmanis

starts to work on the photographic series “My Country People”

member of the photographer-group “Riga”

member of the photo-studio “Ogre“, Ogre (LV)

member of the photographer-group “A”, Riga

works as a freelance photographer

member of the Designer Association of Latvia

grant of the “Hasselblad Foundation”

“Spídola-Award” of the Latvian Culture Foundation

starts to work on the photographic series “People I happened to meet”

scholarship at the Villa Waldberta, Feldafing/Starnberger See (D)

“Price of the Year” of the Artist’s Union of Latvia for her exhibition
with Egons Spuris at the State Art Museum in Riga

starts to work on the photographic series “Amalias Street 5”

starts to work on the photographic series „Neighbours“

two-month artist-in-residence-scholarship of the IASPIS
(International Artists Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm

invested as a “Chevalier (Knight)”, the highest award of the
“Order of the Three Stars” of the State of Latvia

“Amalias Street 5“, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

“Amalias Street 5”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Amalias Street 5”, heden, The Hague (NL)
“Amalias Street 5”, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg

“Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne

“People I Happened to Meet”, Photography Center Istanbul

“Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne

“Portraits”, PAK, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Kunstverein Glückstadt (D)
“Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
Royal Library, Stockholm

“Inta Ruka – fotografiju paroda”, Prospekto Photo Gallery, Vilnius (LIT)

“Latvia. Changing and Unchanging Reality”, Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin
“People I happened to meet”, Pomerania Dukes castle South gallery, Szczecin (PL)

“My Country People”, Museum of Applied Arts, Riga

“Inta Ruka”, Photostudio 1, Boston

“My Country People”, Bratislava (SLO)
“Inta Ruka”, Amiens (F)

“My Country People”, Centre Photographique de Normandie, Rouen (F)
“My Country People”, Museum of Regional Studies and Art, Madona (LV)

“My Country People”, in context of \"Pārmijas – Contemporary Art from Riga“

“My Country People”, Karlshamn (S)

“Inta Ruka”, Kiek in de Koek, Tallinn (EST)

“From M to ZZZ, Contemporary Art from Latvia“, Langhans Gallery, Prague

“On the Human Being. International Photography 1950-2000“ (with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Boris Mikhailov, László Moholy-Nagy, Bernhard Prinz, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth et al.), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, in cooperation with the Folkwang Museum, Essen, and the Picasso Museum, Málaga (curated by Ute Eskildsen)
“The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
(Part I)“, CCS Bard Hessel Museum / Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York
“Art from the Future Contemporary Art Museum, Riga”, European
Commission, Berlaymont Building, Brussels
“Private. Exhibition of contemporary Photography from Latvia”, in the
framework of the “Moscow Photobiennale 2008”, Contemporary Art Center
Winzavod, Moscow

“Contemporary Art from Latvia“, European Central Bank, Frankfurt a. M.
2006“In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century“ (amongst others with Wolfgang Tillmanns, Boris Mikhailov et alii),
Barbican Art Gallery, London

“Die Sammlung I: Das Porträt 1970-2000”, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
“Dogs”, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg
“Generations: Changing Photography”, The Historical Museum of Alytus (LIT)

“Passage d’Europe”, Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne (F)

“Modern Latvian Art and Photograph”, Estonian National Museum, Tartu (EST)

“Inta Ruka and Egons Spuris”, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
“Dokument 03”, Bildens Hus, Fotomuseet, Sundsvall (S)

“Latvian artists exhibition”, M. Zilinska Art Gallery, Kaunas (LV)
“Pilseta: Stasti par Rigu / City. Stories about Riga”, urban space of Riga

“Metropolis. Riga”, stock market, Riga

“Parallels”, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
“Utopia”, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger (N)
“Latvia. Changing and Unchanging Reality” (together with Andrejs Grants), Gallery of the Latvian Artists‘ Union, Riga
Inta Ruka (together with Andrejs Grants), Strasbourg (F)

“Stories. Storytellers”, together with Anita Zabilevska and Ojars Petersons, contribution of the republic Latvia, 48th Venice Biennale, Chiesa San Giovanni Novo, Venice
“Art and Spirituality”, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga
“Tre sätt att se” (together with Marie Hoeg and Britt Marie Trensmar), Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
“Travel from Liepāja to Balvi” (together with Andrejs Grants), Gallery of the Latvian Artists‘ Union, Riga

“Under / Exposed”, Stockholm Underground, Stockholm
“Five Photographers from Latvia”, Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza, Lucca (I)

“The Living Space”, Galerie Station 3”, Vienna
“Farewell to the Empire, Social Photography from Latvia”, Gallery XXL,
Sofia (BUL)

“Inta Ruka, Valts Kleins, Vilhelms Mihailovskis”, Polish Culture Center, Stockholm

“Inta Ruka, Gints Bērziņš, Andrejs Grants, Egons Spuris”, Photo Fair, Gothenburg

“Inta Ruka and Odile Debloos”, Photo Projekt ”Latvia – France\", Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga

“The Memory of Images. Baltic Photo Art Today”, Städtische Galerie im Sophienhof, Kiel (D); Kunsthalle Rostock; Kunsthalle “Latvija“, Riga; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (LIT); Galerie im Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Baltic Art Center, Gdansk (POL); Museum of Photography, Tallinn (EST); Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen
“Borderlands. Photography of the Baltic States”, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow (GB)
“Images de Lettonie”, Galerie Claire M. Laurin, Aix-en-Provence

“Inta Ruka and Andrejs Grants”, Museum of Photography „Raevangla“, Tallinn (EST)

“A Woman takes Photos of a Woman”, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia, Riga
“Baltisk Fotografi”, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense (DK)

“Comrades & Cameras: Photographs from Latvia and Other Soviet Republics”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
“Evidence”, Gallery M6, Riga

“Latvian Photographers in the Age of Glasnost”, touring exhibition in Canada:Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto; Art Gallery of St. Vincent
University, Halifax; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon; White Water
Gallery, North Bay; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Floating Gallery,
Winnipeg (CAN)

“The Song of Fate”, Latvian War Museum, Riga
“Annee de l\' Est”, Musee de l\'Elysee, Lausanne (CH)
Galerie van der Berlage, Amsterdam (NL)

“Inta Ruka, Andrejs Grants and Egons Spuris”, Gallerie Kashirka, Moskau
“One Day in the Life of Ogre”, photo-action with exhibition, Museum of History and Art, Ogre (LV)
“Latvian Photography”, St. Peter’s Church, Riga
“Foto-Annäherung an die Sowjetunion: Ein fotografischer Dialog / Photographical Acquaints with the USSR: A Photographical Dialogue”, Fachhochschule Bielefeld (D)
“Portrait”, Museum of Regional Studies of Limbaži, Dunte (LV);
Latvian University of Medical Science, Riga

“Inta Ruka and Andrejs Grants”, Museum of Photography, Helsinki;
Turku, Pori (FIN)