In 2002 Ross invented and patented his revolutionary R1 camera to photograph Mount Sopris in Colorado, which allowed him to produce some of the highest resolution large-scale landscape photographs in the world—his Mountain series. More recently, he has developed new techniques for generating computer-based videos, including Harmonium Mountain I, with an original score by Philip Glass, and his Digital Waves.

The artist’s collaborations include work with Pan Gongkai, renowned ink painter and President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Chinese composer and musician Wu Tong. He also worked with architects Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam on the Austin Federal Courthouse, where he created The Austin Wall—a 3.5 ton, 28′ x 28′ stained-glass wall. The building and Ross’ Wall were recognized with an Honor Award for Federal Design from the U.S. General Services Administration in 2014.

MASS MoCA presented Landscape: Seen & Imagined, a major mid-career retrospective in 2015. In conjunction with the exhibition, the MIT Press published two companion books, Hurricane Waves and Seen & Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross, including essays by David Anfam, Quentin Bajac, Phong Bui, Jay Clarke, Arthur Danto, Jack Flam, Nicholas Negroponte, Jock Reynolds, Orville Schell, and Joe Thompson.

Ross’ works have been exhibited in museums around the world, and are in many collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.