Gideon Rubin

Gideon Rubin (born 1973 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a contemporary artist who works with themes such as childhood, family and memory.

Gideon Rubin
Born(1973-06-22)June 22, 1973
NationalityIsraeli
EducationSchool of Visual Arts, New York City. Slade School of Fine Arts, London.
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)Silia Ka Tung
Websitewww.gideonrubin.com

The grandson of the Israeli painter Reuven Rubin and the son of a diplomat, Rubin was greatly influenced by art and culture growing up.[1] Rubin had made abstracted and faceless portraits, which are inspired by images from old photo albums, paparazzi shots of celebrities and paintings by old masters.[2]

Rubin has had numerous international one-man shows. He lives and works in London.

Education

Selected Collections

Gideon Rubin has work in a number of private collections in London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and beyond.[3] Public collections include the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Zabludowicz Collection, London; Sender Collection, Germany; The Speyer Family Collection, NY; The Seavest Collection, NY; Ruinart, France; Fondation Frances, Senile, France; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco.[4]

Exhibitions

Recent notable solo exhibitions include Warning Shadows at Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne;[5] Fragments at Gallery EM, Seoul;[6] The Kaiser's Daughter at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco;[7] Black Book at The Freud Museum, London;[8] If This Not Be I at Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv;[9] Memory Goes as Far as This Morning at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California;[10] Questions of Forgiveness, Galerie Karsten Greve Paris.[11]

Selected group exhibitions include The Conversation at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco;[12] How to Travel in Time at Apexart, New York;[13] Water, Heart, Face at Jerusalem Biennale 2017;[14] Mirror Mirror at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco;[15] The Reading Room, ROKEBY, London;[16] John Moores Painting Prize 2014, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool;[17] Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London;[18] To Have a Voice at the Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow;[19] No New Thing Under the Sun curated by Gabriel Coxhead at the Royal Academy of Art, London.[20]

Publications

  • Gideon Rubin, monograph with texts by Gabriel Coxhead, Martin Herbert, Aya Lurie, Sarah Suzuki (Art/Books, July 2015 ISBN 978-1-908970-20-6) [21]
  • Black Book by Gideon Rubin (Freud Museum London, 2018)
  • Gideon Rubin (Rokeby, 2007, ISBN 0-9550501-4-6)
  • Gideon Rubin, Others (Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940824-44-8)

References


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