Rubem Robierb

Rubem Robierb was born in Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil, a region well known for being the birthplace of many poets. Since a young age, Rubem Robierb began writing poetry, but soon he developed an interest in photography and how images can affect the viewer in an emotional sense. Robierb stated that his work is "all about poetry translated into images."[3] At the age twenty years old, he moved to São Paulo with the intention of attending photography school. At that time he began to do commercial photography for the advertising industry.

Robierb work caught the attention of Art et Partage Association, which in 2005 commissioned him his first solo exhibition, Brezil Autrement (Otherwise Brazil) in Aix-en-Provence, France. Subsequently, São Paulo, Zurich, Monaco, Paris and Milan galleries exhibited his photographs.[3] In 2008 Robierb settled in Miami, U.S., attracted by the Latin flair of this city. He opened a studio in Wynwood and began to participate in the artistic atmosphere of Miami, with a constant presence in Art Basel week. He began experimenting with images printed on metallic paper fused with plexiglass with which he achieved highly expressive large formats.

In 2009 he took part in Red Dot (Art Basel) with Eros / Thanatos series, a group of images in which the artist researched the thin boundary that exists in human sexuality, between ecstasy and suffering.[1] In 2011 he exhibited Show Me the Money series at Curators Voice Art Gallery in MIAMI, in which he crushed dollar bills and photographed it against a solid black background, creating images which deceive the viewer's perception and question the traditional canons of economic power.[4] The Wynwood atmosphere in the heart of the Miami art district, with its graffiti, vibrant art street and galleries, invited him to turn to his third expressive way, painting. In 2012 Robierb debut in New York City art scene at Emmanuel Freming Gallery with his Bullet-Fly Effect series, a group of photographs in which he performed compositions that fused the body of a butterfly, symbol of beauty, with war materials like bullets or machine guns[5] with a result that dramatically evokes images of transformation, beauty, war and death, while establishes a reference to the ‘butterfly effect’ in the Chaos Theory, where the flapping of a butterfly's wings in New York can create a tsunami in Japan.[6] In 2013 at Taglialatella Gallery in New York City, Robierb made his Bullets & Butterflies show, with the same subject as Bullet Fly Effect series but now, with a series of paintings instead of photographs. In 2015 at 212 Gallery in Aspen, the artist showed his HeArt series of paintings that juxtaposes the symbolic heart with everyday symbols and phrases. In 2015 Robierb was commissioned by the city of Fort Lauderdale to paint Metamorph-Us, a large mural in the downtown area, on the outer walls of The Shade-Post, a multipurpose space for art and design.[7] Robierb was named as one of the featured emerging artists on Art Southampton 2015.[8]

On November 4, 2019, Robierb's sculpture Dandara (Dream Machines Series), was unveiled in Tribeca Park, New York City.[9] It was named Dandara after a 42-year-old transgender woman who was brutally attacked and murdered in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 2017.[10]

Robierb has participated in group exhibitions such as Corpo Revelado, Blue Life Cultural Space, São Paulo, Brazil (2006), Art Curial for Fight Aids Monaco Foundation, Monaco (2007), Photophantasma, Avant Gallery, Miami (2009), Arteaméricas Art Fair, Canal Gallery, Miami (2012), The Suit, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago (2014), Beautiful Objects , Curator's Voice Art project, Miami (2014), Hot Spot, Curator's Voice Art Projects, Miami (2015), among others.

Rubem Robierb and his partner of several years, WABC-TV weather anchor, former Weather Channel figure and former lead meteorologist for Good Morning America Sam Champion, announced their engagement on October 5, 2012,[11] and were married on December 21 of that year.[12] Both of them have been activists for equal marriage, actively support GLAAD and Point Foundation LGBT, among others. On May 3, 2013 Champion, accompanied by Robierb, received the award for Visibility, given for their support of LGBT cause, at the Gala Dinner of Atlanta.[13]

• 2019 ”Climate Meltdown”, Arte Fundamental Gallery, Miami, USA
• 2018 ”Metamosphosis” , Sagamore Hotel, Miami, USA
• 2018 ”Metamosphosis” , Taglialatella Gallery, New York, USA
• 2018 ”Metamosphosis” , Taglialatella Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• 2018 ”Metamosphosis” , Taglialatella Gallery, Paris, France
• 2017 ”And The Truth Will Set You Free”, Arte Fundamental Gallery, Miami, USA
• 2017 ”Rubem Robierb New Works”, Octavia Gallery, Houston, USA
• 2017 ”Rubem Robierb New Works”, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, USA
• 2016 ”Rubem Robierb New Works”, Taglialatella Galeries, New York, USA
• 2015 Metamorph-Us, Fort Lauderdale, USA 2015 ”HeArt” Gallery 212, Aspen, USA.
• 2014 ”F-Light”, Atlanta, USA
• 2013 ”Bullets and Butterfies”, Taglialatella Galeries, New York, USA
• 2012 ”Bullet-Fly Effect”, Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York, USA
• 2011 ”Show Me the Money”, Curators Voice Gallery, Miami, USA
• 2009 ”Eros/Thanatos” Miami, USA
• 2008 ”Spiritual Portrait”, Miami, USA
• 2008 ”Faith”, Miami, USA
• 2006 ”Brésil Autrement”, Gallery of the L’Open, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2006 ”Brésil Autrement”, Ilana Gallery, Paris, France
• 2006 Brésil Autrement, Image Gallery The House, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2005 ”Brésil Autrement”, Alliance Française, São Paulo.
• 2005 ”Brésil Autrement”, Gallerie d’Art Contemporin, Aix-en-Provence, France

• 2012 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles, California, U.S. 2012):
• Eros/Thanatos Serie – Category Fine Art: Nudes
• Pop Saints Serie – Category Fine Art: Collage
• Show Me the Money Serie – Category Fine Art: Still Life
• Bullet-Fly Effect Serie – Category Fine Art: Collage
• Casa das Minas Serie – Category People: Culture
• Casa das Minas Serie – Category People: Lifestyle
• See Serie – Category Fine Art: Portrait
• See Serie – Category People: Portrait
• Centauro – Category People: Self-Portrait