Gideon Rubin (; born 1973) is an Israeli-British artist who works with themes such as childhood, family and memory.
The grandson of the Israeli painter
Reuven Rubin
Reuven Rubin (, ; November 13, 1893 – October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
Biography
Reuven Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic f ...
, and the son of diplomat David Rubin and curator of The Rubin Museum since 1983, Carmela Rubin. Gideon was greatly influenced by art and culture growing up. Rubin had made abstracted and faceless portraits, which are inspired by images from old photo albums, paparazzi shots of celebrities and paintings by
.
Rubin has had numerous international one-man shows. He lives and works in London.And has 3 children.
Education
* 2002: MFA,
Slade School of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
, University College, London
* 1999: BFA,
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by Silas ...
, New York
Selected Collections
Gideon Rubin has work in prestigious private collections all over the world. Notable public collections include:
Museum Voorlinden Collection, The Netherlands;
Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Rubin Museum, Israel; Collezione Maramotti, Italy; The Collezione Fondazione San Patrignano, Italy; Collezione Associazione Genesi, Italy; Fondation Frances, France; Park Seobo Foundation, South Korea.
Exhibitions
Recent solo exhibitions include: A Summer’s Tale,
K11 Art Foundation
The K11 Art Foundation (KAF) is a non-profit art foundation based in Central, Hong Kong, named for an eponymous shopping centre and established by the shopping centre's operator. It supports the development of Chinese contemporary art from Great ...
, Shanghai, Looking Away,
Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne; 13, Galleria
Monica De Cardenas, Milan; Red Boys and Green Girls, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco; Black Book at
The Freud Museum,; If This Not Be I at Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv; Memory Goes as Far as This Morning at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, China and the
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California.
Selected two person and group exhibitions include:
Living Memory: Louise Bourgeois, Nicolas Godin and Gideon Rubin, All Saint’s Chapel, London; No-One's Rose, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney; Duncan Hannah / Gideon Rubin, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv; How to Travel in Time at Apexart, New York;
3Water, Heart, Face at
Jerusalem Biennale
The Jerusalem Biennale is a contemporary art Art exhibition, event which has taken place biannually since 2013. Exhibits are held in different historical and modern locations around Jerusalem, with a focus on where the contemporary art world and t ...
2017; Mirror Mirror at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco; Reflections: Human/Nature, Gana Art Centre, Seoul;
John Moores Painting Prize
The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short- ...
2014,
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.
History
The Walker Art Gallery's collection dates from 1819 ...
, Liverpool ; Summer Show at the
Royal Academy of Arts, London; To Have a Voice at the
Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; No New Thing Under the Sun at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Publications
* Gideon Rubin, ''Look Again'', monograph with texts by Jennifer Higgie, Park Joon, Matthew Holman, Varda Caivano.
Anomie Publishing, 2023, ISBN 978-1-910221-52-5
* Gideon Rubin, monograph with texts by Gabriel Coxhead, Martin Herbert, Aya Lurie, Sarah Suzuki (Art/Books, July 2015 )
* Black Book by Gideon Rubin (Freud Museum London, 2018)
* Gideon Rubin (Rokeby, 2007, )
* Gideon Rubin, Others (Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, 2010, )
References
External links
Gideon Rubin HomepageGideon Rubin at Galerie Karsten GreveGideon Rubin at Hosfelt Gallery
Gideon Rubin at Alon Segev Gallery
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Living people
Israeli artists
1973 births
School of Visual Arts alumni
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art