Profile

  • 1999

    BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York

  • 2002

    MFA, Slade School of Fine art, University College, London

solo exhibitions

  • 2023

    “Substance to Shadows” at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
    “13” at Galleria Monica De Cardenas
    “The Last Day of Summer” at Maho Kubota, Tokyo

  • 2022

    “A Summer’s Tale” at K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai
    “Looking Away” at Galerie Karsten Greve
    Red Boys and Green Girls”: Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

  • 2021

    Forthcoming”: Ryan Lee, New York
    Forthcoming”: HdM Gallery, Beijing
    We Thought It Was Heaven Tomorrow”, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney & Auckland

  • 2020

    NOF”: Gideon Rubin and Eldar Farber, The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
    A Stranger’s Hand”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
    Gideon Rubin”, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
    Black Book”, Jerusalem Artists’ House, curated by Marie Shek, Jerusalem

  • 2019

    Warning Shadows”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

  • 2018

    Fragments”, Gallery EM, Seoul
    On the Far Side of the Mirror”, Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz
    The Kaiser’s Daughter”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
    Comrade”, AE2, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
    Black Book”, Freud Museum London, curated by James Putnam, London

  • 2017

    If This Not Be I”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
    Once Removed”, Pharos Art Foundation, Cyprus

  • 2016

    Memory Goes as Far as This Morning” curated by Xiaohui Gao, MOCA Chengdu, China
    Memory Goes as Far as This Morning”, San Jose ICA, San Jose, California
    Questions of Forgiveness”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

  • 2015

    Memory Goes as Far as This Morning”, curated by Aya Lurie, Herzliya MOCA, Israel
    Blue House”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

  • 2014

    Delivering Newspapers”, ROKEBY, London

  • 2013

    On the Road”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
    Last Year’s Man”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

  • 2012

    Measured Distance”, ROKEBY, London
    Brief Encounters”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

  • 2010

    To Change Air A Little”, Bialik House, curated by Marie Shek, Tel Aviv
    Others”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris

  • 2009

    1929”, ROKEBY, London
    Mexican Summer”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

  • 2008

    Family Album」, Alon Segev Gallery, テルアビブ

  • 2007

    A Boy’s Life”, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
    Gideon Rubin”, Rokeby, London

  • 2006

    Tender”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
    Red Ribbon”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

  • 2003

    Toy Soldier”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

selected group exhibitions

  • 2023

    ‘Living Memory: Louise Bourgeois, Nicolas Godin & Gideon Rubin’,
    curated by Beth Greenacre at All Saint’s Chapel, London

  • 2021

    Forthcoming”: Reflections, Gana Art Centre, Seoul
    “Spring Show”, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo
    On Cardboard”, Monica De Cardenas, Milan
    Holding Hands”, Union Gallery, London
    Of Paper”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

  • 2020

    High Voltage”, Nassima/Landau Art Space, Tel Aviv
    Identities”, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz
    To Paint Is To Love”, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Olivier Zahm
    Self-Portrait: One Can Only Depict Oneself”, City Gallery Kfar Saba, curated by Meira Perry-Lehmann

  • 2019

    On Hair and Bathing”, The Artists House, Tel Aviv, curated by Irit Levin
    Notes, Rubin Museum”, Tel Aviv
    Eros”, Fox Jensen Gallery, Auckland
    Eros”, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney
    Elements”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
    The Conversation”, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
    Au Fil de l’Amour”, Maison des Arts et Loisirs de Laon, France

  • 2018

    How to Travel in Time”, Apexart, curated by Sara Rosenbaum, New York
    All In the Family”, Senate Gallery, Ben-Gurion University, curated by Haim Ma’or, Israel
    139 X Nothing But Good”, Park – Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg
    Pick & Pocket”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

  • 2017

    La mère la mer”, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, curated by Kevin
    Moore
    Pick & Pocket. Small is Beautiful”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
    Water, Heart, Face”, Jerusalem Biennale, curated by Avital Naor Wexler, Jerusalem Kunstlerraume II”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
    Mirror Mirror”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
    The Reading Room”, ROKEBY, London

  • 2016

    Summer Show”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
    Accrochage”, Galerie Karsten Greve, St Moritz

  • 2015

    Nourish”, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, curated by Nancy Willis, California
    Words Without Letters”, Alon Segev Gallery, curated by Guy Yanai, Tel Aviv
    L’autre Visage”, Tal Coat a Neumann, Galerie Univer, curated by Itzhak Goldberg, Paris Accrochage, Galerie Karsten Greve, St Moritz

  • 2014

    Disturbing Innocence” FLAG Art Foundation curated by Eric Fischl, New York
    Daily memories”, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany
    John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
    Artist Rooms”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

  • 2013

    Mud and Water”, ROKEBY, London
    Carnval”, Fondation Frances, Senils
    Accrochage”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

  • 2012

    Artist’s Children. From Runge to Richter and Dix to Picasso”, Kunsthalle Emden,
    Germany
    Summer Show”, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    This is London”, Shizaru Gallery, London
    To Have a Voice”, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, curated by Jenny
    Brownrigg, Glasgow

  • 2011

    Facelook”, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
    On Paper III”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
    Not for Sale”, Passage de Retz, Paris
    Lines Made By Walking”, Haifa Museum of Art, curated by Ruti Direktor, Haifa
    Time Flies”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
    Rubin Rauchwerger Farber Reshef”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
    Formally Speaking”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

  • 2010

    The International Beijing Biennial, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing
    No New Thing Under the Sun”, curated by Gabriel Coxhead, Royal Academy of Art,
    London
    Small Adults”, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel-Aviv
    Head or Tails”, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
    On Paper II”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
    A Chacun Son Dessin”, Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Geneva

  • 2009

    Strictly Painting V”, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt
    Family Traces”, Israel Museum, curated by Tami Manor-Friedman, Jerusalem
    Vivid Fantasy”, Kunst im Schloss, Temporäres Museum
    On Paper”, Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris
    Hip-ok-risy”, Mayor’s and City of London Court, London

  • 2008

    Nomenus Group Show”, Dactyl Foundation, New York
    Art Futures”, Bloomberg Space, London
    Israeli Art Now”, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art, Las Vegas

  • 2007

    Sequence and Repetition”, Beldam Gallery and Jerwood Space, curated by Silia Ka
    Tung, London
    Bomberg’s Relevance”, Ben Uri Museum of Jewish Art, London

  • 2006

    Inaugural Exhibition”, Hosfelt Gallery, New York
    Britishness, Another Product”, Cornerhouse, Manchester

  • 2005

    A Sharp Intake of Breath”, Beldam Gallery, London

  • 2004

    Self Portrait”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
    BP Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
    2 x 2”, Dahl Gallery of Contemporary Art, Luzerne
    Trackers”, PM Gallery & House, London
    Le salon Europeen des Jeunes Createurs 49”, France and Portugal
    Young painters”, Art Space Gallery, London

  • 2002

    BP Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
    Good Look”, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
    Hang the Curator”, The Central Space, London
    Story Teller”, Kinnijoe Space, Hamburg

selected bibliography and press

  • 2021

    Guillaume Lasserre, ‘Gideon Rubin, peintre de l’effacement’, Mediapart, January 2021
    Eve Laliberte, ‘The Belonging of Memories’, January 2021
    Roni Tarsinger, ‘A New Landscape Exhibition in the Time of Corona’, January 2021

  • 2020

    Guillaume Lasserre, ‘Gideon Rubin, peintre de l’effacement’, Mediapart, January 2021
    Eve Laliberte, ‘The Belonging of Memories’, January 2021
    Roni Tarsinger, ‘A New Landscape Exhibition in the Time of Corona’, January 2021

  • 2019

    La mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
    Frontrunner, limited edition zine, presented at Galerie Karsten Greve,
    Art Basel Miami
    New Magazine, Issue 2, April 2019
    Unconditional, Issue 8 – The Body Issue, April 2019

  • 2018

    Black Book de Gideon Rubin, Interview, Tenou’a, September 2018
    Cover Up, Tank Magazine, July 2018
    Jonathan Curiel, Pop Kulturkampf at Hosfelt Gallery, SF weekly, April 22
    Alexander Douglas Bryan, Black Book review, The London Magazine, March 22
    Painting Over the Past, Elephant magazine, March 26
    Taylor Dafoe, Black Book, Artnet news, March 15
    Jonathan Mcaloon, Gideon Rubin: Black Book, TimeOut London, April 15

  • 2016

    Melody Boh, Insert Face Here, Art Republik Magazine, January, pp. 130-131.
    Jeffrey Edalatpour, Stories With Faceless Figures, MetroActive, San Jose CA,
    March 2.
    Le Cadre, Emmanuelle, Expo: Gideon Rubin: ‘Questions of Forgiveness.’ ExpoParis.fr 2015
    Xiaohui Guo, Memory Goes as Far as this Morning, Artzip, issue 14, pp. 99-106.
    Martin Herbert, Losing Face, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, December, pp.28-31.

  • 2014

    Ariel Rosen, Gideon Rubin’s ‘On the Road’ at Hosfelt Gallery, SFAQ, January.
    Alex Greenberger, Gideon Rubin on the Tragic Origin of His Faceless Portraits,
    Artspace
    Iris Julia Buhrle – Gideon Rubin, Last Year’s Man – The Frenchmag

  • 2011

    Tory Noll – Gideon Rubin – Whitewall magazine, December 2.
    Carl Hoffman – Jerusalem Post, July 1.
    Tamar Rotem – The social network redone, without the face (or the book) – Ha’artz

  • 2010

    Bialik, Poet’s Mission – Epoch Times Israel, December 31
    Gideon Ofrat – Minorism, Israeli Art at the Dawn of the 21st Century
    Georgia Fee, Without A Name, Artslant.com, Sept 7.
    Laura Davis – No New Thing Under The Sun review – The Independent 2010
    Kimberly Chen – No New Thing Under The Sun review – Spindle Magazine

  • 2009

    Kristopher Houser – Gideon Rubin, The Moment blog, New York Times

  • 2008

    Amy Simon, Gideon Rubin, ARTnews, December.

  • 2007

    Julia Weiner – A talented artist…- Jewish Chronicle
    Brown, Neal. Fill in the Blanks, The First Post, April 20.
    JJ Charlesworth – Gideon Rubin – Time Out London, April 25- May 1, p. 42
    De Cruz, Gemma. Watching the Figures, BBC.co.uk, April 12.
    Herbert, Martin. Repetition and Sequence, Time Out London.

  • 2006

    Abir, Leah. Oil On Canvas, Time Out Tel Aviv.
    Sheffi, Smadar. Back to the Portrait, Haaretz Guide, April 21, p. 21.

  • 2003

    Klil Zisapel -Toy Soldier catalogue essay – Alon Segev Gallery
    Yaron Freed, Toy Painter, Time Out Tel-Aviv

  • 2002

    Vered Lee – Price Above Rubin – Ha’aretz Magazine
    Sheffii, Smadar, Good Look, exhibition review, Haaretz

talks and seminars

  • 2018

    Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

  • 2017

    Royal College of Art, London
    HaMidrasha Faculty of the Arts, Israel

  • 2016

    Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu
    San Jose State University, California

  • 2012

    Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

awards

  • 2014

    Shifting Foundation Prize, California, USA

selected collection

  • Museum Voorlinden Collection, The Netherlands
    Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel
    McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
    The Zabludowicz Collection, London
    The Speyer Family Collection, NY
    The Seavest Collection, NY
    Ruinart, France; Fondation Frances, France
    Rubin Museum, Israel
    The Collezione Fondazione San Patrignano, Italy
    he Collezione Maramotti, Italy