Charlie Rubin

b. 1986, Bronx, New York
Lives and works in the Bronx, New York

Education

  • 2012 · MFA Photography, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York
  • 2008 · BA, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2025 · Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography · Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  • 2020 · VISCERAL8 · online, curated by Sabrina Santiago
  • 2018 · Slow Motion · John Doe Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (two-person)
  • 2017 · Roll Call · Teaching Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
  • 2017 · By Us · Chinatown Soup, New York
  • 2016 · High Summer · Foley Gallery, New York
  • 2016 · Trompe l’oeil · Galerie Protégé, New York
  • 2016 · That Feeling When · Net Photo Festival, Daegu, South Korea
  • 2016 · Work in Progress · ROOT Studios, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2015 · Intervention · Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 2015 · Camera Work · Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, New York
  • 2015 · LA Art Book Fair · The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • 2015 · Guilded · Kasher-Potamkin, New York
  • 2014 · 5 Years of Talent · Foam, Amsterdam
  • 2014 · 5 Years of Talent · Crédit Agricole, Arles, France
  • 2014 · Process · Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle
  • 2014 · Hyper-Active · Design Center, Shanghai
  • 2014 · Made in Fukushima · X Library, Fukushima, Japan
  • 2014 · Window installation · Printed Matter, New York
  • 2014 · NY Art Book Fair · MoMA PS1, Queens, New York
  • 2013 · Foam Talent · ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg
  • 2013 · Foam Talent · Galerie Mercatorplein, Amsterdam
  • 2013 · Bright Young Things · Unseen, Amsterdam
  • 2013 · The View From Nowhere · Photoville, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2012 · Twenty-One Cousins · MFA thesis exhibition, Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York
  • 2012 · Print/Out · Museum of Modern Art, New York · artist book, vitrine display

Books

  • 2021 · SPIT, SCRATCH, SMILE · self-published, New York · 60 pp, 28 × 22.5 cm, offset and risograph, edition of 350
  • 2014 · Strange Paradise · Conveyor Studio, Brooklyn · edition of 750

Editions

  • 2021 · Limited edition prints, OpenLab, released alongside SPIT, SCRATCH, SMILE

Awards & Residencies

  • 2018 · Artist Residency, Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 2014 · Fellowship, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
  • 2013 · Foam Talent, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam · selected from approximately 1,600 applicants
  • 2012 · Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
  • 2011 · Pingyao International Photography Festival Fellowship, Pingyao, China
  • 2011 · Dean’s Graduate Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York

Projects & Initiatives

  • 2015–2019 · Yo-NEWYORK! · founder · collaborative arts publication
  • 2013–2017 · Neighboring Walls · founder · series of open-call residential art exhibitions, Brooklyn

Lectures

  • Visiting lecturer, Den Danske Filmskole (National Film School of Denmark), Copenhagen
  • Visiting lecturer, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York
  • Lecture, NY Art Book Fair, New York

Selected Commissions

Institutional, 2013–present

Aspen Art Museum · Whitney Museum of American Art · Museum of Modern Art and MoMA Design Store · Judd Foundation · Bronx Museum of the Arts · High Line Art · Greene Naftali

Editorial and commercial

The New York Times · The New Yorker · W Magazine · Vanity Fair · i-D · Cultured Magazine · Bloomberg Businessweek · VICE · T Brand Studio · Nike / Jordan · Telfar · Khaite · Attersee · No Agency · Gauntlett Cheng

Selected Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
  • Henry Art Museum, Seattle
  • Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
  • Private collections

Selected Press

  • 2017 · Self Publish, Be Happy · interview
  • 2015 · Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York · “Touch ID: Charlie Rubin’s Tactile Images”
  • 2015 · Humble Arts Foundation · “Who Cares What Is a Photograph? Charlie Rubin Makes Great Art”
  • 2014 · Humble Arts Foundation · Best Photobooks of the Year, for Strange Paradise
  • 2014 · Complex · Kaitlyn Schaeffer, “‘Strange Paradise’ by Charlie Rubin Examines Our Ability to Perceive Truth in a Digitally Manipulated World,” 8 March
  • 2014 · Haverford College · “The Strange Paradise of Charlie Rubin ’08”
  • 2013 · Foam Magazine · Talent Issue, Fall 2013
  • 2013 · AINT—BAD · artist feature
  • 2012 · Dazed · “Parsons MFA Photography: Charlie Rubin”
  • LensCulture · artist feature, Strange Paradise

Contact

charlierubinprojects@gmail.com

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