Meridel Rubenstein (American, born )

Timeline

1948
Born Detroit, MI
1965–1970
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
1972–1973
Special Graduate Student in Photography, MIT Cambridge, MA
1974
M.A., University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
1977
M.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
1976–1980
Founded the Photography program at the College of Santa Fe
1981
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1988
NEA Photographic Survey Grant
1985–1990
Headed the Photography program at San Francisco State University
1990–1996
Founded creative Photography department at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
NEA Inter-Arts Grant
Art Matters Inc., New York, NY
NEA Photographers Fellowship, Emerging Artist
NEA Photographer's Fellowship
Western States Regional Media ARts Fellowship Portland Art Museum/Film Center
New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, NEA/Rockefeller
Alternate, United States/Japan Artists' Fellowship
Collections
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM

Exhibitions

2012
Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2012
Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, International Workshop on Photosynthesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2012
Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, Chan Hampe Gallery, Tanjong Pagar, Singapore
2012
Millennial Forest, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Belonging: Selected Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005
Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Beyond Monochrome, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004
In Focus, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,MA
2004
Boats and Vessels, installation and lecture, Brattleboro Museum, Vermont
2003
A Handful of Soldiers-S Site Los Alamos, NM Office of Cultural Affairs, traveling exhibit and catalogue
2003
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2003
“Belonging” LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001
Contemporary Configurations - Peter Alexander, Meridel Rubenstein and Ted Orland, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2001
Millenial Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000
Joan's Arc: Part Two, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999
Bunting Institute Gallery, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1998
The Defining Eye, St. Louis Art Museum, MO
1997
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL
1996
Brian Gross Fine Art San Francisco, CA
1996
Horwitch LewAllen Gallery Santa Fe, NM
1996
Art and the Law, West Publishing Co. Minneapolis, MN
1995
Longing and Belonging, SITE Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM
1995
Mapped Out: Reinventing the New Mexico Landscape, Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
1995
Forum for Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO
1995
Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery Washington DC
1993–1995
Critical Mass, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe NM
1994
Jonson Gallery Visiting Artists, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
1992
Ronald Feldman Gallery New York, NY
1992
The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs, Massachusetts College of Art Cambridge, MA
1992
Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst. Washington DC
1992
Selections from "Critical Mass, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1991
Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Big Picture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
1991
Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1991
Identity Crisis: Portraits in the Eighties, Center for Creative Photography, University of AZ Tucson, AZ
1991
Nuclear Matters, Camerawork San Francisco, CA
1990
Shelters and Structures, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco
1990
Labyrinths and Constellations, University of Texas Arlington
1989
Witness, Fuller Gross Gallery San Francisco, CA
1989
Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Photography, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center San Francisco, CA
1988
Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick gallery Washington DC
1988
Fuller-Gross Gallery San Francisco, CA
1987
Labyrinths and Constellations, Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM
1987
Myth/Ritual, Camerawork San Francisco, CA
1986
Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX
1985
California Museum of Photography University of California, Riverside, CA
1983
Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1983
Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1982
A/Un Ranch, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe
1982
The Lowriders, Consejo Mexicano de Fotographia Mexico City
1981
The Lowriders, Artists Space New York, NY
1981
The Lowriders, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM
1979
La Gente de la Luz, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
1977
La Gente de la Luz, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM

Literature

2004
Meridel Rubenstein, “Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, Photoworks and Installations,” St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles, with essays by Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Lippard, Elaine Scarry, and James Crump.
English (US)

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