b. Detroit, MI; 1948 Education 1977          M.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1974          M.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1972-73    Special Graduate Student in Photography, MIT, Cambridge, MA, student of Minor White 1965-70    B.A., Sarah Lawrence College Solo Exhibitions 2005    Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA 2005    Belonging: Selected Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2004    Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2001    Millenial Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2000    Joan's Arc: Part Two, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1999    Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1999    Bunting Institute Gallery, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 1998    LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1997    Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 1996    Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1996    Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1993    Critical Mass, collaborative photo, video, text installation, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe NM, with Ellen Zweig and Steina and Woody Vasulka Travelling exhibit to MIT List Center; Southeast Museum of Photography, FL; University of Wyoming, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, among others 1995    Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO 1995    Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington DC 1992    Selections from "Critical Mass", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990    Labyrinths and Constellations, University of Texas, Arlington 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 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 1982    New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, A/Un Ranch, an installation of slow scan images sent via telephone to the Paris Beinnale 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 Selected Recent Group Exhibitions 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 2004    Visions of Passage, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, traveling exhibition and book 2003    LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2003    A Handful of Soldiers-S Site Los Alamos, NM Office of Cultural Affairs, traveling exhibit and catalogue 2001    Conceptual Color; In Albers' Afterimage, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco CA 2001    Contemporary Configurations - Peter Alexander, Meridel Rubenstein and Ted Orland, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 1998    The Defining Eye, St. Louis Art Museum, MO 1997    Eye of the Beholder, International Center for Photography, New York, NY 1997    A Natural Selection, curated by Dominique Nahas, Z Gallery, New York, NY 1997    Art Scientia, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 1996    Art and the Law, travelling exhibition, West Publishing Co., Minneapolis, MN 1996    Contemporary Art in New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 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 1994    Jonson Gallery Visiting Artists, Spring, 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 Institution, Washington DC 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 Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1991    Nuclear Matters, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 1990    Shelters and Structures, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco 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 1987    Myth/Ritual, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Selected Grants and Fellowships 2003-04    Kahn Institute Fellowship, Smith College 2003-4    Smith College Faculty Development Awards 2002-3    Rockefeller Fellowship, Joiner (Vietnam Study Center), University of Massachusetts, Boston 2001    Award, New Mexico Women in the Arts 2000    Peter Reed Foundation, New York, NY 1999-2000    National Millenium Survey 1998-99    Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 1998    Pollock-Krasner Award 1997    Artist in Residence, New Genres, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA 1994-5    Alternate, United States/Japan Artists' Fellowships, NEA 1994-5    SITE Santa Fe, artists commission 1992    NEA Photographer's Fellowship 1991    Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Portland Art Museum/Film Center 1990    New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, NEA/Rockefeller 1988-89    NEA Inter-Arts Grant (with Steina and Woody Vasulka and Ellen Zweig) 1987    Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY 1983    NEA Photographers Fellowship, Emerging Artist 1982    NEA Photographic Survey Grant 1981-82    John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1977    Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA Public and Corporate Collections American Telephone and Telegraph Avon Collection, New York, NY Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Denver Museum of Art Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX Fine Arts Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Museum of Albuquerque, NM Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany National Museum of American Art, Washington DC New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Principal Financial Group Rocky Mountain Energy Co, Denver, CO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Santa Barbara Museum of Art Valley National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ Vesti Corporation, Boston, MA California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM Artist's Website www.meridelrubenstein.com
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