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- Born
- 1948
- Detroit, Michigan
- Education
- 1977
- MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
- 1974
- MA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
- 1972-73
- Special Graduate Student in Photography, MIT, Cambridge, MA, student of Minor White
- 1965-70
- BA, Sarah Lawrence College
- Website
- www.meridelrubenstein.com
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
exhibition catalog
- 2019
- Eden in Iraq, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
exhibition catalog
- 2018–19
- Oppenheimer’s Chair and The Meeting, ATOMIC HISTORIES, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
- 2018
- Eden Turned on Its Side, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
- Meridel Rubenstein: Tickling the Dragon’s Tail, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
- Eden Turned on Its Side, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
- 2017
- Eden in Iraq, National Design Center, Singapore
- 2015
- Meridel Rubenstein: The Volcano Cycle, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Eden Turned on its Side: Parts 1 and 2, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- 2014
- Eden Turned on its Side: Selections from Eden Turned on its Side, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- 2012
- Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, International Workshop on Photosynthesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Heaven Turned on its Side: Photosynthesis, Chan Hampe Gallery, Tanjong Pagar, Singapore
- Millennial Forest, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
- 2005
- Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, Loco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA
- Belonging: Selected Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- The Lowriders, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- 2004-05
- Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- 2001
- Millennial Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2000–01
- Joan’s Arc / Vietnam: Part 2 & 3, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 1999
- Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Bunting Institute Gallery, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
- 1998
- LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- The Defining Eye, St. Louis Art Museum, traveling exhibition and book
- 1997
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- 1996
- Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 1993-97
- Critical Mass, collaborative photo, video, text installation, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, with Ellen Zweig and Steina and Woody Vasulka. Traveling 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
- Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington D.C.
- 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
- 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
- 1983
- Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
- 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
- The Lowriders, Consejo Mexicano de Fotographia, Mexico City, Mexico
- 1981
- The Lowriders, Artists Space, New York, NY
- 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
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Photo Based: Works by Tony Berlant, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Keira Kotler, Meridel Rubenstein, and Paul Sarkisian, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Breath Taking, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- 2020
- Trinity: Artist Reflections on the Bomb, Albuquerque Museum, NM
- WORD PLAY, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
exhibition catalog
- Rooted—Trees in Contemporary Art, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
- 2018
- “In the Marshes: Eden in Iraq,” CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2018, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
- Uber-Vernacular, Art Gallery, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2016
- Con Carino: Artists Inspired by Lowriders, NM Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- Lowriders, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
- Zen Landscapes, Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
- Changing Circumstances, Looking at the Future of the Planet, Fotofest, Houston, TX
- Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 2015
- Altered Landscapes, Judith Bear Isroff Gallery, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
- 2014
- All That Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
- Grounded, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- The Armory Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- El Agua es Vida: Acequias in Northern New Mexico, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM
- 2013
- Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce, Honolulu Museum of Art
- 2012
- Earth Messages: Perspectives from Environmental Artists, NTU Art & Heritage Museum, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Eden Again, a collaborative land art commission, for the International Symposium on Electronic Arts(ISEA), Albuquerque, New Mexico to make a Art/Ecology Wastewater Garden mirroring the proposed Art/Ecology Wastewater Garden to be built in the S. Iraq Marshes hopefully 2012-13
- Conversations, Photography from The Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museo del Novacento, Milan,Italy; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 2011-2012
- Les Musées Sont du Monde, Stage Contemporain, Musee de Louvre, Paris
- 2011
- Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art, Selections from the New Mexico Museum of Art contemporary collection, New Mexico Museum or Art, Santa Fe, NM ; Archimedes’ Chamber, collaborative video/photo/sound installation with Ellen Zweig
- Know The Rules – Then Break Them, Di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
- 2008
- PHOTOGRAPHY: New Mexico, University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, book
- LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Giving Shelter, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, poster image
- Big Picture, Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
- 2007
- (REAL): Photographic Construct, Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado
- Faith Placed: The Intersection of Spirituality and Location in Contemporary Photography, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
- 2005
- The Art of Engagement, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
- Beyond Monochrome, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
- Heartfelt, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University
- TerraFirma, Blue Sky Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
- 2004
- Ditto, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
- In Focus, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- 2003
- LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
- A Handful of Soldiers-S Site Los Alamos, New Mexico Office of Cultural Affairs, traveling exhibit and catalogue
- 2002
- Boats and Vessels, installation and lecture, Brattleboro Museum, VT
- Visions of Passage. Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA , traveling exhibition and book
- 2001
- Conceptual Color; In Albers’ Afterimage, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 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, (traveling exhibition and book)
- 1997
- Eye of the Beholder, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
- A Natural Selection, curated by Dominique Nahas, Z Gallery, New York, NY
- Art Scientia, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
- 1996
- Art and the Law, traveling exhibition, West Publishing Co., Minneapolis, MN
- Contemporary Art in New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
- 1995
- Longing and Belonging, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
- Mapped Out: Reinventing the New Mexico Landscape, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
- 1994
- Jonson Gallery Visiting Artists, Spring, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- 1992
- Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
- The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs, Massachusetts College of Art, Cambridge
- 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, CA
- Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Identity Crisis: Portraits in the Eighties, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Nuclear Matters, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
- 1990
- Shelters and Structures, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1989
- Witness, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 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
- 1986
- Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
- 1985
- The Essential Landscape, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 1981
- International Festival of Photography, Arles, France
- Selected Grants and Fellowships
- 2020
- Green Citizen Award, UNESCO, for Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden
- 2017
- Exhibition Award, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2012–15
- Tier 1 Research Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2012–13
- Tier 0 Research Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2010
- Fellow, World Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007-08
- Pollock-Krasner Award, New York City, NY
- 2006
- Residency, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh,Ireland
- 2003-04
- Kahn Institute Fellowship, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
- 2002-5
- 3 Smith College Faculty Development Awards, book project
- 2002-3
- Rockefeller Fellowship, Joiner (Vietnam Study) Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2001
- Award, New Mexico Women in the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2000
- Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York, New York
- 1999-2000
- National Millennium Survey, National Endowment for the Arts, via The
- Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
- 1998-99
- Fellow, Bunting Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
- 1998
- Pollock-Krasner Award, New York City, NY
- 1997
- Artist in Residence-New Genres, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
- 1994-95
- SITE Santa Fe, artist installation commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1992
- National Endowment for the Arts, Photographer’s Fellowship, also 1981
- 1991
- Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Portland Art Museum/Film Center/American Film Institute
- 1990
- New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, (National Endowment for the Arts /Rockefeller Foundation), Diverse Works, Houston
- 1988-89
- National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant (with Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Ellen Zweig)
- 1981-82
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
- Selected Work Experience
- 2020
- Visiting Researcher, Department of Science and Technology, Media and Information Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
- 2014–
- Adjunct Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
- Research Associate, Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM and UK
- 2011–
- Project Director, Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project, Southern Iraq
- 2010–2018
- Visiting Associate Professor, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
- 2009
- Visiting Artist, Santa Catalina High School, Monterey, CA
- 2007–2009
- Senior Fellow, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
- 2006
- Visiting Artist, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
- Artist Residency, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
- 2000-05
- Harnish Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
- 1997-2000
- Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1990-96
- Professor of Art, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1985-90
- Associate Professor, Head, Photo Area and Graduate program, Art Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
- 1988-95
- Trustee, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco,CA
- Public and Corporate Collections
- Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
- Albuquerque Museum, NM
- AT&T
- Avon Collection, New York, NY
- Bank of America, Chicago, IL
- Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
- California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside, CA
- Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Deloitte and Touche, San Francisco, CA
- Denver Art Museum, CO
- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
- Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
- The LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
- Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
- Nanyang Technological University Art & History Museum, Singapore
- New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
- Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
- Principal Financial Group
- Rocky Mountain Energy Co, Denver, CO
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
- Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
- The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM and Mumbai, India
- Valley National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix
- Vesti Corporation, Boston, MA
- Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM
- William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
- University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
- Bibliography
- Eden Turned on its Side: Photoworks by Meridel Rubenstein, University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, forward by Arif Kahn, essays by Dr. Shawn Michelle Smith and Alan Weisman, October 2017.
- Meridel Rubenstein, Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam, Photoworks and Installations, St. Ann’s Press: Los Angeles, essays by Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Lippard, Elaine Scarry, and James Crump, October 2004.
- Pelts, Sam. “Meridel Rubenstein, Eden in Iraq: Water Extraction and Restoration”, EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Codex Foundation, Berkeley, CA, January 2021, pp. 512-513.
- Rubenstein, Meridel. “Adam and Eve in the Southern Iraq Marshes,” DARK MOUNTAIN, issue 17, Dark Mountain Project, UK , Spring 2020, p. B4.
- Guzman, Alicia Inez. “What to Read This Month, ‘Eden Turned on its Side: Photoworks by Meridel Rubenstein,’” New Mexico Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, February 2020, p.1.
- Roth, David M. “Meridel Rubenstein @ Brian Gross,” Squarecylinder.com, March 18, 2019.
- Chua, Melanie. “Recovering Eden, Making for Sustainable Community,” (essay with portfolio), BRACK—The Energy Issue, no.4, 2019.
- ‘Genesis of Hope,’ Trend Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2018, pp.48-57.
- Orale! lowiders: Custom Made in New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press: Santa Fe, essay by Don Unser, interview with Meridel Rubenstein by Kate Ware, 2016, pp.39-57.
- Davide Tocchetto (testo) and Meridel Rubenstein (fotos), ‘Mesopotamia A Secco’, La Nuova Ecologia, anno XXXVI, numero 1, Gennaio 2016, pp. 62-64.
- Changing Circumstances, Looking at the Future of the Planet, Fotofest 2016, Biennial, ed. Wendy Watriss, Schilt Publishing: Amsterdam, 2016, pp58-63.
- Dubai Photo, exhibition catalogue, Dubai, 2016, pp.454-455.
- Hearne Pardee, MERIDEL RUBENSTEIN, The Volcano Cycle, The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2015.
- Meridel Rubenstein ‘Two images Julia Margaret Cameron and Emmet Gowin’, Stories from the Camera: Reflections on the Photograph, ed. Michele M. Penhall, University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 2015, p. 115.
- Jonathan Curiel, ‘Meridel Rubenstein at Brian Gross Fine Art,’ San Francisco Weekly, September 23, 2015.
- Jon Carver, ‘Artist Profile: Meridel Rubenstein,’ art ltd, Los Angeles, July/August 2015, pp. 24-25.
- Richard Tobin, ‘Critical Reflection: Eden Turned on Its Side’, THE Magazine, Summer 2015.
- Lois Rudnick, ‘The Arts of Nuclear (Dis)enchantment’, El Palacio Magazine, The Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, vol 20, no.1, Spring 2015, pp.39-40.
- Anderson Turner, ‘Altered Landscapes Enchant,’ Akron Beacon Journal, Sunday Life Section, March 1, 2015, p. E1, E5, reproduction.
- Mark Nelson, ‘Adam and Eve’s Sewage Problem, Solutions for a sustainable and desirable future,’ The Solution Journal, Vol 5, Issue no.4, Jan. 2015, pp 17-22.
- Hannah Hoel, ‘Meridel Rubenstein: Eden Turned on Its Side: Selections from Photosynthesis’, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, September 2014, pp. 60.
- Michael Abatemarco, ‘Back to the Garden’, Pasatiempo Magazine, Santa Fe New Mexican, August 1 , 2014, cover and pp. 46-47.
- Suzanne Sbarge, ISEA 2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, Radius Books 2012, p.82.
- Shapeshifting:Transformations in Native American Art, ed. Karen Kramer Russell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, p.35, 2012
- Dr. Sri Kartini Leet, Reading Photography: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts 1921-2000, Lund Humphries, London,pp.273,274,277, 2011
- Conversations – Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 50,51.
- Les musées sont des mondes, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Gallimard et Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2011, p. 37
- Rebecca Blythem “Return to Eden,” Elements Magazine, photo p.27, New Zealand, July 2011
- PHOTOGRAPHY: New Mexico, Thomas Barrow, editor/curator, with essays by Kristin Barendsen and Stuart Ashman, Fresco Fine Art Publications, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 231-37, August 2008.
- Weekends with O’Keefe, C.S. Merrill, University of New Mexico Press, 2010, pp.41, 58, 77, 109-10, 197
- Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the 20th Century Southwest, Audrey Goodman,The University of Arizona Press, 2010, Jacket photo: Tilano’s Garden 1993 pp. 7, 99, 100, 109-113
- Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas, Silvia Spitta, University of Texas Press, 2009 p. 129
- FLUX-Reflections in Contemporary Glass, ed. Laura Addison, New Mexico Museum of Art, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008 pp. 17-19, with reproduction.
- Carey Lovelace, Making it Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, exhibition catalogue, reproduction. 2009
- Sarah S. King, “On View”, photograph, vol. 4 no.5,, New York, NY, May/June 2007, pp.80-81.
- Rebecca Solnit, Storming The Gates of Paradise, Landscapes for Politics, University of California Press, 2007, pp.167-6, 272.
- LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, edited by Max Andrews, the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce), December 2006,pp.35-37.
- 100 artists of the Southwest, ed. Douglis Bullis, 2006, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Atglen, Scotland
- One of A Kind: Portraits from the La Salle Bank Collection, D.A.P., New York, 2007, p.15.
- Susan Boulanger, “Meridel Rubenstein, Millennial Forest-, Narrative Photoworks,’, Art New England, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct/Nov 2005, p. 28, reproduction.
- Barbara Riley, review of “Belonging: From Los Alamos to Vietnam,” Southwest Bookshelf, New Mexico Magazine, September 2005, p. 20.
- Cate McQuaid, “Meridel Rubenstein: Millennial Forest,” Gallery Pick, Boston Globe, June 9, 2005, p. 22, reproductions.
- Arden Reed, “Meridel Rubenstein at Lew Allen Contemporary,” Art in America, May 2005, p. 177, reproduction.
- “An Alchemist’s Helper,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2005, p. B19, text and reproduction.
- Kenneth Baker, “Galleries,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 2005, reproduction.
- Sulak Sivaraska, Trans Thai Buddhism and Envisioning Resistance, Bangkok: Suksit Siam, 2004, Cover.
- Sandra Matthews, “Icons, Heroes and Stories of Survival,” in Masquerade: Women’s Contemporary Portrait Photography, ed. Kate Newton and Christine Rolph London: FOTOGALLERY, pp. 126-33.
- “Reconciliation” Inquiring Mind, Vol 21, np.1, Fall 2004, pp. 13-16, 21.
- Phototextualities, eds. Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble, University of New Mexico Press, 2003, cover image, and including: Judith Davidov, “Narratives of Place: History and Memory and the Evidential Force of Photography in Work by Meridel Rubenstein and joan Myers,”, pp. 41-63, illustration, pp. 43-47 and Cover.
- James Enyeart. Photographs, Writers and the American Scene-Visions of Passage, Santa Fe: Arena Editions 2002, reproduction p. 82, 324, 334.
- Sarah S. King, “Meridel Rubenstein at LewAllen Contemporary,” Art in America, March 2002, p. 136.
- Susanna Carlisle, “Meridel Rubenstein: Trees at Sea,” THE Magazine, Sept 2001, p. 54.
- Francine Miller, “Customized,” ArtForum, March 2001, pp. 147-48.
- Cate McQuaid, “Customized,” The Boston Globe, November 10, 200, pp. E1-12, reproduction.
- Mokha Laget, “The Killing Fields,” The Santa Fe Reporter, December 27, 200, p. 25.
- Customized, ed. Nora Donnelly, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 200, six color reproductions, bio, and essay.
- Mark Van Proyen, “San Francisco E-Mail,” Art Issues, Los Angeles, pp. 38-39, review and reproduction, Nov/Dec 1999.
- Arte Contemporary, vol 1, issue 1, Santa Fe, artist feature, two reproductions and statement, pp. 36-37, Fall 1999.
- Susan Mulski, Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College/Cambridge, “Meridel Rubenstein: Jona’s Arc, Vietnam 998-99,” Art New England, Boston, MA, p. 39, Aug/Sept 1999.
- Dennis Jarrett, “Hall of Reunification,” Santa Fe Reporter, Sept 16,1998.
- Dottie, Indyke, “Poison into Nectar,” Pasatiempo Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, cover and pp. 32-33, review and reproductions, Sept. 11, 1998.
- John Upton and Barbara London, “Mixed Media,” Photography, p. 186, reproduction and text, Adison Wesley 1998.
- The Defining Eye, The St. Louis Museum of Modern Art, 1998, exhibition catalogue.
- Alicia Miller, “Meridel Rubenstein at Brian Gross,” Artweek, San Francisco, CA, March 1997.
- “Jan Adlmann and Barbara McIntyre, Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Craftsman House, Australia, 1996, pp. 174-75, 222.
- Harmony Hammond, “Ups and Downs of Site Santa Fe,” Sculpture Magazine, March 1996, Washington D.C. vol 15, no. 3, pp. 26-29, reproduction on Cover.
- Bruce Ferguson, Longing and Belonging from the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe.
- Ferdinand Protzman, “A Fusion of Nuclear Reactions,” The Washington Post, October 21, 1995, p. H2, gallery review and reproduction.
- Meridel Rubenstein and Ellen Zweig, “Critical Mass,” Conjunctions, Bard College, Spring Issue 1995, pp. 164-88, images and text.
- Naomi Rosenbloom, A History of Women Photographers, Abbeville Press, 1994, pp. 225, 319, 345, 27, colorplate.
- James Crump, “Subversion Encantada: El Tiempo, El Honor, Y El Tema en La Fotografia Contemporanea,” Luna Cornea, 1995, Numero 744.
- Lucy Lippard, “Philosophical Fallout,” Z Magazine, vol. 7, no. 4, Boston, MA, pp. 52-54.
- John Bloom, ed. Photography at Bay, University of New Mexico Press, 1993, interview and reproduction.
- Meridel Rubenstein, “Georgia O’Keefe as a Role Model,” in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keefe as Icon, ed. Christopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
- Tim Davis, “Beyond the Sacred and the Profane: Cultural Landscape Photography in America,” 1930-1990,” in Mapping American Culture, ed. Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa1992, Cover and pp.191-230.
- Between Home and Heaven, exhibition catalogue, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., published by UNM Press, March 1992.
- The Photography of Invention – American Pictures of the 1980’s, eds. Joshua P. Smith and Merry A. Foresta, National Museum of American Art, MIT Press.
- Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land, ed. Gretchen Garner, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, February 1987, pp. 38-39.
- The Essential Landscape, ed., Steve Yates, University of New Mexico Press, 1985, pp. 23, 132-5.
- Landscape as Photograph, ed., Estelle Jussim, Yale University Press, 1985, pp. 17, 18, 128-30.
- Jonathan Green, American Photography – A Critical History, Harry Abrams, 1984, pp.149, 154, 211.
- The Portrait Extended, ed., Charles Desmarais, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1980.
- La Gente De La Luz, by Meridel Rubenstein, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe,1977.
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