meridel rubenstein
Deluge, 2020–22

Boat is a Garden, 2020–22

Drought is a Flood, 2020–22

Backyard Boat, 2020–22

Persephone #1, 2020–22

Two Worlds (coconuts), 2020–22

Tillandsia, 2020–22

Bird Cage with Open Door, 2020–22

Liberated Fence, 2020–22

Pomegranates, 2020–22

Thorn re-germination, 2020–22

Forest, from Trees at Sea (Monks and Nuns), 2000–01

Amethyst Room, Southern Iraq, 2011–16

Green Kitchen (with unexcavated Temple of Inanna at Uruk and steps of Ziggurat at Ur), Southern Iraq Marshes, 2011–16

Eden Again, Southern Iraq Marshes, 2011–17

Ehmad and His Boat, Central Marshes, 2011–12

Adam and Eve in the Iraq Marshes, near the possible Historic Site of the Garden of Eden, 2011–12

Temple of Inanna with Shells and Shells, Mesopotamian Marshes, 2011–13

Saygal Shrine Palimpsest, 2011–15

Dawn and Dusk, Mesopotamian Marshes, 2011–13

Inanna of the Marshes, 2018

Ring of Fire, 2011–13

Pyroclastic Remains (After Mt. Merapi Grand Eruption, 2010-11), 2012–15

Mt. Bromo at Night Circle Reversed, 2011
Between Heaven and Earth, Mt. Bromo Volcano, E. Java, 2011

Mt. Toba Volcanic Ash, 74,000 yrs. old, found in Malaysia, May 2010

Mt. Bromo From Above Encircled, 2011

Mt. Batur, 2014

Volcanic Leaf Suspended, 2011

Re-emerging Grass, Mt. Bromo Volcano E. Java, 2011

Acid Crater Lake, Kawah Ijen Volcano, East Java, Indonesia, 2011

Suspended Leaf Diptych, 2010–15

Queen Tree with Silk, 2000–01

Adam and Eve in the S. Iraq Marshes, 2011-12

Adam and Eve in La Cienega, USA, 2009-11

Winter Seasonal, 2009-11

Fall Seasonal, 2010-11

Gaia Cloud, 2010-11

Ocean of the Atmosphere Clouds, 2011

Photosynthesis Study #1, Winter Cottonwood Filagree, 2010-11

Angsana Leaf Green, Singapore, 2010

Red Dinosaur Maple, Vermont, 2010

Albuquerque Leaf, New Mexico, 2011

Photosynthesis Leaf #1, New Mexico, 2010

Fall Palette Maple Vermont, 2011

Photosynthesis Study #2, Crabapple Iridescent, 2010-11

Pulau Ubin Half Leaf, 2010-11

Singapore Equilateral Leaf, 2010

Horizontal Singapore Leaf, Vermont Spotted Maple, 2010-11

Temple Tree, Vietnam, 2000-01

Post Oak, Oklahoma, 2001

Brocade (small), 2000-01

Millenial Forest (small), 2000-01

Native Son, 1981–82

Penitente, 1982

Coke Bottle That Survived the First Atomic Blast, 1993



Peggy Martinez (Lowriders), 1980-81



Bad Company (Lowriders), 1980-81



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
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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.
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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.
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