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Meridel Rubenstein    (American, 1948)

 Meridel Rubenstein - Brocade (Triptych) (Photographs) h: 48 x w: 96 in / h: 121.9 x w: 243.8 cm
Meridel Rubenstein
Brocade (Triptych)
 
 Meridel Rubenstein - Luang Pau Forest, Thailand (Prints) h: 9 x w: 20.8 in / h: 22.9 x w: 52.8 cm
Meridel Rubenstein
Luang Pau Forest, Thailand 2004-2007
 
 Meridel Rubenstein - Sapling, Cooks Forest, Penssylvania (Photographs) h: 46 x w: 34 in / h: 116.8 x w: 86.4 cm
Meridel Rubenstein
Sapling, Cooks Forest, Penssylvania
 

Biography
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
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.
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