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Meridel Rubenstein Biography
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1965 - 1970 |
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B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
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1972 - 1973 |
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Special Graduate Student in Photography, MIT Cambridge, MA
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1974 |
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M.A., University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
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1977 |
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M.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
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1976 - 1980 |
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Founded the Photography program at the College of Santa Fe
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1981 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
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1988 |
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NEA Photographic Survey Grant
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1985 - 1990 |
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Headed the Photography program at San Francisco State University
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1990 - 1996 |
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Founded creative Photography department at the Institute of American Indian Arts
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Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
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Art Matters Inc., New York, NY
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NEA Photographers Fellowship, Emerging Artist
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NEA Photographer's Fellowship
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Western States Regional Media ARts Fellowship Portland Art Museum/Film Center
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New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, NEA/Rockefeller
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Alternate, United States/Japan Artists' Fellowship
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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
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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Belonging: Selected Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
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2005
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Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA
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2005
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Beyond Monochrome, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
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2004
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In Focus, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton,MA
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2004
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Boats and Vessels, installation and lecture, Brattleboro Museum, Vermont
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2003
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A Handful of Soldiers-S Site Los Alamos, NM Office of Cultural Affairs, traveling exhibit and catalogue
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2003
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LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
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2003
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“Belonging” LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
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2001
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Contemporary Configurations - Peter Alexander, Meridel Rubenstein and Ted Orland, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
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2001
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Millenial Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
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2000
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Joan's Arc: Part Two, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
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1999
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Bunting Institute Gallery, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
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1998
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The Defining Eye, St. Louis Art Museum, MO
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1997
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Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL
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1996
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Brian Gross Fine Art San Francisco, CA
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1996
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Horwitch LewAllen Gallery Santa Fe, NM
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1996
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Art and the Law, West Publishing Co. Minneapolis, MN
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1995
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Longing and Belonging, SITE Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM
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1995
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Mapped Out: Reinventing the New Mexico Landscape, Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
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1995
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Forum for Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO
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1995
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Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery Washington DC
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1993 - 1995
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Critical Mass, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe NM
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1994
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Jonson Gallery Visiting Artists, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
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1992
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Ronald Feldman Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs, Massachusetts College of Art Cambridge, MA
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1992
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Between Home and Heaven, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst. Washington DC
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1992
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Selections from "Critical Mass, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
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1991
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Big Picture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
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1991
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Critical Reactions, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
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1991
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Identity Crisis: Portraits in the Eighties, Center for Creative Photography, University of AZ Tucson, AZ
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1991
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Nuclear Matters, Camerawork San Francisco, CA
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1990
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Shelters and Structures, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco
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1990
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Labyrinths and Constellations, University of Texas Arlington
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1989
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Witness, Fuller Gross Gallery San Francisco, CA
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1989
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Nature and Culture: Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Photography, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center San Francisco, CA
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1988
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Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick gallery Washington DC
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1988
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Fuller-Gross Gallery San Francisco, CA
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1987
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Labyrinths and Constellations, Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM
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1987
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Myth/Ritual, Camerawork San Francisco, CA
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1986
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Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX
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1985
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California Museum of Photography University of California, Riverside, CA
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1983
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Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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1983
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Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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1982
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A/Un Ranch, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe
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1982
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The Lowriders, Consejo Mexicano de Fotographia Mexico City
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1981
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The Lowriders, Artists Space New York, NY
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1981
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The Lowriders, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM
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1979
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La Gente de la Luz, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
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1977
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La Gente de la Luz, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM
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| Literature |
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2004
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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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