Geagan’s playful paintings represent comic scenes that foreground the social world around him. A self-taught artist, his work represents his friends, artists...
This summer the Rubells visited Seung Ah Paik’s (b. 1979, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA) studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and commissioned four large-scale paintings for...
The Museum’s Knight Foundation-supported 2025 artist-in-residence, Joanna van Son (b. 2000, Oman; lives and works in London) will present six new paintings that distort the familiar spatial qualities of...
The subjects of Serpas' paintings are bodies imagined by a free AI image generator. Malformed, interrupted, and bearing the marks of use, Serpas’ painterly...
Born in 1984 in Hexham, England, Vanessa Raw lives and works in Margate, England, and her presentation at the Rubell Museum Miami marks her first exhibition in the United States as well as her...
Extending the Rubells’ multi-generational passion for discovering and supporting many of today’s most compelling artists, a presentation of recent acquisitions spans...
Havana-born, Miami-based artist Piñeiro Bello focuses his practice on the Caribbean diaspora, Cuba, and the surrounding island nations’ cultural identities, imagery, and history...
The post-disciplinary practice of Basil Kincaid, a St. Louis-born artist who splits their time between the U.S. and Africa, examines relationships between...
Representing a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg creates luminous, vibrant, and often large-scale works that hinge on a sense of intimacy. Depicting himself, his family...
The paintings of Miami-based Jared McGriff blend together the artist’s present with real or imagined glimpses into his family history. Through dream-like depictions...
Jo Messer’s paintings push the tradition of classic nude portraiture to explore the many potentials of the genre, from the erotic to the whimsical. Her chromatic, almost abstract...
Clayton Schiff gathers impressions of an unconscious that distorts, displaces, enlarges, and compresses experiences accumulated while awake. His haunting iconography...
Patricia Ayres’ practice relates to stories of isolation, separation, and confinement. Analyzing the mechanisms of physical and psychological control, Ayres creates anthropomorphic...
In Tesfaye Urgessa's work, there is a mute reciprocity between the observer and the observed that shifts the power dynamics and the notion of agency and race. Drawing on his...
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, a Ghanan painter, is one of the Rubell Museum’s 2021 Artists-in-Residence. Quaicoe creates empowering lush portraits of his family and friends where color and texture...
Kennedy Yanko is a painter-sculptor and the Rubell Museum’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, Yanko scoured scrapyards in south Florida in search of readymade forms ripe for intervention...
Genesis Tramaine (b. 1983, Brooklyn, NY / lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) was the Rubell Museum’s 2020 Artist-in-Residence. Sanctuary encompasses a series of layered portraits the artist created ...
The exhibition, "AS I AM" consists of a suite of paintings from the artist's first solo exhibition, "AT THE FEET OF MOUNTAINS", and two new large commissioned paintings, using historic images and people...
Cajsa von Zeipel (b. 1983, Gothenburg, Sweden / lives and works in New York, NY) works between desire, seduction, and the grotesque to defy traditional representations of gender. Her silicone sculptures...
Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, FL / lives and works in Miami, FL, and Detroit, MI) is one of South Florida’s most celebrated artists. Bas’ work incorporates romantic and classical images...
Three sculptural paintings created with a wide breadth of materials including animal hides, horsehair, quilts, acrylic and canvas are on view by the Chiloquin, Oregon based artist Natalie Ball...
The Rubell Museum announced that its new campus will open on December 4, 2019 with a museum-wide installation of works that chronicle key artists, moments, and movements in vital arts centers...
Amoako Boafo was born in 1984 in Accra, Ghana and lives in Vienna, Austria, where he is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. Amoako is a figurative painter in the realm of...
Upset with the injustices he witnessed daily, and emboldened by civil rights activists, anti-war protesters and art activists, Purvis Young (American,1943-2010) began, in the early 1970s, to create his own...
New Acquisitions presents paintings, sculptures, and installations by 20 artists; all of the works were acquired in the last two years. Each artist featured is represented by multiple works, exhibited in individual...
Allison Zuckerman, the foundation's 2017 artist-in-residence, has created large format paintings and sculptures using the foundation’s main gallery as her studio this summer. These new works take...
Still Human confronts the complex consequences of the digital revolution and recent technological developments as they redefine the human condition. Twenty-five artists working across a range of mediums...
Inspired by the Rubells’ extensive research trips to Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, New Shamans/Novos Xamãs occupies the Foundation’s entire ground floor. Through installations...
High Anxiety: New Acquisitions presents selections of artworks from 32 artists acquired since 2014, many of whom explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum...
Video Art in Latin America is an exhibition and research project that maps the emergence and development of video art across approximately two dozen artistic centers in Latin America...
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection focus on and celebrate work made by more than a hundred female artists of different generations, cultures and disciplines...
To Have and to Hold occupies 20 galleries and is a celebration of the Rubells’ history of collecting art. Starting with the late 1970s it offers a loose chronology of early as well as recent...
28 Chinese is the culmination of the Rubells’ six research trips to China between 2001 and 2012 where they visited one hundred artists’ studios in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou...
Alone Together explores a paradox: artists often work in isolation in their studios, but they are almost always seen and defined in relation to a greater whole. Whether it is called a movement...
Oscar Murillo: work is the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States. It is comprised of paintings made by the artist in the summer of 2012 during a five-week residency at the...
In our efforts to understand the America we live in today, we turn toward contemporary art and artists. The 64 artists in American Exuberance, all citizens or residents of this country, are keen...
How Soon Now features over thirty of the worldʼs most compelling contemporary artists including Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Huan Yong Ping, Matthew Day Jackson, Analia Saban...
Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell is an exhibition that Jason Rubell first curated for his college thesis at Duke University in 1991...
In 2005 the Rubells had a series of conversations with artists Kelly Walker and Wade Guyton, who talked about the generosity of some artists in the nature of their work. Walker and Guyton...
30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity...
