Glen Rubsamen

Selected Works

  • Glen Rubsamen
    A Stranger in the Garden
    91.5 x 91.5 cm
    Acrylic on board
    2014

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'Clear Channel', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    The Special Ending
    75 x 100 cm
    Acrylic on board
    2013

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Gallows Humor
    60 x 50 cm
    Acrylic on board
    2014

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Clear Channel
    each photo 47 x 63 cm (63 x 47 cm framed)
    Archival Inkjet Print
    2014

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'Clear Channel', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'Clear Channel', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'Clear Channel', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'Clear Channel', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Hide and Seek
    91.5 x 122 cm
    Acrylic on board
    2014

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Southbay
    2008
    Bue Ray Video, 3 sequences, 4 min. each

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'La Nuit Américaine', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Installation view 'La Nuit Américaine', COSAR

  • Glen Rubsamen
    Our Secret Is Safe
    2008
    Acrylic on linen
    140 cm x 100 cm

Exhibitions

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hollywood, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
1981
MFA, U.C.L.A.
(Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles)

AWARDS
1988
WESTAF NEA in Drawing
1992
Visiting Artist American Academy in Rome

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten and and other Abominations, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2018
Clear From The Start, Mai 36, Zurich, CH
Chain Reaction, Stene Projects, Stockholm, SWE
2017
The Disguise Was Almost Perfect. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gleaming and Inaccessible. Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, IT
2016
Visible from Space, Mai 36, Zurich, CH
2014
Clear Channel, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2013
Companion Species, Stene projects, Stockholm
new works, Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, Osmos Address, New York
2012
Anabiosis, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples.
2011
Reality doesn’t need friends, Stene Projects, Stockholm.
Let’s die friends, Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid.
Some Kind of Nature, La Salle des Bains, Lyon.
2010
In the Place of Love, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zürich
2009
La Nuit Américaine, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2008
‘All The Time In The World’, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
‘Fuga Nella Verita’, Alfonso Artiaco, Neapel
2007
Impossible Vegetation, COSAR, Düsseldorf
2006
Islands in the Stream, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Lazy Nova, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Pigeon Key and The Seven Mile Bridge, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, CH
und Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
2005
Pepe Cobo, Madrid
uminous Toxin, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
2004
Valentina Bonomo, Rom
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2003
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Mai 36, Zürich
Esso, New York
2002

Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla
2000
Please let my affections lead me into danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
1999
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
30° Anniversary, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Affinities, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
2015
Eminent Domains (proper names). Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2014/15
Jäger und Sammler in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Morsbroich
2014
One million traces, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg
2013
Lonelyfingers-Konversationsstücke, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach
2012
Take Me Somewhere Nice. Stene Projects, Stockholm
Eternal Summer (curated by Alexandre Melo), Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte, Salvador da Bahia
Selections. Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Schattenlicht, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich
Nexus, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
2011
EUPHORISMOS, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
Localhost. Kunsthalle, Münster
Dystopia. CAPC, Bordeaux
2010
Traveling without moving, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2007
Mae West and The Hyperbolic Paraboloid, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Idilio, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
The fit, nüans, Düsseldorf
Early Retirement, Mai 36, Zürich
Less Roses, Sfier Semler, Beirut
2006
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, Phoenix Hallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Clase Preferante, Galeriea Gracia Brandao, Porto
2005
Napoli presente, PAN; Neapel
Park, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
100 Artists see God, ICA London
Der Kunst ihre Räume, Kunstverein Bonn
Temporary Import, Artforum Berlin
Landscapes, Galeria Gracia Brandao, Porto
2004
Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
Funkturm Fernbar at the Spaghetti Works, Y8, Hamburg
100 Artists See God, ICA, London
2003
There's no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities), Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Land and Sea, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York
Bandes a part: le Cinema dans l'art contemporain, Tresors Public, Mus. of Modern & Cont. Art, Strasbourg
Going A Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver
2002
Crowne Plaza', FW Galerie, Cologne
We Slide Down The Surface Of Things, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan2001
Beyond the Mountains, Lyman Allen Museum of Art, New London, Connecticut
Bjorn Dressler, Masatomo Harada, Michael van Ofen, Glen Rubsamen, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Atlantes, Galerie Pepe Cobo, Seville
2000
Beyond the Mountains, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana and Muskegon
Museum of Art, Muskegon, Minnesota
Please Let My Heart Lead Me Into Danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Damenwahl, Kunstverein München
1999
Two Doors-True Value, MAI 36 Galerie + Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich

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