Past Exhibitions

 

01 Otis TNOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: 2021 Artist in Residence

November 29, 2021 – November 13, 2022

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 ... read more

 

 

  

04 Kennedy TNKennedy Yanko: 2021 Artist in Residence

November 29, 2021 – November 13, 2022

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... read more

 

 

 

07 Genesis TNGenesis Tramaine: Sanctuary

November 30, 2020 – November 13, 2022

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 ... read more

 

 

 

05 ONeal TNReginald O’Neal: AS I AM

November 29, 2021 – November 13, 2022

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 ... read more

 

 

 

06 Cajsa TNCajsa von Zeipel

November 29, 2021 – November 13, 2022

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 ... read more

 

 

 

09 HB TNHernan Bas

November 30, 2020 – August 28, 2022

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... read more

  

 

 

08 NB TNNatalie Ball

November 30, 2020 – September 4, 2022

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... read more

 

 

 

Inaugural Exhibition11 KH TN
December 4, 2019 - November 18, 2020

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 .... Read More

 

 

 

Amoako Boafo: 2019 Artist-in-ResidenceAB square 01
December 4, 2019 - November 18, 2020

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 .... Read More

 

 

 

PY squarePurvis Young
December 3, 2018 - June 22, 2019

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.... Read More

 

 

 

NA squareNew Acquisitions
December 3, 2018 - June 22, 2019

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.... Read More

 

 

 

AZ squareAllison Zuckerman: Stranger in Paradise
December 6, 2017 - August 25, 2018

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.... Read More

 

 

 

SH squareStill Human
December 6, 2017 - August 25, 2018

​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... Read More

 

 

 

NS 01New Shamans
November 30, 2016 - August 25, 2017

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... Read More

 

 

 

HA 01High Anxiety
November 30, 2016 - August 25, 2017

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... Read More

 

 

 

Getty 01Video Art in Latin America: Selections from Brazil 
November 30, 2016 - August 25, 2017

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... Read More

 

 

 

NML 01NO MAN'S LAND
December 2, 2015 - July 30, 2016

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... Read More

 

 

 

THATOTo Have and to Hold
December 3, 2014 - May 30, 2015

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... Read More

 

 

 

articlehead-zhu-Jinshi-0128 Chinese 
December 4, 2013 - August 1, 2014

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,... Read More

 

 

 

at-squareAlone Together
December 5, 2012 - August 2, 2013

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,... Read More

 

 

 

om-squareOscar Murillo: work
December 5, 2012 - August 2, 2013

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... Read More

 

 

 

AEAMERICAN EXUBERANCE
November 30, 2011 - July 27, 2012

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... Read More

 

 

 

hsnHow Soon Now
December 1, 2010 - August 26, 2011

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,... Read More

 

 

 

tcTIME CAPSULE
December 1, 2010 - August 26, 2011

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.... Read More

 

 

 

bbsBeg Borrow and Steal
December 2, 2009 - August 27, 2010

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... Read More

 

 

 

30A TN 1130 Americans
December 3, 2008 - May 30, 2009

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... Read More