Past Exhibitions
Doron Langberg
November 28, 2022 - November 12, 2023
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... read more
Jared McGriff
November 28, 2022 - November 12, 2023
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... read more
Jo Messer
November 28, 2022 - November 12, 2023
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... read more
Clayton Schiff
November 28, 2022 - November 12, 2023
Clayton Schiff gathers impressions of an unconscious that distorts, displaces, enlarges, and compresses experiences accumulated while awake. His haunting iconography... read more
Alexandre Diop: Jooba Jubba, l’Art du Defi, the Art of Challenge
2022 Artist-in-Residence
November 28, 2022 - October 1, 2023
Based in Vienna, Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop (b. 1995, Paris) uses discarded objects to create work that... read more
Patricia Ayres
November 28, 2022 – September 17, 2023
Patricia Ayres’ practice relates to stories of isolation, separation, and confinement. Analyzing the mechanisms of physical and psychological control, Ayres creates anthropomorphic... read more
Tesfaye Urgessa
November 28, 2022 - September 17, 2023
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... read more
Otis 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
Kennedy 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
Genesis 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
Reginald 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
Cajsa 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
Hernan 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
Natalie 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 Exhibition
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-Residence
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
Purvis 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
New 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
Allison 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
Still 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
New 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
High 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
Video 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
NO 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
To 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
28 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
Alone 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
Oscar 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
AMERICAN 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
How 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
TIME 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
Beg 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
30 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
