GLEN RUBSAMEN

1957 Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA

Education
1978 University of California, Los Angeles, BA
1981 University of California, Los Angeles, MFA

 
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
Glen Rubsamen, The Petrified Forest, Anne Marie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2019
Glen Rubsamen. Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten And Other Abominations, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany

2018
Glen Rubsamen. Chain Reaction. Stene Projects, Stockholm, Norway
Glen Rubsamen. Clear From The Start. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2017
Glen Rubsamen. The Disguise Was Almost Perfect, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Glen Rubsamen. Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy

2016
Glen Rubsamen. Visible From Space. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2014
Glen Rubsamen. Partners in Crime. Trieze, Paris, France
Glen Rubsamen. Clear Channel. Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013
Glen Rubsamen. Companion Species. Stene Projects, Stockholm, Norway
Glen Rubsamen. Polygala. Robert Miller Gallery, New York; USA
Glen Rubsamen. Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Osmos Address, New York, USA

2012
Glen Rubsamen. Anabiosis. Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2011
Glen Rubsamen. Reality doesn’t need friends. Stene Projects, Stockholm, Norway
Glen Rubsamen. Let’s die friends. Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
Glen Rubsamen. Some Kind of Nature. La Salle des Bains, Lyon, France

2010
Glen Rubsamen. In Place Of Love. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
 
2009
Glen Rubsamen. La Nuit Américaine. Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany
Glen Rubsamen. Backwaters. Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal

2008
Glen Rubsamen. All the Time in the World. Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Glen Rubsamen. Fuga nella verità. Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2007
Glen Rubsamen. A Reassuring Lie Unfolds II. Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Norway
Glen Rubsamen. Impossible Vegetation. Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
Glen Rubsamen. Lazy Nova. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Glen Rubsamen. Islands in the Stream. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Glen Rubsamen. Pigeon Key and the Seven Mile Bridge. Annemarie Verna Galerie and Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2005
Glen Rubsamen. Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Glen Rubsamen. Luminous Toxin. Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
2004
Glen Rubsamen. Euphoric, Narcotic, and Pleasantly Hallucinant. Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Glen Rubsamen. Al Portico d’Ottavia. Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2003
Glen Rubsamen. A Reassuring Lie Unfolds. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Glen Rubsamen. Hopewell. Esso, New York, USA

2002
Glen Rubsamen. Galería Pepe Cobo, Seville, Spain

2000
Glen Rubsamen. New Paintings. Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany
 
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Virtual Pavillon, Albrecht Schnider, Rita McBride, Glen Rubsamen, Matt Mullican, Michael Pérez Pollo, Jorge Méndez Blake, Thomas Ruff, Flavio Garciandìa, Markus Saile, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2022
Summer Breeze. Jitka Hanzlovà, Christian Lindow, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rita
McBride, Matt Mullican, Magnus Plessen, Glen Rubsamen, Thomas Ruff, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2021
LOS ANGELES, STATE OF MIND, RITA MCBRIDE & GLEN RUBSAMEN - Gallerie d'Italia, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples, Italy

2019
Flugblätter- Flying letters, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Just The Wall: w/ Rita mcBride, Ava & Leao Crnkovic, Jack Slavin. Marvin Gardens, Los Angeles, USA
Flugblätter, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Figurations, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain

2018
VLUGSCHRIFT | FLUGBLÄTTER, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
De Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens / Roger Raveelmuseum / Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deurle, Belgium
Tropical Precisionism, curated by Adam Markham, Guyana National Gallery of Art, Castellani House, Georgetown, Guyana, Sud America
Easy Rider. Il mito della motocicletta come arte, curated by Luca Beatrice, Arnaldo Colasanti and Stefano Fassone, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Venaria Reale, Italy

2016
30th Anniversary, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2015
Jäger & Sammler in der Zietgenossischen Kunst, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Necker, Germany
Eminent Domains (proper names). Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2014
One million traces, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg, USA
Jäger & Sammler in der Zietgenossischen Kunst, Museum Morsbroich,
Leverkusen, Germany

2013
Lonelyfingers-Konversationsstücke, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach.
Why Painting Now: Painting Beyond Paint (curated by John Peter Nilsson). kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna

2012
Take Me Somewhere Nice. Stene Projects, Stockholm, Norway
Schattenlicht, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Nexus, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain
Selections. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
 
2011
Enthusiasmos. Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany
Localhost. Kunsthalle, Muenster, Germany
Dystopia. CAPC, Bordeaux, France

2010
Traveling without Moving. Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany
Art Unlimited. Art 41 Basel, Basel, Germany
Summer Exhibition. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

2009
Una Mirada, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain

2008
Parcours Interdit. Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)] + 2 = X x (Desperately) Trying to Figure out the World. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich and Brooke Alexander, New York, USA
Reflections on Light: Thirty Years Galerie Bernd Klüser. Galerie Bernd Klüser and Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany
Stay Alive Till ’95. Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

2007
Hyperbolic Parabola (in collaboration w/Rita McBride). Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
The Fit. Nüans, Düsseldorf, Germany
Early Retirement. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Less Roses. Galerie Sfeier Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
Pepe Cobo y sus máquinas. Palacio de Sástago, Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, Spain
Print Subscribers Club, Galería Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
Geografías, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain
Group exhibition. Mai 36 Galerie Showroom, Zürich, Switzerland
 
2006
Idylle: Traum und Trugschluss. Sammlung Falckenberg, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg. Traveled as Idilio to: Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Revising Arcadia: The Landscape in Contemporary Art. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Sommerausstellung. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Sonntag: Painting from Düsseldorf. Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Classe Preferente. Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto, Portugal
Colección VAC. Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Dedica. Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Sobre lo sublime. Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain

2005
Napoli presente. Posizioni e prospettive dell’arte contemporanea. Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Salon d’automne. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Multiple Räume (2): Park. Zucht und Wildwuchs in der Kunst. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Paisagens. Galeria Graça Brandão, Porto, Portugal
Der Kunst Ihre Räume. Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Temporary Import: DAAD, Bethanien, et al. Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
Fuera de la Vista, Fuera de la Mente. Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain

2004
100 Artists See God. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
Traveled to: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville. Organized by ICI, New York, USA
In ictu oculi. Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Sommerausstellung. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Strategies of Desire. Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
Bookies. Galerie M29, Cologne, France
Funkturm Fern Bar at the Spaghetti Works (in collaboration with Rita McBride).
Y8, Hamburg, Germany

2003
Sommerausstellung. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Land and Sea. Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
There’s No Land but the Land (Up There Is Just a Sea of Possibilities). Meyer
Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bandes à part: le cinéma dans l’art contemporain, trésors publics. Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, Germany
Going a Journey. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art,
Vancouver, Canada
What Am I Doing Here? Esso, New York, USA
ArtTranspennine03. Transpennine region, England
Trip. Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2002
Taipei Biennial 2002: Great Theatre of the World. Taipei Fine Art Museum.
Network. Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
We’ll Slide Down the Surface of Things. De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Sommerpalast, Neuss, Germany
VorOrt. Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany
Group Effect. Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany
 
2000
Please Let My Affections Lead Me into Danger. Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Beyond the Mountains. Polk Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Traveled to: Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans; Muskegon Museum of Art, Minnesota; Lyman Allen Museum of Art, New London, Connecticut
2001 Atlantes. Galería Pepe Cobo, Seville, Spagna
Bjorn Dressler, Masatomo Harada, Michael van Ofen, Glen Rubsamen. Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Germany