Nathania Rubin (USA)

Nathania Rubin

participant in
VAD – Video Art Database
Shoah Film Collection
NewMediaFest’2010 – A Virtual Memorial Foundation

Born in 1978 in New York city
Lives and works in New York

Education
2009 Queens College CUNY, MFA
2000 Haverford College, BA in Philosophy
1996 The Dalton School

Residencies
2010 Santa Fe Art Institute
2009 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program

Grants and Prizes
2009 Pollack-Krasner Fellowship
2008 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2008 CUNY Grant for travel to Periferic 8, Biennial in Iasi, Romania
2007 Dedalus Fellowship Nominee
2000 Haverford College Book List Prize Winner

Solo Shows
February 2010 Mireille Mosler Ltd, New York, NY “Dreaming Anne”

Film Screenings
January 2010 New Media Project Network, Cologne, Germany “SHOAH Film Collection”

Group Shows
Dec-Jan 2009-10 Mireille Mosler Ltd, New York, NY “The Drawing Room” – with Miranda July and Jenny Holzer
June 2009 Queens College CUNY, Queens, NY, “Thesis Show”
May-June 2009 The Puffin Room, New York, NY, “Top Show”
April-May 2009 Mireille Mosler Ltd, New York, NY, “Surveillance from the Dollhouse” – Video show with rare work by Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons
Oct 2008 Gallery 151, New York, NY, “Retail Space Available”
Sept-Oct 2008 Biennial, Iasi, Romania, “Periferic 8”
June 2008 STAC, St. James, NY, “The Art of Music”
May-June 2008 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Tradition and Transformation: Art by Jewish Women,”
Jan-March 2008 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Peace Show”
January 2008 Heart and Soul, Brooklyn, NY, “Contrast”
January 2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Installation Performance
October 2007 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Installation Performance
January 2007 Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY, “CUNY MFA Show”

Teaching Experience

2009 Art Teacher, Animation,Drawing, Painting, Life Drawing, Fieldston Ethical Culture School
2008 Teacher’s Assistant, Drawing III, CUNY Queens College
2007 Teacher, Film Art, New York State Summer School of the Arts
2007 Teacher, Arts and Crafts, The Garden School
2006 Instructor and Curator, Community Access Art Space
2000-2003 Teacher, Test Preparation for the SAT and GRE, The Princeton Review
2002 Head Teacher, The Goddard Preschool
1999-2000 Teacher’s Assistant, Philosophy, Haverford College

Other Work History
2009 The Godwin Ternbach Museum, Gallery Assistant
2005-2008 Community Access, various positions with mentally ill, homeless population: Case worker, Recreation Therapist, Development Assistant. Extensive work in the CA Art Space.
2005 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Child Life Worker: Attended to psychosocial needs of pediatric cancer patients. Produced department Newsletter
2002-2004 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Research Assistant
2001-2002 Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Research Assistant

Publications
Medical Research: Second Author and Coauthor:
• Arens, Raanan et al. Mandibular Dimensions in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Sleep. 2004, vol. 27, pp. 959-965 ISSN 0161-8105
• Arens, Raanan et al. Upper Airway Size Analysis by Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2003, vol. 167, pp. 65-70 ISSN 1073-449X
Freelance:
• Queen of Brooklyn, The Philadephia Independent, Winter, 2004
• Knight Moves, The Philadelphia Independent, Spring, 2004
• Atom and His Package, Photography, Phildelphia City Paper, 2003

Performance and Miscellany

Ongoing Songwriting, singing and electric bass playing in Locket (NYC band)
2009 Musical performance (as well as conceptual artist participation) in the Periferic 8 Biennial in Iasi, Romania with The Institute for Wishful Thinking
2007-2008 Art installation performances at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
2006-2007 Improvisational comedy and acting (Upright Citizen’s Brigade and Magnet Theater)
1985-1993 Tournament Chess Playing