Gideon Rubin (born 1973) is an Israeli-British artist who works with themes such as childhood, family and memory.
The grandson of the Israeli painter Reuven Rubin, and the son of diplomat David Rubin and curator of The Rubin Museum since 1983, Carmela Rubin. Gideon was greatly influenced by art and culture growing up.[1] Rubin had made abstracted and faceless portraits, which are inspired by images from old photo albums, paparazzi shots of celebrities and paintings by old masters.[2]
Rubin has had numerous international one-man shows. He lives and works in London.And has 3 children.
Gideon Rubin has work in prestigious private collections all over the world. Notable public collections include: Museum Voorlinden Collection,[3] The Netherlands; Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art,[4] Israel; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Rubin Museum, Israel; Collezione Maramotti, Italy; The Collezione Fondazione San Patrignano, Italy; Collezione Associazione Genesi, Italy; Fondation Frances, France; Park Seobo Foundation, South Korea.
Gideon Rubin, Look Again, monograph with texts by Jennifer Higgie, Park Joon, Matthew Holman, Varda Caivano. Anomie Publishing, 2023,[16] ISBN 978-1-910221-52-5
Gideon Rubin, monograph with texts by Gabriel Coxhead, Martin Herbert, Aya Lurie, Sarah Suzuki (Art/Books, July 2015 ISBN978-1-908970-20-6) [17]
Black Book by Gideon Rubin (Freud Museum London, 2018)