Leo Rubinfien
Leo Rubinfien first came to prominence as part of the circle of artist-photographers who investigated new color techniques and materials in the 1970s. His first solo exhibition was held at Castelli Graphics, New York, in 1981, and he has since had solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome. Among his principal bodies of work are A Map of The East, which explores the character and idiosyncrasies of Japan, China and Southeast Asia and Wounded, which explores the “mental wounds” that were left by the terror attacks in New York in 2001, and other attacks in cities around the world.
Rubinfien is also an active writer, and has published numerous extended essays on major photographers of the 20th century. From 2001–2004, he served as guest co-curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the work of Shomei Tomatsu. From 2010-2013 he guest-curated the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Garry Winogrand, which appeared at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2013 and traveled to Washington, New York, Paris and Madrid in …
Leo Rubinfien first came to prominence as part of the circle of artist-photographers who investigated new color techniques and materials in the 1970s. His first solo exhibition was held at Castelli Graphics, New York, in 1981, and he has since had solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome. Among his principal bodies of work are A Map of The East, which explores the character and idiosyncrasies of Japan, China and Southeast Asia and Wounded, which explores the “mental wounds” that were left by the terror attacks in New York in 2001, and other attacks in cities around the world.
Rubinfien is also an active writer, and has published numerous extended essays on major photographers of the 20th century. From 2001–2004, he served as guest co-curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the work of Shomei Tomatsu. From 2010-2013 he guest-curated the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Garry Winogrand, which appeared at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2013 and traveled to Washington, New York, Paris and Madrid in 2014-2015.
Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Colby College
Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Jewish Museum, New York
Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Rhode Island School of Design
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seattle Art Museum
Stanford University Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT