Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group, and institutional behavior.
He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial; the Shanghai Biennial; the Carnegie International, The Lyon Biennale; the Solomon Guggenheim Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; The Rooseum, Sweden; as well as in backyards, living rooms, and street corners.
Rubin recently collaborated with Iranian-based artist Sohrab Kashani on The Other Apartment, a Creative Capital-funded project occurring both in Tehran, Iran and Pittsburgh, PA. He has received awards from the Arts Matters Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, Americans for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Conflict Kitchen, Rubin’s collaborative seven-year work with artist Dawn Weleski, was named one of the 100 Artworks that “Defined the Decade” by Artnet News. His work has been reported on internationally by outlets including ARTnews, The New York Times, The Associated Press, Public Art Review, Art Papers, The Boston Globe, La Repubblica, Al Jazeera, BBC World News, NPR’s All Things Considered, and Colorado Public Radio. Rubin is a Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
In 2023, An art school that is riddled with doubt was Rubin's first presentation at Catharine Clark Gallery, where he also screened a video work, Playing Apart (2010), in the Media Room.
