Glen Rubsamen

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hollywood, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
1981
MFA, U.C.L.A.
(Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles)

AWARDS
1988
WESTAF NEA in Drawing
1992
Visiting Artist American Academy in Rome

SELECTED SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Mom and Pop Capitalism, COSAR, Düsseldorf, DE
2024
The Petrified Forest, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, CH
2023
Glen Rubsamen & Rita McBride: Daily Echo Free Mirror. Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
Glen Rubsamen: Looking Backward, Elverhoj Museum of Art and History, Solvang, USA
2022
Glen Rubsamen & Rita McBride: Suite Matrimonial. Mai 36 Galerie, ZürichCH
Glen Rubsamen & Rita McBride: Lost – Missing. Riviera Parking, Santa Barbara, USA
2021
Glen Rubsamen & Jürgen Drescher: Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
2020
Détournement. (virtual) Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
2019
Environmental Catastrophes Top Ten and and other Abominations, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2018
Clear From The Start, Mai 36, Zurich, CH
Chain Reaction, Stene Projects, Stockholm, SWE
2017
The Disguise Was Almost Perfect. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gleaming and Inaccessible. Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, IT
2016
Visible from Space, Mai 36, Zurich, CH
2014
Clear Channel, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2013
Companion Species, Stene projects, Stockholm
new works, Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, Osmos Address, New York
2012
Anabiosis, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples.
2011
Reality doesn’t need friends, Stene Projects, Stockholm.
Let’s die friends, Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid.
Some Kind of Nature, La Salle des Bains, Lyon.
2010
In the Place of Love, Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zürich
2009
La Nuit Américaine, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2008
‘All The Time In The World’, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
‘Fuga Nella Verita’, Alfonso Artiaco, Neapel
2007
Impossible Vegetation, COSAR, Düsseldorf
2006
Islands in the Stream, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Lazy Nova, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Pigeon Key and The Seven Mile Bridge, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, CH
und Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
2005
Pepe Cobo, Madrid
uminous Toxin, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
2004
Valentina Bonomo, Rom
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2003
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Mai 36, Zürich
Esso, New York
2002
Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla
2000
Please let my affections lead me into danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
1999
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Public Texts, A Californian Visual Language. AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, ISA
Art & Nature: Inside Out. Villa Arconati, Milano, IT
2024
Nature’s Valley. COSAR, Düsseldorf, DE
The 100’th Show. Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, USA
2023
Group Text. (Curated by Beta Epochs), Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, USA
Coleccion Fundacion Valentin de Madariaga y Oya – M P, Fundacion Valentin de Madariaga MP, Seville, ES
2022
20M29, M29 Gallery, Cologne, DE
Summer Breeze. (virtual) Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, DE
2021
Growing Pains: corporate overextension. The Sam Francis Gallery, CrossRoads, Santa Monica The Youngest Day. Carlier - Gebauer, Berlin, DE
Los Angeles (State of Mind). A cura di Luca Beatrice. Palazzo Cevallos Stigliano, Naples, IT
2020
NÄHE – FERNE, Elger Esser, Glen Rubsamen, Stefan Sehler, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
Artists of the gallery – A succession of works and artists, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, CH
Queridos. Colección Jesús Reina, Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla (Cicus), Seville, ES
2019
Just The Wall: w/ Rita McBride, Ava & Leao Crnkovic, Jack Slavin. Marvin Gardens, Los Angeles, USA
Flugblaetter. Cross Lane Projects, Cross Lane, Kendal, Cumbria, UK Figurations, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona.
@ the beach, (virtual) Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, CH
2018
Vlugschrift Flugblaetter. Pictura, Dordrecht, NL
Lesson Review II, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, PT
De Biënnale van de Schilderkunst. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens / Roger Raveelmuseum / Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deurle, BE
Evolution. Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
Tropical Precisionism, Guyana National Gallery of Art, Castellani House, Georgetown, Guyana Easy Rider. Il mito della motocicletta come arte. Reggia di Venaria Reale, Venaria Reale/Torino, IT
2017
Flugblaetter, Athens - Kassel - Venedig - Münster - Loitz. Künstler Gut Loitz e. V., Loitz, DE
Looks, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, ES
2016
30° Anniversary, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Affinities, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
2015
Eminent Domains (proper names). Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2014/15
Jäger und Sammler in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Morsbroich
2014
One million traces, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg
2013
Lonelyfingers-Konversationsstücke, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach
2012
Take Me Somewhere Nice. Stene Projects, Stockholm
Eternal Summer (curated by Alexandre Melo), Paulo Darzé Galeria de Arte, Salvador da Bahia
Selections. Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Schattenlicht, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich
Nexus, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
2011
EUPHORISMOS, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
Localhost. Kunsthalle, Münster
Dystopia. CAPC, Bordeaux
2010
Traveling without moving, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2007
Mae West and The Hyperbolic Paraboloid, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Idilio, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
The fit, nüans, Düsseldorf
Early Retirement, Mai 36, Zürich
Less Roses, Sfier Semler, Beirut
2006
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, Phoenix Hallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Clase Preferante, Galeriea Gracia Brandao, Porto
2005
Napoli presente, PAN; Neapel
Park, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
100 Artists see God, ICA London
Der Kunst ihre Räume, Kunstverein Bonn
Temporary Import, Artforum Berlin
Landscapes, Galeria Gracia Brandao, Porto
2004
Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
Funkturm Fernbar at the Spaghetti Works, Y8, Hamburg
100 Artists See God, ICA, London
2003
There's no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities), Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Land and Sea, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York
Bandes a part: le Cinema dans l'art contemporain, Tresors Public, Mus. of Modern & Cont. Art, Strasbourg
Going A Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver
2002
Crowne Plaza', FW Galerie, Cologne
We Slide Down The Surface Of Things, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Taipei Biennial, Taiwan2001
Beyond the Mountains, Lyman Allen Museum of Art, New London, Connecticut
Bjorn Dressler, Masatomo Harada, Michael van Ofen, Glen Rubsamen, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
Atlantes, Galerie Pepe Cobo, Seville
2000
Beyond the Mountains, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana and Muskegon
Museum of Art, Muskegon, Minnesota
Please Let My Heart Lead Me Into Danger, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München
Damenwahl, Kunstverein München
1999
Two Doors-True Value, MAI 36 Galerie + Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich