Saul Robbins is interested in the ways in which people move through, relate to, and occupy their surroundings, especially the intersection of private and public experience in urban environments. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. His work has been published in The New York Times, TAD, The CPW Photography Quarterly, Zeek, Wired Magazine, Aufbau, San Francisco Photo Metro, and the Berlin Tagesspiegel, and is in the collections of Alliance Capital, Hunter College, and the Portland (OR) Museum of Art, among others. He was the curator of Regarding Intimacy, at The Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College in New York City (March - May 2007), and a co-curator of No Live Girls an installation of artist's videos at The Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle (www.nolivegirls.org). In 1998 Robbins was awarded a NICA Stipendium to study on exchange at Berlin's Hoch Schule der Kunste, and received his MFA from Hunter College. His work can be viewed at White Columns Artist's Registry, Irving Sandler Artists File, Photo Shelter, and www.saulrobbins.com
EDUCATION:
MFA - Emphasis in Photography
Hunter College of the City University of New York - May, 1999
Exchange Student, NICA Stipendium
Der Hoch Schule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany - Feb.-July, 1998
BA and 5th Year Certificate in Art, UC Santa Cruz, June 1987/88
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
Initial Intake
Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, - 2009
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, - 2008
This Life So Far
White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR - 12-Jan-22-Feb, 2006
This Life So Far - New Color Work
Sepia, Brooklyn, NY - Sept-October, 2004
The Makor Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY - 3.Nov.2003-13-Jan.2004
Roadside Distractions
Yaffee Ruden, New York, NY - 13 Aug, - 31 Dec.,2002
The Camera Club of New York - 13-May-30-June, 2002
New York in Black and White
The Westchester Institute, White Plains, New York - Winter, 2001
New Perspectives, The View From Berlin
Deutsches Haus at NYU - 19-April--3-July, 1999 (Extended through Oct.)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
Illuminations
(5th Anniversary) Massachusetts General Hospital - Oct., 2007 - Jan., 2008
Faculty Show
International Center of Photography - September-December, 2006
Resonance
(Curated by Paul Kopeikin) - PCNW, Seattle, WA 14-July-30-Aug, 2006
Illuminations
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA -- July-October, 2006
The Chair Show
Mana Fine Art, Jersey City, NJ -- Dec, 2005-March, 2006
At Play
Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX -- Oct, 2005-March, 2006
Houston Center for Photography; June 17th - July 24th, 2005
Top Drawer Exhibit
The Matzo Files at PS 122; April, 2005
One Foot After Another
MarK Woolley Gallery , Portland Oregon March 1-April 2, 2005
The Camera Club of New York at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Sept.-Oct., 2002
The Text still Speaks (video installation)
Skirball Center at Temple Emanu-El May, 2002
Peepshow 28 (A No Live Girls Video Installation) February, 2002
At The Lusty Lady, San Francisco and Seattle
(Curator and exhibitor) www.nolivegirls.org
PHOTOWORK Y2K
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY March 18-April 22, 2000
Hunter College MFA Thesis Show, New York May 19-June 19, 1999
Par Avion
Hunter College Gallery 11, New York, Nov. 2-7, 1998
(Curator and exhibitor)
FOTOPIA
Der Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, July 8-18, 1998
13th Annual Contest
Photo Metro Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nov. 16-Dec. 22, 1995
All Hallow's Eve
UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder CO Oct. 4-Nov. 5, 1993
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Regarding Intimacy, Hunter College, Leubsdorf Gallery 29-March-12-May, 2007
F-Stop Makor, Makor, NYC February, 2003, 2004
Peepshow 28, A No Live Girls Video Installation February, 2002
(Curator and exhibitor) The Lusty Lady, San Francisco and Seattle www.nolivegirls.org
Par Avion, Hunter College, 11th Floor Gallery 2-7 Nov., 1998
(Curator and exhibitor)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: (Selected)
Pratt Institute, 2008
International Center of Photography, New York City; 1996-Present
Makor, New York City; 1999-2007
Jewish Identity in Film / Video Production, Genesis at Brandeis University; July-August, 2002
The Educational Alliance, NYC; January, 2002 to Dec. 2003
Media Arts Instructor (Photography + Video) Young Adult Learning Academy, NY; January 1999 - June 2004
Director, Young Photo and Video Artists Program; Youth Programs in the Arts, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY; Summer, 1999 and 2000
PUBLICATIONS:
The New York Times; House & Home 6-March, 2008
The Orgonian 16-April, 2007
The Jewish Review (Portland,OR) - Arts and Letters - 27-January, 2006
TAM -- New York Issue -- October, 2005
Center for Photography-Woodstock In Light (from the slide registry) #91, Spring 2005
Zeek Spring 2005
Shots Magazine Winter, 2004
Zeek Cover Image; Fall/Winter 2004
Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies; Spring, 2004
Mima'amakim; Featured Artist; Nov-Dec. 2003
Continum (Catalogue); Selections from The Camera Club of NY;Sept. 2002
Wired Magazine 20-January,2002
Camera Club of New York Ongoing
Aufbau, Volume LXV, No.9 30-April, 1999
Berlin Tagesspiegel, 21-July, 1998
Photo Metro, Volume 14, Issue 133, December 1995
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Portland Art Museum; Portland, OR
Alliance Capital; New York City
Hunter College; Presidential Acquisition Award; June, 1999
GRANTS + AWARDS:
New York Foundation for the Arts - Artists in the Schools Community Implementation Grant.
Academic years 2001-02 and 2002-03.
A collaborative video project with Downtown Community Television Center, teaching Video Literacy and Production skills to students from the Young Adult Learning Academy. Results were several short video pieces each semester, shown on public access TV and at video slam festivals.
The Gunk Foundation, February, 2002
For co-curating and co-producing Peepshow 28, A No Live Girls Production. A video art project curating and placing short artistsŐ videos in peep booths at The Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle.