Saul Robbins is interested in the ways in which people move through, relate to, and occupy their surroundings,
especially the interstice between public and private experience of the urban environment. His work has been
exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including Blue Sky Gallery,
The Bolinas Museum, Hoch Schule der Kunst, Deutsches Haus at NYU, The Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, PSU
White Gallery, and is in the collections of Alliance Capital, Hunter College, The Portland Museum of Art, and
numerous private collections. His work has been published in Aufbau, CPW Photography Quarterly, More
Magazine, The New York Times, San Francisco Photo Metro, Shots, TAM, Wired, and others.
His curatorial projects include Projecting Freedom: Cinematic Interpretations of The Haggadah,
(2009-2010); Regarding Intimacy, at The Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College (March - May 2007);
and 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 at Berlin's Hoch Schule der Kunste, and received his MFA from
Hunter College. He teaches photography at The International Center of Photography and Pratt Institute in New York City.
EDUCATION:
1999 - M.F.A. in Photography; Hunter College of the City University of New York
1998 - Exchange Student, NICA Stipendium; Der Hoch Schule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
BA and 5th Year Certificate in Art; UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - Initial Intake; Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2007 - Initial Intake; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 - This Life So Far; White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2004 - This Life So Far; Sepia, Brooklyn, NY
This Life So Far; Makor Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY
2002 - Roadside Distractions; The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
Roadside Distractions; Yaffee Ruden, New York, NY
2001 - New York; Westchester Institute, White Plains, NY
1999 - New Perspectives: The View from Berlin; Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show; Hunter College, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2009 - Photo Forum 2009, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nature / Nurture; Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
What Surrounds Us: Finding and Making Home; The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
2008 - Terrors and Pleasures; Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Gift; Union Gallery, New York, NY
The Architecture of Emotion; Philoctetes Center for Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, New York, NY
Illuminations (5th Anniversary); Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Faculty Show; International Center of Photography
2007 - Home for the Holidays; Wallspace, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show; International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2006 - Resonance; Photographic Center North West, Seattle, WA (Honorable Mention)
Illuminations; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
The Chair Show; Mana Fine Art, Jersey City, NJ
At Play; Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
2005 - Top Drawer; The Matzo Files, New York, NY
One Foot After Another; Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland OR
2002 - Peepshow 28; The Lusty Lady, San Francisco and Seattle
The Camera Club of New York; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
The Text still Speaks; Skirball Center at Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY
2000 - PHOTOWORK Y2K; Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
1998 - FOTOPIA; Der Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Par Avion; Hunter College, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS:
2009 - More Magazine
Photography Now - Center for Photography at Woodstock, Photography Quarterly - Curated by Jen Bekman
Blue Sky Annual
2008 - Journal of the Philoctetes Center For The Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination; Vol. 2, No. 2
House & Home, The New York Times, 6-March
2007 - Daily Life - First Thursday, Portland Tribune, 30-October
Sh'ma, NiSh'ma, October
The Oregonian, 16-April
Regarding Intimacy, Exhibition Catalogue, March
2006 - Arts and Letters, The Jewish Review (Portland, OR) 27-January
2005 - New York Issue, TAM Magazine, October
In Light, #91; Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Zeek Magazine, Spring and Fall
Shots Magazine, Summer
fstopmagazine.com, Cover, #9
2004 - Shots Magazine, Winter
Zeek Magazine, Cover Image, Fall/Winter
Journal of Jewish Studies, Queens College, Vol Vl
2002 - Porn in the USA, San Francisco Examiner, 20-February
Wired Magazine, 20-January
Continuum, Selections from The Camera Club of New York
1999 - Aufbau,Volume LXV, No.9
1998 - Berlin Tagesspiegel, 21-July
GRANTS + AWARDS
2009 - Covenant Foundation, Ignition Grant; Projecting Freedom: Cinematic Interpretations of the Haggadah, Skirball Center at Temple Emanu-El
Sony World Photography Awards: Finalist; Conceptual & Constructed
2008 - AJPA Rockower Noah Bee Award for Excellence in Illustration
First place, Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility
2001-2003 - New York Foundation for the Arts - Artists in the Schools Community Implementation Grant
For a collaborative video project between the Young Adult Learning Academy and Downtown Community Television Center
2002 - The Gunk Foundation
For Peepshow 28, A No Live Girls Production, Short artists' videos in peep booths, The Lusty Lady, San Francisco and Seattle
COLLECTIONS
Alliance Capital; Permanent Collections, New York City
Hunter College; Presidential Acquisition Award
Portland Art Museum; Permanent Collections, Portland, Oregon
Private Collections
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2009-10 - Projecting Freedom: Cinematic Interpretations of the Haggadah, Skirball Center at Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY
2007 - Regarding Intimacy; Hunter College, Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY
2004 - F-Stop Makor; Makor Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY
2003 - F-Stop Makor; Makor Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY
2002 - Peepshow 28, The Lusty Lady; San Francisco and Seattle
1998 - Par Avion; Hunter College, New York, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: (Selected)
Pratt Institute, 2008-Present
International Center of Photography, New York City, 1996-Present
Makor Center for Jewish Life, New York City, 2000-2007
The Educational Alliance, New York City, 2000-2004
Media Arts Instructor, Young Adult Learning Academy, NY, 1999-2004
Brandeis University (Jewish Identity in Film / Video Production), 2002
Director, Young Photo and Video Artists Program; SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY; Summer, 1999 and 2000
Contact: saul@saulrobbins.com