Brief Bio

Seth David Rubin is an American photographer and educator who was born in 1968 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Rubin started taking pictures at the age of eleven. He received his B.A. from  Bard College, and M.F.A. from Yale. He started making “performances for the camera,” using his own body while in college. Since then he continues to work creating fictions and reinterpretations of reality. Recent work is composed of mirror and glass installations that are photographed on site.

Rubin has shown at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, the Worcester Art Museum and Kingston ArtPort. Rubin was an Artist-in- Residence with the Merchant Ivory Foundation, Claverack NY. He has collaborated with film director James Ivory on many projects. He currently teaches at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge, NY. Rubin’s work has been collected privately and publicly by the Addison and the Worcester Art Museums in Massachusetts.