David S. Rubin

David Stuart Rubin is an American curator, art critic, and artist. As a contemporary art curator, he is recognized for thematic exhibitions such as "Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art," "It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art," and "Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s." Rubin has held curatorial positions at Scripps College and Pomona College, Santa Monica College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright College, MOCA Cleveland, Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, and San Antonio Museum of Art. In 1996 Rubin served as the U.S. Commissioner for the Cuenca Bienal of Painting. Rubin has organized solo exhibitions for many artists of note, including: Martha Alf, Robert Arneson, William Baziotes, Willie Birch, Douglas Bourgeois, Ellen Brooks, Peter Campus, Cynthia Carlson, Petah Coyne, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo, Tomer Ganihar, Allen Ginsberg, David Halliday, Wally Hedrick, Al Held, Mark Kostabi, Peter Liashkov, Donald Lipski, Gary Lloyd (artist) Christian Marclay, Ana Mendieta, Dennis Oppenheim, Martin Puryear, Alison Saar, Robert Stackhouse, Vincent Valdez, Carrie Mae Weems, and Emerson Woelffer. Rubin's curatorial archives are housed in the Archives of American Art. As an art critic, Rubin has written for Arts Magazine, Art in America, Visual Art Source, Fabrik, and other art journals. He has published numerous books and catalogs in conjunction with exhibitions. As an artist, Rubin is known for automatic drawing. His drawings have been exhibited at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, and California State University, Northridge Art Galleries and are in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University.