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Robin Graubard

Robin Graubard (New York, USA, 1951). Lives and works in New York, USA. She holds a BFA from B.F.A. New York University, New York.

Robin Graubard’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently at Office Baroque, Brussels; JTT, New York and White Columns, New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Robin Graubard, Ska punks – CBGB’s, ca. 1979 Lambda print, 39,5 × 58,5 cm (15 1/2 × 23 in.), Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard, Ska punks – CBGB’s, ca. 1979
Lambda print, 39,5 × 58,5 cm (15 1/2 × 23 in.), Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard’s work, over the past 40 years, has explored and blurred the boundaries between documentary and autobiographical narratives. In the 1980s, Graubard documented aspects of the Lower East Side punk scenes and the nocturnal hustle of a then still dangerous Times Square but also travelled to Eastern Europe, Jamaica and Hawaii. Travelling both East and West on a political and poetical map, Graubard occupies a hard-to-define position in relation to her subjects. There remains a sense of the unresolved at play in both life and in art, a nagging sense that something is always occluded and remains unsaid. Her work builds drama through mixing up distant and conflicting realities and chronologies.

Robin Graubard, 350A8802, 2015 Pigment inkjet print on cotton paper 37.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in) Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard, 350A8802, 2015
Pigment inkjet print on cotton paper
37.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in)
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard, 3506546, 2014 Pigment print 43.8 x 63.8 cm (17 1/4 x 25 1/8 in) Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard, 3506546, 2014
Pigment print
43.8 x 63.8 cm (17 1/4 x 25 1/8 in) Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard Bianca, 1992 Pigment print 35,2 × 28 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.) Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard
Bianca, 1992
Pigment print
35,2 × 28 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.)
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard fallen angels, 1985 Lambda print 55.2 x 63.5 cm, 21 3/4 x 25 in. Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard
fallen angels, 1985
Lambda print
55.2 x 63.5 cm, 21 3/4 x 25 in.
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard Through A Looking Glass, 1995 Lambda print 38,7 × 57,8 cm (15 1/4 × 22 3/4 in.) Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Through A Looking Glass, 1995
Lambda print
38,7 × 57,8 cm (15 1/4 × 22 3/4 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard Camden Town, ca. 1993 Gelatin silver print 35,5 × 27,5 cm (14 × 10 3/4 in.) Edition of 3 + 2 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Camden Town, ca. 1993
Gelatin silver print
35,5 × 27,5 cm (14 × 10 3/4 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard guy with boombox – Times Square, 1985 Lambda print 37.5 x 26.5 cm, 14 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard
guy with boombox – Times Square, 1985
Lambda print
37.5 x 26.5 cm, 14 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

Robin Graubard Warhol + Sprouse, 1986 Pigment print 25 × 40,5 cm (9 3/4 × 15 7/8 in.) Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Warhol + Sprouse, 1986
Pigment print
25 × 40,5 cm (9 3/4 × 15 7/8 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard Garden (NY), 2016 Pigment print 19 × 27,5 cm (7 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.) Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Garden (NY), 2016
Pigment print
19 × 27,5 cm (7 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard Kim Crashpad, 1985 Lambda print 55 × 77,5 cm (21 5/8 × 30 1/2 in.) Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Kim Crashpad, 1985
Lambda print
55 × 77,5 cm (21 5/8 × 30 1/2 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard Boy, 2007 lambda workprint 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in) Edition of 5 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard
Boy, 2007
lambda workprint
27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in)
Edition of 5 + 2 artist’s proofs

Robin Graubard Teen murder, circa 1986 Unique vintage silverprint 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in)

Robin Graubard
Teen murder, circa 1986
Unique vintage silverprint
25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in)

Robin Graubard

  • Born 1951, New York, USA.

    Lives and works in New York, USA.

  • 2015 Hunter College, New York, USA

    1990s Columbia University, New York, USA

    1980s International Center of Photography, New York, USA

    1980s School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

    1977 B.F.A. New York University, New York, USA

  • 2021

    Circles, Montos Tattoo, Vilnius, LT

    2019

    Random Access, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

    2017

    Take A Picture It Lasts Longer, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

    2015

    jungle, JTT, New York, USA

    2012

    True Confessions In Progress, Agape Enterprises, Brooklyn, USA

    2011

    Incomplete, White Room, White Columns, New York, USA

    2010

    The Hold Up, Participant Inc, New York, USA

    2007

    If I Had the Wings of An Angel Out of this Prison I’d Fly, Autoversion LTD, New York, USA

    1998

    The Doll Hospital, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

  • 2021

    Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

    Interior Scroll, or What I Did on My Vacation, Broadway, NYC, USA

    Anarchy of the Imagination, Kerry Schuss, NYC, USA

    2019

    General meeting (curated by Darren Flook and Nancy Hatcher), Freehouse, London, UK

    Backgrounds, Carl Louie, Toronto, Canada

    2018

    Communauté, East Village Arts Collective, London, Canada

    2017

    Filmmakers Coop Auction Benefit, Next to Nothing, New York, USA

    Steven Petronio Dance Company Benefit, The Joyce Theather, New York, USA

    2016

    It’s All True: The East Village Eye Show (curated by Leonard Abrams), Howl! Happening, New York, USA

    2015

    NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

    Photoshow 2015 (curated by Aaron Ajula), Green River Project Room, Hillsdale, USA

    LOCUM (organized by Ryan Foerster), Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

    2014

    Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski (curated by Billy Miller), Exile, Berlin, Germany

    2012

    The Rituals of Chaos, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, USA

    2011 Inaugural Selection, Agape Enterprise, Brooklyn, USA

    New Age End of the World, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, USA

    2010

    Lush Life (curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud), Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, USA

    50 Artists Photograph the Future (curated by Dean Daderko), Higher Pictures, New York, USA

    Benefit for Northside Center for Child Development, New York, USA

    2009

    A Tribute to Anthology Film Archives, Maya Stendahl Gallery, New York, USA

    2008

    Presumed Innocence, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, USA

    New York Photo Festival (curated by Tim Barber), Brooklyn, USA

    Autoversion 01, New York, USA

    ARTWALK, New York, USA

    2008

    East Village NY: Vulnerable and Extreme (curated by Gracie Mansion), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

    2007

    Office (curated by Lia Gangitano), Rental Gallery, New York, USA

    Benefit Auction for RHM Foundation, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA

    2006

    ARTWALK, New York, USA

    White Columns 2006 Benefit Auction, New York, USA

    Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA

    2004

    Indigestible Correctness (curated by Rita Ackermann and Lizzi Bougatsos), Participant Inc, New York, USA

    Flatfiles, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, USA

    2001

    Rocks and Trees (curated by David Armstrong), PRC, Boston, USA

    1999

    Pictures of Oona (curated by Robert Haller), Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

    1992

    Perpignon, France

    1985

    Art Against Apartheid, The Brooklyn Armory Show, Brooklyn, USA

    1985

    New Museum of Contemporary Art Bookshop Exhibit, New Museum, New York, USA

  • The Bronx Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA

    Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

    The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA