Artist Abstract:
Gideon Rubin (b. 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel) received his MFA from Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London and his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. His work has been the subject of important solo and group exhibitions at K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China; the Freud Museum, London, UK; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Chengdu, China; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, among others. Rubin's work is represented in prominent public collections worldwide including Collezione Fondazione San Patrignano, Italy; Fondation Frances, France; Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, CA; Museum Voorlinden Collection, Netherlands; Rubin Museum, Israel; Ruinart Collection, France; The Seavest Collection, NY; and the Speyer Family Collection, NY, among others. Rubin lives and works in London, UK.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman (b. 1981, Detroit, MI) received an MFA in Studio Art from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, Providence, RI; and a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. His recent solo institutional exhibitions include Brief Emotion, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, FR; You Are Here, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Charleston, SC; and Now That I Can Dance, Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA. He has also exhibited at museums and institutions including Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Ballroom Marfa, TX; The Kitchen, New York, NY; MoMA, New York, NY; MoCA Tucson, AZ; Swiss Institute, New York, NY; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Huffman's awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant and fellowships from Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Lighthouse Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Huffman was a 2015-16 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work is in the permanent collections of Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kadist, San Francisco, CA/Paris, FR; Pierce & Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI; Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY; and Tufts University Art Collection, Medford, MA. Huffman is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine, where he teaches video and collage. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.