Draft:Christian Haub

Christian Haub (born February 22, 1952) is an American artist. He is based in New York City.

Early life
Haub attended Ransom Everglades School in Miami, Florida and graduated from The Hill School in Pennsylvania in 1970. He graduated in 1976 from Princeton University with a BA in art history. In 1984 he won the Rome Prize at American Academy in Rome. In the early 1990's, through his extensive network of artist friends, Haub created Tennisportarts, an exhibition space in Long Island City, NY at Tennis Port. Haub curated exhibitions that eventually included over 200 artists.

Career
Haub has had numerous solo exhibitions and his artwork included in many gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Paris, France; and Lima, Peru, among other cities. His artwork has been critically reviewed in The New York Times, Los Angels Times, The Boston Globe, Art In America, Arts Magazine, Artspace and BOMB among other publications.

In a 2013 Bomb Magazine interview, artist and theorist Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe calls Haub, "the most absurdly overlooked artist in my lifetime". In this Q&A with the artist, Gibert-Rolfe asked Haub to say discuss how you work and why you use the materials you use. Haub replied,"My painting process is additive. I've never erased paint. In a painting even when you cover up something you've done, it's still there. I like that. But I also like that with the Floats it's the opposite, erasing is easy and very much a part of the process."

I like the idea of Whistler erasing the previous day's work before beginning again. Making the Floats is like that. I make small, unfixed, versions, trying different things out, repeating and starting over again, until things look right. I then shoot a digital image of the possibility and carry it around on my phone or camera like a sketchbook. When it's time to turn the small version into a large piece, I rehearse it. It's a last chance to change or adjust the study before execution.

Recent one-person exhibitions include "Like a Butterfly" (a reference to both Muhammad Ali and James McNeill Whistler) at David Richard Gallery in New York.

Haub has exhibited in over 40 group exhibitions. Recent group shows include "Real Space", Abstract Project, 2024, Paris, France and "Bas, Braun, Haub", Abstract Project, Paris, France, 2022.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2018 Floats, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
 * 2015 Floats, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
 * 2014 Floats, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
 * 2013 Floats, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
 * 2001 Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
 * 1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
 * 1995 Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
 * 1993 Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA
 * 1990 Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
 * 1989 Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
 * 1987 Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY