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Seth David Rubin, an American artist and photographer born in 1968 in Lisbon, Portugal where his American parents, both artists, were living at the time. When he was 5, his mother remarried a prominent black civil rights lawyer, W. Haywoood Burns. The experience of his multiracial family would deeply influence the spectrum of his art.

Rubin started taking pictures at the age of eleven. He received his B.A. degree from Bard College. He recognizes the photography department directed by Stephen Shore as critical to his artistic formation. Subsequently, Seth received his Master’s of Fine Arts Degree from Yale University.

While at Bard, partly in response to dominant documentary photography trends at the time, and an influential visit with artist John Coplans, he started making “performances for the camera,” using his own body. Since then he continues to work creating fictions and reinterpretations of reality.

Seth David Rubin is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston. His work was shown in the project space there in September of 2017. He has also shown at Yancey Richardson in New York City, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, The Photographer’s Gallery in London, England. For eight years, Rubin was an artist in residence with the Merchant Ivory Foundation in Claverack NY, and he continues to be a digital imagist and photographer for them today. He has taught photography at all levels and currently teaches photography at SUNY Ulster College in Stone Ridge, N.Y.