Ruby Visiting Artists

Mario Moore

Mario Moore January 16 – March 6, 2022 Mario Moore, a painter recently commissioned by Duke University to paint a portrait of Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, will be the artist-in-residence at the Rubenstein Arts ...

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Carl Pope

Carl Pope March 1 – July 1, 2021 Carl Pope is bringing “The Bad Air Smelled of Roses” (2004—), an ongoing installation about the presence and function of Blackness in society and ...

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John Felix Arnold

John Felix Arnold October 1 – 17, 2021 Brooklyn, NY-based artist John Felix Arnold returns to Durham, his hometown, to create a new piece of immersive artwork in the entryway of the ...

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Julia Gartrell

Julia Gartrell November 4, 2019 – January 29, 2020 Durham visual artist Julia Gartrell will develop the Radical Repair Workshop while in residence in the Ruby. The Radical Repair Workshop is a ...

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Alex Sopp

Alex Sopp September 21 – 28, 2019 New York-based flutist and interdisciplinary artist Alex Sopp—an “admired new music mainstay”—has commissioned, premiered, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters ...

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Chandan Gomes

Chandan Gomes September 21 – 28, 2019 Chandan Gomes is an artist and bookmaker visiting from Delhi in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies, with support from the Duke India Initiative. ...

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Raquel Salvatella de Prada & Merrill Shatzman

Raquel Salvatella de Prada and Merrill Shatzman are developing Endangered Landscapes, a multimedia installation that raises awareness of the threatened status of Utah’s Grand-Escalante National Monument through combining aerial photography, prints, animation, and video.

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BR Goldstein

Goldstein will be working on a large scale painting from the series Cicatrice (scar) to create a work inspired by aerial views of landscapes using found materials, tarps, and parchment.

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Heather Gordon

"Forest for the Trees" is an installation project that uses forestry data and mapping to create an origami shape to describe a narrative of resource management in Duke Forest.SHARE 

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Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba

Mexico-City based artist Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba will be in-residence in the Ruby to transform the gallery into a space that questions how contemporary art can be used to understand extreme economic realities.

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Renzo Ortega

Ortega plans to make a group of paintings that represents our contemporary situation from his point of view as a Peruvian artist living in the United States.

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Zak Weinberg

The Innovation Co-Lab presents its first artist residency with Laser Fabricator and Artist Zak Weinberg, 4/5-4/12 at the Co-Lab and Ruby Makerspace.

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William Paul Thomas

William Paul Thomas is a painter, photographer, and videographer based in Durham whose focus as a visual artist is making images that correspond directly to the people and experiences closest to him.

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American Ballet Theatre

A three-year collaboration gives Durham dance students and audiences many opportunities to engage with artists and teachers from one of the world’s leading classical ballet companies.

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Tessa Mars

Haitian artist Tessa Mars makes her first significant visit to the United States as part of Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, an event series paired with an art exhibit at the Power Plant Gallery (on view through mid-November).SHARE 

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Édouard Duval-Carrié

Miami-based Haitian artist Édouard Duval-Carrié is in Durham for Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, an event series paired with an art exhibit at the Power Plant Gallery (on view through mid-November).

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Nathaniel Dorsky

Nathaniel Dorsky, an eminent filmmaker known for silent film, visits Duke to screen four distinct programs of his work on four consecutive nights and work with students in the MFA EDA program.

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Nina Chanel Abney

The first visiting artist in the Ruby is Chicago-born painter Nina Chanel Abney, whose large-scale paintings take on some of today’s most pressing social justice issues.

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