"I spent a lot of time in my early work, looking at individuals—almost like biographies or portraits, but always sort of feeling out some in-between space where someone’s identity and my own ideas and fantasies met...I’ve never really liked performance art but I’ve always been obsessed with how we’re performing all the time anyway, throughout our daily lives." Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin went to CCA in the early 90s, studying closely with Suzanne Lacy and Larry Sultan, and remained in the Bay Area until 2007. He and Ted overlapped in San Francisco for many years, sharing the city, conversations, context, pedagogical experiments, and varied interests, continuing after Jon moved to Pittsburgh for a full-time teaching job.

Jon Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist who creates interventions into public life that re-imagine individual, group, and institutional behavior. His projects include a radio station in an abandoned neighborhood that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, a barter-based nomadic art school, a restaurant that produces a live video talk show with its customers, and another that serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. He has exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Shanghai Biennial; Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; among many others. He is an associate professor and graduate director in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.