Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics, while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted. Using intricate motifs, Rubin delves into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, identity, and sensual desire. Her sculptures open up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Rubin received a BFA in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Rubin has exhibited widely, recent selections include the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, The South Dallas Cultural Center, Women & Their Work Gallery, The Carver Museum, and she is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin currently lives in Austin, Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward’s University.

SELECT Exhibitions

• I am at my best when I’m escaping, Big Medium, Austin, TX, 2023

• Clay Matter, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, 2023

• Faithful, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX, 2022

• Tammie Rubin: tell them I won't be long, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, 2021

• Collecting Black Studies: An Exhibition, Art Galleries at Black Studies University of Texas Art Galleries, Austin, TX, 2021

• Interchange, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, 2019

• Warmly Persuasive, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

• Exchange, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2019

• Everything You Ever, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX, 2018

• This is Everything, Cage Match Project Round VIII, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, 2018

• 28 X 5 Clay Works, CRETA ROME Ceramic Arts, Rome, Italy, 2017