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Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist and educator working across print, still and moving image, performance, and collaboration in a practice which explores how groups, identities, and collectivity form in the absence of institutional frameworks such as religion, the family, or the party. Through subjects like sports, nationalism, and dance, works consider how collective desires are articulated in these contexts, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, particularly where pleasure and violence are entangled.
Rudy has shown work with Mono No Aware (NYC), Commonweal (Philadelphia), Atelier Gallery (Philadelphia), Whammy! (Los Angeles). In addition to a studio practice, Rudy has collaborated with artists and organizations on design, video services, and performances: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Asian Arts Initiative, Abrons Arts Center (2019, Jonathan González; 2022, Slauson Malone), LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), BRIC (2022, Jonathan González) and has worked with Tania Bruguera (2018), Julie Tolentino (2023), and Paul Pfeiffer (2025). Rudy is based in New York City and Philadelphia and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Brooklyn College.
Selected writing:
A Sourcebook for Performance Labor
Routledge, Joey Orr, 2023
Transposing Diasporas: Interveiw with David Hartt
PRTCLS, 2021
Critical Correspondance: EmmaGrace Skove-Epes and Jonathan González
Movement Research, 2019
Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist and educator working across print, still and moving image, performance, and collaboration in a practice which explores how groups, identities, and collectivity form in the absence of institutional frameworks such as religion, the family, or the party. Through subjects like sports, nationalism, and dance, works consider how collective desires are articulated in these contexts, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, particularly where pleasure and violence are entangled.
Rudy has shown work with Mono No Aware (NYC), Commonweal (Philadelphia), Atelier Gallery (Philadelphia), Whammy! (Los Angeles). In addition to a studio practice, Rudy has collaborated with artists and organizations on design, video services, and performances: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Asian Arts Initiative, Abrons Arts Center (2019, Jonathan González; 2022, Slauson Malone), LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), BRIC (2022, Jonathan González) and has worked with Tania Bruguera (2018), Julie Tolentino (2023), and Paul Pfeiffer (2025). Rudy is based in New York City and Philadelphia and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Brooklyn College.
Selected writing:
A Sourcebook for Performance Labor
Routledge, Joey Orr, 2023
Transposing Diasporas: Interveiw with David Hartt
PRTCLS, 2021
Critical Correspondance: EmmaGrace Skove-Epes and Jonathan González
Movement Research, 2019
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