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Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist and educator working across film, photography, print, performance, installation, and collaboration. His practice explores how groups and social selves are formed through (and in relation to) shifting frameworks of religion, the family, the party, and spectacle. Engaging forms such as sports, nationalism, dance, and mourning, his work considers how desire becomes collectively and ambivalently articulated through acts of repetition, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, where pleasure and violence, devotion and loss, remain entangled. Working through an obliquely jewish sensibility, his practice attends to questions of devotion, the poetics of passing, and the limits of knowability, asking how inherited forms carry both the weight of capture and the possibility of freedom.
Rudy has exhibited and screened 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 film, photography, print, performance, installation, and collaboration. His practice explores how groups and social selves are formed through (and in relation to) shifting frameworks of religion, the family, the party, and spectacle. Engaging forms such as sports, nationalism, dance, and mourning, his work considers how desire becomes collectively and ambivalently articulated through acts of repetition, reckoning with the contradictions of contemporary life, where pleasure and violence, devotion and loss, remain entangled. Working through an obliquely jewish sensibility, his practice attends to questions of devotion, the poetics of passing, and the limits of knowability, asking how inherited forms carry both the weight of capture and the possibility of freedom.
Rudy has exhibited and screened 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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