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Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist and educator working with film, print, performance, and installation. His practice dwells in the repetitions and inheritances around which groups and social selves take shape — religion, family, the party, and sexuality. Engaging forms such as sports, nationalism, dance, and mourning, he follows the problem of collective desires as they congeal between pleasure and violence, devotion and loss. Working through an obliquely jewish sensibility, around questions of devotion, the poetics of passing, the limits of knowability, he seizes inherited forms and lets them 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), and Whammy! (Los Angeles). In addition to his studio practice, he has collaborated with artists and organizations on design, video, and performance: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Asian Arts Initiative, Abrons Arts Center (2019 with Jonathan González; 2022 with Slauson Malone), LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), and BRIC (2022, Jonathan González), and has worked with Tania Bruguera (2018), Julie Tolentino (2023), and Paul Pfeiffer, for whom he currently serves as Development Producer on a media workshop at Barclays Center. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2023, Charles Addams Memorial Prize). Rudy is based in New York City and Philadelphia, where he teaches Video I at Penn and Sculpture II at 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 with film, print, performance, and installation. His practice dwells in the repetitions and inheritances around which groups and social selves take shape — religion, family, the party, and sexuality. Engaging forms such as sports, nationalism, dance, and mourning, he follows the problem of collective desires as they congeal between pleasure and violence, devotion and loss. Working through an obliquely jewish sensibility, around questions of devotion, the poetics of passing, the limits of knowability, he seizes inherited forms and lets them 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), and Whammy! (Los Angeles). In addition to his studio practice, he has collaborated with artists and organizations on design, video, and performance: Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Asian Arts Initiative, Abrons Arts Center (2019 with Jonathan González; 2022 with Slauson Malone), LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), and BRIC (2022, Jonathan González), and has worked with Tania Bruguera (2018), Julie Tolentino (2023), and Paul Pfeiffer, for whom he currently serves as Development Producer on a media workshop at Barclays Center. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2023, Charles Addams Memorial Prize). Rudy is based in New York City and Philadelphia, where he teaches Video I at Penn and Sculpture II at 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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