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Rudy Gerson (b. 1993) is an artist and educator working across mediums of print, still and moving image, and performance in a practice interested in the energies, potentials, and dynamics that emerge when people gather. Through subjects like sports, nationalism, and dance, works pursue themes related to how people pursue erotic and existential desires in the absence of institutions like religion or the family. Works can pass or speak multiply, occupying a voice that speaks with and to a crowd — in its polyvocal contradictions and ambivalences.
through a queer poetics of touch and a devotional approach to desire under conditions of opacity and loss.
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) is an artist and educator working across mediums of print, still and moving image, and performance in a practice interested in the energies, potentials, and dynamics that emerge when people gather. Through subjects like sports, nationalism, and dance, works pursue themes related to how people pursue erotic and existential desires in the absence of institutions like religion or the family. Works can pass or speak multiply, occupying a voice that speaks with and to a crowd — in its polyvocal contradictions and ambivalences.
through a queer poetics of touch and a devotional approach to desire under conditions of opacity and loss.
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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