Rubem Robierb Biography
Rubem Robierb is a visual artist, sculptor, and photographer living in Miami, Florida. His work has gained the attention of the media and art critics, and it has been shown in exhibits, art galleries, and museums all around the world. The artist frequently employs metaphors to create images that are bursting with hidden meanings for the observer. His work is strongly related to the Pop art movement.
How old is Rubem Robierb? – Age
He is 46 years old as of 1 December 2022. He was born in 1976 in Bacabal, State of Maranhão, Brazil.
Rubem Robierb Family – Educaation
As a kid, he became interested in poetry and photography, as well as how visuals may influence the spectator emotionally. Robierb traveled to So Paulo at the age of twenty to attend photography school, but instead began doing commercial photography for fashion publications.
Rubem Robierb Partner
Rubem married Sam Champion, his longtime companion and a weather anchor for WABC-TV, Weather Channel, and Good Morning America, in 2012. Both Robierb and Champion have been vocal supporters of equal marriage, actively supporting organizations such as GLAAD, HRC (Human Rights Campaign), Point Foundation, LGBTQ Task Force, Power my Learning, Big Brother Big Sisters, and Best Buddies.
Rubem Robierb Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Rubem Robierb Dream Machines
Robierb’s sculpture Dandara (Dream Machines Series) went viral on November 4, 2019, after it was exhibited in New York City’s Tribeca Park. The artwork was named after a 42-year-old transgender woman who was viciously assaulted and murdered in Brazil two years ago. “Robierb dedicated his latest sculpture to the transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary population “in honor to its power and bravery,” according to Forbes. Dandara has been featured in a number of significant media outlets.
Rubem Robierb Climate Meltdown
In December 2019, Robierb constructed a 36-foot exhibition of “How Dare You” phrases carved out of two tons of ice that floated in water at a hotel’s pool, which drew the attention of art experts and media. According to many accounts, the artist was inspired by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg’s famous UN speech, and later utilized the phrase “How Dare You” for his “Climate Meltdown” artwork. The piece was also shown at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Rubem Robierb Career
Robierb’s work was originally seen by the Art et Partage Society, which produced his first solo show, Brezil Autrement (Another Brazil), in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2005. His photography work was later shown in galleries in So Paulo, Zurich, Monaco, Paris, and Milan. Robierb relocated to Miami in 2008, where he started a studio in Wynwood. He participated at Red Dot (Art Basel) in 2009 with the Eros / Thanatos series, a sequence of photographs in which the artist investigated the thin line that exists in human sexuality, between ecstasy and agony.
In 2011, he displayed his Show Me the Money series at Curators Voice Art Gallery in MIAMI, in which he crushed dollar bills and shot them against a solid black background, generating deceiving pictures for the viewer’s perception using Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot technique. Robierb debuted in the New York City art scene in 2012 with the Bullet-Fly Effect series, a collection of compositions that combined the body of a butterfly with military materials such as bullets or machine guns. The exhibition’s principal focus was war critique, with allusions to the Chaos Theory’s “butterfly effect.”
In 2013, he presented the Bullets & Butterflies show at Taglialatella Gallery, but this time using paintings instead of images. Robierb was commissioned by Fort Lauderdale’s municipal council to paint Metamorph-Us, a big mural in the downtown area, in 2015.
