Emile Rubino (French, b.1992) lives and works in Brussels. Emile Rubino’s small scale pictures play with photography’s declarative register. Working through the semantic ‘in-betweens’ of picture-making and its discourses, he directs our attention towards the photograph as both an object and a depiction — a capacious container in spite of its inherently tenuous materiality. By drawing out their relationship to care and labor, his photographs, which often involve a mix of analogue and digital processes, devise a contrived relationship to the idea of ‘the photographic’ in order to address its social ramifications.​

​He holds an MFA from ICP-Bard, New York, NY (2017), his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada (2015). Solo exhibitions include LANDLINE (with Konrad Klapheck), presented by Lucas Blalock and Whitney Hubbs, Situations, New York, NY (2021); Friends & Laundry, Island, Brussels, Belgium (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Saint-Gilles Confidential, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Vancouver Carry On, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (2018); Ami Omo, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (2018). Rubino is co-editor of Le Chauffage magazine, an artist publication located between Brussels and Vancouver. His work has appeared in frieze, CFA and Text zur Kunst.​