Reuben Telushkin - January 2025

Reuben Telushkin (b. 1988, Holyoke, MA) is based in Detroit, MI. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College in 2012. He lived in Oakland, CA, exhibiting at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with a grant from Burnt Oranges. He then moved to Detroit in 2015, where he worked at Allied Media Projects. He was a resident at Talking Dolls Studio, where he exhibited a solo exhibition in 2022. From 2017-2021 he was a National Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace, working to end US material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and building common cause between the American Jewish left and the Black liberation movement in the US. Recently he was a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA in 4D Design in 2024. He has exhibited at Brecht Forum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and he has produced public commissions for Library Street Collective. He was a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ACRE Residency, and is scheduled to attend Surf Point in York, ME and the Interactive Electronic Arts residency at Alfred University. Telushkin’s work synthesizes traditional craft with digital fabrication to problematize binaries of human/machine, ancient/modern, nature/culture, etc. Applying fractal geometric design principles across a diversity of media such as sculpture, sound, writing, and performance, Telushkin takes things apart and puts them back together, in a desire to understand the nature of imperfect systems.

Visit Ruben’s website here.