About Me

Traversing boundaries, cultures gained and cultures lost, and sensations across time and space are continual themes in my work.   I left India at age eight, and ever since, have worked to reconcile what has been lost and found.  My work is a continual meditation on memory and the body using line, color and form. Each work begins with raw materials: wood panels cut from prefabricated doors, beeswax from local farms, damar crystals and basic color pigments.  In natural light, these paintings carry a translucency created by pigments suspended in beeswax, evoking sensuousness, depth, and personal reflection.

In 2018, I began a series of brown encaustic color studies to explore the limits of a single color’s expression. The series is a response to mass disenfranchisement under Trump and growing xenophobia against brown skin. To some, brown is beautiful. To others, it is dirty; the outsider, the enemy. These color studies mirror the skin of the NYC public school students I teach. By layering and blending loving and hateful associations to ‘Brown’, I have developed a personal meditation on Otherness.  These meditations on ‘Brown’ have naturally incorporated expressions of isolation, anxiety, and calm emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuben Sinha’s family moved to New York from India when he was seven. Since then, Sinha has been using his art to reconcile his two conflicting cultures. He is a painter and ceramic artist. His current work in encaustics explores color through monochromatic studies.

After receiving a BFA from NYU, Sinha studied art at the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University. His awards include the MacDowell Traveling Scholarship and a Fulbright Fellowship, both travel grants were used to return to India to study and paint. These trips awakened and challenged his notions that art can only exist in a cultural context, i.e., his art is always trying to bridge his two cultures.

Reuben Sinha is an artist and an art teacher in New York City. His awards include the MacDowell Traveling Scholarship and a Fulbright Fellowship, both grants were used to return to India to study and paint. These trips awakened and challenged his notions that art can only exist in a cultural context, i.e., his art is always trying to bridge his two cultures. He was the Founder and Executive Director of artHARLEM, a not-for-profit community arts organization, that produced The Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour.  He has taught drawing and anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and Spring Studio. His work is in numerous private and public collections in India, Russia, Germany, Lebanon, Japan and the United States, including Columbia University, and the Fulbright House, New Delhi.

Exhibitions

Select Painting Exhibitions
Group Show, Summer Salon, Harlem, NY                                                                                                         7/21
Group Show, Art During the Time of Corona, Dab Art Co., LA, Ca – Online                                                5/21
Peters Valley School of Craft Virtual Open Studio                                                                                      5/21
Celebrating Bridges in Art and Art ED. Group Show, Macy Gallery, NY, NY                                              2/21
Group Show, The Art Center, Long Island City, NY                                                                                         9/19
Artists as teachers. Group Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY                                                         7/19
Encaustic Artists. Group Show, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY                                                           4/19
Solo exhibition, Salon gallery, New York, NY                                                                                                     3/18
Participant in Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, NY, NY                                                               10/11, 10/10, 10/09, 10/08, 10/07, 09/06, 05/05
ASL Gallery Exhibition Curated by Maurzio Pellegrin, New York, NY                                                         05/11
Exhibition of Printmakers, Macy Gallery, New York, NY                                                                                04/10
Erasing Borders – Contemporary Indian Arts                                                                                                   10/08
Traveling group exhibition @ Tabla Rasa Gallery, The Guild Gallery, Brownson Art Gallery,
Hammond Museum, Queens Museum of Art, & Santa Monica Art Studios
Sustenance, Group Exhibition, Next Gallery, New York, NY                                                                            09/07
Solo Exhibition, EMCArts, New York, NY                                                                                                             09/07
Group show, Contemporary Art in Harlem, Alternative Space @ 737 St. Nicks., Harlem, NY                  06/07
Harlem Is Art…, Group show, Columbia University, Neiman Gallery, New York, NY.                                07/05
Montclair State University Art 2004, Group show, University Art Gallery, Upper Montclair, NJ              11/04
Erasing Borders – Passport to Contemporary Indian Arts’, Group show, New York, NY                            09/04
Confrontations & Revelations, Solo Exhibition, Carroll Community College, Westminster, MD               09/03

Select Ceramics Exhibitions
Group Show, Summer Salon, Harlem, NY                                                                                                         7/21
Peters Valley School of Craft Virtual Open Studio                                                                                      5/21
Artists influenced by Japanese Aesthetics. Group show. Japan Society, New York, NY                      11/19
Washington Square Art Walk (crafts fair), New York, NY                                                                          9/18
Solo Exhibition of Ceramics, CG Boerner gallery, New York, NY                                                               4/18
NY Ceramics and Glass fair                                                                                                                                 1/18
American Crafts Fair, New York, NY                                                                                            6/16, 6/17, 6/18
Columbus Ave Crafts Fair, New York, NY                                                                                                         5/16
Montclair Crafts Fair                                                                                                                                             6/17
Macy Gallery Group Exhibition, Columbia University                                                              4/16, 4/17, 4/18

Experience
Professional Artist – Painter & Printmaker 7/92-present
• My artwork currently explores color in simple rhythms; of poetry of color, line and space.
Substitute Instructor – The Art Students League of New York 02/14-present
• Demonstrations, group and individual instruction in Sherry CamhyÕs Drawing Class
Visual Arts Teacher – New York City Dept. Of Education 9/07-Present

• Explorations Academy High School, Bronx, NY (9/07 – 6/13)

• The Heritage School, New York, NY (9/13-Present)
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• Teach high school classes in: Studio Art I & II, AP-art, Computer Graphics I & II, Computer Technology and Game Design

Drawing Instructor Spring Studio, New York, NY. 12/01-1/03
• Taught adult class on anatomy and drawing
Founder & Executive Director, artHARLEM. Inc, NY, NY 6/04- 12/11

• artHARLEM is a nonprofit arts organization of artists, dedicated to increasing public awareness of contemporary art through artist studio tours, exhibitions, articles, lectures & performances

• Event Organizer – Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour (HOAST), an annual two-day self-guided walking tour of over 100 studios and exhibitions of contemporary artistsÕ across Harlem, NY. Attended by approximately 2,000 visitors annually.

• Directed: artHARLEM website, HOAST Event Maps, advertisements & all press release.

• Raised funds through grants, membership, advertising and donations & managed annual budget of $15,000-20,000.

• Directed and supervised artHARLEM staff in organizing HOAST, studio visits, talks & exhibitions proposals

• Collaborated with community & arts organizations, in increase arts awareness around Harlem.

• Coordinated security with Harlem precincts and community boards, for HOAST events.

Custom Stained Glass Windows Reuben Sinha Stained Glass Studio, New York, NY
5/99-9/07
• Worked with private clients to design and fabricate original stained glass art as commissions.
Art Director – Masala Magazine, New York, NY 7/95- 6/97
• Directed content and style for bimonthly Asian Indian-American lifestyles magazine.
Freelance Graphic Designer, New York, NY 7/95-9/00
• Worked in print media for various clients around New York, using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Quark X.

Certification
NY State Professional License K-12 Visual Arts Teacher 8/07
Education
Ed.M. in Art & Art Education Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10/12
M.A. in Art & Art Education Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 5/07
B.F.A. in Art History College of Arts and Science, New York University, New York, NY 5/88
Additional Educational Accomplishments
F.F.T. 6/15-8/15
U.S. Fulbright Fellowship 9/97-7/98
Edward G. MacDowell Traveling Grant 8/92-6/94
Arts Students League of New York, New York, NY (Founded in 1875, ASL is an atelier school dedicated to sustaining the tradition of artists taught by artists. The process of making art is developed through immersion in practice, and emphasizing mastering skills and visual thinking.) 10/88-6/95, 9/08 –
Related Experience
Founder: ASL Summer Arts Scholarship, New York, NY.
Created and maintain a fundraiser and scholarship program to allow urban high school youths to enroll fulltime at the Art Students League of New York for intensive summer study. 2008-
Member of Steering Committee, Harlem Biennale, New York, NY
Plan and implement attainable short and long-term goals for community arts organization towards the start of Art Biennale in Harlem, NY.
2009
Panelist: NYFA’s Business of Art Conference.
The importance of creating a community and its relation to the business of being an artist. 10/08

References furnished upon request — updated March 2021