More than thirty years in the making, the 200-acre Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park is home to over a hundred steel sculptures – artist Jeffrey Rubinoff’s life’s work.
“The purpose of Rubinoff’s work is to rekindle the historical spirit of modernism. In addition to viewing that work which includes the Sculpture Park itself, the goal is to revive the interdisciplinary creative impetus of early modernism and to attain the understanding of art as a serious and a credible source of special insight for the evolution of ideas.” Jeffrey Rubinoff
The JRSP has recently developed a new strategic plan emphasizing the continued evolution of the park as a space for discovery of art as a source of knowledge, for the pursuit of artistic excellence, and for the celebration of creative innovation.
Post Doctoral | Residency | Educator Awards
2026 Rubinoff Post-Doctoral Award for Research in Art as A Source of Knowledge – Call open Fall 2025
Aimed at early career researchers anywhere in the world, Postdoctoral Awards offer $7,000 CAD (roughly $5,100 USD or £4,100) to support research leading to one or more publications on any subject relating to art and knowledge. Themes might include but are not limited to the connections between visual art and cognition/understanding; digital technology and artificial intelligence; ethical/political issues; other fields of knowledge; and the sacred or numinous. To apply, download the Postdoctoral Awards 2026 Application.
2026 The University of Victoria – JRSP Artist Scholar Residency – Call open Fall 2025 – CLOSED
This award is to supports artists and scholars to create a work for exhibition or publication that is in some way informed by their investigation of Jeffrey Rubinoff’s work and their experience working at the sculpture park.
Spanning 2–6 weeks on Hornby Island, BC, and a week at UVic, the residency includes: access to park facilities, travel, office and studio space, a $5,000 stipend, and a suite of covered expenses. Awardees must submit a project plan for the eventual exhibition, publication, or performance of their work, engage with students and faculty at Uvic. Eligibility is based on professional or scholarly achievements in the arts. More information can be found on the Residency website of follow this link to apply. Click here for a printable JRSP Artist Residency Description. Applications due February 5th, 2025, and are reviewed by March 2025.
2025 Educators Support Awards – Open
The Park will support applications by suitably qualified educators for financial support to visit to the park with the purpose of developing a workshop plan for tailored to a group they regularly convene, teach, or host. Travel subsidies are available as well to offset the costs of travel to Hornby Island for educational groups wishing to tour the park, study the sculpture or undertake other educational events in relation to the sculpture collection. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and are tailored to the circumstances of the proposal. To inquire please email: curator [AT] rubinoffsculpturepark.org
Siobhan Humston selected for 2025 University of Victoria - JRSP Artist joint Artist-Scholar Residency
The University of Victoria (UVic), in partnership with the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP) has selected Canadian artist Siobhan Humston as the inaugural recipient of the University of Victoria and Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist-Scholar Residency for 2025-2026. 57 artists applied for the six-week residency to be held annually at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, followed by a week at UVic. After Humston’s residency, she will present an exhibit of the work and offer a public talk in October 2025 at UVic.
“Jeffrey Rubinoff held that art was an existential necessity — an expression of mature conscience, evoking our innate sense of the sacred and the sublime. Far from diminishing individual conscience, such art elevates and inspires it,” says Karun Koernig, Curator of the Rubinoff Sculpture Park. “Humston’s work exemplifies this vision, quietly co-mingling distinct form-worlds — the natural and the human. In her hands, everyday materials sourced from the land sublimate into visual poetry. Particularly compelling for us was Humston’s ambition to integrate a soundscape into her residency, resonating deeply with Rubinoff’s profound connection to music.” Click here for more information about Siobhan Humston.
Florentine R. Muhry Winner of the 2025 JRSP Post Doctoral Award
Florentine R. Muhry is a PhD candidate in art history at the German Research Training Group “Aesthetic Practice” at the University of Hildesheim. Her dissertation examines the role of historiography in the aesthetic practice of Rasheed Araeen between 1968 and 1990. She studied history and art history at the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne-Paris IV, and the University of Graz and worked as a curator and assistant in independent and national art institutions, such as www.muhry.com or the Kunstsammlung NRW. Influenced by her curatorial practice, she is interested in the art field, whether in exhibitions or academic teaching, as an agonistic space, where social debates can be tested and shaped. Her research focuses on art history, postcolonial theory, and black studies, with a particular interest in anti-racist art historiography. Follow this link for more information on Florentine Muhry’s work.
Kokoro Dance Residency
This summer Kokoro Dance brought butoh into direct dialogue with Rubinoff’s sculptures and landscapes. Founded in 1986 by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, Kokoro is recognized internationally for works that embrace impermanence, asymmetry, and the quiet intensity of yūgen; the mysterious beauty that arises from human vulnerability.
During their residency at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Bourget and Hirabayashi offered a public workshop and presented two major works: Wabi-Sabi, an improvised duet shaped by Zen aesthetics and live music, and A Simple Way, a meditation on aging and resilience performed at golden hour among Series 3 sculptures. Each piece responded to the park’s unique environment, allowing sculpture, body, and landscape to coexist as equal voices in the artistic encounter.
Kokoro’s residency underscored Rubinoff’s conviction that “art is a form of knowledge,” demonstrating how dance can expand the park’s mission of fostering direct experience with art and nature. By animating both the barn studio and the open fields, the performances transformed JRSP into a living stage, deepening the park’s exploration of counterpoint across artistic disciplines.
P. Alexander, Galatea (Canadian Premiere)
Commissioned by the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park as part of Paul Alexander’s 2025 composer-artist residency, Galatea draws on mythology, narrative, and the potential of art to illuminate the human condition. Written for the Borealis String Quartet, the piece takes inspiration from the ancient Greek myth of Galatea — a statue brought to life by love.
Galatea was written in direct response to the holistic experience of the sculpture park. Alexander, specifically drawn to the Rubinoff’s Series 1 works, explored the sculptures sonically and played them as if they were musical instruments. Informed as well by the natural environment of the park as it exists in conjunction with the sculptural work, Alexander’s Galatea
The quartet is both intimate and expansive: lyrical passages give way to sudden ruptures and layered textures, reflecting a being taking form and gradually becoming self-aware. Jeffrey Rubinoff’s assertions on the fundamentals of artistic practice, namely that “art is a form of knowledge” with the spiritual significance of being the “map of the human soul,” dictated Alexander’s compositional project.
Premiered in Italy in summer 2025 and now receiving its Canadian debut, Galatea is a meditation on art’s power to animate, to connect, and to awaken us to the world around us.
Download the Galatea Program notes
RUBINOFF COLLECTION OVERVIEW
Early Works
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
Series 8
Series 9
Early Works
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
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