Tom Rubnitz was born in Chicago, IL on April 2, 1956. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1978 and moved to New York City where he resided as a painter and video/filmmaker. A quintessential New York underground film/video artist, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color. Ann Magnuson, the B-52s, Lady Bunny, and the late John Sex are but a few of the stars that shine oh-so-brightly in Rubnitz’ glittering oeuvre. A genre artist par excellence, Rubnitz treated the sexy-druggy-wiggy-luscious-desserty qualities of the 1980s downtown club scene with the loving care only a true hedonist could show. His work has been featured in screenings and exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, European Media Art Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival among many others. His work has also been broadcast on PBS, Channel 4, and MTV. In the queer film festival circuit of the 1980s and ‘90s, including The San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and The New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film, Rubnitz’s videos were a celebrated staple. On August 12, 1992, Rubnitz died from an AIDS-related illness.