Toby Rabiner

Biography

An elderly woman standing against a plain wall, wearing a black sleeveless top, blue shorts, and a colorful scarf around her neck, with her hands on her hips.

Her professional collaborations include working with Richard Bernstein, cover artist for Interview magazine, where she critiqued, catalogued, and supervised billboard paintings in Times Square, and painted in the Chelsea Hotel studio alongside Bernstein. During this time, she met Andy Warhol, attended Factory gatherings, and befriended many of the artists.

Toby’s work has been exhibited at Gershwin Gallery in New York, Tibet House, and Valery Taylor Gallery in Denver, as well as One Art Space show in 2026. Invited by the head curator to participate in the Florence Bienale. 

Her pieces are included in collections belonging to Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Maggie Skipper, Patrick McMullen, Richard Bernstein, Laura Boylon, Anna Harrison and others. 

Her paintings explore themes of culture, power, nature, and human impact. Offering viewers a chance to reflect on the world’s beauty and its complexities


1975-1995 Antiques Dealer

1978 Liaison between artists, clients involved in underwriting the publication of editions. Found artists, wrote tear sheets on artists' work.

1979 recruited American artists for Jo Smid gallery Holland. Smid discovered the Dutch Cobra school and sold masters like Van Goghs

1980-1981 Worked with Randy Brown, and Masahiro Ouchi who organized shows in Japan for cutting-edge artists, including Laurie Anderson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lou Reed and others. Culled for news about avant-garde American artists for Japanese publication.

1976-1998 Worked with Richard Bernstein, cover artist for Interview magazine. Critiqued, catalogued supervised painting of Billboards Time Square. Painted with Bernstein in studio at Chelsea Hotel. Met Warhol, attended gatherings, met most of Factory people made friends with several of them.

1998 *A World Apart, "Gershwin Gallery", New York, NY Favorable Review of show in Night magazine

2003 Partners in Time, So.Hampton

2004 Partners in Time, Sarasota

2008 Showing at Tibet House Showing at Al Hirshfield Home

2009 Valery Taylor Gallery, Denver, CO

Woman standing on a city street with historic buildings, benches, and decorative street lamps.

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