A painter, illustrator, educator, lecturer, curator and native New Yorker and winner of various awards including the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts Award and the Abby Award for Artist of the Year in Atlanta as well as the Maryland State Arts Council grant and a Baltimore City grant, Cornel Rubino’s editorial clients include The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Wired, Penthouse and other national magazines. Rubino has created numerous posters for various clients such as the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, International Habitat for Humanity, the Lincoln Center season of New York’s EOS Orchestra, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the American Institute of Graphic Artists, the High Museum of Art and the Atlanta Symphony among others.

He has lectured on Picasso at the High Museum of Art; 20th Century Art at the Nexus Contemporary Arts Center; Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, “Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

His works are in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Museum of American Illustration, New York; Museo del Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy and in numerous international corporate and private collections. He began his undergraduate work in graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York and continued his undergraduate and graduate studies in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, where he lived and kept his studio for 12 years.