Huebner’s formative arts influences and education took place in North America: Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Camosun College, British Columbia, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, and Empire State College and The Cooper Union, New York. He was mentored by individuals such as John Greer, Hans Haacke, Hugh Leroy, Dara Birnbaum and Dennis Oppenheim, to name but a few. While living in New York he worked as an assistant to renowned conceptual artist Oppenheim, a relationship that continued throughout his life.

After New York, Huebner ventured overseas with the offer of a studio and a Government of Netherlands Scholarship at the highly regarded post academic institute for creative research and production - the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. Working independently in a studio environment with access to facilities, materials and other like-minded creatives, time spent at JVE was pivotal in Huebner’s development, as it presented the circumstances for concentrated exploration and experimentation, and importantly, direct access to participation in the European cultural experience.

Over subsequent years Huebner challenged himself with living, creating work and the production of ongoing solo and group expositions in both Canada and overseas. Disillusioned by the British Columbia arts scene, which he saw at that time as being exclusionary to artists not creating photo-based work, in the mid 1990’s Huebner made the decision to maintain a studio-base in Amsterdam. It was here that he found the cultural climate and international context of Europe more inclusive to diverse work and more receptive of his art practice.

Throughout his professional career Huebner was not interested in ‘fashionable art trends but focused on his own creative development and voice - often placing himself ‘out there’... sometimes precariously, referring to himself as though a vehicle, “a transmitter / receiver for investigating the surrounding world.” While there were those at the time that did not fully understood the nature and true distinctiveness of the work... others connected and were deeply moved by it.

Huebner envisioned life as he described... “one long moment... that moment of silence which lies like a twilight in between the darkness and the light.”  In a 1994 review of ‘The Greyhound Series’ solo exhibition at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax John Greer wrote: “No matter how I weave Ron’s work together, stringing piece with piece, regardless of their chronology, the work comes with the same refrain; it never fails, and it never tires… Ron deals with common humanity. He is not interested in the petty and the trivial.”

There is a great sense of urgency and also contemplation to be found in Huebner’s work. It is this powerful dynamic that makes the artist extraordinarily and historically memorable in his contribution to Canadian arts. Tragically Ron Huebner passed away March 1, 2004 from injuries sustained from a vehicular accident while cycling home in Amsterdam at the age of 44.