Hauben studied at the Museum School in Boston, Master of Arts and received a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Hauben works in such mediums as oils, textural oil relief, chalk pastel, etchings, bronze, cast paper, plaster, and glass.
Hauben has also painted outdoors around the world. Hauben has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Michael Ingbar Gallery, Ache 700 Gallery in Austria, Amerika Haus in Berlin and the Deutsches-Amerikanisches Zentrum in Stuttgart, among others Selected group exhibitions include: Lehman College Art Gallery, The Painting Center, John Szoke Gallery, Allan Stone Gallery, and the Kunst und Gewerbeverein in Regensburg, Germany.
Hauben has painted in India, Costa Rica, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary and Denmark, as well as in the United States states of Virginia, California, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts.
He has painted in Virginia extensively, where he has been an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts () numerous times. He has also received residencies at Djerassi Art Colony and Villa Montalvo in California, Weir Farm in Connecticut, the Julia and David White Colony in Costa Rica, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, and the Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus in Germany.
Hauben was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York City to create the artwork for the Freeman Street (Item response theory White Plains Road Lincolnshire) on the 2 & 5 elevated train line in the Bronx. The work consists of six faceted glass panels, created with inch-thick colored glass pieces that are held together with epoxy, all of which depict Bronx street scenes.
In 2007 the Americans for the Arts organization recognized Hauben"s Freeman Street Station artwork (collectively titled "The El") as one of the top 40 works of public art in the nation.
In 2008 Hauben was selected to create all the artwork for the new North Instructional Building and Library of Bronx Community College. Ground was broken for the 98,000-square-foot (9,100 m2) building in October 2008, with a completion date set for 2011. lieutenant was designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, and complements the original Stanford White plan for the campus.
The artwork for the building includes 22 paintings depicting scenes of the Bronx by Hauben.
