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Robert Colescott Images | Bio
Born: Oakland, California, 1925
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, M.A. 1952 Atelier Fernand Léger, Paris 1949-1950 University of California at Berkeley, B.A. 1949
AWARDS AND HONORS
First African American artist to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale 1997 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1994 Artist/Teacher of the Year--National Council of Arts Administrators 1993 Appointment to the Endowed Regents Professorship of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1990 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Grant 1991 Residence in Lithography at Tamarind Institute, AZ 1989 Awards in the Visual Arts, Juror for grants, SECCA Winston- Salem, MA 1988 Robert Colescott Day, declared on Dec. 2nd, 1988 by Houstons mayor, Katherine B. Whitmire on the occasion of Colescotts opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX 1988 Artist in Residence Grant, Rosewell Museum and Art Center, NM 1987 Guggenheim Foundation Grant 1985 Messages to the Public, The Public Art Fund, Sign Board, 1 Times Square, New York, NY 1985 Member of Artists Committee, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1976, 1980, 1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C., Juror 1982 First Artist in Residence, American Research Center Inc., Cairo, Egypt 1964-1965
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS Robert Colescott: Troubled Goods ~ A Ten Year Survey (1997-2007), Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The University of Alabama, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa, AL 2007-2008 Art Center Gallery, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 2007 The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1988, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2006 Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1987, 1989-1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 G.R. NNamdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1992, 1996, 1999, 2000
Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI 2000 Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings, 1987-1997, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN: Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Portland Art Museum Portland, OR; University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; SITE Santa Fe, Santa FE, NM 1998-2000 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA 1990, 1998 United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1997 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997 Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 1997 Robert Colescott, Works on Paper, Van Every Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 1997 Robert Colescott: The One-Two Punch, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; African American Museum, Dallas, TX 1995-96 Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY 1995 Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990, 1993 Recent Work, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO 1991 New Work, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA 1990 Aurthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1990 Ten Works on Paper, Overholland Museum, Amsterdam 1990 Recent Paintings, University of Texas, El Paso, TX 1989 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1989 Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, 1975-1986, San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Portland Art Museum, OR; Akron Art Museum, OH; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; New Museum, New York, NY; Seattle Art Museum, WA (catalogue) 1987-1989 The Eye of the Beholder: Recent Work by Robert Colescott, Marsh Gallery, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond, VA; Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1988 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986, 1987, 1988 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985, 1987 Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 A Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, 20th Anniversary of Artist-in-Residence Program 1987 Semaphore East Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1985 Knight Gallery/Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC 1985 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA 1985 Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, TX 1984 Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA 1983 The Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1961, 1966, 1978, 1972, 1980, 1982 Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY 1979 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1975, 1978 Razor Gallery, New York, NY 1975, 1977 Spectrum Gallery, New York, NY 1973 John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1972 Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA 1972 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1958, 1960, 1966 Victoria Art Gallery, BC 1965
Reed College, Portland, OR 1958, 1961
Salem Art Museum, OR 1961 University of Oregon Museum, Eugene, OR 1960 Zoe Duzanne Gallery, Seattle, WA 1957 Miller Pollard, Seattle, WA 1953, 1954
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007 The Drawn Line, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2007 20th Anniversary Group Show, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Complicit: Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture, University of Virgina Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA 2006 Pressure Points: Contemporary Art that Challenges Us, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN 2004 Pressure Points, Recent Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2001 Humor and Rage, Fundacio Caixa Catalunya 2001 Self Made Men, DC Moore Gallery 2001 Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2000 Early Works by Oregon Artists, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2000 Art of the African Diaspora, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR 2000 Refining the Imagination: Tradition, Collecting, and the Vassar Education, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 1999 Looking Forward, Looking Back, Museum of Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, traveling exhibition 1999 A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1999 Peep Show, An Exhibition of Erotic Fact and Fantasy, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Robert Colescott, New Works on Paper, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA 1998 Cultural Perspectives, Memorial Union Concourse, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1998 Prints and Drawings, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1998 American Stories, Setagaya, Japan; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan; Kurrashiku City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan; Akita Perfectural Integrated Life Cultural Hall. Akita, Japan 1997-1998 Sex-Industry, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY 1997 First Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997 Mirror Enough: Self Portraits, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Visitors Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1996 Art with Conscience, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 1995-96 Inside Vision - Outside the Main Stream, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1995 47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY 1995 Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Arts, New York, NY 1995 The Re-Constructed Figure: The Human Image In Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, NY 1995
?Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory,? Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1995
Black Male Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1994-1995 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C. 1992, 1994 Selections form the Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1992-1994 California in the 70s, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY 1994 The Painters Theater, Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME 1993 The Purloined Image, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum, NY 1993 I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY 1993 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1993 Portland Collects, Portland Art Museum, OR 1993 Then and Now, Bush Gallery, Salem, OR 1993 No Justice, No Peace? Resolutions. . . California Afro-American Museum, L.A, CA 1992-1993 Centennial Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1992-1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1992 Quotations: The Second History of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT and Wright State University 1992 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992 Domestic Violence, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX 1992 Spirit Made Visible, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA 1992 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1991-1992 The Art of Advocacy, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT 1991 Umbrella Art, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, travels to eight museums including the American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1989-1991 The Decade Show--New Museum, Museum of Hispanic Art, Studio Museum Harlem, NY, NY 1991 Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA 1991 Visions and Revisions, Denver Museum, CO (catalogue) 1991 Thirteen Artists of the Black Community, Arizona State University, AZ 1991 The Reimaging of America, Momenta Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue) 1991 The Difficult Image, New Nangton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) 1991 Annual Exhibition and Auction, San Francisco Art Institute, Ca 1991 University of Ohio, Bowling Green, OH 1991 Portraits of a Kind, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1990-1991 Woodstock Artists Association, NY 1990 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1990 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1990 Newport Art Museum, RI 1990 Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ 1990 Northwest and Southwest," Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1990 Art Against Racism, Arts in Action Society, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, traveling exhibition 1990 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1989 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1988 NYC: New Work, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 1986 Uncovering the Past: Tribute and Parody, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA 1986
Four Artists, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1986
La Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Abbattoir Exhibition Space, Paris, France 1985 Correspondences, New York Art Now, Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1985 Masters of Mischief, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY 1985 The Political Landscape, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1985 Nude, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 1985 Semaphore and Semaphore East in Eau Claire, Fine Arts Center, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 1985 Figuration New Image, Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1985 Aspects of New Narrative Art, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (traveling) 1984-1985 Being Black, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (traveling) 1984-1985 The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1984-1985 Body Politic, Steven Kaplan, curator, Tower Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1984 Confrontations, The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1984 Investigations 84 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1984 The New Portrait, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, (Jeffrey Deitch, curator) 1984 In Celebration of Black History Month: Twelve and Their Work, First Bank, Minneapolis, MN 1984 The 38th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting and the 2nd Western States Biennial, two- year traveling exhibition originating at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1983-1984 Since the Harlem Renaissance, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1984 Central Images, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Anniversary Exhibition, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. 198 American Still Life Painting, 1945-1983, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX 1983 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY 1983 Self-Portraits--The Antic Vision, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Seriously Silly, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ 1983 Faces Since the Fifties, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1983 The Re-Gentrified Jungle, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1983 Current Expressions, Florida International University, Miami, FL 1983 Artists Choice Museum, New York, NY 1983 Not Quite Love, Lucky Strike, New York, NY 1983 Humor, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ 1983 Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1983 Figuration: Four Views, The Fountain Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 1982 Another Look at Landscapes, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY 1982 The West as Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA 1982 Beast, PS 1, Long Island City, NY 1982 Bay Area Narrative Painting, San Francisco State University, CA 1981 Crimes of Compassion, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1981 Humor in Art: 41 California Artists, L.A. Institute of Contemporary Art, CA 1981 The Anxious Figure, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY 1981 Drawing at the Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1980 Bay Area Artists: Colescott, Brown and DeForest, The Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1980 Fashion Moda, The New Museum, New York, NY 1980 Eight Black American Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art of Virginia, Richmond, VA 1980 Uncommon Visions, University of Rochester Museum of Art, Rochester, NY 1979
?From Pastel to Notation, Recent Drawings from San Francisco Artists,?
Emmanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1979 Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (traveling) 1978 California Figurative Painters, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1978 Painting and Sculpture in California, National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. 1977 Bay Area Black Artists, Drawings and Prints, Afro-American Museum, San Francisco, CA 1977 San Francisco Painters, Pander Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands 1977 Americana, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1977 Bay Area Artists, Oakland Museum of Art, CA 1977 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1976 Other Sources, Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1976 Unordinary Realities, Xerox Foundation, Rochester, NY 1975 Third World Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1974 Five, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1974 West Coast 1974: The Black Image, Los Angeles Museum of Art, CA 1974 Trois Americains, Centre Culutural American, Paris France 1969 21 Peintres Americains, Musee DAngouleme, France 1968 Biennale de Menton, Menton, France 1968 Musee de Breat, Breat, France 1968 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France 1968 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France 1968 Musee des Beaux- Arts, Grenoble, France 1968 Four Northwest Painters, Ankrum Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 "Painters 1961, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR 1961 Pacific Profile, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA 1961 American Painting Today, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI 1961 Rutherford Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1960 Centennial Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1959 Young Seattle Painters, Kaufmann Gallery, New York, NY 1953 Solon de Mai, Paris, France 1950
COLLECTIONS
Akron Museum of Art, OH American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., Cambridge, MA Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle, WA Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Columbia College, Portland, OR Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, CD
Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
Denver Museum of Art, CO De Young Memorial Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Equitable Savings and Loan, Corporate Headquarters, Portland, OR Greenville County Museum of Art, SC Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Hilton Hotel Collection, Portland, OR Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, HI Hotel Lucia, Portland, OR Indianapolis Art Museum, IN Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Newark Art Museum, NJ Oakland Art Museum, CA Portland Art Museum, OR Reed College, Portland, OR Rose Art Gallery, Brandeis University Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Seattle Art Museum, WA Standard Insurance Co. Portland, OR Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Tucson Museum of Art, AZ U.S. Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, OR Victoria Art Gallery, British Columbia Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Wake Forest University, NC Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Regents Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1990-1995 Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson 1985-1990 Member, Artists Advisory Board, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1985-1988 Roswell Foundation Artist Residency, NM 1987 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1976-1986 Artist-in-Residence, University of Arizona 1983-1984 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Visiting Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, CA 1974-1979 Professor of Art, California State College, Stanislaus, CA 1970-1974 College Art Study Abroad, Paris, France 1968-1969
The American College, Paris, France 1967-1968
Visiting Professor of Art, American University in Cairo, Egypt 1966-1967 Associate Professor, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1957-1966 Seattle Public Schools, Art Teacher 1952-1957
LECTURES
Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1991 Southeast Center of Contemporary Art Juror, Winston Salem, NC 1990 Guest Speaker, California State Universities Arts Faculty Institute, Kirkland, CA 1990 Mountain Lake Symposium, Speaker and Panelist, Donald Kuspit, moderator, Richmond, VA 1990 Visiting Artist, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL 1990 Lecturer, Brandeis University, Boston, MA 1990 Visiting Artist, South Florida University, Tampa, FL 1990 Symposium, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 1990 Public Lecture, Whitmey Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1990 Lecture, School 33, City of Baltimore, MD 1990 Public Lecture, Maryland Institute of Art, Student Workshop, Baltimore, MD 1990 Symposium, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Painting Workshop, University of Texas, Austin, TX 1990 Public Lecture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1990 Public Lecture, Humbolt State University, Arcada, CA 1989 Public Lecture, Faculty Seminar, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1989 The Hyphenated Artist, Symposium of Afro-American and Afro-Brazilian Artists, The California State Afro-American Museum, 1989 Public Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1989 Public Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX 1989 Public Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1989 Public Lecture, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem 1989 Public Lecture, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1989 Public Discussion, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1989 Lecturer, Arkansas State University 1988 Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1988 Public Lecture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1988 Public Lecture, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 1987 Lecturer and Panelist, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1987 Symposium, Eminent Scholars Program Norfolk State University 1987 Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, Gallery Lecture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1987 Lecture, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL 1985 Public Lecture, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1984 Public Lecture, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1984 Public Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1974, 1983 Public Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1982 Public Lecture, Pacific NW College of Art, Portland, OR 1982 Public Lecture, The New Museum, New York, NY 1980 Public Lecture, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA 1975, 1977 Public Lecture, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1978 Public Lecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1976 Public Lecture, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1976
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