Robert Therrien

(American, 1947–2019)

vintage exhibition poster by robert therrien

After Robert Therrien

Vintage exhibition poster, 1986

790 GBP

Biography

Timeline

Born 1947, Chicago, Illinois
B.F.A., Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, 1971
M.F.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1974
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions

2015
Robert Therrien. The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas. (solo)
2014
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2014:
ARTIST ROOMS: Robert Therrien. mac birmingham, Birmingham, England. (solo)
Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. (solo)
Le Jardin Décomposé / Decomposed Garden. Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, France.
Anderson Collection. Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
The Avant-Garde Collection. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
California Dreamin’: Thirty Years of Collecting. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Unsparing Quality. Diana Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
2013
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2013:
Robert Therrien. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (solo)
Robert Therrien: Scrub Brush Bird Book. Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. (solo)
personal, political, mysterious. The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY.
Nuage. Musée Réattu. Arles, France.
2012
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2012:
Robert Therrien. Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea. (solo)
Robert Therrien: No Title (Table and Four Chairs). The MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre), Belfast, Ireland. (solo)
Lifelike. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton
Museum of Art; The University of Texas, Austin TX.
The Floor Show: Gravity and Materials. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2011
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2011:
Robert Therrien. Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany. (solo)
Robert Therrien: Selections from the Broad Collection and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. (solo)
Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. (solo)
Artist Rooms: Robert Therrien: Smoke Signals. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England. (solo)
Robert Therrien. De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. (solo)
California Art from the Weisman Foundation. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA.
2010
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2010:
Art of the Table. Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, WI. (solo)
Robert Therrien: Drawings. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Edinburgh, Scotland. (solo) Artists Rooms: On Tour with the Art Fund. What you see is where you’re at. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Wall & Floor. Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France.
Outside The Box: 1988–2010. Armand Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA.
Size DOES Matter. Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY.
Le fabuleux destin du quotidian. MAC’c Musee des Art Contemporains Site du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium.
Small is Beautiful. Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea.
Meet Me Inside. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
2009
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2009:
Robert Therrien: Works on Paper. Sprüth Magers. Berlin, Germany. (solo)
Artist Rooms: The d’Offay Donation. Tate Modern, London, England.
From Dürer to Gober; 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Basel, Switzerland.
Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX.
Contemporary Art from the Barron Collection. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Core. Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY.
2008
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2008:
Robert Therrien: Works on Paper. Kupferstichkabinet, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. (solo)
Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY. (solo)
“I won’t grow up.” Cheim & Reid, New York, NY.
Sgozzata. Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany.
The Inaugural Exhibition. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA.
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2007:
Robert Therrien: Tables and chairs. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. (solo)
Remix the Collection: Robert Therrien. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (solo)
The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (through 2008).
Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles. Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany.
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
2006
Robert Therrien Exhibitions in 2006:
Robert Therrien. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX. (solo)
Robert Therrien’s No title (table and six chairs). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (solo)
Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
Los Angeles 1955–1985. Birth of an Artistic Capital. Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Selections from the Ruth and Murray A. Gribin Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at La Jolla, La Jolla, CA.

Public Collections

The Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, New York, NY.
Fondació 'La Caixa', Barcelona, Spain.
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Eli Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Literature

2013
Pesanti, Heather. Robert Therrien. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
2012
Engberg, Siri, Michael Lobel, Josiah McElheny, and Rochelle Steiner. Lifelike. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.
2010
Garrels, Gary. Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection. San Francisco, Calif: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
O'Neal, Shaquille, and James Frey. Size Does Matter. New York: FLAG Art Foundation.
2009
Muller, Christian, and Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck. From Dur̈ er to Gober: 101 master drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel
Doroshenko, Peter. Boutique Museums Private Art Spaces and Personal Visions. Die Gestalten Verlag.
Rattemeyer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: catalogue raisonné. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
2008
Rowell, Margit and Bryson, Norman. Robert Therrien. New York. Rizzoli Int. Gagosian Gallery.
Muller, Christian. Robert Therrien: Arbeiten auf Papier = works on paper. Basel:Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett.
Govan, Michael, Lynn Zelevansky, Michele Urton, Jennifer MacNair, Thomas Frick, and Nola Butler. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008. Los Angeles, Calif: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Rattemeyer, Volker, and Hanne Dannenberger. Lines, grids, stains, words: miminal art drawings from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York = Linhas grelhas, manchas, palavras : desenhos de arte minimalista da Colecca̧ õ do Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova Iorque = Lines, Grids, Stains, Words : Zeichnungen der Minimal Art aus der Sammlung des Museum of Modern Art, New York. Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden.
Dennison, Lisa, and James Frey. Wall rockets. New York, N.Y.: Flag Art Foundation.
2007
Bonetti, David, and Douglas Dreishpoon. The Panza collection: an experience of color and light. Buffalo, N.Y.: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Collins, Judith. Sculpture today. London: Phaidon Press.
2006
Grenier, Catherine. Los Angeles 1955–1985. Paris: Centre Pompidou/Panama Musees.
Cárdenas, Magolo, Patricia Piñero, and Ixchel Estrada. Aĺ ex dentro y fuera del MARCO Barcelona: RBA.
2005
Richer, Francesca, and Matthew Rosenzweig. No. 1: first works by 362 artists. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.