Robert Smithson

(American, 1938–1973)

torn photograph from the second stop (rubble): second mountain of six stops on a section by robert smithson

Robert Smithson

Torn Photograph from the Second Stop (Rubble): Second Mountain of Six Stops on a Section, 1970

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1966

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Robert Smithson

Wreckage, 1961

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1971

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1961

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Robert Smithson

Mangrove Seedlings planted in shallow lagoon Summerland Key Florida, 1971

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1961

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1963

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1962

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1962

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resurrection by robert smithson

Robert Smithson

Resurrection, 1962

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Robert Smithson

Untitled, 1962

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Biography

Timeline

1938
Born in Passaic, New Jersey
1953
Wins scholarship to the Art Students League in New York
1956
Studies at the Brooklyn Museum School
1959
Taught art at the Police Athletic League in New York and had his first solo exhibition at the Artists Gallery in New York
1970
Begins the construction of large site-specific earth work - Spiral Jetty
1973
Died July 20th in Amarillo, Texas

Exhibitions

2004 - 2005
Robert Smithson Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2003
Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
Rundown co-organization, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2001
Robert Smithson: Mapping Dislocations, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2000
Robert Smithson, Kunsthalle Wein am Karlsplatz, Austria
1999
Language to be looked at And/or Things to be Read, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Robert Smithson Retrospective: Works 1956-1973, The National Museum of Contemporary Art
1997
Robert Smithson: Dead Tree, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York
Issues of Entropy: Robert Smithson
1996
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy

Literature

Eugenie Tsai, Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991) illustration 2.