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Robert Indiana

(American, 1928–2018)

Robert Indiana

Seven (Blue faces, orange sides), 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1928: Born in New Castle, IN
1953 - 1954: BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1954: Attended Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland on the George Brown Travelling Fellowship
1956: Moved to New York, NY
1964: Appeared in the Andy Warhol film Eat
1970: Recieved Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
1973: Designed the immensely popular multi-colored "Love" on a United States postage stamp
1977: Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts by University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
1981: Recieved Honorary Doctoral Degree from Colby College, Waterville, ME
2012: Began to collaborate with Contini Art Gallery
: Lives and works in Vinalhaven, ME

Exhibitions

2018: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Robert Indiana, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2017: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Robert Indiana: One Through Zero, Glass House, New Canaan, CT (solo exhibition)
Robert Indiana, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2016: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Robert Indiana, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M, Bologna, Italy (solo exhibition)
19 Stars of Indiana Art: A Bicentennial Celebration, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
200 Years of Indiana Art: A Cultural Legacy, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
American pop art: Masterpieces en masse by Robert Rauschenberg to Andy Warhol from the collection of Heinz Beck, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
The Electric Garden of our Minds: British/American Pop, Springfield Art Museum, Montana
2015: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Robert Indiana: Sign Paintings 1960-65, Craig F Starr Gallery, NY (solo exhibition)
AMOR by Robert Indiana, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (solo exhibition)
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Menil Collection, Houston, TX
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Del Arte Pop al Posmodernismo, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador
Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Take an Object, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Picasso to Francis Bacon, Hangaram Art Museum, South Korea
Pop Art Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2014: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies McNay Art Museun, San Antonio, TX (solo exhibition)
Robert Indiana: The Mother of Us All, McNay Art Museun, San Antonio, TX (solo exhibition)
Celebrating Love!, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME (solo exhibition)
The Essential Robert Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo exhibition)
From the Swope's Collection: Selected Art Inspired by Literature, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixtie, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Eclectic Sixties, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN
Group Exhibition of European and International Paintings and Sculptures, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, England
Pop Art Prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Liebe, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Standing in the Shadows of Love: The Aldrich Collection 1964–1974 Robert Indiana, Robert Morris, Ree Morton, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Art Goes Pop: American Pop Art, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA
Encountering Main, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Pop Art Myths, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Pop Art from the Anderson Collection, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Ludwig Goes Pop, Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Innovations in Painting: Selections from the Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2013: Robert Indiana Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Indiana by the Numbers, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo exhibition)
The Monumental Woods, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Robert Indiana: Decade Autoportrait, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong (solo exhibition)
Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Signs from the Sixties: Robert Indiana's Decade, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (solo exhibition)
Now Here is Also Nowhere: Part II, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Wichita Art Museum, KS
ABENTEUER KUNST- Highlights der Sammlung Kurt Fried aus dem Ulmer Museum, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria
POP Goes the Easel: Pop Art & Its Progeny, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Love Actually, Seoul Museum, Korea
Op + Pop: Experimente amerikanischer Künstler ab 1960, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, Aquavella Galleries, New York, NY
All You Need is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
American POP! Selections from the CU Art Museum Collection, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Rethinking the American Dream, Long-Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
American Treasures: Maine Voices, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
190 Jahre Kunstverein Bamberg – Eine Sammlung zeigt ihr Gesicht, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Germany
Sculpture in the City, London, England
Graphik aus der Sammlung Kemp, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, Farbenfroh
Dialogue with Art, International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX
Correspondents of Ray Johnson, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Pop Imagery, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, England
Pop Art/Figuración: Estados Unidos-Venezuela, Centro Cultural BOD-Corp Banca, Caracas, Venezuela
Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder: Schrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012: Hope, Contini Galleria d'Arte, Venice, Italy
Robert Indiana: Sculptures, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, England
Robert Indiana: New & Classic Works, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
2011: Robert Indiana: Rare Works from 1959 on Coenties Slip, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, Switzerland
2010: Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, USA
2009: Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA (solo)
Sculpture: Post-War to Present, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
Von Picasso bis Warhol, Künstlerschmuck der Avantgarde, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2008: Pressing Issues, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA
2007: Art Market Now, The Columns, Seoul, Korea
2006: Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, USA
2005: Made in USA – ausgewählte Graphik, Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Do it yourself - Positionen von den sechziger Jahren bis Heute, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
40 Jahre Galerie Thomas, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
2004: Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture, Price Tower Arts Center's, Bartlesville, USA
2003: Letters, Words and Numbers, L & M Gallery, New York, USA
1998: Retrospective, Musée D'Art Moderne Contemporain, Nice, France
1991: Prints Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, USA
1990: Prints as Process, Baxter Gallery at Portland School of Art, USA
1986: Vinalhaven Press 1985-1986, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA
1982: Indiana's Indianas: A 25 Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Robert Indiana, National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
1978: Art about Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1977: Museum retrospective travels to University Art Museum at University of Texas, Austin; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; Indianapoilis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Neuberger Museum at State University of New York, Purchase; Art Center, South Bend, USA
1976: Thirty Years of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
1975: Galerie Denise Rene, New York, USA (solo)
American Art Since 1945, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1972: The Modern Image, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Galerie Denise Rene, New York, USA (solo)
1970: The Prints and Posters of Robert Indiana, New England tour originates at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame; Colby College of Art Museum, Watervill; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
1969: 70 Years of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1968: First one-man museum exhibition travels to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Herron Museum of Art, Toledo, USA
Word and Image, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1967: Ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1966: LOVE Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, USA
1966 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1965: Word and Image, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1965 Annual Exhibition of American Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1964: Stable Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1963: Americans 1963, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Exhibits with Richard Stankeiwicz at Walker Art Center, Mineapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1962: Stable Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1961: The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Public Collections

: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands
: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
: Detroit Institute of Art, MI
: Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
: Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
: Brandeis Museum, Waltham, MA
: Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York, NY
: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Literature

2006: Wilmerding John, Pissarro Joachim, Robert Pincus-Witten and Peter Halley. Robert Indiana: The Artist and His Work 1955 - 2005. New York: Rizzoli, 2006.
2000: Ryan, Susan E. Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech. Conneticut: Yale University Press, 2000
Pissarro, Joachim, Depotte, Helene. Robert Indiana: Retrospective 1958-1998. Washington: University of Washington Press, 2000
1999: Indiana, Robert. Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana. Portland: Portland Museum of Art, 1999
1992: Sheehan, Susan . Robert Indiana Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1951-1991. New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery, 1992
1990: Carl J Weinhardt. Robert Indiana. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990
1969: Indiana, Robert. Robert Indiana: Graphics. Indiana: Department of Art of Saint Mary's College, 1969
1968: Indiana, Robert. Robert Indiana, Conneticut: Falcon Press, 1968

Robert Indiana

(American, 1928–2018)

Robert Indiana

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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