Robert Indiana

(American, 1928–2018)

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Robert Indiana

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Robert Indiana

HOPE, April, 2015

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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

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

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

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