Exhibitions

2006

“The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY

The 181st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

“Ten Plus Ten: Revisiting Pattern and Decoration,” The University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

“Robert Kushner,” Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

“Robert Kushner: Winter Bouquets,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO

“Robert Kushner: Red Series,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2005

“Robert Kushner,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

“Robert Kushner,” Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

“Art and the Garden: Post-War and Contemporary Paintings of the Garden,” September 22-October 31, 2005, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY

“Artwear: Fashion and Anti-fashion,” Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

“Collage: Signs & Surfaces,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

“Multiflorous, A Spring Affair,” Edward Throp Gallery, New York, NY

“Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking,” Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.

2004

“Robert Kushner: Opening Doors,”DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

“Robert Kushner: New BYOBU Paintings,” Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2003

“Robert Kushner - Sliding Doors: Homage to John Cage,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2001

“Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis,” Tate Modern , London, England

“Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque,” Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Traveled to: Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

1999

“Robert Kushner: Silk Leaves/Paper Flowers,” Bellas Artes, Sante Fe, NM

“WILDFlowers,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

“Flowers for the Opening,” Frontstore, Basel, Switzerland

“The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

“Food” (Curated by Catherine Morris), White Columns, New York, NY

1998

“Robert Kushner: 25 Years of Making Art,” New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

1997

“Art/Fashion,” Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY

“A Prayer for Peace: Robert Kushner and Hiroshi Senju,” Hiroshima Prefectural Museum, Japan

“The Pleasure of it All: Robert Kushner’s Flower Paintings,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

“Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art,” The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA, Palace of the Legion of Honor

1996

“American Art Today: Images from Abroad,” The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL

“Celestial Banquet,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

“Robert Kushner Paintings and Monoprints,” Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

“Mille Fleurs: A Cornucopia of New Paintings,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY

“Robert Kushner: Paintings and Drawings,” Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX

1995

“Division of Labor: ‘Women’s Work’ in Contemporary Art,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Risarcimento: Artisti Contemporanei Per Gli Uffizi,” The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

1994

“Robert Kushner: Works on Paper,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

“Robert Kushner: Works on Paper,” Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan

“Robert Kushner: New Etchings,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

“Neo Rimpa: Robert Kushner & Hiroshi Senju,” Gallery Inoue & Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery,

“Pele’s Garden: Recent Monoprints,” Quartet Editions, New York, NY; Gallerie OZ, Paris, France; Blancpain/Stepczynski Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)

“Robert Kushner,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

“Seasons,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (solo)

1993

“Robert Kushner, Japanese Ceramics,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

“Forcing the Spring,” Floria/Brown Gallery, Woody Creek, CO (solo)

1992

Timothy Brown Fine Art, Aspen, CO (solo)

Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (solo)

Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

“Four Seasons,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY (solo)

1991

“Perennial Diary,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

“Seasonal Furbelows: A One Year Installation,” The American Craft Museum, New York, NY (solo)

“Leaves,” First Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)

Gallery Basque, Fukuoka, Japan. Traveled through 1991 to: American Cultural Centers in Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka, and Nagoya, Japan (solo)

“Black and White Prints,” Crown Point Press, New York, NY (solo)

Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (solo)

1990

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)

“Opulent Subversions,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1989

The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo)

Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

“Silent Operas,” Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY (solo)

D. & J. Bittker Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo)

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (solo)

1988

“Robert Kushner: Paintings and Sculpture,” Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (solo)

1987

“Robert Kushner: New Bronze Sculpture,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1986

Rugg Road, Boston, MA (solo)

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)

Mayor Gallery, London, England (solo)

1985

Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Galleria Capricorni, Venice, Italy (solo)

Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy
Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
State of Hawaii
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY