Robert Gober

Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954 -

BiographyBorn:Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954Education:Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy, 1973-1974Middlebury College, Vermont, B.A., 1976Currently lives and works in New York City.Selected One-Person Exhibitions2008Robert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York2007Robert Gober: Work 1976–2006, Schaulager, Basel, SwitzerlandRobert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York2005Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon, The Menil Collection, HoustonRobert Gober, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, DublinRobert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York2003Robert Gober Displacements, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (catalogue)2001Robert Gober, U.S. Pavilion, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue)Untitled exhibition of eight drawings, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel2000Robert Gober New Lithographs, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York1999Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; traveled to Rooseum, Malmö; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalogue)1998The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)1997Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkThe Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)1996Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin1995Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag (catalogue)Robert Gober, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)1994Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkRobert Gober Dessins, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris1993Serpentine Gallery, London; traveled to Tate Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)1992Dia Center for the Arts, New York (catalogue)1991Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (catalogue)1990Galleria Marga Paz, MadridMuseum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; traveled to Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (catalogue)1989Paula Cooper Gallery, New York1988Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia (catalogue)Robert Gober, The Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoGalerie Max Hetzler, KölnGalerie Gisela Capitain, Köln1987Galerie Jean Bernier, AthensPaula Cooper Gallery, New York1986Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles1985Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los AngelesPaula Cooper Gallery, New York1984Slides of a Changing Painting, Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkSelected Group Exhibitions2009Amerikana, NGBK, BerlinSubversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, February 6-May 5, 2009; Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK, June-August 2009; Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK, September-December 2009.Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.2008Like Watching a Train Wreck, Groeflin/Maag Galerie, ZurichCollecting Collections, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesHow Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center, The Menil Collection, HoustonAttention to Detail, FLAG Art Foundation, New YorkBroken Home 1997/2007, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MassachusettsKavalierstart 1978 – 1982: Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, GermanyMake Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum, Los AngelesImportant If True (Hootenanny in E.), Chambers, the Luxury Art Hotel, MinneapolisQuiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New YorkImplant, The UBS Art Gallery, The Horticultural Society of New YorkWunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkListen darling…the world is yours, curated by Lisa Phillips, The Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, PortugalPassageworks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco2007Edit! Photograph and Film in the Ellipse Foundation Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, PortugalFive Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New YorkExtra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art, The Austin Museum of Art, TexasUBS Openings: Drawings from the UBS Art Collection, Tate Modern, LondonContemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North CarolinaTwo Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkFace to Face: The Daros Collections Part 1, Daros Exhibitions, ZurichAll the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New YorkThe Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, ParisWater, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MissouriThe Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New YorkJune Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New YorkDead! Dead! Dead!, Ydesssa Hendeles Art Foundation, TorontoPaper, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island CityDream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Kunsthalle WienThe Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New YorkPrison, Bloomberg SPACE, LondonFast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of ArtSequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, VeniceMemory and Obsession, Stephen Friedman Gallery, LondonPhotography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York2006Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Traveled to Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, RomeQuartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MinnesotaMore Than the World, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, OsloWrestle, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New YorkEmpreinte Moi: Une exposition de Phillipe Ségalot, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, ParisSmall Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New YorkRecent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New YorkOut of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkMore Than the World, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, OsloArtists at Work, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganTwice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga SpringsMagritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Imagesm Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThe Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig, CologneThe Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York University2005Farsites-Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego Museum of ArtSlideshow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New YorkInventing Childhood, New Gallery at Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue)Eccentric Modern, The Foundation To-Life, Mount Kisco, New YorkThe Shape of Time, Walker Art Center, MinneapolisWater, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Arizona (catalogue)The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, BerlinFlashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80’s, Kunstmuseum BaselPart Object/Part Sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, ColumbusLooking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New YorkMinimalism and Beyond, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. LouisDrawing from the Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New YorkBetween Art and Life: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtLooking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New YorkOrdering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, LondonA Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine and Walker, Walker Arts Center, MinneapolisMasters of Illusion: 150 Years of Trompe l'Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MichiganMirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp and 20th Century Art, Yokohama Museumhttp://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=141&b=1

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