ROBERT INDIANA - Works and History

Curriculum Vitae

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

Lives and works in Vinalhaven, ME

Selected Exhibitions

2015 
Robert Indiana – Don’t lose HOPE, Contini Art UK, London, UK (solo)

2013 
All You Need IS LOVE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
 Bal Harbour, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA

2012 
HOPE, Contini Galleria d’Arte, Venice, Italien
 
Robert Indiana: Sculptures, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, England (solo)
 
Robert Indiana: New & Classic Works, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA (solo)

2011 

Robert Indiana: Rare Works from 1959 on Coenties Slip, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, Schweiz (solo)


2010 
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, USA

2009 

Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA (solo)
Von Picasso bis Warhol, Künstlerschmuck der Avantgarde, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln, Deutschland

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 
Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
40 Jahre Galerie Thomas, Galerie Thomas, München, Deutschland

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
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 
Colby College of Art Museum, Watervill; Currier

1969 
70 Years of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1968 
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


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


1962 
Stable Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

1961
The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA