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- Biography
- 1930 Born in Benicia, California
- 1954 BA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
- 1958 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, California
- 1962-1991 Faculty, University of California, Davis
- 1992 Died in Benicia, California
- Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2008 From the 60's, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
- 2004 Political Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
- 2004 Arneson and the Object, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; George Adams Gallery, NY
- 2000 "This Head is Mine," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
- 1999 Robert Arneson: Double Portraits, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
- 1999 Robert Arneson: Bronze Self-Portraits and Drawings, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
- 1998 Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
- 1997 Robert Arneson: Self-Reflections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalogue)
- 1996 Robert Arneson: Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
- 1995 Robert Arneson: The Late Bronzes, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
- 1993 Arneson and Politics: A Commemorative Exhibition, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, CA (catalogue)
- 1993 Robert Arneson: The Last Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
- 1992 Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 Robert Arneson: The Jackson Pollock Series, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 1988 Robert Arneson: Art and Artists, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1987 Robert Arneson: Portrait Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (catalogue)
- 1986 Robert Arneson: A Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center, IA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Portland Art Museum, OR; The Oakland Museum, CA (catalogue)
- 1979 Robert Arneson: Self-Portraits, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
- 1974 Robert Arneson, (retrospective exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalogue)
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2007 Jackson, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
- 2007 Dialogues: The Enigmatic Object, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
- 2007 Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
- 2007 CCA at di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, California
- 2006 2006 Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
- 2006 The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York, New York; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont
- 2005-2006 Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
- 2005 Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture from the Paula and Ross Turk Collection, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, California
- 2005 Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
- 2005 Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tuscon Museum of Art, Arizona
- 2004 "Bush-Whack!", George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
- 2001 Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philladelphia, PA
- 1999 The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1998 Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci’s Legacy of Art and Science, Seattle Art Museum, WA
- 1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1995 Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
- 1994 Black Male: Representations of Masculinity, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1994 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 X Immortal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; travelled
- 1992 Arneson, DeForest, Hudson, Wiley, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
- 1986 California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
- 1984 The Human Condition: Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- 1981 Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
- 1980 Sculpture in California 1975-1980, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
- 1979 West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 1979 A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; travelled
- 1977 Sculpture: American Directions 1945-75, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- 1970 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1969 The Spirit of Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 1968 Dada, Surrealism, & Their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- 1967 Funk Art, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- 1967 Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- Selected Public Collections
- Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
- Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
- Denver Art Museum, Colorado
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
- Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
- National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
- National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
- The Oakland Museum, California
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
- Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
- Seattle Art Museum, Washington
- Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
- The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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