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Robert Gober  1954, US
Rank (2009): 114 – 
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+ 207 Exhibitions
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+ 26 Public collections
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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 118
Germany 14
France 13
United Kingdom 10
Italy 9




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Andy Warhol  1 44
Cindy Sherman  8 43
Jeff Koons  74 43
Felix Gonzalez-Torres  75 42
Bruce Nauman  3 41




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  Walker Art Center, USA 6
  Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway 5




 Biography:  Please report missing Information

12.9.1954 Born in Wallingford, CT (US)

Awards 1996 Larry Aldrich Award

 
Public exhibitions  213  Please report missing Information

from 12.2.2010
   Disembodied - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 


until 17.1.2010
   Chasing Napoleon - Palais de Tokyo, Paris 

until 29.11.
Description and image  Absence is the Highest Form of Presence - MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle 


 Solo shows   14

2008
   Robert Gober - Matthew Marks Gallery - 521 West 21th Street, New York City, NY

2007
   Robert Gober - Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
   Robert Gober - Matthew Marks Gallery - 521 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
   Robert Gober - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY

2005
   Robert Gober - RHA Gallagher Gallery - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Description  The Meat Wagon - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
   Robert Gober - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY

2003
Description and image  Robert Gober: Displacements - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo

2000
Description and image  Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
   Robert Gober - Sculpture and Drawing - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

1999
   Robert Gober: Skulptur + Teckning - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
   Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1997
   Robert Gober - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

1996
   Robert Gober - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


 Group shows   196

2009
   American Printmaking since 196 - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
   Pas nécessaire et pourtant indispensable. 1979-2009 : 30 ans d’art contemporain à Meymac - Abbaye St André - Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac
   Wake up, Please - Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper - le Quartier, Quimper
Description and image Badischer KunstvereinLEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter - Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 
Description  Surrealism and Contemporary Art: Subversive Spaces - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England)
   en todas as partes. políticas da diversidade sexual na arte - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
   Silences - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
   1992009 - D´Amelio Terras, New York City, NY
Description  Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
   Drawings and Watercolors - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art - Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England)

2008
   A Shadow Leaving an Object - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
   Espèces d'espace - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
   "Listen Darling… The World is Yours" - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
Description  Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
   NOLEFTOVERS - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
   IMPLANT - The Horticultural Society of New York Gallery, New York City, NY
   Fair Market - Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
   NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith - Anton Kern Gallery, New York City, NY
   Quiet Politics - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
   Kavalierstart 1978-1982 - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
   Attention to Detail - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY
   Gangbusters - - Plane Space, New York City, NY (closed, 2008)
   Like Watching a Train Wreck - Claudia Groeflin Galerie , Zurich
   Make Art/Stop AIDS - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
   "How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center" - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
   Broken Home, 1997/2007 - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
   Art Metropole: The Top 100 - MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

2007
   Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
   Contemporary, Cool and Collected - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
   Face to Face - The Daros Collections, Part 1 - Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
   The third mind - Carte blanche a Ugo Rondinone - Palais de Tokyo, Paris
   More than the World - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
   Photography Portfolio I & II - CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC
   Fractured Figure - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
   Out of Time - A Contemporary View - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
   Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
   All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
   Traum und Trauma - Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
Description and image  The Lath Picture Show - Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY
   Role Exchange - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
   June Bride - Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City, NY
   Sequence 1 - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
   Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Future, Rome
   The Shapes of Space - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
   Prison - Bloomberg Space, London (England)
   Memory and Obsession - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England)

2006
   Quartet - Barney, Gober, Levine, Schütte - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
   A Show of Prints - James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
   Nothing and everything - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Description  INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Description  Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
   Wrestle - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Description  THE 1980s - A TOPOLOGY - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
   Expressing Identity - American Prints Since 1980 - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
   Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
   Tunnel Vision - Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp
   Small Sculptures - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
   Transitional Objects - Contemporary Still Life - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
   Artists at Work - Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
   Contemporary sculpture - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
   Eretica - - Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo, Palermo (closed)
Description  Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunst s. 1960 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne
   Into me / Out of me - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Chauffe Marcel ! A propos de « mona lisa » - FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Description and image  Whitney Biennial 2006 - Day for Night - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY
   Miró to Warhol - Gifts from Robert H. Halff - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
   Figures in the Field - Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago C - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
   Recent Drawings - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY

2005
   Outdoor Sculpture - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
   Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Flashback - Revisiting the Art of the Eighties - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
   Ordering the Ordinary - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (England)
Description and image  The Blake Byrne Collection - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
   a violet from mother's grave - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008)
Description and image  MO(NU)MENTS! Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
   Water, Water Everywhere. . . - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ
Description  The Shape of Time - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Description  Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Description Lehmann Maupin Gallery - 540 West 26 Street L´Art de Vivre - Lehmann Maupin Gallery - 540 West 26 Street , New York City, NY 
   Mixed-Up Childhood - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
   Edizione Straordinaria - Le case d’arte 1985-2005 - Assab One, Milan

2004
   gegenwärtig: Selbst, inszeniert - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Description and image  Recent Aquisitions - Contemporary Sculpture - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
   Schöner Wohnen, kunst van heden voor alle dagen - BE-PART - Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem
   Plain Sight - Bloomberg Space, London (England)
   SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
   Four-Ply - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Cleanliness - Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  monument to now - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Description  A Angles vifs - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
   Close up - Contemporary US Art - Listasafn Islands - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
   Super-Sized: The Big Print Show - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
   The Reality of Things - Triple Candie, New York City, NY
   Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Description and image  Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
   Grasduinen I - S.M.A.K.-at-the-sea - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
   American Idyll - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY
   L'Arte in Testa - MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Isernia
Description and image  Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
   Repulsion - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il
   An International Legacy - Selections from Carnegie of Art - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV

2003
Description and image  Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
   the Unhomely - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
Description and image  Heißkalt. Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
   Sculpture - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Description and image  Sculpture - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Description and image  Gelijk het leven is - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
   Coollustre - Collection Lambert, Avignon
Description and image  50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
   On the Wall - Wallpaper and Tableau - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
   Micropolitics II (1989-1980) - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana
   Not Exactly Photographs - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
   In the Eye of the Beholder - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY
   Approaching Objects - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
   Imperfect Innocence - Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Description and image  Air - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY

2002
Description  After the Beginning and Before the End - Instruction Drawings - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
   Transformer - Porin Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori
   Another World; Zwölf Bettgeschichten - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Description and image  Penetration - Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  Penetration - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY
   hautnah - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
   The Physical World - An Exhibition Of Painting And Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
   Realitetsfantasier - Post-modern Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
   The Unthought Known - White Cube, London (England)
   Second Skin: historical life casting and contemporary culture - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England)
   Group Exhibition: 5 Sculptures - D´Amelio Terras, New York City, NY

2001
   The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   Shortcuts - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
   The proper meaning - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
   Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York City, NY
   Negative Spaces - Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY
   Affinités - Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper - le Quartier, Quimper
   49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Description  Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Description and image  A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Description and image  Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1955 - 2000 von Salvador Dalí bis Jeff Koon - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Description and image  Veronica's Revenge - Contemporary Perspectives on Photography - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW
   The Cities Collect - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
   Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
   MAN – Body in Art from 1950-2000 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
   Dinge in der Kunst des XX. Jahrhundert - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich
   Museum - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
   La collection - Installations - Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
   Around 1984 - A Look at Art in the Eighties - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Group Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
   Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY
   Vanitas. Meditations on Life and Death In Contemporary Art - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
   Whitney Biennial 2000 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY
   Outbound - Passages from the 90's - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   Art & Facts - Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
   Fact/Fiction - Contemporary Art That Walks the Line - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
   Untitled (Sculpture) - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY

1999
   Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
   Melbourne International Biennial 1999 - Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, VIC
   As Above, So Below - The Body at Work - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
   Miroslaw Balka, Robert Gober, and Seamus Heaney - Three Stanzas - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1998
   Six Americans - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY
   Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
   corpus virtu - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
   Voor het verdwijnt en erna - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Description  THE PATCHETT COLLECTION - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
   Poèmes à petite vitesse - Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
   100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
   Inner Self - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY

1997
   A House is not a Home - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
   On The Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
   Broken Home - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY
   Gothic - ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Description  Inside - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996
   Try a Little Tenderness - Apexart, New York City, NY
   A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
   Provins - Legende I - Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

1995
   A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
   Album: The photographic collection of Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen Rotterdam - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
   Signos e milagres - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
   Sculpture as Objects - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY
   L'immagine riflessa - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

1992
   1968 - Le Consortium, Dijon
   documenta 9 - Documenta, Kassel
   Zoe Leonard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
   Ethik und Ästhetik im Zeitalter von Aids Gegendarstellung - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
   Parkett - CECCH - Centre d'édition contemporaine - Genève, Geneva

1991
   Körper & Körper - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
   Works on Paper - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
   Metropolis - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
   Transcendent Pop - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

1990
   Culture in Pieces: Other Social Objects - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA

1989
   Bruce Nauman - Robert Gober - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
   Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Nancy Shaver - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY

1988
  Kunsthalle DüsseldorfTHE BiNATIONAL - American Art of the late 80's - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf 
   Art at the End of the Social - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
   Brockmann - Bourget - Ess - R Graham - Gober - Lum - Luyten - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

1986
   New Sculpture: Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Germany

 Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten

Spain

 La Caja Negra, Madrid

USA

 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
 Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York City, NY
 Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
 Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
 Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA


 Public collections  26   Please report missing Information


Belgium

 SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent

Denmark

 Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

Germany

 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
 Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
 Sammlung Goetz, Munich
 Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Italy

 Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice

Norway

 Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo

Portugal

 Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
 Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon

Spain

 CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona

Switzerland

 Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
 Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
 Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
 Daros Exhibitions, Zurich

United Kingdom

 Tate Britain, London (England)

USA

 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
 MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
 Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA


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