Robert Indiana

Biographical Information
1928	Born in New Castle, Indiana
1953–54	B.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1954	Attended Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, on the George Brown Travelling Fellowship
1964	Appeared in the Andy Warhol film "Eat"
1970	Received Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Franklin and Marshall College; Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1973	Designed LOVE on a United States postage stamp
1977	Awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts by the University of Indiana in Bloomington
1981	Received honorary doctoral degree from Colby College in Waterville, Massachusetts
Selected Exhibitions
2013	“Robert Indiana from A to Z;” Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute; Utica, New York
	“Robert Indiana: Beyond Love,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	“Voices of HOPE: Celebrating Robert Indiana;” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
	“Pop Art Accrochage;” Fluegel_Roncak Gallery; Nuremberg, Germany
	“All You Need is LOVE;” Mori Art Museum; Tokyo, Japan
	“The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art,” Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York
	“Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II;” Henry Art Gallery; Seattle, Washington
2012	“HOPE;” Contini Galleria d’Arte; Venice, Italy
	“Robert Indiana: Sculptures;” Waddington Custot Galleries; London, England
	“Robert Indiana: New & Classic Works;” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
2011	“Robert Indiana: Rare Works from 1959 on Coenties Slip;” Galerie Gmurzynska–Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland
2010	Museum of Contemporary Art; Jacksonville, Florida
2009	“Robert Indiana: LOVE and HOPE;” Rosenbaum Contemporary; Boca Raton, Florida
	“Robert Indiana and the Star of HOPE;” Farnsworth Art Museum; Rockland, Maine
	“Sculpture: Post-War to Present;” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
	“Von Picasso bis Warhol, Künstlerschmuck der Avantgarde;” Museum für Angewandte Kunst; Cologne, Germany
2008	“Pressing Issues,” Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
	“Pop and Op;” Nassau County Museum of Art; Roslyn Harbor, New York
2007	“Art Market Now;” The Columns; Seoul, South Korea
2006	“Life as a Legend - Marilyn Monroe,” Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
2005	“Made in USA – ausgewählte Graphik;” Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH; Nuremberg, Germany
	“Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era,” Tate Liverpool, England
	“Do It Yourself—Positionen von den sechziger Jahren bis Heute,” Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart; Berlin, Germany
	“40 Jahre Galerie Thomas;” Galerie Thomas; Munich, Germany
2004	“Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture;” Price Tower Arts Center; Bartlesville, Oklahoma
2003	“Letters, Words and Numbers;” L & M Gallery; New York
1998	Retrospective; Musée D’Art Modern Contemporain; Nice, France
1991	Prints Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
1990	“Prints as Process;” Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art; Maine
1986	Vinalhaven Press 1985–1986, Portland Museum of Art, Maine
1982	“Indiana’s Indianas: A 25-Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Robert Indiana;” National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
1978	“Art About Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977–78	Traveling retrospective; University Art Museum at University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase; Art Center, South Bend, Indiana
1976	“Thirty Years of American Art,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
1975–76	Galerie Denise Rene, New York
1975	“American Art Since 1945,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972	“The Modern Image;” High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia Galerie Denise Rene, New York
1969–70	“The Prints and Posters of Robert Indiana;” St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana; traveled to Colby College of Art Museum, Waterville, Maine; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; and Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
1969	“70 Years of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968	Solo exhibition traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; and Herron Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.
	“Word and Image,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967	Ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil
1966	“LOVE Exhibition,” Stable Gallery, New York
	“1966 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	Galerie Alfred Schmela; Dusseldorf, Germany
	Museum Haus Lange; Krefeld, Germany
1965	“Word and Image,” Guggenheim Museum, New York
	“1965 Annual Exhibition of American Paintings,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York
1964	Solo exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York
1963	“Americans 1963,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Exhibition with Richard Stankeiwicz at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; traveled to The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
	“New Realists,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1962	Stable Gallery, New York. First solo exhibition.
1961	“The Art of Assemblage,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selected Public Collections
	Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridgefield, Connecticut
	Albright-Knox Gallery of Art; Buffalo, New York
	Allentown Museum of Art; Allentown, Pennsylvania
	Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, Maryland
	Brandeis Museum; Waltham, Massachusetts
	Carnegie Institute; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Detroit Institute of Art; Detroit, Michigan
	Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Kaiser Wilhelm Museum; Krefeld, Germany
	Los Angeles County Museum; Los Angeles, California
	Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York
	Museum of Modern Art, New York
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, California
	Stedelijk Museum; Schiedam, The Netherlands
	Walker Art Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York