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Robert Indiana

Biographical notes

Born in New Castle, Indiana, September 13, 1928.

Studied at John Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1945-46; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1947-48; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, 1949-53 (where he won a travelling fellowship to Europe in 1953); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, summer of 1953; University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1953-54. He has lived and worked in New York since 1954.

One Man Shows

Stable Gallery, New York, 1962
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (with Richard Stankiewicz) 1963
Stable Gallery, New York, 1964
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1965
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1966
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland, 1966
Stable Gallery, New York, 1966
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, 1966
Wurtembergischer, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 1966
Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1966

Selected Group Exhibitions

1960
"New Media, New Forms I and II", Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1961
"The Art of Assemblage", "Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

1962
"New Realists", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
"My Country 'Tis of Thee", Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Pop Art", Pace Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
"The New Vulgarians", Galerie Saqqara, Gstaad, Switzerland

1963
"The 66th Annual American Exhibition", The Art Institute of Chicago
"Recent Acquisitions", Gevritz-Mnuchin Collection, Poses Institute of Fine 
Arts, Waltham Massachusetts
"Americans 1963", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Pop Art USA", Oakland California
"Signs of the Times", Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
"De A a Z 1963: 31 Reintres Américains", Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, France
"Banners", Graham Gallery, New York
"Formalists", Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D. C.