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Biography Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1925. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1947; Academie Julian, Paris, France, 1948; and Black Mountian College, Beria, North Carolina, 1949-1952. He has been the recipient of numerous awards. Rauschenberg lives and works in New York City and Captiva, Florida. Solo exhibitions of Rauschenberg's work has been held at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City, 1951; Stable Gallery, New York City, 1953; Egan Gallery, New York City, 1955; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, nineteen solo shows since 1958; Dwan Gallery, New York City, 1962, 1965; Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971-1975, 1977-1978, 1980, and New York City, 1979, 1981-1983; The Jewish Museum, New York City, 1963; Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, 1964; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1965; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1965; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1965, 1982; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1965-1966, 1968, 1982; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1965, 1968; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1968; Musee d'Art de la Ville de Paris, France, 1968; Fort Worth Art Center, Texas, 1969, 1970, 1978; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, California, 1969l Castelli Graphics, New York City, 1969-1970, 1972, 1974-1975, 1978-1979, 1982-1983; Ace Gallery, Venice, California, 1969, 1973, 1975-1977, 1979-1980; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Penn-sylvania, Philadelphia, 1970; Pasadena Art Museum, California, 1970; Museum of Contenporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1970; The Mayor Gallery, London, England, 1973, 1978; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1974; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1976 (circulated); Kunsthalle Tubingen, West Germany, 1979 (circulated); Musee de Toulons, France, 1979; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, West Germany, 1980 (circulated); The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, 1980; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1981; Institute of Con-temporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981; Tate Gallery, London, England, 1981; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983; Malmo Museum, Swe-den, 1983 (circulated); Jingxian, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, 1983; and Galerie Beveler Basel Switzerland 1984. Selected Bibliography The Jewish Museum, New York City. Robert Rauschenberg. March 30-April 30m, 1963. Catalogue text by Alan R. Solomon. Forge, Andrew. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Rauschenberg: Graphic Art. April 1-May 30, 1970. Catalogue text by Lawrence Alloway. Forge, Andrew. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Robert Rauschenberg. October 30, 1976-January 2, 1977. Catalogue texts by Joshua C. Taylor, Walter Hopps and Lawrence Alloway. Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: The ARt World of Our Time. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Rosenthal, Nan. Robert Rauschenberg. New YorkL: Abbeville Press. To be published in late 1984. This brochure has been prepared in conjunction with the exhibition Rauschenberg/Performance, organized by guest curator Nina Sundell, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, May 12-June 24, 1984, and is the sixth catalogue in Volume 3 and the thirty-second exhibition in the Perspectives series. Copyright © 1984 Contemporary Arts Museum and Nina Sundell. All rights reserved. 5216 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77006-6598, 713.526-3129. The Perspective series exhibitions are presented with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts and Teaxs Eastern Corporation.
