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ROBERT CUMMING
Born: 1943 Worcester, MA
BFA Painting; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1965
MFA Painting; University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1967
AWARDS AND HONORS
Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1969.
National Endowment for the Arts Grants; 1972, 1975, 1979.
Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, NY, 1981.
Artist-in-Residence Program, Japan-United States Friendship Commission, New York and Tokyo, 1981.
Awards in the Visual Arts III; Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1984.
One of 10 photographers chosen to document the 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA.
Creative Arts Awards; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1985.
Angela Flowers Gallery Prize, llth British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England, 1990,
Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York, NY 1995.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,1976.
Retrospective (catalog). Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA.1979.
Traveling Retrospective, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Tasmania, Australia, 1979-1981.
Werkstatt fur Photographic, Berlin, Germany, 1982.
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan, 1984.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1985.
Mechanical Illusions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,1986.
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1987
Directions: Robert Cumming. Intuitive Inventions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 1988.
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 1982. 1984, 1985, 1988.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1989.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1990.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, 1993.
Retrospective (catalog): Robert Cumming. L'Oeuvre Photographiaue,1969-1980, F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France, 1994.
25 year Retrospective (catalog), Robert Cumming. Cone of Vision,
Museum of Contemporary Arts, San Diego, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 1993-1994.
Retrospective: Clutter of Hapenstance, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1998.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1969.
9 Artists/9 Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1970.
Narrative Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1975.
Picture Puzzles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1975.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1977.
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since I960, Museum of Modern Art, NY, (traveled) 1978-1982.
Fabricated to be Photographed, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1979.
Lis-79, International Exhibition of Drawing, Lisbon, Portugal, 1979.
Language, Drama, Source, Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY, 1983.
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, 1983.
Monumental Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY,1986.
Castelli Graphics 1969-1988, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 1988.
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1989.
Projects and Portfolios, 25th National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1989.
International Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubliana, (Slovenia) Yugoslavia, 1989.
Four-person show, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan, 1992.
Pace, MacGill, Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA, 1995.
American Still Life; the Object in American Art 1915-1995, -selections from the Metroplitan Museum, New York. 6-museum tour, 1997-1999.
Singular Impressions; The Monotype in America, The National Museum, Washington, DC, 1997.
COMMISSIONED WORKS
Sentence Structures, (outdoor installation). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MM, 1970.
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC (photographic), 1975.
Video pieces; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, and University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1976.
Studio Still Lifes (photographic). Universal Studios, Universal City, CA, 1977
House of the South (temporary outdoor installation). Three Rivers Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, 1988.
Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (photographic) Los Angeles, CA, 1984.
First Bank of Minneapolis, MN (print portfolio ), 1986.
Three on Technology: dimming. Groover, Friedlander (photographic), List Visual Art Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 1988.
Print Center of Philadelphia (print editions), Philadelphia, PA, 1989.
The City of Lowell, MA (3 granite outdoor sculptures), 1990.
Beehive/Books (granite sculpture), private collection, Nantucket, MA, 1992.
Yamanaka Fine Arts Center (print editions), Kyoto, Japan, 1993.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (inflatable sculpture), 1993.
Blackboard Brain, (gallery installation), M.I.T., Cambridge, MA , and the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 1993, 1994.
Plain and Painted Parts, (5 story atrium relief) University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1998.
Complex Compasses, City of Northampton, Northampton, MA, 2000
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Elvehjem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France
Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Johnson Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kasama Museum, Kasama, Japan
Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
List Visual Art Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New School, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Public Sculpture, Jeremy Rees, Studio International, London, Aug. 1972.
Story Art, M. Jochimsen, Magazine Kunst, Mainz, Germany, Feb. 1974.
Robert Cumming's Eccentric Illusions, P .Foschi, Artforum, NY, June 1975.
The Directorial Mode, A.D. Coleman, Artforum, NY, Sept. 1976.
Cumming at Gibson, ]. Russell, New York Times, NY, 4/21/77.
The Photographer and the Drawing, L. Fishman, Creative Camera, London, Aug.1977.
Mirrors and Windows, John Szarkowski, MOMA, NY, 1978.
Robert Cumming: Trucage/Falsehoods, Jim Hugunin, Afterimage, Rochester, NY, Dec. 1978.
Through Western Eyes (interview), L. Rubinfein, Art in America, NY, Sept./Oct., 1978.
Robert Cumming. Photographs, Jim Alinder, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1979.
Invented Images, R. Armstrong, Artforum, NY, 5/ 80.
Robert Cumming: Drawings for Props and Photographs, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, 1980.
Circular Reasoning, Martha Gever, Afterimage, Rochester, NY, 1982.
(cover and portfolio of drawings) Paris Review, New York, NY, Fall, 1983
Robert Cumming's Subject-Object, C. Hagen, Artforum, NY, Summer, 1983.
The Museum of Modern Art. The History and the Collection, MOMA curators, intro. Sam Hunter, Abrains, NY, 1984.
His Imagination Reshapes Reality, Andy Grundberg, New York Times, NY, 1/22/84
Illustration Is Back in the Picture, D. Cameron, Art News, NY, Oct. 1985.
Mechanical Illusions by Robert Gumming, Eleanor Heartney, Art News, NY, Nov. 1986
And Robert Cumming, Geoffrey Young, San Francisco Camerawork, Spring, 1987.
Cumming at Castelli, John Yau, Artforum, NY, Feb. 1989.
De la Photographic Comme un des Beaux Arts, Alain Sayag, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, 1989.
Crist's of the Real, Andy Grundberg, Aperture, NY, 1990. pp. 137-140.
Recent Aauisitions, n.a.. Metropolitan Museum Art bulletin, NY, Fall 1991.
Creative Drawing, Howard Smagula, Brown & Benchmark, London, 1992.
Robert Cumming: Cone of Vision, Lynda Forshay, Robert Harbison, essay,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, 1993.
Robert Gumming: Photographic Worlcs 1969-1980, Frederic Paul, F.R.A.C.
Limousin, Limoges, France, 1994. (D.A.P., New York distrib.)
Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Bruce Davis, LA County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1995.
39 Projects: Artists in Residence at the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, M. Cieri,
D. Hansen, K. Kline, H. Posner, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA,
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