ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (b. 1925, Port Arthur, TX; d. 2008, Captiva Island, FL) Robert Rauschenberg was an influential artist in the Pop Art and NeoDada movements, known for incorporating everyday found objects into his hybrid painting-sculpture works he called “combines” and later for his extensive screenprinting output. Numerous solo exhibitions of his work have been held at institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Tate Modern, London, England (2017, 1981); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2017, 2003, 2000, 1977); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2017, 1999, 1982, 1977, 1968); Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2017, 2012); ThyssenBornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain (2015, 2006); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2007, 1991, 1990); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (all 2007); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2006, 1987); the Museum of Contemporary Art LA, Los Angeles, CA, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (both 2006); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (2005); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2000, 1990, 1968); Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (2000); National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India (1998); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (both 1997); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1991); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (1980); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1977); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1976); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1968); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (1964); and the Jewish Museum, New York, NY (1963). He enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO (1947), traveled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian (1948), studied intermittently under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College near Asheville, NC (1948–52), and took classes at the Art Students League in New York, NY (1949–51).
–Body Maps: Works from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections in Conversation with Past Exhibiting Artists