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ROB WYNNE

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Education  

1970

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

   
Selected Solo Exhibitions  

2007

DIOR, Paris, France, Installation (headquarters Av Montaigne)
‘Wrecked,’ Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

2006

‘The Heartbeat of a Bird,’ Craig Starr Associates, New York, NY

2004

‘Imitation and Disguise,’ JGM Galerie, Paris, France
‘Almost Nothing,’ Galerie Oliver Schweden, Munich, Germany

2002

‘Selected Words,’ Galerie Oliver Schweden, Munich, Germany

2001

Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
‘Rob Wynne: New Work,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
‘Rob Wynne: A Careless Rendezvous,’ Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

1999

‘Breathe’, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
‘Rob Wynne: Thread Drawings, Glass & Ceramic Sculptures,’ Galerie Oliver Schweden,
Munich, Germany
‘You’re Dreaming,’ Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1998

‘Rob Wynne: Photographs and Wallpaper,’ Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France
‘Rob Wynne: Glass Sculpture and Word Drawings,’ JGM Galerie, Paris, France

1997

Galerie Oliver Schweden, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
‘Word Pictures and Silhouettes,’ Galerie Pierre Nouvion, Monaco

1995

Galerie Malka Lallouz, Los Angeles, CA
‘Sleepwalking,’ Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1994

‘Window Shopping,’ Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA

1989

Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY

1988

Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY

1981

‘Sphere Redux,’ The Kitchen, New York, NY

   
Selected Group Exhibitions  

2007

‘Death & Love in Modern Times,’ Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY
‘What’s Your Hobby,’ curated by Beth DeWoody, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
‘Rouge Baiser,’ Biennale Estuaire Nantes, Saint Nazaire, Nantes, France
‘The Editions of the Carpe Diem Press,’ Pierre Berge & Associates, Brussels, Belgium
‘Arte Povera Now and Then,’ Esso Gallery, New York, NY
‘Water,’ curated by Blaire Voltz Clarke, The Gallery at Salvatore Ferragamo, New York, NY

2006

‘Under Construction,’ curated by Barbara McAdam, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art,
Long Branch, NJ
‘Stop Thinking,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH

2005

‘High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime,’ curated by
Michael Duncan, Georgia Museum of Fine Art, Athens, GA traveled: McNay Art Museum,
Austin, TX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Allentown Art Museum,
Allentown, PA (catalogue)
‘The Upper Half,’ Stadtische Museum, Heilbronn, Germany traveled: Kunsthalle,
Emden, Germany, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
‘Walls ‘n Things,’ selected by Clarissa Dalrymple, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New
York, NY
‘Artists Pick,’ Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
‘Heavenly, or A Slice of White,’ The Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY (catalogue)
‘Glass, Seriously,’ curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2004

‘Carpe Diem Artists’ Books,’ Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), Oaxaca, Mexico
‘Print Publisher's Spotlight: Carpe Diem Press,’ Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
‘Art and Illusion,’ Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles,
CA
‘Rob Wynne and Stephen Mueller,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
‘Gluck / Luck,’ ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany,
‘Carpe Diem Editions,’ Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

2003

Kunsthalle Luitpold Block, Munich, Germany, “Gluck/Luck”
‘Reading:Material,’ Volume, New York, NY
‘NYPD,’ Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
‘On the Wall,’ The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
‘Launched,’ Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
‘The Haunted Recurring Ghost,’ Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
‘Artist's Books, Outside of a Dog,’ Baltic, The Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead,
England

2002

‘Officina/America,’ Galleria D’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
‘Portraits,’ Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland

2001

‘Contemporary Artists; Contemporary Weaving: New Works from Teotitlan del Valle,
Oaxaca,’ Galeria Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, Mexico City, Mexico,
‘Rob Wynne and Elisabeth Kley,’ Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY
‘Reflection,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH

2000

‘Minding Glass,’ Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
‘American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities,’ curated by Dahlia Morgan, The Art Museum
at Florida International University, Miami, FL (catalogue)

1999

‘Past Forward,’ Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
‘Hollybury USA,’ curated by Kim MacConnel The Mayor Gallery, London, England
‘The Salon of 1999,’ The Fifth International, New York, NY
‘Oh! cet echo,’ Musée Vendeen, Fontenay-le-Comte Frac des Pays de la Loire, France

1998

‘Food Matters,’ curated by Stuart Horodner and Saul Ostrow Center Gallery of Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA & E. S. Vandam, New York, NY
‘Wishful Thinking,’ James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
‘Le Corps du Livre,’ Carre d’Art Bibliothèque, Nimes, France (catalogue)

‘Vertical Painting,’ P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY

1997

‘John Baldessari, Nam June Paik, Jack Pierson, Andy Warhol, Rob Wynne Holly Solomon
Gallery, New York, NY
‘Le Jardin Complice de l’Art Guerlain Fondation d’Art Contemporain,’ Les Mesnuls, France
(catalogue)
‘Drawn and Quartered,’ curated by Michael Steinberg, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York,
NY
‘Woven in Oaxaca,’ A/D, New York, NY (catalogue)

1995

‘Summer Group,’ Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
‘A-DRESS,’ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
‘Fashion Is a Verb,’ Museum at F.I.T., New York, NY
‘Outside/Inside,’ Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmunder, Germany

1994

‘Outside/Inside,’ Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City

1993

‘Art, Money & Myth,’ Palm Beach Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
‘The Animal in Me,’ Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
‘Cadavre Exquis,’ The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1992

‘Byron, Hicks, Balth, Wynne,’ Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
‘Slow Art: Painting in New York Now,’ P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

1990

Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
‘The Unique Print,’ Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (catalogue)
‘Video Image Painting,’ Galerie AB, Paris, France (catalogue)
‘La Bibliothèque Imagines De Collectif Generation,’ Musée de Gravelines, Gravelines, France (catalogue)

1986

‘About Place: Contemporary American Landscape P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
(catalogue)

1984

Cable Gallery, New York, NY

1980

‘Electroworks,’ Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Rochester Museum of Contemporary Photography, Rochester, NY
Canadian Center for Photography and Film, Toronto, Canada
‘Alternated Imaging Systems,’ Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

1979

P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

   
Bibliography  

2008

Mallery Roberts Morgan. 'Dior,J’Adore' Interior Design Magazine, February 2008
Marina Pignatelli. 'Manhattan Con Brio' Architectural Digest Italy, February 2008
William V. Ganis. 'Making The Cut' Glass Magazine, Spring 2008

2007

Penelope Green. 'Kips Bay, Where Everything Glitters'The New York Times, April 19, 2007 P.6
David Coleman. 'The Next Garde” New York Magazine,' May 21, 2007P.100-104

2006

Leffingwell, Edward. Review, Art in America, November.
MacAdam, Alfred. Review, ARTnews, November.
'The Art Universe,' Vanity Fair, November, pp. 310–11.
'Rob Wynne: The Heartbeat of a Bird: Through Glass Darkly' by Stephen Mueller, Gay City
News, September.

2005

Hunt, Lisa. 'Un Sogno Color Arancio,' Architectural Digest, Italy, pp. 142–45.
Morgan, Robert. 'Who Takes Art Seriously?' Glass, pp. 27–33.
'Profile: Peter Marino,' Architectural Digest, France, p. 118..

2004

Review, Houston Chronicle, June 26.
'The Metamorphoses of Rob Wynne,' Review. Le Figaro, May 28.

2003

MacAdam, Barbara. “Back to the Wall,” ARTnews, December, pp.104–5.

2002

Wei, Lilly. 'Kismet.' Review, ARTnews, November.
Johnson, Ken. 'Kismet.' Review, The New York Times, September 6.

2001

Hall, Jacqueline. 'Fragments of Past in New Settings,' Columbus Dispatch (Ohio),
Visual Arts Section, p. F8, Sunday, January 21.
Robinson, Walter. 'Weekend Update,' artnet.com (on-line magazine).
Starker, Melissa. 'Design for Living: Artist Rob Wynne Finds Abstract Thought in .'Craft Materials and Home Accessories,' Columbus Alive (Ohio), Arts Section, p. 12.

2000

Kley, Elisabeth. 'Wynne’s Dream Logic,' Art in America, May, pp. 134–39, 177.
MacAdam, Alfred.'Rob Wynne,' ARTnews, January.
Mogensen, Else. 'Ung New York-Kunst som episke lignerser (Young New York Art as Epic
Parabels),' Hrymfaxe (Denmark), December, pp. 16–23.
Viladas, Pilar. 'Floats Like a Butterfly,' The New York Times Magazine, February 20, pp. 51–56.

1999

'Critic’s Picks,' The Village Voice, November 30.
Johnson, Ken. 'Critic’s Picks: Rob Wynne,' The New York Times,
Weekend Section, December 17.
Milford, Matthew. Review. December 1, p. 57.
Lyttelton, Celia. 'New Wave Art,' Tatler, Performance/Art Section.
Yablonsky, Linda. 'Rob Wynne: ‘You’re Dreaming,' TimeOut New York,
December 16–30, p. 116.

1998

MacAdam, Barbara. 'Where the Dinosaurs Are The Old Masters,' ARTnews, March,
pp. 162–67.
'Writing on the Rug,' ARTnews, September, p. 39.

1997

Dorsey, John. 'The Importance and Reality of Illusion,' The Sun, October 21, p. 3E.
Kastner, Jeffrey. 'The ‘Louvre’ Boat,' ARTnews, April, p. 36.
'Kunst Tapetentraume,' Focus, September, p. 156.
Marella, Spring Issue, Number 4, pp. 53, 54.
'Schlafwandeln Bei Rob,' Elle Decoration, September/October, p. 23.

1996

Levin, Kim. 'Voice Choices,' The Village Voice, April 30.
Mahoney, Robert. “Couching Meaning,” Cover Magazine, Summer, p. 12.
Muchnic, Suzanne. Review, ARTnews, December.
The New Yorker, April 29 and May 6.
Princenthal, Nancy. Review, Art in America, September.

1994

Gardner, Paul. Review, ARTnews, December.
The New York Times, 'A Fashion Gallery: Eight New York Artists Interpret the New York Fall Collections,' September.

1992

Adams, Brooks. ’Slow Art’ at P.S. 1,' Art in America, October, p. 154.
Liebman, Lisa. 'Slow Art’ at P.S. 1,' Interview Magazine, May, p. 63.

1991

'Inner Currents,' The Sciences Magazine, New York.

1990

Heartney, Eleanor. Review, ARTnews, January, p. 172.
The New Yorker, August 6.

1989

'Liquid Asset,' The Sciences Magazine, New York.

1988

Leffingwell, Edward. 'A Navigator’s Code: The Paintings of Rob Wynne,'
Arts Magazine, March, pp. 58–59.
Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, February 17.

1986

Brenson, Michael. The New York Times, March 19.

1981

Ginsberg, Merle. Soho News, November 10.
Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, November 27.

 
Catalogues

Die Obere Halfte, Stadtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany, Editions Braus, 2005
High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime by Michael Duncan, The
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Hudson Hills Press, NY and
Manchester, 2005
On the Wall: Contemporary Wallpaper, co-published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum and The
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 2003
La Collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire 2002, Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication,
France, 2002
Le Corps du Livre, Carre d’Art Bibliothèque, Nimes, France
Rob Wynne: 'afterglow,' text by Francis Naumann and David Rimanelli, Galerie Oliver Schweden,
Munich, Germany
Le Jardin Complice de l’Art, text by Sydney Picasso, curated by Daniel Sciora, Fondation d’Art
Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France
Apocalyptic Wallpaper, Donna De Salvo, Annetta Massie, essay by Gil Saunders, Wexner Center for
the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1997
L’Art à la Page, Chateau Musée Gagnes-Sur-Mer, France
Livres d’Artistes de 'Collectif Generation,' Center for Book Arts, NY
The Unique Print: 70s into 90s, Clifford Ackley, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Video Image Painting, Galerie AB, Paris, France
About Place: Contemporary American Landscape, Edward Leffingwell, PS1 Museum, Long Island
City, NY
Electroworks, Marilyn McCray, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York
Alternative Imaging Systems, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
Copyart, Richard Marek Publishers, New York
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University,
Miami, essays by Dominique Nahas and Elena Bertoli, 2000

   
Publications  

2007

VANITAS 2, edited by Vincent Katz, New York, N.Y.

 

2006

BY HAND (The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art), Shu Hung and
Joseph Magliara, editors. Princeton Architectural Press, N.Y.

 

2001

'About the Art of Looking' by Gabriele Czoppan. In Encountering Art,
The Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Japan. The Overlook Press, Woodstock & New York.

 

1998

Taste, Nostalgia, edited by Allen S. Weiss. Lusitania Press.

 
Selected Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City
The N.Y. Public Library, The Spencer Collection, New York City
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
La Collection de Frac des Pays de la Loire
Fondation D’Art Contemporain Guerlain
Bibliothèque National, Paris