BIOGRAPHY
1925 Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas
1946-1949 Attends Kansas City Art Institute
1948 Attends Académie Julian, Paris
1949 Attends Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where he studies under Josef Albers
1952-53 Travels to North Africa and Europe with Cy Twombly
1964 Awarded Grand Prize for Painting at Venice Biennale
1970 Moves to Captiva Island, Florida
2000 Elected Honorary Royal Academician by Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008 Dies on Captiva Island, Florida
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1951 First solo exhibition at the Betty Parsons gallery, New York
1963 First retrospective organized by the Jewish Museum, New York
1987 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1990 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997 Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, exhibition travels to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
1998 Robert Rauschenberg. Obra gráfica 1967-1979, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca Robert Rauschenberg - Retrospectiva, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao Robert Rauschenberg - Anagrams (A Pun), Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
1999 Robert Rauschenberg - Malerei, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen Robert Rauschenberg - Obra gráfica (1967-1979), Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca Robert Rauschenberg - The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA Robert Rauschenberg - Photographs, Galleria Rubin, Milano
2000 Robert Rauschenberg - Darryl Pottorf, Galerie Tanit, Munich Robert Rauschenberg - Synapsis Shuffle, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2001 Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - RUMINATIONS, völcker & freunde gallery, Berlin Robert Rauschenberg: Marrakech, La Caja Negra, Madrid Robert Rauschenberg: Short Stories, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
2002 X-LARGE - Borofsky, Burden, Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Serra, Ste, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Robert Rauschenberg - Les dix dernières années, Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris Robert Rauschenberg - Short Stories, Waddington Galleries, London Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2003 Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Robert Rauschenberg - Prints & Unique Work, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2004 Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios, Wadsworth Museum of Art, Hartford Mostly Photography - Art since 1980 from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts What´s modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York Made in USA popart, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris Robert Rauschenberg, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 15 Minutes of Fame: 20 Years of Pop Prints, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Robert Rauschenberg, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2005 Rauschenberg - Rosenquist - Lichtenstein, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Robert Rauschenberg, Galerie Terminus, Munich Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Robert Rauschenberg: on and off the wall, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice, France Combines, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006 Robert Rauschenberg, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris Robert Rauschenberg, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Robert Rauschenberg, MOCA The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles; MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles Robert Rauschenberg: Spread and Scale, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford Focus Room. Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia Rauschenberg: Prints, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2007 Rauschenberg. Express, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Nothing and everything, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces, The Menil Collection, Houston Robert Rauschenberg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2008 Robert Rauschenberg: Runts, PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posteres for a Better World, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, Florida
2009 Robert Rauschenberg, William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Robert Rauschenberg, Gluts, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2012-13 The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (travelling to Barbican Art Gallery, London
2013 Robert Rauschenberg: Jammers, Gagosian Gallery, London
2014 Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953-1954, Graig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Robert Rauschenberg: Tribute 21, Kenneth A. Friedman & Co., Calabasas Robert Rauschenberg: Making Tracks, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York Robert Rauschenberg: Kyoto, Sri Lanka, and Thai Drawings, Academy Art Museum, Easton Robert Rauschenberg: ROCI Works from the National Gallery of Art, Academy Art Museum, Easton
2016 Robert Rauschenberg, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong Rauschenberg in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing Project Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg, Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX The Menil Collection, Houston, TX The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Coos Art Museum - CAM, Coos Bay, Oregon The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, Texas The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan University Art Museum, Albany, New York Tate Britain, London Juming Museum, Taipei Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur Foundation Beyeler, Riehen Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Moderna Museet, Stockholm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona Museo-Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Museums Vledder, Vledder Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun Kita Modern Art Museum, Sakurai, Nara Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples Terrae Motus, Caserta Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran National Gallery of Modern Art - New Delhi, New Delhi
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg KEOM Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf Museum Ludwig, Cologne Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde Randers kunstmuseum, Randers Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (former Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum), Aalborg, Denmark Museo Botero, Santafé de Bogota Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna Albertina, Vienna Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia