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S O N N A B E N D ROBERT YARBER BORN: 1948, Dallas, Texas EDUCATION 1974 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Louisiana, M.F.A. 1967-71 Cooper Union College, New York, New York, B.F.A. TEACHING 1994 The Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Professor 1983 University of California, Berkekey, California Visiting Lecturer University of Texas, Austin, Texas Lecturer 1982 University of California, Berkeley, California Visiting Painting Instructor University of Texas, Austin, Texas Visiting Lecturer AWARDS 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS 2009 “Calaveras Gnosticos,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York 2007 “Sortie: The Demonological Survey,” Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea 1999 Modernism, San Francisco, CA Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy 1998 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY “Robert Yarber: New Monotypes published by Landfall Press”, Quartet Editions, NewYork, NY 1996 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy 536 WEST 22 NEW YORK NY 10011 T. 212 627 1018 F. 212 627 0489 S O N N A B E N D Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy 1995 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Night World", Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1994 Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland 1993 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Casino de Knokke, Knokke-Heist, Belgium Galerie Van de Weghe, Brussels Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy 1991 Galerie Faust, Geneva "Robert Yarber: Photographs", Lieberman & Saul, New York "Robert Yarber: Artifice and Escapes", The Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1990 "Climax of the Commonplace", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Langer, Fain, Paris 1989 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA "Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980-1988", Palmer Museum of Art Penn State University, University Park, PA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 1987 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janieiro, Brasil Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Vollum College Center Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Steven Lieber Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 Simon Lovinsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dominican College, San Rafael, CA Simon Lovinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 536 WEST 22 NEW YORK NY 10011 T. 212 627 1018 F. 212 627 0489 S O N N A B E N D 1974 University of New Orleans, New Orleans 1970 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY 536 WEST 22 NEW YORK NY 10011 T. 212 627 1018 F. 212 627 0489 S O N N A B E N D GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 “Les annees 80” at Le, Magasin, Grenoble, France 2008 “Digitalia, Intimacy in the Hyperreal.” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, Jan. 12 through March 1, 2008. (Two digital images on paper.) 2007 “Fall Season,” Group Show, Jack the Pelican Gallery Brooklyn, New York ,“ September 7 to October 7, 2007. Group Show, (Two Paintings.) 2006 Feast,” Group Show, HUB-Robeson Center, Penn State University, UniversityPark, September 21-dec. 13, 2006 “The Hedonistic Imperative,” Deborah Colten Gallery, Houston, Texas 2005 “A Better Tomorrow” Curated by Saul Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art, Oct.22, “The Hedonistic Imperative,” guest-curated by Graham Guerra. “The show is a tribute to David Pearce’s 1996 online manifesto of the same name, which targets the elimination of suffering in all sentient beings through genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neuroscience. “The world’s last unpleasant experience,” he writes, “will be a precisely dateable event.” Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, and Jan.15- Feb. 13, 2005. (Traveling with catalog, Dates and venues forthcoming.) Group Show: “ The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment.” Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York. February 8- May 14, 2005 (Cat.) Group Show: “Modern, Contemporary, and Latin American Art,” Bonham’s & Butterfield's,San Francisco, CA., Apr. 16- May 1, 2005 Group Show: PSU SOVA Faculty exhibit, Palmer Museum, University Park Campus, PSU, Summer, 2005 2004 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA. August 24 through October 24, 2004 “25th Anniversary Exhibit,” Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California. September 9- October 30. 2004 “In A Voting Year, “ An exhibition of artwork by School of Visual Arts Fine Arts Faculty, Zoller Gallery, The School of Visual Arts at Penn State, University Park campus, October 18th -November 2, 2004. “URGENT!: An exhibition of contemporary art and cultural paraphernalia.” Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York, NY, Oct 23rd - Nov 2nd 2004. “Dream or Nightmare: Images of Air and Space in Contemporary Art”. Asheville Art Museum. Dec5,2003- Feb. 8, 2004. Three paintings in a six person show. Featured painting (card, advertising,) 2003 Group Show: “ The Burbs,” DFN Gallery New York City. June 4- August29, 2003. Painting: “Woman with Hose,” 2003, 38x68”, oil/canvas 536 WEST 22 NEW YORK NY 10011 T. 212 627 1018 F. 212 627 0489 S O N N A B E N D 2002 “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection,” Curated by Antonio Homem at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, New York. ( Catalog.) June 21- September 29, 2002. ( Travelling Exhibition.) “Arte a Palazzo. Oraziana 2002,” curated by Otillio Lotinni, Prof. Dott. Horace’s Villa, Licenza, Italy. (Catalogue.) Paintings inspired by the poetry of Horace. Exhibit commemorates the restoration of the villa of the ancient Roman poet, Horace. May 26- September 7, 2002 “Visions: The First Ten Years. Selections from the Galleria Valentina Moncada. Acanto Blu, Palermo, Sicily 2001 Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy “Visions: The First Ten Years,”Photography, (Catalog Forthcoming.) Galleria Valentina Moncada. Rome, Italy 2000 Bologna Art Fair 1999 “Views From the Edge of the World,” Marlborough Gallery, New York “Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT. 1998 “Frightful Paint”, Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1996 "Shot - Una Visione Americana," Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy. "Fifteen Artists," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. "Epitaphs," Edward Throp Gallery, New York, NY. "The Sonnabend Collection," Deichtorhalle, Hamburg, Germany 1994 "The World of Tomorrow", Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA "Love in the Ruins", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY 1993 "Wake-up Call", Perforance Space 122, NY "The Flourescent Conscience", Galerie Pfefferle, Munich "Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition", Leo Castelli Gallery, NY 1992 "American Art of the 80's", Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy "Illumination", Pfizer Inc, New York "In The Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting", Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC "Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View", Main Art Gallery, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA "Troubled Waters", Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY 536 WEST 22 NEW YORK NY 10011 T. 212 627 1018 F. 212 627 0489 S O N N A B E N D 1991 "Visions, Fantasies and Mind Wanderings", Lintas Worldwide, NY "Contemporary Surrealism", New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ "In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting", The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC "Art of the 1980s: Selections from the Collection of the Eli Broad Family Foundation", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC "de-persona", The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA "Selection", FAE, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland 1990 "New Work by Night", Bruce Helinder Gallery, NY "In the Realm of the Plausible", curated by J. Yau. Shea and Becker Gallecy, New York, NY "Mystery + Dreams", Dorsky Gallery, NY "Northwest by Southwest", Palm Springs Desert Museum; Palm Springs, CA; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MO; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX "California A-Z and Return", The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH "Robert Yarber and McDermott & McGough", Improvvisazione Prima, Galleria d'Arte, Trento "Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art", Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College; New York Historical Society 1989 "Horn of Plenty", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland "Unstable Universe", Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "New Work By Gallery Artists", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Painting Beyond the Death of Painting", Curated by Donald Kuspit, Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR "Social Fictions", Tom Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO Frederick Wiseman Collection, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY 1988 "Recent American Pastels", Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT "Collection Sonnabend", Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Hamburger Bahnhoff Berlin, West Germany; Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna, Roma; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento; Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto "Symbolism-Force and Spirit", Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY "Narrative Art", Mark Twain