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Biography - Robert Hudson

Born

September 8, 1938 Salt Lake City, Utah. Now lives in Cotati, California.

Education

1961 California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, CA, B.F.A

Awards

1972 Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1976 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1979 General Sevices Administration Sculpture Commission Grant

One Person Exhibitions

1961 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1962 Bolles Gallery, CA
1964 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1965 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1967 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1970 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“The Star Show”, University of California at Berkeley, CA
1972 “Recent Sculpture”, Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1973 “Robert Hudson Paintings”, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
1977 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1978 “New Paintings and Drawings”, Alan Frumkin Gallery, NY
1979 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
1982 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 “Robert Hudson: Paintings and Drawings”, Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis, CA
“The Bob Hudson Show”, Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission,KS
1984 “New Polychrome Sculpture”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Fuller Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
1985 “Robert Hudson: A Survey”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 “Robert Hudson Sculpture”, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Fresno Art Museum, California
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 “Robert Hudson: New Sculpture”, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Struve Fine Arts, Chicago
1996 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1998 Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
2001 ‘Recent Ceramic Sculpture and Works on Paper’, Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA
2000 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2003 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2004 B. Sakato Garo, Sacramento, California
2005 “Robert Hudson: The Sonoma County Years, 1977-2005”, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2007 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

1958 “Washington Art Association”, Larsen Gallery, Yakima, WA
1960 “Twenty‑Third Annual Drawing, Print and Watercolor Show”, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
“Northern California Sculptor’s Annual”, the Oakland Museum, CA
1961 Annual California Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Art Center, La Jolla, CA
1962 “Two Obscurities. And a Sculptor”, Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Some Point of View ‘62”, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1963 82nd Annual Exhibition of San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NY
1964 “The 83rd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute”, San Francisco Museum, CA
“Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area”, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
“Annual Exhibition 1964”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Young American Sculpture‑‑East to West”, American
Express Pavillion, The World’s Fair, Queens, NY
“Four California Artists”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1965 “Young America 1965”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Annual Exhibition, 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition”, Art Gallery at San Jose State College,CA
1966 “Annual Exhibition 1966”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1967 “Funk”, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA
“American Sculpture of the Sixties”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.
“Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation”, The Art Institute
of Chicago, IL
1968 “On Looking Back: The Bay Area 1945‑1960”, San Francisco
Museum of Art, CA
“Annual Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1969 “Just Yesterday”, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
“The Spirit of the Comics”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA
“14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge”, Walker Art Center and Dayton’s Department Store, Minneapolis, MN
“Repair Show” Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970 “Impossible Dream”, performance with William T. Wiley and others, University Art Museum, University of
California, Berkeley, CA
“Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
1971 “Continuing Surrealism”, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA
“San Francisco Art Museum Centennial Exhibition”, M.H DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
“The 73rd Western Annual”, Denver Art Museum, CO
“Gallery and Invitational Group Exhibition”, Alan Frumkin Gallery, NY
1972 “The Cup Show”, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture”, Krannert
Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign‑Urbana, IL
“Drawings”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Clay”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“The Nicholas Wilder Collection :Portrait of an Art Dealer”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, NV
1975 “A Drawing Show”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
“34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“The Condition of Sculpture”, Hayward Gallery, London, England
“Sculpture—American Directions 1945‑1975”, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
“Hansen Fuller Pays Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute”, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976 “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Traveled to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1977 “New in the Seventies”, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
“Recent Works on Paper by American Artists”,Madison Art Center, WI
“Two California Artists: Robert Hudson and Roy Deforest”,Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1978 “Aesthetics of Grafitti”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Clay from Molds: Multiples, Altered Castings, Combinations”, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“The First Western States Biennial Exhibition”, Denver Art Museum, CO; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA
1979 “Directions”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
“Large Drawings”, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago,IL
1980 “Sculpture in California”, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
“The Continental Clay Connection”, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada
1981 “New Dimensions in Drawing 1950‑1980”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Polychrome”, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 “Visiting Artists Group Show”, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
“A Private Vision: Art from the Graham Gund Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“The West as Art: Changing Perspectives of Western Art in California Collections”, Palm Spring Desert Museum, CA
“Summer Gallery Group Show”, Alan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“100 Years of California Sculpture”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Northern California Art of the Sixties”, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
1983 “Selections 1”, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Thanking the Muse”, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Sculpture: The Tradition in Steel”, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1984 “Painters at UC Davis, Part II: 1970’s‑1980’s”, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
“A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Hightlights: Selections from the BankAmerica Corporation
Art Collection”, A.P Gianini Gallery, BankAmerica
Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
“Stars: A Theme Exhibition”, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Hightlights: Selection from the BankAmerica Corporation Art Collection, A.P Gianini Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984‑85 “California Sculpture Show”, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.(Organized as part of the
1984 Olympic Arts Festival). Traveled to C.A.P.C, Musee
d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Germany; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; Sonja Heine of Neils Onstads Stiftelser, Norway
“Stars: A Theme Exhibition”, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art”, Museum of Art, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Clay”, Dayton Art Institute, OH
“Iowa Collects”, Des Moines Art Center, IA
“John Cage: Recent Etchings and Monotypes, Robert Hudson:
New Releases”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1986 “Figure as Subject: The Last Decade”, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, NY
“New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture: 10 New Outstanding
Sculptors of America and Japan”, organized by the Sapporo
Art Foundation, Japan
“1976-1986: Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary American
Art; Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection”, Wellesley College Museum, Massachusetts
“Recent Prints by Gallery Artists”, Drawing Gallery, Alan
Frumkin Gallery, NY
1987 “Prints from Promenade”, Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY “Crown Point Press at Frito‑Lay” Plano, Texas
“California Figuarative Sculpture”, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
“Cast in Bronze”, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
1988 “Works on Paper by Gallery Artists”, Drawing Gallery, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY
“Spectrum: New Development in Three Dimensions”, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY
“Contemporary American Collage”, travelling exhibition organized by the Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987-1989.
1994 “Advice on Dissent’, John Bergggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 “Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw: New Ceramic Sculpture”, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
“Collaborations: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley”, travelling exhibition Palm Springs, CA; Miami, FL

Public Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Selected Bibliography

Anderson, Wayne. “American Sculpture in Process, 1930‑1970”, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975 p. 161‑162
Beal, Graham. “Wiley Territory”, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1979. p 8,10
Clark, Garth. “A Century of Ceramics in the United States”, New York: E.P Dutton, 1979. p. 159,298‑299, 307, 327. ill. p. 232,233
Kuspit, Donald.”The Critic is Artist: The Intentionality of Art”, Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1984. p. 287
Plagens, Peter. “Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast”, New York: Praeger, 1974. p. 87, 88, 89, 99. ill. p. 68

Articles

1962 Coplans, John. “Angel‑Hipsterism, Beat and Zen Versus New Materials”, Artforum, Sept. p. C3
1963 Coplans, John. “Sculpture in California”, Artforum, Aug. p. 5, 11
1964 Kozloff, Max. “West Coast Art, Viral Pathology”, The Nation, Aug. 24, p. 76, 79
Monte, James. “Polychrome Sculpture”,Artforum, Nov., p. 41,42
1965 Ashton, Dore. “Life and Movement Without Recession: New York Commentary”, Studio International, Dec. p. 252
Bourdon, David. “Art Follows the Dotted Line”, Village Voice, Oct. p. II
Davis, Douglas. “Taking the World’s Pulse:Op, Near‑Op, Off‑On, Off‑Op”, The National Observer, Aug. 30, p. 16
Kozloff, Max. “The Further Adventures of Modern Sculpture”, Arts Magazine, Feb. p. 31
Robins, Corinne. “In the Galleries: Robert Hudson”, Arts, Dec. p. 55
1967 Ashton, Dore. “Jeunes talents de la sculture americaine”, Aujourd’hui, Jan. p. 160
Tuten, Frederick. “American Sculpture of the Sixties”, Arts Magazine, May, ill. p. 42,43
1971 Henry, Gerit. “Robert Hudson “Reviews and Previews”, ArtNews, Summer, p. 14
McCann, Cecile. “Robert Hudson”, Artweek, Aug. 21, p. 8
Stiles, Knute. “A Centennial in San Francisco: Three Museums Celebrate 100 Years of The San Francisco Art Institute”, Artforum, Apr. p. 72
1973 McChesney, Mary Fuller. “Porcelain by Richard Shaw and Robert Hudson”, Craft Horizons,Oct. p. 34‑37
Tarshis, Jerome. “A Wyeth Show and Some Others”, Art News, Sept.p. 62
1974 Tarshis, Jerome. “Struggling With Success”, Art News, Mar. p. 78
1975 Marlowe, John. “Bob Hudson:Reading Like a Road Map” (an interview) Current, Apr‑May p. 33, ill
Chapman, Hilary. “The Condition of Sculpture 1975”, Arts Magazine, Nov. p. 69
1976 Bourdon, David. “Decorative is Not a Dirty Word”, Village Voice, Oct 11, p. 96
Davis, Douglas. “The Two Faces of California”, Newsweek, Sept. 6, p. 52, ill
Ellenzwieg, Allan. “Robert Hudson”, Arts Magazine, Dec. p. 31, ill.
Kramer, Hilton. “Art”, The New York Times, Oct. 1, p. C14
Kuspit, Donald. “Regionalism Reconsidered”, Art in America, July‑Aug. p. 67
1977 Albright, Thomas. “Hudson: In the Shadow of Wiley”, San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 29, p. 40
Dills, Keith.”Robert Hudson’s New Work”, Artweek Apr.16, p. 1,6, ill.
Donahue, Victoria. “Hudson Baffles and Entertains with His Kitchen Sink Esthetic”, Philadelphia Enquirer, Dec. 18, ill.
1978 Larson, Kay. “Robert Hudson”, Art News, Dec. p. 141, 143
1979 Brown, Christopher. “Disparate Voices”, Artweek, May 19, p. 1,20, ill.
1981 Baro, Gene.”New York Letter”, Art International, Aug‑ Sept, p. 119‑120
1982 Burkhart, Dorothy. “The 60’s Art Experience”, The Tab (San Jose, CA) Oct. 17, p 15
Platt, Susan. “Hudson’s World”, Artweek, Dec. 25, p. 3
1983 Albright, Thomas. “Robert Hudson”, Art News, Apr. p. 79
Boettger, Suzaan. “Robert Hudson”, Art Forum, Apr. p. 158
Stiles, Knute. “Robert Hudson at Fuller Goldeen”, Art in America, Mar. p. 165, ill.
1984 Glueck, Grace. “Art”, The New York Times, Apr. 6, p. C28