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For the last four decades, Robert Hudson has been known for his large-scale welded-steel and poly-chromed steel and bronze sculptures. The San Francisco Bay area artist has also produced a large body of paintings and drawings during a distinguished career. Based in the assemblage sculpture and Funk movements in California during the late 1950s and 1960s, Hudson has consistently presented spatially and formally complex work, most often characterized by found objects, wit and irony.
Hudson has exhibited since 1961, and his work is included in The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Stedelijk Museum. Writing about earlier Hudson ceramic work, the critic Peter Schjeldahl has noted:
“There is a kind of dreamlike abstract logic to these works, a blend of non-chalance and inevitability that can be best understood, I believe, in terms of a radical coming to grips with the medium.”
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Education
1963 M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
1961 B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago
Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles
AT&T Corporation
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Oakland Museum of Art, California
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Inc., California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Found Objects, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2005 Robert Hudson: The Sonoma County Years, 1977-2005, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2004 B. Sakato Garo, Sacramento, California
2003 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2000 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1998 Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
1996 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1995 Struve Fine Arts, Chicago
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Fresno Art Museum, California
1989 Fresno Art Museum, California
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica; Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York
1987 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1986 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1985 Robert Hudson: A Survey, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California (‘85-’86)
1984 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Richard Eugene Fuller Art
Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania
1983 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Richard L. Nelson Gallery & the Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis
1982 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
1981 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1979 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco; Miami Dade Community College, Florida
1978 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1977 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
Two California Artists: Robert Hudson and Roy De Forest, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1976 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1975 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
1973 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco; Robert Hudson/Richard Shaw:
Work in Porcelain, San Francisco Museum of Art
Robert Hudson/Richard Shaw: Work in Porcelain, E.G. Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1972 The Star Show, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1971 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1970 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco
1968 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1967 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1965 Robert Hudson Sculpture: 1965 Nealie Sullivan Award Exhibition,
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1964 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California
1962 Bolles Gallery, San Francisco
1961 Batman Gallery, San Francisco; Richmond Art Center, California
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