Robert Grosvenor (artist)

Robert Strawbridge Grosvenor was born March 31, 1937, in New York City, New York. He studied at the {{III|École des Beaux-Arts de Dijon|lt=|fr|École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon}} in 1956; at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris in 1957 and 1959; and at the University of Perugia in 1958. In 1960, Grosvenor moved to Philadelphia.

Grosvenor was one of the 10 artists that founded the cooperative Park Place Gallery in New York City, open from 1963 to 1967.{{Cite web|title="Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York" at Blanton Museum of Art|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/previews/200807/reimagining-space-the-park-place-gallery-group-in-1960s-new-york-20993|access-date=September 17, 2021|website=Artforum.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Landfield|first=Ronnie|date=June 1995|title=Lyrical Abstraction|url=http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l5_wordings_fldr/l1_lyr_abst_proposal.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020093645/http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l5_wordings_fldr/l1_lyr_abst_proposal.html|archive-date=October 20, 2012|access-date=September 17, 2021|website=www.abstract-art.com/}} The other founders of the gallery included Mark di Suvero, Dean Fleming, Forrest Myers, Peter Forakis, Leo Valledor, Tamara Melcher, Tony Magar, and Edwin Ruda.

In Grosvenor's work, he uses a mixture of industrial materials such as car body parts, plexiglass, stone, brick, concrete, and plastic.{{Cite web|last=Lindquist|first=Greg|date=2010-04-02|title=ArtSeen: Robert Grosvenor|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2010/04/artseen/robert-grosvenor|access-date=2021-09-16|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US}} One of his best known sculptures is Tapanga (1965), originally exhibited in the mid-1960's and later realized in a monumental version at the Storm King Art Center.Pepe Karmel (8 March 1996), [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/arts/art-in-review-078638.html Art in Review] New York Times. His work has helped define minimalism and was included in the seminal group exhibitions, Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, 1966), and Minimal Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1968).

Grosvenor is represented by Karma Gallery and Galerie Max Hetzler.Alex Greenberger (23 January 2023), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-grosvenor-leaves-paula-cooper-1234654706/ Minimalist Sculptor Robert Grosvenor Leaves New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery After More Than 50 Years] ARTnews. Until 2023, he also worked with Paula Cooper Gallery.Alex Greenberger (23 January 2023), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-grosvenor-leaves-paula-cooper-1234654706/ Minimalist Sculptor Robert Grosvenor Leaves New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery After More Than 50 Years] ARTnews.

• 2020 – Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture award, ICA Miami, Miami, Florida{{Cite web|last=Galvan|first=Abraham|date=2021-03-23|title=Institute of Contemporary Art issues children's video game|url=https://www.miamitodaynews.com/2021/03/23/institute-of-contemporary-art-issues-childrens-video-game/|access-date=2021-09-17|website=Miami Today|language=en-US}}
• 1972 – American Academy of Arts and Letters grant.
• 1970, 1983 – Guggenheim Fellowship;{{Cite web|title=Robert S. Grosvenor|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/robert-s-grosvenor/|access-date=2021-09-16|website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|language=en-US}}
• 1970 – National Endowment for the Arts grant;

List of select exhibits by Grosvenor:

• 2019–2021, Robert Grosvenor, ICA Miami, Miami, Florida
• 1992, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland{{Cite book|last=Henderson|first=Linda Dalrymple|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIZIAQAAIAAJ|title=La Línea Continua: The Judy and Charles Tate Collection of Latin American Art|publisher=Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin|others=The Blanton Museum of Art|year=2008|isbn=978-0-9815738-0-9|pages=104|language=en}}

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• 2012, The Room of the Line, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
• 2010, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
• 2006, What is plastic? 100 years - 100 heads: the century of modern sculpture, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• 2003, It happened tomorrow, Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
• 1999, Forum: Robert Grosvenor, Andreas Gursky, John Wesley, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1995, American Sculptors in the 1960s: Selected Drawings from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
• 1987, documenta 8, Kassel, Hesse, Germany{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0BUAAAAMAAJ|title=Art in America|date=1987|publisher=F.F. Sherman|language=en|page=256|chapter=Art in Society and Documenta 8}}
• 1987, L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion: Aspects de l'art d'aujourd'hui 1977-1987, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• 1977, documenta 6, Kassel, Hesse, Germany{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62uSpE_b2aUC|title=Contemporary Artists|series=Volume 9 of Contemporary Arts Series|date=1996|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-183-1|language=en|page=462}}
• 1976, 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
• 1971, Sonsbeek 71, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands
• 1970, Preliminary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York{{Cite web|title=Preliminary Drawings, May 23–Aug 31, 1970|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2692|access-date=2021-09-16|website=The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)|language=en}}
• 1968, Minimal Art, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (now Kunstmuseum Den Haag), The Hague, The Netherlands{{Cite web|title=Robert Grosvenor|url=https://icamiami.org/exhibition/robert-grosvenor-ezratti-prize/|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami}}
• 1967, Park Place Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• 1966, Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York City, New York

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• [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-robert-grosvenor-11843 Oral history interview with Robert Grosvenor, 1972 Aug. 9], from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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