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Born Chicago, 1947
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2015
• Robert Therrien. The Contemporary Austin, Texas
• Robert Therrien. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013
• Robert Therrien. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Robert Therrien: Scrub Brush Bird Book. Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
2012
• Robert Therrien. Gallery Seomi, Seoul, South Korea
• Robert Therrien: No Title (Table and Four Chairs). The MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre), Belfast, Ireland
2011
• Robert Therrien. Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany.
• Robert Therrien: Selections from the Broad Collection and the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
• Artist Rooms: Robert Therrien: Smoke Signals. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
• Robert Therrien. De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
2010
• Art of the Table. Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, WI
• Robert Therrien: Drawings. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Edinburgh,
Scotland
2009
• Robert Therrien: Works on Paper. Sprüth Magers. Berlin, Germany
2008
• Robert Therrien: Works on Paper. Kupferstichkabinet, Kunstmuseum Basel,
Switzerland
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, NY
2007
• Robert Therrien: Tables and chairs. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
• Remix the Collection: Robert Therrien. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006
• Robert Therrien. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
• Robert Therrien's No title (table and six chairs). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005
• Robert Therrien: Two Recent Sculptures. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New
York, NY
• Robert Therrien: Table and six chairs. Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2004
• Robert Therrien. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
• Robert Therrien. Philomene Magers/Monika Sprüth. Munich, Germany
• Robert Therrien. Sprüth Magers Lee. London, England
2001
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY
2000
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
• Robert Therrien. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: SITE Santa Fe, NM; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (through 2001)
• Robert Therrien. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1998
• Robert Therrien. Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
• Sculpture by Robert Therrien. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Robert Therrien. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1996
• Robert Therrien. Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada. Traveled to: The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Albert College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada (through 1997)
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli, New York, NY.
1995
• Robert Therrien. Galerij Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1993
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
• Robert Therrien. Galerij Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1991
• Robert Therrien. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
• Robert Therrien. Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Robert Therrien. The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Traveled to Barbara Krako
Gallery, Boston, MA
1990
• Robert Therrien. Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli Gallery Gallery, New York, NY
1988
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1987
• Robert Therrien: A Series of Three Installations. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
• Robert Therrien. Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1986
• Robert Therrien. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1985
• Robert Therrien. Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
• Robert Therrien. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Robert Therrien. Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1982
• Robert Therrien. Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979
• Robert Therrien. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1977
• Robert Therrien. Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
• personal, political, mysterious. The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY.
2012
• Lifelike. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art,
New Orleans, LA (through 2014).
• The Floor Show: Gravity and Materials. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2011
• California Art from the Weisman Foundation. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA.
2010
• Artists Rooms: On Tour with the Art Fund. What you see is where you're at. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Wall & Floor. Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France. Outside The Box: 1988-2010. Armand Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA. Size DOES Matter. Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY.
• Le fabuleux destin du quotidian. MAC'c Musee des Art Contemporains Site du Grand-
Hornu, Hornu, Belgium.
• Meet Me Inside. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2009
• Artist Rooms: The d'Offay Donation. Tate Modern, London, England.
• From Dürer to Gober; 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett.Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Basel, Switzerland.
• Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves. Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX.
• Contemporary Art from the Barron Collection. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• Core. Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY.
2008
• "I won't grow up." Cheim & Reid, New York, NY.
• Sgozzata. Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany. The Inaugural Exhibition.
• The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA.
• Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007
• The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
NY (through 2008).
• Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles. Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany.
• Lines, Grids, Stains, Words. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
2006
• Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
• Los Angeles 1955-1985. Birth of an Artistic Capital. Centre Pompidou, Paris.
• Selections from the Ruth and Murray A. Gribin Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego at La Jolla, La Jolla, CA. 2005
• Southern Exposure. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA.
• Weather. William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
• Works on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2003
• The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of Painting and Sculpture. San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA. Traveled to Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, CA.
• Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern
Art. New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
2002
• Comer or no Comer - To Eat or Not to Eat. Centro de Arte de Salamanca. Salamanca,
Spain. Sammlung Rosencranz. Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany.
2001
• Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA (through
2002).
• Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at La Jolla, La
Jolla, CA. Traveled to: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Hood
Museum, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH. Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, OH.
• Locating Drawing. Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX.
2000
• An Exhibition of Selected Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
• Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, CA (through 2001).
• Locating Drawing. Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX (through 2001).
• MoMA 2000: Open Ends. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (through 2001).
• The Anderson Collection: Selected Works. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA (through 2001).
• Tate Modern: Collection 2000. Tate Modern, London, England.
• Panza: The Legacy of a Collector. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1999
• Culbutes dans le millenaire: Oeuvre d'impertinence. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada (through 2000).
• A Selection of Recent Work on Paper. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.
• In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations. Castellani Art Museum of Niagara
University, Niagara Falls, NY. Traveled to: New York Public Library, New York; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC; The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
• De Opening. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. A Selection of Recent Work on Paper. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. Collectieopstelling. VildMuseet, Umea, Sweden.
1998
• An Exhibition of Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
• A Decade of Collecting: Selected Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
• Magasin 3 Stockholm Kunsthalle at Arken: Selections from the Collection. Museum für
Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA.
Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Fine Art. Baltimore, MD; Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, IA.
1997
• Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life. Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY.
Traveled to: The Hayward Gallery, London, England.
• Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeak,
Denmark. Traveled to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli,
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy; California UCLA at the Armand Hammer
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
• Summer Group Show. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
• The Artists of the Castelli Gallery. Forty Years of Exploration and Innovation. Part
Two. Leo Castelli Gallery. New York, NY.
• Densité ou le Musée inimaginable. Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre d'art
Contemporaine, Bignan, France.
• Under the Table. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
• Selections from the Collection. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
• Book Obsession. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1996
• The Panza Di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80s and 90s. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
• Avant-première d'un musée - Le Musée d'Art Contemporain de Gand. The Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France.
• From Figure to Object A Century of Sculptors' Drawings. Karsten Schubert, London,
1995
• Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House. The White House, Washington, D.C.
• Micromegas. The American Center, Paris, France. Traveled to: The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel. Permanent Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. • Collectieopstelling. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.
• Richard Artschwager, Edward Ruscha, Robert Therrien: Selected Works. Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York, NY.
1994
• From the Collection. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
• inSITE94. San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico.
• Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape. Madison Art Center, WI.
1993
• Le Jardin de la Vierge. Espace 251 Nord, Brussels, Belgium.
• From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object. Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, • Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany, France.
1992
• Documenta IX. Museum Fridericianum. Kassel, Germany. New Acquisitions. Tate Gallery, London, England.
• Recent Acquisitions - Selected New Works in the Permanent Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
• Manifeste. Musée National d'Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
• Panza di Biumo, The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection. Museo Cantonale
d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland.
1991
• Lafrenz Collection, Hamburg. Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany. Traveled to: The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
• Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions. Hanover, NH. Traveled to: The Parrish • Art Museum, Southampton, NY.
1990
• 12th International Biennale of Drawings. Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
• Objects of Potential. Five American Sculptors from the Anderson Collection. College of
Notre Dame, Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA.
1989
• Dreams and other Works on Paper. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.
• 4Art in Place, Fifteen Years of Acquisitions. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
• I Triennal de Dibuix Joan Miró. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
Sculpture 1960s-1980s. The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
1988
• Skulptur/Sculpture, Material & Abstraction: 2 x 5 Positionen. Aargauer Kunsthaus,
Aarau, Switzerland. Traveled: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne,
Switzerland; The Swiss Institute and The City Gallery, New York, NY.
• Sculpture Inside Outside. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to: Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX.
• Vital Signs. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
• The University Collects: Recent Gifts From Ruth S. Schaffner. University Art Museum,
Santa Barbara, CA. Magasin 3 Stockholm Stockholm Kunsthalle at Arken. Selections from the Collection.
Museum for Moderne Kunst. Copenhagen, Denmark. Abstract Expresssions Recent Sculpture. Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL.
1987
• small scale sculpture LARGE SCALE SCULPTURE. The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA.
• Leo Castelli y sus Artistas, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo. Polanco, Mexico.
• Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors. Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
• Leo Castelli at Gagosian. Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1986
• A Collecting Partnership: Highlights of California Art Since 1945. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.
• Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-86. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
• Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
• Pasadena Collects: The Art of Our Time. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1985
• Biennial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Actual Size: An Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculptures. Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1984
• Aperto '84. XLI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
• Awards in the Visual Arts 3. San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. Traveled to:
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield, MI. 1980 Sculpture in California 1975-80. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA.
1977
• Four Californians. Visual Incantations. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA.
1974
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Young California. Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Public Collections
The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Eli Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Fondació 'La Caixa', Barcelona, Spain.
French National Collection, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, M
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museo Cantonale d'Arte - Lugano, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Oostende, Belgium
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese, Italy
Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia
The Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Tate Gallery, London, England
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY