Robert Cremean Biography

Robert Cremean

American

1932-

Biography

Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Robert Cremean was born in Toledo, Ohio, 1932.

Education:
1950-1952  Alfred University
1954  Cranbrook Academy of Art, B.F.A.
1956  Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A.

Honors and Awards:
1954  Fullbright Scholarship, Rome, Italy
1957  Huntington Hartford Foundation Fellowship
1966-1967  Tamarind Workshop Fellowship

Teaching:
1956  Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
1956-57  University of California, Los Angeles, California
1957-58  La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, California

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1953  Downtown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1955  Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1957-1959  Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1960-1975  Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1962  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1964  University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1965  University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Forth Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
State University, Iowa City, Iowa
1966  University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Barnsdall Galleries, Los Angeles, California
1966-1967  California Arts Commission, Circulating Exhibition
1968  Landau-Alan Gallelry, New York, New York
1969  Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
1970  National Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
1972  Archer Gallery, London, England
1975  Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1976  M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, New York
1977  Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1978  Alan Hancock College, Santa Maria, California
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983  Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985-2002   Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
1996  California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California
2002  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2007  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2015 Pasadena Museum of Art, "Robert Cremean: The Beds of Procrustes and the Seven Deadly Sins", retrospective
2017 Windfield Gallery, Carmel, California, "Intimate Sculpture"

Selected Group Exhitbitions:
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Whitney Biennals, New York, New York
Smithsonian Institution, New Vein Exhibitions in Europe and Latin America

Selected Public Collections:
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D. C.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
National Museum of Art, Canberra, Australia
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Metropolitan Museum Art, New York, New York
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada
San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, California
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Parnassus Library, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Information courtesy of  Robert de la Vergne, biographer of the artist Robert Cremean, on AskArt.com.