Born in Port Arthur, TX in 1925
Lived and worked in New York, NY until passing in 2008
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute
Académie Julian
Black Mountain College
Art Students League of New York
AWARDS
2002
Medal Award, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2001
The Harbourfront Centre World Leaders Prize, Toronto
2000
The Eighth Wexner Prize, Wexner Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1997
First Prize in Contemporary Art Awards, ARCO and Fundación Argentaria, Madrid, Spain
1996
Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
1995
Leonardo Da Vinci World Award of Arts, World Cultural Council, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
1993
Second Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City, Japan
National Medal of Arts Award presented by the U.S. President and First Lady, Washington, D.C.
1992
Federal Design Achievement Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1989
Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
1987
Third Annual Infinity Award for Art, International Center of Photography, New York
1986
Golden Plate Award, 25th Anniversary Salute to Excellence, American Academy of Achievement, Washington, D.C.
1984
Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, Friends of Bezalel Academy of Jerusalem, Philadelphia chapter, Philadelphia
1982
Skowhegan Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1979
Gold Medal for Graphics, Oslo
Grand Prix dʼ Honneur, International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1978
Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1964
Grand Prize, 32nd Venice Biennale, Venice
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Contemporary Art - Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Rauschenberg at Gemini - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham,
Rauschenberg and Johns - Barbican Art Gallery, London
The Artist and the Poet - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York
The 60s In The Guggenheim Collections. From Informal To Pop Art - Peggy Guggenheim
Robert Rauschenberg - Jammers - Gagosian Gallery, London (England)
Multiples - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2012
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Early Photographs - Gagosian Gallery, London (England)
North African Collages and Scatole Personali c. 1952 - Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NY
Robert Rauschenberg and His Contemporaries: Works from the Collections of Martina Hamilton and Hamilton College - GRAM - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Rauschenberg - 5 Decades of Printmaking - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011
Rauschenberg: Prints from Universal Limited Art Editions, 1962-2008 - Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - Gagosian Gallery, Paris
Rock, Paper, Scissor - Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
Selected Prints By Robert Rauschenberg From The Mfah Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg - Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Open Score By Robert Rauschenberg - Seventeen Gallery, London (England)
Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville - Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Rauschenberg Print - RH Gallery, New York City, NY
2010
Signs of the Times: Robert Rauschenberg's America, MMoCA, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (solo)
Uma Aventura Moderna - Coleção de Arte Renault, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Black Cube Gallery, Barcelona
Rauschenberg at Gemini, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2009
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Au Courant: Robert Rauschenberg‘s Currents, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2008
Robert Rauschenberg: Runts, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posteres for a Better World, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL
Whatever is There is a Truth, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Robert Rauschenberg, The Lotus Series, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NY;Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Robert Rauschenberg in the Collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Rauschenberg: Booster, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle,
Rauschenberg, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Robert Rauschenberg - Travelling '70 - '76, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Rauschenberg, graficá 1976-2000, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
2007
Rauschenberg. Express, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Nothing and everything, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Robert Rauschenberg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Selected Works 1974 - 1999, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Three Decades, Galleri Faurschou, Beijing, China
Robert Rauschenberg, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Let the World In, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Robert Rauschenberg: em viagem 70-76, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Robert Rauschenberg, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Robert Rauschenberg, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
Robert Rauschenberg, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Robert Rauschenberg, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Corea
Robert Rauschenberg, MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Rauschenberg: Spread and Scale, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Focus Room. Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
Rauschenberg: Prints, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Rauschenberg - Rosenquist - Lichtenstein, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Robert Rauschenberg, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Robert Rauschenberg: on and off the wall, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France
Robert Rauschenberg-Combines, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
Robert Rauschenberg, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Robert Rauschenberg, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2004
Mostly Photography - Art since 1980 from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
What´s modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Made in USA popart, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France
Robert Rauschenberg, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
15 Minutes of Fame: 20 Years of Pop Prints, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Robert Rauschenberg, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios, Wadsworth Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Robert Rauschenberg: Scent and Pull, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
2003
Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Robert Rauschenberg - Prints & Unique Work, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2002
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg - Les dix dernières années, Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, France
Robert Rauschenberg - Short Stories, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001
Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Robert Rauschenberg - Ruminations, Völcker & freunde gallery, Berlin, Germany
Robert Rauschenberg: Marrakech, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Robert Rauschenberg: Short Stories, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Robert Rauschenberg - Apogamy Pods, PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY
Robert Rauschenberg - Darryl Pottorf, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Robert Rauschenberg - Synapsis Shuffle, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL
1999
Robert Rauschenberg - Malerei, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Robert Rauschenberg - Obra gráfica (1967-1979), Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain
Robert Rauschenberg - The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Robert Rauschenberg - Photographs, Galleria Rubin, Milano, Italy
1998
Robert Rauschenberg. Obra gráfica 1967-1979, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de MallorcaSpain
Robert Rauschenberg - Retrospectiva, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
Robert Rauschenberg - Anagrams (A Pun), Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, TX Travelled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain)
1996
Robert Rauschenberg - Anagrams, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY; Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Rauschenberg: Major Printed Works, 1962 1995, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Robert Rauschenberg: Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
1995
Robert Rauschenberg: Sculpture, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Quake in Paradise - A Labyrinth, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
Rauschenberg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1994
Albers, Rauschenberg, Stella - Graphik 1967-1970, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1993
Robert Rauschenberg, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
1992
Robert Rauschenberg: Wax Fire Works, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1990
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Soviet American Array, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989
Robert Rauschenberg Bellini Series, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988
Rauschenberg, 34 Drawings for Dante's Inferno and Selections from the Drawings Collection, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1987
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1986
Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949–1984, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1985
Rauschenberg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Robert Rauschenberg, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Rauschenberg, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
1984
Rauschenberg/Performance, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1982
Rauschenberg in China, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1981
Rauschenberg in the Rockies, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Robert Rauschenberg, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
1980
Robert Rauschenberg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1970-1971
Stoned moon series, Lithographien 1969-1970, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
1970
Robert Rauschenberg : prints 1948-1970, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1968
Rauschenberg: Soundings, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1965
Rauschenberg: 34 Drawings for Dante's Inferno, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1964
Robert Rauschenberg, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1963
Retrospective, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1951
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY