Robert Hudson: Selected Work 1968–71 The Luckman Gallery, Los AngelesRobert Hudson has lived and worked in California for nearly 60 years. Born in 1938, he grew up along the Columbia River in Richland, WA. Hudson earned both a BFA (1961) and an MFA (1963) from the San Francisco Art Institute, CA. He received the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement in 2014. This site is a collection of selected work that will be updated as his digital archive expands.
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, AndoverAlbright-Knox Gallery, BuffaloAtlantic Richfield, Los AngelesBerkeley Art Museum, University of California, BerkeleyArt Institute of ChicagoCrocker Art Museum, Sacramentode Young Museum, San Franciscodi Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, NapaHenry Art Gallery, University of Washington, SeattleHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, WashingtonHonolulu Museum of ArtIndianapolis Museum of ArtLos Angeles County Museum of ArtMint Museum of Craft and Design, CharlotteMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Museum of Modern Art, New YorkNational Gallery of Art, WashingtonOakland Museum of CaliforniaPalm Springs Art MuseumPhiladelphia Museum of ArtSan Francisco Arts CommissionSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DCStedelijk Museum, AmsterdamSt. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 – Between The Lines: Sculpture and Paintings on Paper. Bivins Gallery, Dallas
2016 – Robert Hudson: New Work. South Willard, Los Angeles
2015 – Recent Sculpture and Drawings. Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco– Robert Hudson New Works. South Willard, Los Angeles
2013 – Legends of the Bay Area: Robert Hudson. Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato– Robert Hudson: Sculpture. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2012 – Robert Hudson: Recent Sculpture. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2011 – Robert Hudson. Sanchez Gallery, Pacifica
2010 – Robert Hudson: Sculpture and Drawings. Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson: Sculpture. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2008 – Robert Hudson: Sculpture. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 – Robert Hudson: Found Objects. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2005 – Robert Hudson: New Work. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago– Robert Hudson: The Sonoma County Years, 1977–2005. Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
2004 – Robert Hudson: Sculpture/Constructions. b sakata garo, Sacramento
2003 – Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2001 – Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica– Robert Hudson: Works on Paper. Robert Mondavi Gallery, Oakville
2000 – Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Drawings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York– Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Sculpture, Drawings, b sakata garo, Sacramento
1999 – Robert Hudson: Ceramic Sculpture, Drawings. Robischon Gallery, Denver– Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica– Collaborations, William Allan, William Wiley, Robert Hudson. b sakata garo, Fine Art, Sacramento
1998 – Robert Hudson: Ceramics. Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
1996 – Robert Hudson: Drawings and Sculpture. Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
1995 – Works On Paper. Struve Gallery, Chicago
1991 – Robert Hudson: Sculpture and Works on Paper. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1989 – Robert Hudson: New Sculpture. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1987 – Robert Hudson: Sculpture. Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1986 – Robert Hudson: Unique Polychrome Bronzes. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1985 – Robert Hudson: A Survey. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach
1984 – Robert Hudson: Paintings and Works on Paper. Richard Eugene Fuller Art Gallery, Beaver College, Glenside
1983 – The Bob Hudson Show. Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission
1982 – Robert Hudson. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson: Sculpture and Drawings. Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis
1981 – Robert Hudson: New Polychrome Sculpture. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1979 – Robert Hudson. Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson: Paintings, Constructions, and Drawings. South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami
1978 – Robert Hudson: New Paintings and Drawings. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1977 – Robert Hudson. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York– Robert Hudson. Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson. Portland Center For The Visual Arts, Portland– Two California Artists; Robert Hudson and Roy De Forest Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston– Robert Hudson. Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia
1976 – Robert Hudson. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1975 – Robert Hudson: Paintings and Sculptures. Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco
1974 – Robert Hudson/Richard Shaw: Work in Porcelain. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco– Robert Hudson: Paintings. Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson/Richard Shaw: Work in Porcelain. EG Gallery, Kansas City
1972 – Robert Hudson: Recent Sculpture. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1971 – Robert Hudson: New Sculpture. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York– The Star Show. University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1970 – Robert Hudson. Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco
1967 – Robert Hudson: Recent Sculpture. Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1965 – Robert Hudson Sculpture: 1965 Nealie Sullivan Award Exhibition. Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco– Robert Hudson: First New York Exhibition. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1964 – Robert Hudson. Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto
1962 – Robert Hudson. Bolles Gallery, San Francisco
1961 – Sculpture and Drawings by Robert Hudson. Batman Gallery, San Francisco– Sculpture by Robert Hudson. Richmond Art Center, Richmond
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 – 3 Friends: Hudson, Stuppin, Shaw, Art Museum of Sonoma County, Santa RosaKinder Gentler Nation, Karma, New York
2016 – Eyebeam, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco– Imagery Art for Wine Collection: An Art and Wine Partnership. Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara– The Butterfly Effect: Art in the 1970’s, California. Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto– Reclaimed: Elevating The Art of Reuse San Francisco. Art Education Project, Minnesota Street, San Francisco
2015 – The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven– What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art 1960 to the Present. Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2014 – What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present. RISD Museum, Providence
2013 – Small is Beautiful. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica– Curator’s Choice: Bay Area. Art Ascent, San Francisco
2012 – The Intersection of Art And Music. Sonoma State University Gallery, Rohnert Park– Robert Hudson and Cornelia Schulz: In Conversation. Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco– California Dreamin’: Thirty Years of Collecting. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs– 20@20: Twenty Artists at Twenty Years. Paradise Ridge Winery Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa
2009 – Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw. American University, Washington, DC– Group Show. Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco– Sculpture. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica– Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw: Ceramic Sculpture. San Jose State University, San Jose
2008 – Sculpture. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
2006 – Recent Acquisitions. di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa
2005 – Spectrum, Sculpture, Sonoma. Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa– Teapots. Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica– Robert Hudson John di Marchi, Michael Cooper. Santa Rosa Junior College Museum, Santa Rosa
2004 – 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park– Crown Point Press: Prints. Crown Point Press, San Francisco
2003 – The Other Side. b sakata garo, Sacramento– Color, Form & Figure. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2002 – Hudson, De Forest, Holland. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2001 – Hudson/Shaw Ceramics. Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City– Collection of the Artist: Manuel Neri. Benicia
2000 – Celebrating Modern Art–The Anderson Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco– Looking Toward the Future. SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco– Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw–New Ceramic Sculpture. Hand Workshop, Richmond– Santa Barbara's 150th Birthday Celebration. Downtown, Santa Barbara– Made In California: Art, Image and Identity. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles– Generations II. b sakata garo, Sacramento
1999 – Collaborations: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley. Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman; Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale– Teamworks–Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw. Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco– The Art of Craft. MH de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco– By Design: Art and Wine—The Benziger Series. Imagery Estate Winery and Art Gallery, Glen Ellen– Collaborations, William Allan William Wiley, Robert Hudson. b sakata garo, Sacramento– Hudson, Wiley, Shaw—Collaborative Works. Sonoma State University, Cotati
1998 – Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Massachusetts Institute of Art, Boston– Collaborations William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami– A Theater of Art lll. Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale
1997 – Hudson, Wiley, Shaw–Collaborative Works. Hayward State University, Hayward– Thirty Five Years at Crown Point Press. Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1996 – Illustrious History 1871–Present. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1995 – Advice and Dissent collaborative Work: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley Palm. Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs– California in the 60s—Funk Revisited. Allan Frumpkin Gallery, New York
1994 – Selections from Rene di Rosa Collections. Oakland Museum, Oakland– Advice and Dissent Collaborative Work: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco– Imagery Series Collection. Rockford College, Rockford– Academy of Art College. Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco
1993 – Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; St. Louis Art Museum; Newport Harbor Art Museum; National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
1992 – Robert Hudson: New Sculpture. Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1991 – Selections from the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Collection. Redding Museum of Art and History– American Abstraction at the Addison. Addison Gallery of American Art; Phillips Academy; Andover– Collection of Pacific Enterprises. Corporate Offices, Los Angeles– Robert Hudson: Sculpture, William T. Wiley Painting. Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
1988 – Spectrum: New Developments in Three Dimensions. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1985 – Fortissimo: Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Portland Museum of Art, Portland
1984 – Return of the Narrative. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs– California Sculpture Show. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; CAPC Musee dArt Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Stadiche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, West Germany; Yourshire Sculpture Par, West Bretton, England; Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Hovidkodden, Norway (organized by the California/International Arts Foundation as part of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival)
1982 – A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston– The West as Art: Changing Perception of Western Art in California Collections. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs– 100 Years of California Sculpture. The Oakland Museum, Oakland
1980 – Directions. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1979 – The First Western States Biennial Exhibition. Denver Art Museum, Denver; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (organized by the Western States Arts foundation with assistance from the Denver Art Museum)
1976 – Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1975 – 34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC– The Condition of Sculpture Hayward Gallery. London (Arts Council of Great Britain)
1971 – San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition. M.H. de Young memorial Museum, San Francisco– The Nicholas Wilder Collection: Portrait of an Art Dealer. Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1970 – Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969 – 14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge. Walker Art Center and Daytons Department Store, Minneapolis
1968 – The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard. Portland Art Museum, Portland; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Los Angles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles– Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1967 – Funk. University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA– American Sculpture of the Sixties. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1966 – The Slant Step Show. Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco– Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1965 – Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists under Thirty-Five. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York– Young American Sculpture–East to West. American Express Pavilion, World’s Fair, New York
1964 – The Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco– Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1963 – The 82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1962 – Some Points of View ‘62: San Francisco Bay Area Painting and Sculpture. Stanford University Art Gallery and Museum, Palo Alto
1961 – Art of San Francisco: Ninetieth Anniversary Exhibition. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1960 – San Francisco Art Association Seventy-ninth Annual: Painting and Sculpture. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco– Northern California Sculptors Annual. Oakland Art Museum, Oakland