Robert Kinmont


 

*1937 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
lives and works in Sonoma, CA, USA
 
1970     San Francisco Art Institute, BFA
1971     University of California at Davis, MFA
 
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Robert Kinmont: Trying to understand where I grew up, Gatehouse Gallery DiRosa, Napa, USA
Jump, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland

2014
trying to return home educated, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY, USA
 
2013
Measure, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Listen, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
 
2012
WAIT, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland
 
2011
Evidence, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY, USA
 
2009
Robert Kinmont, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY, USA
 
1971
Bob Kinmont: Sculpture Photography Films, Reese‑Palley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
 
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2017
Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York,USA

2016
Full Moon, Mseum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Sublime - The tremors of the world, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

2015
Afterlife, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, New York, USA
Jonathas de Andrade, Matthew Benedict, Fernando Bryce, Willie Cole,
Mona Hatoum, Robert Kinmont, Stefan Kürten, Jorge Macchi, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
5 Years RaebervonStenglin, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
 
2014
69/96, Gerbert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
Almost Something, Not Quite Nothing, Ambach and Rice, Los Angeles CA, USA
 
2013
Tell it to my heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Culturegest, Lisbon, Portugal
Tell it to my heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
A stone left unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
 
2012
Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY, USA
Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
where is the power, Texas Christian University School of Art, Fort Worth TX, USA
Text in Process, RH Gallery, New York NY, USA
 
2011
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives CA, USA
 
2010
Margins of Silence, The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Caceres, Spain
First and last, Notes on the monument, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
The Crude and the Rare, 41 Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA
what is waiting out there, 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Moon is An Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Foundation, London, UK
The Traveling Show, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Robert Kinmont, Kenzee Patterson, Charlie Sofo & Ronnie Van Hout, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
 
2005
Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
 
1981
San Francisco Art Institute Annual, Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA 
Group Drawing Exhibit, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
 
1979
Artists Working in Wood, University of California at Davis CA, USA 
 
1977
California: Bay Area Update, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama AL, USA
Painting and Sculpture in California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. WA, USA
 
1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA
Recent International Forms in Art, 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 
1975
Two Views, Formal and Personal, St. Mary’s College, Moraga CA, USA
Four Sculptors, The Gallery Fourth Floor, University of California at Davis CA, USA
Faculty Show, Lone Mountain College, San Francisco CA, USA
Word Art, San Jose State University, San Jose CA, USA 
Environment Show, Rutgers University, New Jersey NJ, USA 
 
1973
Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
Religion and Reality, First Congregational Church, Berkeley CA, USA
Bogen, Kinmont, Reynolds, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
Wood Sculpture, Humboldt State College, Eureka CA, USA 
Faculty Show, University of California at Berkeley CA, USA
 
1972
Critics Choice, Focus Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
Common Sense, Ace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 
1971
Arts of San Francisco 1971, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA
San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, de Young Museum, San Francisco CA, USA
 
1970
Traveling Landscape Show, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
60 Square Inches of California, Battery Park, New York NY, USA
Photo Concept, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Pollution Show, Oakland Museum Gallery, Oakland CA, USA
Silent Light, Oakland Museum, Oakland CA, USA 
Group Show, Halifax Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art, Canada
Young Artist‑Collector, Hansen Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
Group Show, Sacramento State College, Sacramento CA, USA
995,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 
The Eighties, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA, USA 
Young Bay Area Sculptors, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
 
1969
No. 7, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA
557,087, Worlds Fair Pavilion, Seattle WA, USA 
Rental Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA, USA
Traveling Box, Gallery of the San Francisco Arts Institute, San Francisco CA, USA
 
1968
1968 Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA 
Repair Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA
 
1966
Slant Step Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY – BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
 
2013
Böttcher, Stefanie and Sabine Rusterholz Petko (eds.), Robert Kinmont, Milano: Mousse Publishing
 
2011
Lewallen, Constance and Karen Moss. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. ex cat. Berkeley: University of California Press
 
2010
Margins of Silence, ex. cat. Spain: Centro de Artes Visuales de Cáceres
The Crude and the Rare, ex. cat. New York: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Pedrosa, Adriano, ed., The Traveling Book, ex. cat. Ecatepec, Mexico: Fundación/Colección Jumex
 
2009
Ault, Julie. In Step with the Desert: The Morphology of Robert Kinmont. New York: Alexander and Bonin
 
1976
Linhares, Philip. Recent International Forms in Art. Sydney: 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales
 
1974
Mogelon‑Laliberte., Art in Boxes., New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
 
1973
Doty, Robert. Extraordinary Realities. ex cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 
Lippard, Lucy. 6 Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Berkeley: University of California Press
 
1970
Free, ex. cat. for The Eighties. Berkeley: University Art Museum
 
 
TEACHING POSITIONS
 
1981
San Francisco Art Institute
 
1980
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
 
1975-79
Coyote Fine Arts/Goddard College and Antioch West, Bishop, California
 
1975             
University of California, Riverside Extension
 
1974              
Visiting Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
San Francisco State College, Creative Arts, Inter‑Disciplinary Department
 
1972-75
Lone Mountain College, Graduate School
 
1972-74 
San Francisco Academy of Art, Department of Sculpture
 
1972              
Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, California
 
1971-72     
Ontario College of Art, Ontario, Canada
 
 
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
La Colección/Fundación Jumex, Mexico City
Museu Serralves, Porto