Robert Pruitt
| EDUCATION | |
| 2003 | MFA, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2002 | Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2000 | BFA, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX |
| 1999 | Tougaloo Art Colony, Jackson, MS |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | This Rejection of the Conqueror, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
| 2011 | You Are Your Own Twin Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston Them From After the End of the World, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA |
| 2010 | The Forever People, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston |
| 2008 | Two Tears in a Bucket: Considering The Alcubierre Metric, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Quiet as Kept, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX |
| 2004 | I call my brother sun because he shines like one, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY Cold Kuts and Fresh Beef, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX Round 18 of Artists Installations Project Row Houses, Houston, TX |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2010 | Hangin' Together, curated by Kerry James Marshall, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA Drawing for Projection, SITE Santa FE, Santa Fe, NM and P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Masterworks, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX Drawing for Projection, SITE Santa FE, Santa Fe, NM and P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY |
| 2008 | S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times, NYU, Steinhardt Galleries, New York NY The Art of Politics, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
| 2007 | New Works: 07.1, curated by Debra Singer, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York NY Obsessive Nature, Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative, San Jose, CA photographers: network, Studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany Photography, Paul Allen center for Integrated Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Photography/San Francisco, Prada Gallery, Washington D.C. Thirty by Thirty, Vertigo Gallery, london, England |
| 2006 | Whitney Biennial, (both individually and as part of Otabenga Jones and Associates), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Symmetrical Patterns of Def, (Otabenga Jones and Associates), Clementine Gallery, NY Black Alphabet, The Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Frequency, The Studio Museum, New York, NY The Texas Prize Exhibition, ArtHouse, Austin, TX (catalog) Texas Artadia Recipients, Diverseworks, Houston, TX Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL ...but I was cool, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ |
| 2005 | Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art
Museum Houston, Houston, TX Perspectives 144: Amalgama, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston ,TX (as part of Otabenga Jones and Associates) |
| 2004 | Farm to Market, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX Texas PrimeDiverseworks, Houston, TX SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA |
| 2003 | Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX The Big Show/i>, (first prize), Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
| 2002 | Soul Sonic Lustre Silk, Houston Community College, Houston, TX The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Process, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX The Debt, The Old School, Austin, TX 22 to Watch: New Art in Austin, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Safety Gear, D Ramos Studios, Austin TX |
| 2001 | Umfrumnat tre', Doty Fine Arts Building, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX An Adult Fantasy in Visuals, Studio 107, Austin, TX |
| 2000 | Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millenium, LBJ Library and Museum, Austin, TX Love Letters, Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, Houston, TX |
| 1999 | Strange Fruit, Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, TX Proper Hygiene, 820 Sampson, Houston, TX Huh What?!, Texas Southern University Library Art Gallery, Houston, TX Third Annual Citywide African American Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| 1998 | Fresh Beginnings, The African American Museum, Dallas, TX HBCU Invitational, Benedict College, Columbia, SC |
| 1996 | Preventions, Project Row Houses/Community Artists Collective, Houston, TX |
| AWARDS | |
| 2007 | Creative Capital Foundation grant (Otabenga Jones) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation fellowship grant |
| 2004 | Artadia Artist Grant |
| 1999 | The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund award, Dallas Museum of Art Emerging Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston |
| SELECTED COLLECTIONS | |
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The Studio Museum of Harlem Dallas Museum of Art University Museum, Texas Southern University Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Cleveland Museum of Art |
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