A former full-time professor of art history, Robert Walker led the travel abroad programs in France and Italy for many years. He worked as a long time social activist in the artistic community of Los Angeles, founding the first program for homeless artists in the city, and in 1988 he pioneered a program for artists with HIV and AIDS.
Biography and Resume
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Born
1942, Los Angeles Resides Los Angeles, California |
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EDUCATION
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| 1971 | MFA University of California, Irvine, California |
| 1964 | BA La Sierra College, Riverside, California |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2013 | Gallery Gen, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming |
| 2011 | Heather James Fine Arts, Palm Desert, Calif |
| 2007 | Gallery Gen, Tokyo, Japan Solway Jones, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2005 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2004 | Gallery Gen, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 | Paintings and Drawings, Double Vision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1995 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1994 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1992 | Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1991 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1990 | Jean Albano Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1987 | Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1983 | Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, California Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA |
| 1982 | Tom Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 1981 | Quint Gallery, La Jolla, California |
| 1981 | Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1977 | Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2013 | “Franklyn Liegel Memorial Exhibition”, LA Artcore, L.A. “Reclaim, Revival from a Disaster”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | “Mind Games” Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “The Big Picture”, group show, Palm Springs Art Show “Group Show”, Korea International Art Fair, Andrew Shire Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 2011 | “Toyoko Katsumata, Mathew Thomas & Robert Walker”, L.A. Artcore “Best Kept Secrets”, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA Groupings, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2009 | Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago IL |
| 2008 | Robert Walker, Toyoko Katsumata, & Mitsunori Kurashige, LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | “Within & Beyond: Interpretations of the Grid,” Tall Grass Arts Association, Park Forest, IL |
| 2004-05 | “Painting the Town Red,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 | “Summer, Simmer, Shimmer,” Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA “International Art Exhibit: Thailand-USA,” Bangkok & Buraphar University, Thailand |
| 2003 | “Crosscurrents International Exchange Exhibition,” LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA “Robert Walker & Gary Szymanski,” TransAmerica Building, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2002 | Over Tone,” Kanagawa Prefectral Gallery, Yokahama, Japan “Zone,” Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, CA “Marvell, Sterritt, Walker, Recent Sculpture”, LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles |
| 2001 | “Crosscurrents International Exchange Exhibition”, Kyushu, Japan “Secret Formula”, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA “Lessons”, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA |
| 1999 | “Group Show,” Fresh Paint, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 | “The Bean Show,” DiRT, Hollywood, CA |
| 1997 | “Against the Wall”, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1995 | “Abstraction–Toward the New Millennium”, Korean Cultural Center, LA, CA |
| 1994 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1992 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1988 | “Gallery Artists”, Jean Albano Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1987 | “From the Back Room”, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1986 | “A Southern California Collection”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California “New Acquisitions”, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Banlc, Los Angeles “A Collector’s Eye”, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles “California Conternporary”, Opening Exhibition, Laguna Art Museum |
| 1981 | “California”, Tower Gallery, South Hampton, New York “Painted Wall Constructions”, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, California, Curator: Tressa Miller “Nine on the Wall”, California State University, Fullerton, California “Robert Walker, N’ima Leveton, Gena Cooper”, Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles |
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MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
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| 1990 | Acting Director, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.(LACE), Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987-88 | Board Member, Board Chair, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.(LACE), Los Angeles, CA |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arthur Andersen Consulting, Long Beach, California
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco I.B.M. AT & T, St. Louis Toshiba Intel Westinghouse Prudential Insurance Executive Life Christian Dior, Paris, France Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles TRW Intercontinental Hotel, San Diego Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia Lowe Development Corporation Atlantic Records T.R.E. Sheraton Corporation Hyatt Regency, Capital Square, Columbus, Ohio Palm Springs, Hilton, Palm Springs, California The Spalding Radiology Center, Beverly Hills, California Hyatt Hotel, Deerfield, Illinois Technomic Consultants, Deerfield, Illinois Salk Institute, La Jolla Embassy Suites Hotel, Chicago, Illinois Sheppard, Richter, & Hampton Cedars-Sinai ARCO Loyola Law School |
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