San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2016Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
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Born 1954 Wallingford, Connecticut. Known for: Sculptor-body parts, graphics.
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Robert Gober became an installation artist whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair, was shocking to some viewers. His work, quite often depicting body parts,... Read full biography
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Robert Gober became an installation artist whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair, was shocking to some viewers. His work, quite often depicting body parts, is confrontational, mixing the commonplace with the symbolic and the surreal such as a candle... Read full biography
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Robert Gober became an installation artist whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair, was shocking to some viewers. His work, quite often depicting body parts, is confrontational, mixing the commonplace with the symbolic and the surreal such as a candle sticking out of a human leg. He is also known for extremely banal subjects such as storm drains stripped of their functions and featured as isolated objects for contemplation and meditation. He attended the... Read full biography
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Robert Gober became an installation artist whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair, was shocking to some viewers. His work, quite often depicting body parts, is confrontational, mixing the commonplace with the symbolic and the surreal such as a candle sticking out of a human leg. He is also known for extremely banal subjects such as storm drains stripped of their functions and featured as isolated objects for contemplation and meditation. He attended the Tyler School of Art in Rome from 1973 to 1974 and earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1976. He has exhibited widely including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennial in 1989, and... Read full biography
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Robert Gober became an installation artist whose use of human hair, especially pubic hair, was shocking to some viewers. His work, quite often depicting body parts, is confrontational, mixing the commonplace with the symbolic and the surreal such as a candle sticking out of a human leg. He is also known for extremely banal subjects such as storm drains stripped of their functions and featured as isolated objects for contemplation and meditation. He attended the Tyler School of Art in Rome from 1973 to 1974 and earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1976. He has exhibited widely including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Venice Biennial in 1989, and several Whitney Biennials. In 1997, he did a site-specific installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and in June, 2001, he is the... Read full biography
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
2016The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesRobert Gober
2001Rondeau, James; Olga Viso44 pagesVanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art
2000Ed, Virginia Museum/Richmond0 pagesArt at the Turn of the Millennium
1999Larsen, Lars et all561 pages (color)Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997Lucie-Smith, Edward400 pages (color)Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Rowell, Margit232 pages (color)The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996Deitch, Jeffrey302 pages (color)Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996Demetrion, James T (Introduction)166 pages (color)Robert Gober: Sculpture And Drawing
1996Flood, Richard, Ann Temkin, et0 pagesThe Paine Webber Art Collection
1995Flam, Jack; Donald Marron304 pages (color)Art Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993Gardner, James227 pagesAmerican Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Joachimides, Christos (others)490 pages (color)American Artists In Their New York Studios
1992Gotz, Stephan175 pages (color)Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Rose, Bernice128 pages (color)Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum96 pages (color)Culture and Commentary An Eighties Perspective
1990Halbreich, Kathy195 pages (color)NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988Cameron, Dan250 pages (color)The Binational American Art of the Late 80s
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Fairbrother, Trevor (others)226 pages (color)Art and It's Double Panorama of Art in New York
1986Cameron, Dan149 pages (color)