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
Robert Gober - Artist Info
About Robert Gober: Books
Books & Publications (22)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Robert Gober
2001
Rondeau, James; Olga Viso
44 pages
Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art
2000
Ed, Virginia Museum/Richmond
0 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Rowell, Margit
232 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
Robert Gober: Sculpture And Drawing
1996
Flood, Richard, Ann Temkin, et
0 pages
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
American Artists In Their New York Studios
1992
Gotz, Stephan
175 pages (color)
Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Rose, Bernice
128 pages (color)
Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum
96 pages (color)
Culture and Commentary An Eighties Perspective
1990
Halbreich, Kathy
195 pages (color)
NY Art Now The Saatchi Collection
1988
Cameron, Dan
250 pages (color)
The Binational American Art of the Late 80s (Exhibition catalog)