Contact Robert R. Zakanitch
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Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Robert Zakanitch lives and works in New York City. |
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Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Collections & Commissions Bibliography | Education | Teaching and Lectures |
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AWARDS
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1995
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant 1970 Caps Grant, New York |
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2008
"Tureen Series" Werkstatte, New York NY "Lace Paintings" Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 2005 2003 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1991 1990 1989 1988 1985 1984 1983 1982 1980 1979 l978 1977 |
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| 1996 "Inside: The Work of St. Clair Cemin, Joel Otterness and Others" California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA 1994 1993 1989 1988 1987 1986 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1976 1974 1973 1968 1967 |
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American Can Company, Greenwich, CT
American Telephone & Telegraph, New York, NY Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. New York, NY Frances and Sydney Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwauke, WI Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Chicago, ILL Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Musee de Strasbourg, FRANCE Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton,NJ The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Rothschild Bank, Zurich, Switzerland Tremaine Collection, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola, San Francisco, CA Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo NY |
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COMMISSIONS
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1998-2006
Miami Cultural Center, Ceasar Pellis & Associates 2003 Hand Appliqued House Curtain, Ivoryton Playhouse, Essex CT 1999 Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV 1985 Aubusson Rug, Johnson & Johnson, NJ |
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John Defazio : “Great Pleasures,” Art in America, May 2005
David Pagel : “The Curio Series,” catalogue essay, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 1999 Carter Rattcliff‘: “The Politics of Ornamentation” Art in America, April 1998 Larger Than Life, catalogue, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1997 Hunter Drohowjosha Philp, Sunday Calendar, L.A. Times, Sept. 7, 1997 Jean Feinberg: “The Passion and Power Builds: the Ogre series of Robert Zakanitch,” Arts Magazine, October 1985 Arthur Danto: “Colossal Canvases: Big Bungalow Suite,” The Nation, March 28, 1994 John Perrault: “The Cultivated Canvas,” Art in America, March 1982 Who's Who in America, Marquise Publications, since 1980 Carter Rattcliff, “ The fate of gesture:Jackson Pollock and post war American Art,” Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996 Irving Sandler, “Art of the Post-Modern Era," Harper Collier, 1996 Marilyn Oliver Hapgood, “Wallpaper and the Arts,” Abbeyville Press, 1992 Daniel Wheeler, “Art since mid-century:1945 to the present,” Vendome Press, 1991 Robert Jensen and Patricia Conway, “Ornamentalism,” forward by Paul Goldberg, Crown Press, 1983 Elliot Caplan, Robert R. Zakanitch, feature film premiered in NYC 1982 |
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| EDUCATION | 1954-58 BA Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, Newark, NJ |
| TEACHING | 1999 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 1996 Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1988 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK 1977 The Art Institute of Chicago, visiting artist program, Chicago,IL 1972-73 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
| SELECTED LECTURES AND PANELS |
2005 Vassar College with Dave Hickey, Poughkeepsle, NY 2003 Pattern and Decoration, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Polk Museum of Art, panel with Dave Hickey and Carter Rattcliff, Lakeland, FL Locks Gallery, interview by critic, Gerard Brown, Philadelphia, PA 1998 Ceres Gallery, panel with Paul Brach: "...in response to the Womens Art Movement," New York, NY Yale University, New Haven, CT University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1997 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Scripps College, Claremont, CA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1996 University of Iowa Museum, interview by art historian, Arthur Danto, Iowa Falls, IA 1994 Empire State College, New York, NY 1993 University of Texas, panel with Arthur Danto, Peter Schjeldahl: "Whatever Happened to Beauty," Austin, TX 1992 University of South Florida, panel, Tampa, FL 1991 Pompidou Museum, Paris, France Vermont Studio School, VT 1990 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK 1989 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK 1988 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK 1978 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1977 CAA, panel, Washington, DC The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1973 University California San Diego, La Jolla, CA California Institute of the Arts, Valen 1972 CAA, panel, Los Angeles, CA 1971 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |