Robert Forman
The interface between my interior self and the outside world is the uniting concept behind my recent work.
A Walk in the Park depicts our dystopian present. Just when it seems things can’t get worse, they do. Floods, hurricanes, fires and locusts devastate the land. From Isis and Christian Evangelicals to the Q conspiracy, the contemporary focus is on end times. Jehovah witnesses proclaim the second coming on every corner. Subtleties are ignored and uncertainty is ridiculed. The only question asked is “Which side are you on”.
New York is my city and walking the city streets is my preferred form of interaction with NYC. Inspired by pre-pandemic Manhattan Broadway is a mash up of a crowded New York City Street scene with historical and personal references. This picture is psychedelicwalk down fabled Broadway the oldest and longest street in Manhattan.
Solo Exhibitions
Collection Dialogue: Robert Forman, Ramapo College of New Jersey 2018 Robert Forman: With Every Fiber, Fontbonne University Gallery,St.Louis MA 2015 Francis M Naumann Gallery, New York, NY 2007
Hoboken Museum, Hoboken, NJ 2014
Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY 2004
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York 1996
Myhelan Cultural Arts Center, Long Valley, NJ 2004
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenburg College, Allentown, PA 2003 Educational Testing Service Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey 2003 The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey 2000 Society of Arts & Crafts of Boston, Boston, MA 2000
The Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey 1997
The Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York 1995
AMB Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey 1989
Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey 1988
Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1985
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey 1983
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York 1980
Selected Group Exhibitions
Francis M Naumann Gallery, New York, NY 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.2012.2013.2014.2015, 2018, 2020
Pierro Galllery, South Orange New Jersey 2017
Art/Basil Miami Beach with Francis M. Naumann Fine Art 2008, 2010
Mark Borghi Gallery, NY 2012, 2013, 2018
Hebrew Union College Museum, New York, NY 2013, 2018, 2019
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, In Stitches, Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody 2009 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York 2011
NJSCA Fellowship Exhibit, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University 2007 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey 1998, 2002, 2005. 2008
The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey 1988, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2008
The Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, MA 2006
The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey 2002, 2003
Edlin Fine Art, New York, New York 2000, 2001
The Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., 1998
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York 1996
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey 1995, 1999, 2000
The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey 1998, 2005
Fulbright Association 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit, Washington DC 1997 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J. 1996, 2010,2016
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York 1980, 1984, 1987
Zenith Gallery, Washington D.C. 1992
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York 1982, 1989
Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, New York 1990
AT&T Corporate Gallery, Hopewell, New Jersey 1988
Gallery Henoch, New York, New York 1988
Johnson & Johnson Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1987 Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1985, 1986, 1987 The Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York 1985
The National Academy of Design, New York, New York 1984 Walter Moos Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1980
Grants
Fulbright Fellowship, Scholar Program 1992
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant 1997 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship 1979
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Artist Fellowship 1998, 2005 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Artist Fellowship 1994
New Jersey/Hudson County, Artist Fellowship 1985
Selected Publications
The Village Voice Best Of Show by Robert Shuster, February 24, 2010 Modern Paiters by Jillian Steinhauer, Summer 2010
ArtNews April, 2007
The Village Voice Best Of Show by R.C. Baker, February 8th, 2007
ART or something like it! CUNY TV 2007
New York Space Magazine March 2006
The Entheogen Review Robert Forman Speaks by Sue Supriano Winter Solstice 2005 Fiberarts Design Books Seven Edited by Susan Mowery Kieffer Lark Books 2004
Art & Antiques Studio Session with Robert Forman by Leslie Alexander January 2002 Surface Design Robert Forman:The Journey of Self and Others by Hildreth York 2000
The New York Times Landscapes by William Zimmer May 14. 2000
The Star Ledger Common Thread, Rare Vision by Don Bischoff May 12-18. 2000 Fiberarts Design Books Six Edited by Nancy Orban Lark Books 1999
Fiberarts Robert Forman: Narratives in Thread by Carol K Russell Nov/Dec 2000 Review Robert Forman Retrospective by Lyle Rexer October 1997 Américas Yarns Cross Cultures March/April 1995
Fiberarts Yarn Painting by Graciela Kartofel Summer 1995
Collections
The Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
The Jeremy Wiesen Collection, New York, NY
Robert and Frances Kohlar Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Lawrence Benenson Collection, New York, NY Robert and Diane Moss Collection, New York, NY Peter and Judy Leone Collection, Philadelphia, PA Francis M. Naumann Collection, Connecticut
The White House Collection, Washington D.C. The Broad National Bank, Perth Amboy, N.J.
Lectures
Mind States Conference, San Francisco, CA 2005 The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2005 Myhelan Cultural Arts Center, Long Valley, NJ 2004 Muhlenburg College, Allentown, PA 2003
Fulbright Artist Forum, NYU, New York, New York 2000 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey 2000
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey 1995, 1997, 1999 The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York 1996
The Textile Study Group of New York, New York, NY 1999 Radford University, Radford, Virginia 1997
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 1996 William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey 1996, 2007 Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia 1996 Schnectady Museum, Schenectady, New York 1993
Centro Huichol, Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico 1992
Education
B.F.A. The Cooper Union College of Art, New York, New York 1975