R O B E R T S C H E F M A N
BORN Detroit, Michigan
EDUCATION
2006 University of Iowa, MFA
1976 University of Iowa, MA
1974 Michigan State University, BFA
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Secrets Project, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015 Steve Linn and Robert Schefman, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2012 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2008 Robert Kidd Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
2005 Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
2004 Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2002 Midland Center For The Arts, Midland, MI
2001 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2000 Birmingham/Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
1997 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995 Charach/ Epstien Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
1994 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1991 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 Aesthetic Arrest, New York, NY
1983 Turkish Mission to the United Nations, UN Plaza, New York, NY
1982 Sculpture for the Ancient Gates of Troy, Troy, Turkey
1979 Art in Public Places, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
1976 Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Drawn To Collect: Selections From The Farrell-Herrick Collection of Drawings, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Pictures Worth 1000 Notes: Four Artists Working In Harmony, Padzieski Gallery, Dearborn, MI
Expo Chicago 2023, with David Klein Gallery
Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Get Together, Reyes/Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2022 Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Annual Open Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York City, NY
Staged, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Salon Redux, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Group Summer Exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2021 Gender, Detroit Artist's Market, Detroit, MI
New Work/New Year, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Gallery Artists, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham MI
2020 Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Art Miami 2020, David Klein Gallery, (Exhibition online- due to Covid)
Up Next, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
35x35 Art Project, Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece
2019 Salon, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Spark, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI
Gallery Artists, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Faculty Exhibition, Valade Gallery, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2018 INPA 5: International Painting Annual, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Masters of Drawing: Realism to Abstraction, AB Dow Museum, Midland, MI
Gallery Artists, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2017 Art Miami 2017, David Klein Gallery
Seattle Art Fair 2017, David Klein Gallery
Group Exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 Pictures Of You, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Summer Selections, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Focus On Faculty: Sabbatical Exhibition, Valade Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Robert Schefman: A Body of Influence, Grosse Point Art Center, Grosse Point, MI
What We're Made Of: CCS Faculty Exhibition, Valade Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2015 First Show, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Making Faces, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2014 Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Group Show, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2013 The LA Art Show 2013, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Summer View III, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Imago Mundi, Luciano Bennetton Foundation Project for the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Story Of Creative, See/Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Actual Size Biennial, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, MI
2012 Midwest Drawing Invitational, University of St Francis, Ft Wayne, IN
Art Platform LA 2012, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Narrative Fragments, Quidley & Co. Fine Art, Boston, MA
Sweet Spot, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham MI
Roots, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Art LA, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2011 Scope Miami 2011, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Carbon And Gold, The Art Gallery, Macomb Community College, Clinton, MI
R Wells Gallery, Binghamton, NY
Actual Size Biennial, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
Deep Thaw, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
ArtMRKT SanFrancisco, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
20th Anniversary Show, Janice Charach Gallery, W Bloomfield, MI
Art Chicago 2011, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Tapped, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Los Angeles Art Show, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
CCS Faculty Exhibition, Detroit, MI
2010 Art Miami 2010, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Scope Miami 2010, 101/exhibit gallery, Miami, FL
Group Exhibition, 101/exhibit gallery, Miami, FL
Our Town, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Past-Present-Future, R Wells Gallery, Binghamton, NY
Ten Years Of Contemporary Art, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester Hills, MI
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN Awarded: Best In Show
ArtHamptons, 101/exhibit
Art Under The Influence, Northville Art House, Northville, MI
Art Chicago, Timothy Yarger Gallery
Los Angeles Art Show, Timothy Yarger Gallery
The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
2009 Bods, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Art Miami 2009, Timothy Yarger Gallery
Monochrome, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Bra Show, Charach Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Corpus Maximus, Yarger –Strauss Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
CCS Scholarship Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
Group Show, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2008 Group Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Chai Lighting, Charach/Epstein Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Antigone, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2007 Creativity Out of Conflict, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
Actual Size Biennial, The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
Driven: Art From the Motor City, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI
2006 In Response, Charach/Epstein Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
MFA Show, University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
Realism, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Faculty Now-CCS at 100, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005 Group Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2004 Foundation Faculty, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Variations on a Violin, Padziewski Gallery, Dearborn, MI
New Realism II, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Head Count, College for Creative Studies, traveling exhibition
2003 Senses of Reality, Starkweather Art and Cultural Center, Romeo, MI
Foundation Faculty, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2002 Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Celebrate,Charach/ Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
2001 In Our Midst, Padzieski Gallery, Ford Arts Center, Dearborn, MI
Made in Michigan, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester,MI
Post Card Show, Charach/ Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
2000 Sex, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit,MI
Really Big Show, Charach/ Epstien Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
Exhibition 2000, BBAC, Birmingham, MI
Foundation Faculty, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1999 Body and Soul , Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester,MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham,MI
1998 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
National Society of Mural Painters, Art Students League, NYC, NY
BBAC Faculty Show, Birmingham, MI
Governors’ Awards for Art and Culture, ArtServe Michigan, Detroit, MI
1997 Michigan Council For The Arts Exhibition Project, Lansing, MI
BBAA 40th Anniversary Show, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAA, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham , MI
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, ILL
1995 Interventions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit,MI
Carbonari, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham , MI
Romantic Allegory, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1994 Michigan Fine Art Exhibition, BBAA, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Friends for Focus, Benefit Exhibition, Farmington Hills, MI
1992 First Night Exhibition, Birmingham, MI
Figurative/Narrative, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990 Art for Life, Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Figurative Painting in the 80's, Ruggiero/Henis Gallery, New York, NY
1984 The Dead Blimpie Show, New York, NY
1983 Modern Mythology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, NY
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Wards Island, O.I.A., New York, NY
1981 Foley Square/Federal Plaza, New York, NY
1980 On Wards Island, O.I.A., New York, NY
Sculpture Space at Utica College, Utica, New York, NY
GRANTS
2004 Benard L. Maas Prize, Benard L. Maas Foundation, Detroit, MI
2001 Artists In The Schools Grant, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, MI
1999 ArtServe Michigan, Creative Artist Grant, State of MI
1996 Arts Foundation of Michigan, Detroit, MI
1995 Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1979 Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York
1976 Graduate Senate Research Grant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
COLLECTIONS
Eli and Edyth Broad Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Ford Performing Arts Center, Dearborn, MI
Blaw Knox Corporation, Matoon, IL
Dow Automotive Corporate Offices, Midland MI
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, MI
19th District Court, Dearborn, MI
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
The Rattlesnake Club, Detroit, MI
University of Iowa, Sculpture for Campus, Iowa City, IA
Ennis Francis Housing Complex, Harlem, NY
Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI
DANCE/ THEATER SETS
1996 “Torch Song Trilogy”, Jet Theater, W. Bloomfield, MI
1985 “The Dark Ride”, Kinematic Dance Company, St. Marks Dancespace, NY, NY
1984 “Trapped in Queens”, Bebe Miller and Company, Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY
1983 “Kinematic Dance Company”, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
1982 “Home Movies”, Kinematic Dance Company, P.S. 122, New York, NY
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