Robert Gaylor
Artists Resume
Born , 1937 in South Bend , Indiana
Education: Purdue University BSME 1961, with Major in Painting.
Artist: 1961 to present
Selected Projects, Installations, Exhibitions.
1963-67 Madison Gallery , NYC. Painting exhibitions.
1969 -72 Pittsburgh Fair Witness, Publisher, contributed Illustrations and drawings
1972 Cinematek , Brussels, Belgium. Exhibition and collection, Films
1972 Nyon Film Festival. Nyon, Switzerland.
1973 Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Polaroid photographs and Films.
1974 Carnegie Museum of Art, Exhibition and collection, Films
1975 Moore College of Art, Inter Arts Installation
1975 -78 Photopia Gallery, Philadelphia. Represented by Photopia with several photography
exhibitions.
1976 Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery. Photographs, Drawings, Films, Xerography.
1977 San Francisco Art Institute, Four and Seven; Installation Invitational. Firefly Suite
1977 Antioch College Museum of Art , solo Film Exhibition
1978 Antioch College Museum of Art, solo Xerography.
1979 University of Colorado Art Center, solo Film Installation. Firefly Suite
1979 Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Film Exhibition,
1983 Museum of Fine Arts ( Santa Fe ) and University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Video as.
Attitude ; Video Installation “Suspension of Disbelief”
1984 Armory for the Arts. Santa Fe. Firefly Suite Performance/ Choreography / Installation with
Dancer Leslie Satin.
1986 New York University, Photography Gallery. Solo Polaroid Photography and Drawing.
1988* Graham Gallery, Albuquerque. Drawings , Polaroid photography. * Date is a guess
From 1989 through 1995 continued making new work although consumed by the day
to day running of CCA . ( I considered CCA a “Piece”). I stopped exhibiting during this
period. Produced dozens of notebooks with drawings , diagrams, and notation for future work .
2005 Returned to full time art practice.
1995 – present Carried out several Design commissions or projects.
2006. Anthology Film Archive, New York. solo film survey. ( 6 films )
2008. William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe. Sculpture., “Drop,Stack and Lean”
2009 William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe, group show. Drawing
2010 Linda Durham Contemporary Arts, solo sculpture, photography.
2010 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC. “Appropriate Associations”, sculpture , photography.
2010 New Mexico Museum of Art, “Case Studies From the Bureau of Contemporary Art”. Group
Exhibition, 40 artists selected from the collection.
2011 New Mexico Museum of Art, Video Installation, Kamilo: Twisted Waters.
2012 Design Museum, UC Davis. Gyre: Regarding a Tragedy of the Commons. Solo exhibition. 2013
2013 Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Descanso for the Pine Forest solo installation
2014 Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Rage Management Device Artists Tools group show
2015 Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM Bearing in Mind Installation
2015-16 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa. Silver to Steel. group show.
2016-17 Circadian Rhythms , New dance work Visual artist/collaborator with choreographer/dancer Molissa Fenely ,with composer Peter Garland. Solo piano live by Sarah Cahill. tentative premier 10/18 Mills College
Public Collections:
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
San Francisco Art Institute.
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Hess Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Arts Organizations:
1971-1977 Co-Founded and was Board President of Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
1978. Co-Founded Rising Sun Media Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM.
1979-1995 Co-Founded the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe ( CCA ) with Linda Klosky and
was Executive Director and Curator of several hundred exhibitions and performances.
1985-91. Co- founder and Board member of National Association of Artists Organizations ,
Washington, DC.
1987 Led formation of the Santa Fe Arts Commission with City Councilor Peter Goodwin.
1988-1995. Co-Founded and was COO of The Teen Project in Santa Fe.
Developed its programs and direction. ( Now known as Warehouse 21. )
1993 Co-Founded with Linda Kloskey the Deep West Consortium, a regional performing arts
presenting organization in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.
1973 - present. Panelist and consultant to Foundations and Arts Agencies. National
Endowment for the Arts; Nathan Cummings Foundation; Rockefeller
Foundation; Mattie Wattis Harris Foundation; City of Los Angeles, State of
New Mexico, State of Arizona, Railyard Stewards RAC and several others.