Hand Graphics

Robert Colescott

b. 1925

M.A., B.A., University of California, Berkeley

nternationally acclaimed artist Robert Colescott strives to reveal truths of personal significance in his work. Satire, social commentary and humor each play a major role in his unique artistic vision of history, as well as the virtues and vices of our society. “ I pull the viewer in with humor, but when they begin to understand what they have to deal with in the paintings, they don’t know whether to love them or hate them. It’s this integrated ‘one-two punch’ that gets them every time.”

Colescott has had solo exhibitions at the Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL; the Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA. Selected Group exhibitions include the Stamford Museum, CT; Galerie Paradis, Paris; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; the Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY; The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Denver Museum, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art, as well as numerous private collections. Robert Colescott was chosen to be the featured American artist for the 1997 Venice Biennale.