ROBERT TAPLIN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "The Five Outer Planets" Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY, "The Five Outer Planets"
2003 Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, "The Five Outer Planets"
2001 Hampden Gallery, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, MA, Jupiter Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, "The Five Outer Planets"
2000 TransHudson Gallery, New York, NY, "The Five Outer Planets"
1997 TransHudson Gallery, New York, NY Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Sculpture Center, Gallery II, New York, NY Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, "Urban Offerings"
1989 Artspace, New Haven, CT, "Sculpture - Five years"
1987 La Mama's Galleria, New York, NY, "Statues"
1982 Berkeley Center Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Horizontal Navigation"
1978 Public Art Fund, NYC, "Welcome to New Haven"
1977 Mayor's Council on the Arts, New Haven, Ct., "Nine Views of New Haven"
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Larry Roberts, Robert Taplin, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, "Please Do Not Touch"
Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, "Facts and Fictions"
2005 UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY, " Along The Way: MTA Arts for Transit"
Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA, "Figuration" Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, "Dimensions"
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, "From The Neck Up"
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, "Innocence and Inspiration"
2004 National Academy of Design, New York, NY, "179t Invitational Exhibit"
Winston Wachter Fine Arts, NYC, "The Body Project"
Winston Wachter Fine Arts, Seattle, WA, "Expansion"
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, NYC, "Innocence and Inspiration"
2003 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, "NYAA Faculty
Exhibition"
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, "Re-presenting Representation"
2001 Palm Beach ICA, Lake Worth, FL, "Sculpture Now"
2000 Winston Wachter Mayer, New York, NY "Maquettes, Models & Muses"
1999 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, "The Nude in Contemporary Art"
TransHudson Gallery, NYC, "Portraits"
1998 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, "Intimate Objects"
1997 The Art Exchange Show / TransHudson Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Beacon Hill Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Politics - American
Style"
Lukacs Gallery, Fairfield Univ., Fairfield, CT, "Body Apart"
1995 TZ' Art & Co., New York, NY, "Bodies/Transformations"
Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, "Inspiration," and "Presence/Absence"
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, "A Good Likeness"
1994 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, "Embody"
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, "Reflections of an Inner Light"
Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY, and The Stoney Brook Museum Stoney Brook, NY, "Art En Route"
1993 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, "Figurines!"
1992 Tartt Gallery, Washington D.C., "Family Matters"
Scheele Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH, "Ch'ien - The Creative Spirit"
1991 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, "Chords and Discords"
1989 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYC, "Small Works" (and 1987)
1988 Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, "Sculpture 88"
1987 Luise Ross Gallery, NYC, "Drawings"
Erector Sq. Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Robert Taplin and Margaret Plaganis"
1984 P.S 122, NYC, "Phantom Hero" Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, "Sculpture 84"
1983 Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Bridges" Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, "Interim I"
1982 Doris C. Freedman Gallery, NYC, "Ten Years of Public Art"
1981 Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1979 AREA, Ward's Island, NYC
AWARDS
2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1991 Hudson River Museum Grand Prize
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1977 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Nadelman, Cynthia, "Middle-Aged Gods and Giant Babies", Artnews, December, Repro.
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Johnson, Ken, "The 179th Annual, The National Academy of Design", New York Times, NYC, May 14 Catalogue, "The 179th Annual, the National Academy of Design"
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Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", Partisan Review, Summer, 2000, Repro "Robert Taplin", The New Yorker, May 8, 2000
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