Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Robert Cremean was born in Toledo, Ohio, 1932.
Education:
1950-1952 Alfred University
1954 Cranbrook Academy of Art, B.F.A.
1956 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A.
Honors and Awards:
1954 Fullbright Scholarship, Rome, Italy
1957 Huntington Hartford Foundation Fellowship
1966-1967 Tamarind Workshop Fellowship
Teaching:
1956 Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
1956-57 University of California, Los Angeles, California
1957-58 La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1953 Downtown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1955 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1957-1959 Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1960-1975 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1962 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1964 University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1965 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Forth Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
State University, Iowa City, Iowa
1966 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Barnsdall Galleries, Los Angeles, California
1966-1967 California Arts Commission, Circulating Exhibition
1968 Landau-Alan Gallelry, New York, New York
1969 Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
1970 National Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
1972 Archer Gallery, London, England
1975 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1976 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1978 Alan Hancock College, Santa Maria, California
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983 Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California
Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985-2002 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
1996 California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California
2002 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2007 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
2015 Pasadena Museum of Art, "Robert Cremean: The Beds of Procrustes and the Seven Deadly Sins", retrospective
2017 Windfield Gallery, Carmel, California, "Intimate Sculpture"
Selected Group Exhitbitions:
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Whitney Biennals, New York, New York
Smithsonian Institution, New Vein Exhibitions in Europe and Latin America
Selected Public Collections:
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D. C.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
National Museum of Art, Canberra, Australia
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Metropolitan Museum Art, New York, New York
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada
San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, California
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Parnassus Library, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Information courtesy of Robert de la Vergne, biographer of the artist Robert Cremean, on AskArt.com.