ROBERT GUNDERMAN
Born, Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Ventura County, California
1988-1989 Otis Parsons School of Art, Los Angeles, California
One-person Exhibitions
2023 Robert Gunderman, PLATFORM, hosted by David Zwirner, NY.
Place Like You, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California (March)
2021 The Quiet Beliefs, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California (October 23 - December 04)
2020 Left Field, Los Osos, California
2019 This End, AF Projects, Los Angeles, California
Mollusk Half-Sisters, Rude Drawing, Los Angeles, California
Never Let Us Go, Desert Center I Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2018 Other End, there-there, Los Angeles, California
2000 Floyd Claypool, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
1995 Summer ’96, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2024 10 Years, Anniversary Show, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
One Trick Pony Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2 person show with Tracy Grayson, BravinLee Programs, New York, New York (January)
2 person show, Maple Street Construct, Omaha, Nebraska (October)
2023 Post Facade, a series of short films, Maple Street Construct, Omaha, Nebraska
FELIX Art Fair, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ripe, Harper’s, Los Angeles, California
2022 IMPROVISE, a series of short films, Maple Street Construct, Omaha, Nebraska
2021 Gallery Weekend Los Angeles, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Street & The Shop, organized by Michael Slenske with NeueHouse, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, California
Shiny Side Up, Maple St. Construct, Santa Barbara, California
FORWARD, a series of short films, Maple St. Construct, Omaha, Nebraska
2020 Safer at Home, The Street & The Shop, organized by Michael Slenske, Los Angeles, California
Between the Void, Maple St. Construct, Los Angeles, California
Between Worlds, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, California
So Far, La Loma Projects, Pasadena, California
251,000 Trees, (2-person Digital Exhibition with Rick Johns), MAPLE ST. CONSTRUCT, Omaha, Nebraska
Intra-Being: Ecological Civilization, Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA (organized by Khang Bao Nguyen)
2 Day, LSH Colab, Los Angeles, California
2019 L.A. on Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (organized by Michael Slenske)
Holding Space, Big Pictures Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Mindshift, LAVA Projects, Los Angeles, California
Summer Rental, Organized by Kenny Schachter, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Smoke and Mirrors, AF Projects, Los Angeles, California
Punk House vs. Dream House (plus Cat House), Serious Topics, Los Angeles, California
1995 Los Angeles International, Los Angeles, California (Curated by Anne Ayres)
Couldn’t Get Ahead, I.A.S. (Independent Art Space), London, England (Curated by Adam McEwen) (exhibition catalogue)
1994 Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Center For The Fine Arts, Miami, Florida (Curated by Kate Rawlinson),
(exhibition catalogue)
Sincerity and other Peccadillos, L.A.X., Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
(Curated by Anne Ayres), {exhibition catalogue)
Paranoid, the M.Y.T.H. series, Los Angeles, California (Organized by Andrea Bowers and Sam Durant)
1993 Peculiar Paintings, Momentary Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
Peculiar Paintings, Woodbury University Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
School Days, (Otis Art Institute Alumni and Faculty), Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Retrospective: All the Ideas I’ve Ever Exhibited, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Politically Incorrect: A Show for the Theoretically Challenged, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
1992 A Small Show, 1529 Wellesley, Santa Monica, California
Location for Ideas, FAR Bizarre, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibition, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 Los Angeles Art Fair, Bess Cutler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Highs and Lows of Humor in Contemporary Art, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Group Exhibition, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Performances and Other Activities
1994 Why I Love You So Much, Los Angeles, California
1993 Lost, Desire to Participate, City-wide, Los Angeles, California
1992 Hi Ho, Hi Ho, 110 Freeway, Los Angeles, California
1992 A Loge View, from the Balcony, City-wide, Los Angeles, California
Why Aren’t Ill-Mannered Dealers (Directors) Beaten, or Even Killed?, the roof of Fred Hoffman Gallery to
Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990 3/13/90, 10:45P.M. - 3/14/90, 12:30P.M., The Uncertainty of What Things Seem, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design,
Los Angeles, California
Formula, North Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Californi
Selected Bibliography
MUST SEE, “Place Like You”, Wilding Cran Gallery, ARTFORUM Editors
Michael Slenske, “The Best Places in Los Angeles to Discover Up-and-Coming Artists Right Now”, Galerie, December 22, 2020.
Sydney Walters. “Drive-by-Art in Los Angeles”, art and cake, June 4, 2020.
Natalie Haddad, “120 Artists Create a ‘Drive-by-Art' Exhibition Throughout Los Angeles, Hyperallergic”, May 27, 2020.
Marissa Gluck, “For Two Weekends, Drive-By-Art Turns the City Into a Gallery You Can See by Car”, Los Angeles Magazine, May 23, 2020.
Jori Finkel, “Artist-Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles”, The New York Times, February 7, 2020.
David Pagel, “Robert Gunderman: The World of ‘Other End’”, Gallery Magazine, October, 2019
Eve Wood, “Transits Through Finalities”, RIOT MATERIAL, September 27, 2019
Jennifer Landes, “Opinion: The Gallery as Playpen”, The East Hampton Star, September 19, 2019
Jordan Riefe, “Spiders, Mollusks and Memories in Robert Gunderman’s New Paintings at Desert Center Los Angeles”, LA WEEKLY, March 19, 2019
David Pagel, “Do you see stars? The sun? An eye? The unexpected discoveries in Robert Gunderman’s worlds”. Los Angeles Times, Saturday, July 28, 2018
David Pagel, “Called to Arms”, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 22, 2006
Laurence Rickles, 'Floyd Claypool', Art & Text, No 72, February-April 2001
Timothy Nolan, 'Robert Gunderman at Dan Bernier Gallery', Artweek, Vol 26, No 9, September 1995, p 26
Susan Kandel, 'Summer Scene With Message of Narcissism', Los Angeles Times, Friday, August 4, 1995, F 28
David Barrett, “Couldn’t Get Ahead”, frieze, Issue 23, Summer, 1995, p 71
Sarah Kent, “Couldn’t Get Ahead”, Time Out, May 23, 1995, p 51
Michael Cohen, “L.A. Confidential”, Flash Art, June, 1995, pp 54 & 57
Terry R. Myers, “Call My Agent”, New Art Examiner, May, 1995, p 23
William Feaver, “Strange habits and sharp practice”, London Observer, Sunday, April 23, 1995, p 9
John O’Reilly, “Art for Bart’s sake”, Modern Review (London), Monday, April 10, 1995, p 33
“Private view”, Arts Diary, London Observer, Tuesday, April 4, 1995
David Pagel, Art and Auction, April, 1995, p 28
Suzanne Muchnic, “Innovations and Optimism”, ARTnews, March, 1995, pp 104-105
Suzanne Muchnic, “Beyond the Living Room”, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, February 5, 1995, p 51
Peter Frank, “Sincerity and other Peccadillos”, Pick of the Week, The L.A. Weekly, December 30 - January 5, 1995, p 114
Susan Kandel, “ ‘Sincerity’ Focuses on Beauty, but Not Without Irony”, Los Angeles Times, Thursday, November 24, 1994, p F20
David Pagel, “Ze News”, Galleries Magazine, No 61, October-November, 1994, p 33
Suzanne Muchnic, “Bliss, FOOD HOUSE, and Hello Artichoke”, ARTnews, Vol 93/No 5, May, 1994, pp 124-127
Marc Selwyn, “L.A.’s Newest Alternative Space”, Flash Art, Vol XXVI, No 173, November/December, 1993, p 54
Nancy Kapitanoff, “Not Just Pretty Pictures”, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1993
Fran Seegull, “L.A.’S ALTERNATIVE ART SCENE”, ARTSPACE, March/April, 1993
David DiMichele, “Recessionary Measures”, Artweek, January 7, 1993
Roberta Smith, “The Los Angeles Art World’s New Image”, The New York Times, December 29, 1992, p B1
Cathy Curtis, “New Dealing”, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1992.
David Pagel, “New Faces in Unusual Places”, Art and Auction, Vol XV, No 3, October, 1992, p 46
Shauna Snow, “Show and Sell”, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1992