Solo Exhibitions

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2024

Finding Divinity, University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS

2022

Art Miami, Miami, FL

2021

Joie de Vivre, + Cloudveil event, Altamira Fine Art, Jackson Hole, WY

2020
Color, Altamira Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2019
Blue Hawaii, Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ

2018
Wanderlust, + film screening/Q&A event, Altamira Fine Art Jackson Hole, WY

2017

Spring in the Desert, Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ
2016

Dreamland, Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale, AZ
2012

Compass and Line, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
New Paintings, Sue Greenwood Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
2011

New Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
Paintings, Sue Greenwood Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
2010

Recent Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
2009

Robert Townsend LA Pop Mythology, Sullivan Goss Santa Barbara, CA
Robert Townsend: New Work, Michael Hollis Gallery Pasadena, CA
2008

Robert Townsend: New Paintings. Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2007

Icons, Michael Hollis Gallery Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2015

American Details, Sullivan Goss Gallery Santa Barbara, CA
artMRKT, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
Mid-Century Americana: Dave Lefner and Robert Townsend, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
Art on Paper. Hespe Gallery New York, NY
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Sue Greenwood Fine Art Palm Springs, CA
Road Trip, Sue Greenwood Fine Art Laguna Beach, CA
2014

artMRKT, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2013

Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
MANA Contemporary
Fix Flats and Do-Nuts: New Paintings by Bill Lagattuta and Robert Townsend Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield Museum of Art
Common Objects, Scape Gallery Corona Del Mar, CA
ArtMRKT San Francisco San Francisco, CA
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair Palm Springs, CA
Route 66, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
Pop Paradise, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, NH
2012

Candy, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundations Malibu, CA
Common Thread: Traversing the American Landscape, Begovich Gallery Fullerton, CA
Summertime, Skidmore Contemporary Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair Palm Springs, CA
2011

Winter Exhibition, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
Poprealism, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
April, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
The Los Angeles Art Show Los Angeles, CA
2010

December, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
Americans at Play, Sullivan Goss Santa Barbara, CA
Poprealism, Skidmore Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
American Icons, Sue Greenwood Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
The Los Angeles Art Show Los Angeles, CA
2009

Rewind, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
LA Noir, Sullivan Goss Santa Barbara, CA
Art Chicago Chicago, IL
2008

West Coast Realists, Sullivan Goss Santa Barbara, CA
15th Anniversary Show, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2007

Summer Show, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
Fresh Faces, Munson Gallery Santa Fe, NM
1999

Watercolor West Exhibition Brea, CA
1997

Watercolor West Exhibition Brea, CA
Long Beach Arts, Watercolor Long Beach, CA
Long Beach Arts, National Open Long Beach, CA

1996

Watercolor West Exhibition, Riverside, CA

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Collections

The Getty Family, Los Angeles, California
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills, California

Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California
Hughes Marino, San Diego, California

Brown Forman Collection, Louisville, Kentucky

Bourque Logistics, Woodlands, Texas

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Publications

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Messy Nessy, May 15, 2023

Phoenix New Times, "How Kodachrome Slides Became Robert Townsend's Life's Work," April 24, 2018

LA Weekly, "An Artist's Obsession," March 30 - April 5, 2018, Vol. 40, No. 19 Cover story

LA Weekly Blog, "Robert Townsend Plans 100 Paintings of 'Mod Woman' He Discovered in Vintage Slides," March 30, 2018

The Jealous Curator, Art For Your Ear, Episode 129, 2018

OC Weekly, "Pop Realist Robert Townsend Offers Us Candy, Insight Into His Life," January 8, 2014

Frankie Magazine, Artist Appreciation: Robert Townsend Interview, February 16, 2013

American Art Collector, February 2007
“Vintage Style,” Southwest Art, May 2007
American Art Collector, February 2009