ROBERT TOWNSEND- CV
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
