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Robert ������: Autobiography

From 2016 to 2017 the ������ collaborated with Williams College to build an art history course, Robert ������: Art, Archives, and Exhibitions, around the artist and the archives, and to develop the exhibition, Robert ������: Autobiography, to highlight the students’ research.

With unprecedented access to the ������ archives, students enrolled in the fall 2016 art history course, Robert ������: Art, Archives, and Exhibitions, led by Curator Lisa Dorin and Professor C. Ondine Chavoya, to research the artist’s life, work, and the often blurry intersections in-between. Their investigations culminated in the exhibition Robert ������: Autobiography, which was a thematic exploration of the artist’s use of his body, performance collaborations, abiding love of animals, and interest in technology.

Choosing ������’s monumental print Autobiography (1968) as the point of departure, the exhibition combined related archival documents and works of art that speak to ������’s life experiences. The exhibition brought together twenty-six original artworks with fifty-six archival objects primarily on loan from the ������.

Robert ������: Autobiography was on view at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from March 17 to Aug. 20, 2017.