BOB TROTMAN
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Solo Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2008-2009 Business as Usual, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (traveling to Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC)
2006 Frist Center for Visual Art, Gordon Project Gallery, Nashville, TN
2004 Recent Work, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 Model Citizens, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
2001 Falk Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2001 After the Fall, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Eight Figures, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1995-1996 ArtCurrents 20: Bob Trotman, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
1994 Bob Trotman: A Retrospective of Furniture and Sculpture, Gregg Museum, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
1994 New Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Sculpture, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992 Sculpture, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 The Liberated Eye: American Modernisms. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2007 Measure of All Things: The Human Form. Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
2005 From the Neck Up, Franklin Parrasch Gallery New York, New York
2004 Food Matters, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2004 Revelations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990-1993 Art That Works, (Lloyd Herman, curator) traveled U.S.
1986 Poetry of the Physical (Paul Smith, curator), traveled U.S.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Greg Museum of Art and Design, N.C. State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
The Vice-President’s Residence, Washington, DC
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, North Carolina
Sydney and Francis Lewis Collection, Richmond, Virginia
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006, 2008 United States Artists, Fellowship Nominee
1984, 1995, 2000 North Carolina Artists Fellowship
1984, 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship
PERSONAL
Born Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1947
EDUCATION
1965-1969 B.A. Philosophy, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Washington and Lee University
1988 Francisco Rivera, The Sculpture Center, New York, New York
1986 Robert Morris, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1985 James Surls, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1977 Sam Maloof, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1976 Jon Brooks, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brennan, Anne. 1995-1996 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Recipients Exhibition. (Wilmington:St. John’s Museum of Art) pp.37-39.
Brown, Charlotte, V., et al. Bob Trotman: A Retrospective of Furniture and Sculpture. (Raleigh:North Carolina State University Visual Arts Program, 1994)
Brown, Patricia Leigh. “They Ride the New Wave in Furniture”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21, 1985, pp.9-10.
Campbell, Omnese. Bob Trotman/Ginny Ruffner, ARTPapers, vol.19, no.3, (April-May19950 P.54
Castle, Wendell. “The Leading Edge”. Popular Mechanics. November 1986, pp.88,90.
Giovannini, Joseph, “Chairs that Roar”, The New York Times, March 19, 1987, C-1
Hanzal, Carla. “Interview with Bob Trotman.” Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. 2005.
Heartney, Eleanor, “Art and the Spiritual”, Thresholds, South Carolina Arts Commission, 2003.p. 23
Herman, Lloyd E., Art that Works:The Decorative Arts of the Eighties, Crafted in America. (Seattle:University of Washington Press, 1990) p.35.
Huber Chris. “North Carolina Artist Exhibition 1990.” Preview. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, Summer 1990) Cover and pp. 2-5.
Hull, James.” Bob Trotman: Recent Work.”ARTPapaers, vol.17, no.6 (Nov-Dec 1993) p. 44
Kistler, Ashley.”Bob Trotman:Model Citizens.” Essay. Hand Workshop Art Center. Richmond, 2002.
Koplos, Janet. “Bob Trotman at Franklin Parrasch”, Review, Art In America, October 2001, pp.168-169.
James, Curtia. “Bob Trotman at Hand Workshop Art Center”. Review. ARTPapers, January, 2003.
Leach, Mark R. “ArtCurrents 20:Bob Trotman’, Interview. (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art)
MacDougall, Frances M. “Philosophical Furniture”, Southern Accents, (November-December 1995) pp.116-122.
Meyer, Jon. “1988 Mint Museum of Art Biennial”. ArtNews, vol. 87, no. 7 (Sept 1988) p. 176
Ryan, Dinah. “Bob Trotman at Hand Workshop Art Center”. Review. Sculpture. Dec 2002.
“Post Conventional Generativity”. Review. ARTPapers, (Nov-Dec 2006) p.59.
Smith, Paul J. et al. The Poetry of the Physical (New York: American Craft Museum, 1986) Craft Today USA (New York: American Craft Museum, 1989) p. 77.