Robert Yoder

BORN:	1962	Danville, VA
RESIDES:		Seattle, WA

Education:

1987	Master of Fine Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1984	Bachelor of Fine Arts, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Solo Exhibitions:

2004	Landmark, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2003	Abfall, Howard House, Seattle, WA *
	American Landscapes Reconstructed, Anderson Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2002	Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY My First Visit to Planet Mars, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR Introduction, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA
2001	From a Bird’s Eye, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
2000	Plans for a Beautiful City, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
1999	Blowing Dust Area, Howard House, Seattle, WA
1998	Tiny Nation, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
	Whistle Stops, Howard House, Seattle, WA
1996	Soft English, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
	Small Paintings, The Spare Room, Salem, OR
1994	Recent Work, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1993	Tender Spots, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992	Blind Dates and Other Strangers, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1991	Wall Mounted Sculpture, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990	Work, Blake Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989	A Feast for Bacchus, 911 Contemporary Arts Center, Seattle, WA
	A Preface to Morals, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2004	Lewis & Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (traveling) *
	Inaugural Exhibition, Bentley Project, Phoenix, AZ
2003	International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, Part II, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
	Building Tradition: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Art Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
	Crossroads: New Art From The Northwest, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
	The Best Coast, EastBank Commerce Center, Portland, OR *
	Ulterior Motives: Current Northwest Abstraction, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2002	LAVA 2002, Lava Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA *
2001	Read All About It!, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
	Line Form Color: From Abstraction to Architecture, Howard House, Seattle, WA
	New American Talent, The 16^th Exhibition, organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association, CenterSpace, Austin, TX; curator: Anne Umland (traveled) *
2000	Milk and Honey (Kelsey Fernkof & Robert Yoder), Howard House, Seattle, WA
	2000 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
	Material, Process and Object: Expanding the Practice of Fiber Arts, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; traveled to: Sun Valley Arts Center, Sun Valley, ID
1999	New Work (Conrad Bakker & Robert Yoder), Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
	Geez Louise: Art After Louise Nevelson, The Education Alliance Gallery, New York, NY
	The End, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
	Shifting the Familiar, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
	Transcending Limits: Moving Beyond Mainstream and Margin, CenterSpace, Austin, TX *
1998	Robert Yoder & Brad Skubinna, Project 416, Seattle, WA
	Hands On Color, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
	Selected Works, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
	Untitled Group Show #22: Abstraction, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
	Paper, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
1997	David Christensen, Ken Kelly & Robert Yoder, Zeitgeist, Seattle, WA
	New American Talent: The 13^th Exhibition, organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association, CenterSpace, Austin, TX; curator: Robert Storr (traveled) *
	Human References: Marks of the Artist, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Center Pavilion, WA *
	Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
	Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
	The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1996	Feast, Equinox Gallery, Seattle, WA
	Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
	Second Sight, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
1995	Fifteen Years, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
	Looking at the Land, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
	Pacific Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
	Ex Libris, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
	The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1994	Newest Work: Gallery Artists, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993	Botanic: A Flower Show for the Dead of Winter, Sean Ellwood Fine Art, Seattle, WA
1992	Sign of the Cross, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
	The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
	It Figures: The Human Image in Art, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1991	New Year/New Exposure, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
	Gallery Artists, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
	Four Alumni Exhibition, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1990	The Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

* = catalogue

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2004	Graves, Jen. "Discovery Doesn't End," The News Tribune, February 13. p. E1.
	Kangas, Matthew. "Robert Yoder at Howard House," Art in America, January. Pp. 112-3.
2003	Hall, Emily. “Yoder’s World, Free Speech, and the Old School,” The Stranger, May 22.
	Farr, Sheila. “Yoder intriguingly redefines found objects,” The Seattle Times, April 28.
	Wagonfeld, Judy. "Yoder Beats Odds in Life, Art," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 11.
	Moore, Margaret. "On the Cover," Hemispheres, March, cover and p.10.
	Meade, Fionn. "Seattle: Courting the Off Modern," Fisura, February, p. 18-21.
2002	Brown, Elizabeth and Lisa Corrin, “The Mountain is Out,” Modern Painters, Autumn.
	Korotkin, Joyce, “Reviews,” NY Arts Magazine, June, Vol. 7, no.6
	Crane, Julianne. “Yoder sculptures debut in Spokane,” Spokesman Review, April 4, p. D1.
	Chinen, Nate. “Robert Yoder,” digitalcity.com New York, April.
	Colman, David. "On the House: What Makes Your House a Home?" Elle Decor, April, p.171
2001	Loving, Lisa. "Traveling Collector: Art Frontiers," Art & Antiques, June.
2000	Ellertson, Karrin. "Review: Art," The Portland Mercury, Sept. 21, p.32.
	Josslin, Victoria. "Highway: signs point way to unique creations," Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 28, p. WH28.
	Arcade: A Journal for Architecture and Design in the Northwest, inside end piece, Summer vl. 18.4.
	New American Paintings, Book XXXI, Vol. 6, No. 6.
1999	Hackett, Regina. "Robert Yoder at