ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Biography
1925	October 22 born in Port Arthur, Texas
1943	enters University of Texas, Austin, to study Pharmacy
1944 - 1945	drafted into United States Navy; studies Art History at Kansas City Art Institute; trip to Paris and studies at Académie Julian; meets the choreographer Merce Cunningham and the composer John Cage at Black Mountain College, North Carolina; attends Art Students League, New York; trip to Europe together with Cy Twombly
1953	starts designing sets and costumes for Merce Cunningham Dance Company and other ballet productions
1954	first combine-paintings; friendship with Jasper Johns; prepares window displays with Johns for Tiffany & Co. and others
1956 - 1970 involved with several dance and theatre troops
1964	the Grand Prize for Painting at the Biennale in Venice
1967	an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Grinnell College, Grinnell, lowa
1975 - 1983 trips to India, China, Japan and Sri Lanka where he works.
1981	named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the Ministry of Culture and Communications, France
1984	receives the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from New York University; announces "Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange" project (ROCI).
	Robert Rauschenberg lives and works on Captiva Island, Florida and New York
Selected Exhibitions
2006	"Combines" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006-07); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007) Scenarios and Short Stories, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA "Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posters for a Better World", Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York "Spread and Scale", Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
2005	"Rauschenberg: Posters", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles "On and off the wall", Musee d'Art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Nizza; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2006) IVAM, Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia
2004	Wadsworth Museum of Art, Hartford
2002	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1997-1999	Major retrospective curated by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gugenheim Museum SoHo, New York, traveling 1998 to the Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; 1998-1999 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
1994	Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1992	The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim, SoHo Branch Museum, New York
1991	National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; The Menil Collection, Houston
1990	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1987	Metropolitan Museum, NewYork
1985-1991	Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, organized by the artist, a six-year traveling exhibition, whose works change at each venue with additional works influenced by the country visited
1984	retrospective at Fondation Maeght, St. Paul-de-Vence
1981	Musee national d'Art Moderne, Paris, traveling to Marseille, St. Etienne, Stockholm and Aarhus
1980-1981	major retrospective in Europe at Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, traveling to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München and Tate Gallery, London
1979	major drawing exhibition at Kunsthalle Tübingen and Sprengel Museum, Hannover
1976	major retrospective at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, traveling to Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo and Art Institute of Chicago
1974	Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1970	Kunstmuseum, Basel
1964	XXXII Biennale, Venice; further museums shows in the 1960s at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, traveling to Cologne and Paris, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1963	Jewish Museum, New York, in the same year first major show in Europe at lleana Sonnabend Galerie
1959	documenta 11, Kassel
1958	first exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, NewYork
1953	Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome and Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Florence
1951	first one-person exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, NewYork
Robert Rauschenberg is represented by the Jamileh Weber Gallery. Major one-man shows 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994 "Off Kilter Keys", 1995 "Quake in Paradise - A Labyrinth", 1996 "Anagrams", 1998 "Anagrams (A Pun)" and 2001 "Short Stories".