Robert Forman

The interface between my interior self and the outside world is the uniting concept behind my recent work

I began making yarn paintings in 1969 while still in High School. I thought I had invented the technique.
In college at The Cooper Union I first kept yarn painting to myself. My professors preferred my drawings to my paintings. My painting professor, Jack Whitten, asked what we did during vacation. I volunteered that I'd spent the vacation working on a project, but it wasn't exactly painting. After visiting my studio Jack told me to stick to yarn and he would consider them paintings.

Seeing a yarn painting at a Greenwich Village flea market I discovered that yarn painting was a traditional art form among the Wixarika (Huichol) people of Mexico.
In 1992 I received a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Mexico to meet fellow yarn painters and talk shop.
Since my Fulbright I have maintained my relationship with fellow yarn painters both by returning to Mexico regularly and by hosting Wixarika artists in my home.

I have also received Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts (twice) and the Ludwig Vogelstein Founda...

BFA The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

Collection Dialogue: Robert Forman, Ramapo College of New Jersey 2018
Robert Forman: With Every Fiber, Fontbonne University Gallery,St.Louis MA 2015
Francis M Naumann Gallery, New York, NY 2007
Hoboken Museum, Hoboken, NJ 2014
Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY 2004
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York 1996
Myhelan Cultural Arts Center, Long Valley, NJ 2004
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenburg College, Allentown, PA 2003
Educational Testing Service Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey 2003
The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey 2000
Society of Arts & Crafts of Boston, Boston, MA 2000
The Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey 1997
The Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York 1995
AMB Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey 1989
Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey 1988
Bologna/Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1985
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey 1983
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York 1980

Selected Group Exhibitions

Francis M Naumann Gallery, New York, NY 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. 2011.2012.2013.2014.2015, 2018
Pierro Galllery, South Orange New Jersey 2017
Art/Basil Miami ...