James Robie

A graduate of Yale University's graduate school of Art and Architecture where he majored in painting, James Robie has been making art his entire life. Besides having exhibited his artwork in New York and Los Angeles over the last 3 decades he is the founder and creative director of James Robie design Associates, a multi-disciplined design firm specializing in corporate graphic design.

As an undergraduate at UCLA he studied with Richard Diebenkorn and in 1967 he was awarded a fellowship to the Yale school of art and music in Norfolk CT. While attending Yale's graduate school of painting he studied painting with Lester Johnson, Al Held, and Jack Tworkov.

Upon graduation he worked at Gemini Editions Limited in Los Angeles, making 3-D multiples for Roy Litchenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Keinholtz and Claes Oldenberg.

Between 1982 and 1984, he was responsible for the design of over 650 projects for the Los Angeles Olympic Organization Committee for the 1984. A partial list of clients have include The J Paul Getty Trust, Northrop Grumman Corp., Teledyne Technologies, The Atlantic Richfield Company, Korn Ferry International, TRW, Lockheed Martin, and Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO).

The design work of J...

1963-65
State University of New York at Buffalo
(Formally the Albright-Knox Art School)

1966-68
University of California at Los Angeles
(Studied with Richard Diebenkorn, Jan Stussy, John McCracken)

1967
Yale Fellowship (Norfolk School of Art & Music)
1968-70 Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture

(Studied with Lester Johnson, Al Held and Jack Tworkoff)

Graduated BFA and MFA

2011
40 year retrospective “James Robie: My Life as Art” 40 years of Graphic Design and Fine Art, Cal State Northridge Art Galleries

2005
One Man Show “Home and Away” (Photography)
Oliver Wollcut Gallery, Litchfield, CT

2004
One Man Show “The Recent Past” (Photography)
C. Peter Miller Gallery, Woodbury, CT

2002
One Man Show - (Photography)
William Pitt Gallery, Washington Depot, CT

1999
One Man Show - (Paintings + Sculptures)
Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998
National Academy Museum 173rd Annual Juried Exhibition, NYC

1990
Group Show - (Sculpture)
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1976
One Man Show - Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1973
One Man Show - John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

1972
One Man Show - Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1971
Group Drawing Show -
Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1970
Group Show - Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1970
Group Show - “Contemporary Romantics” -
Graham Gallery, NYC