Robert Horvitz Slavikova 11 120 00 Prague 2 Czech Republic Mobile: +420 775024705 E-Mail: HORVITZ@VOLNY.CZ Born 4 April 1947 -- New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA Education Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA) Bachelor of Arts degree, 1969 ____________________________________________________________________________ SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS - SAMOSTATNE VYSTAVY 1971 John-Esther Gallery Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (21 April - 16 May) 1972 Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Massachusetts (9 February - 4 March) Akron Art Institute Akron, Ohio (16 January - 20 February) 1979 "The Dialectics of Drawing" Akron Art Institute Akron, Ohio (10 November 1979 - 6 January 1980) 1985 Nexus Gallery Atlanta, Georgia (22 February - 16 March) 1999 "Revelations: Drawings by Robert Horvitz, 1999-1970" Exhibition Hall Manes, Prague (9-29 December) 2000 "'Learning from Sex' and Other New Drawings" Galerie Behemot, Prague (5 - 23 September) 2001 Golem Club, Prague (30 January - 3 March) "Extreme Drawing" Dum umeni, Opava, CR (6 March - 6 April) "Srz [The Essence]" Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (12 - 26 March) 2002 "The Essence" Robert Guttmann Gallery, Jewish Museum, Prague (16 January - 12 April) https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/program-and-education/exhibits/355/ 2010 "No Illusions" art | space, Anglo-American University, Prague (15 March - 21 May) 2017 "New Drawings by Robert Horvitz" art | space, Anglo-American University, Prague (19 October) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS - KOLEKTIVNI VYSTAVY 1970 "New England Regional Drawing Society" Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2 April - 3 May) 1971 Art Lending Service Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (April - June) 1974 "Drawings by 4 Younger Artists" Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia (6 - 20 January) "Three Choose Three" Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts (spring) 1975 "The Wojno Collection" Kent State University Art Gallery, Kent, Ohio 1983 "Tradition/Transition/New Vision," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (13 May - 19 June) 1984 "Labor Intensive Abstraction" Museum of Modern Art/PS-1/The Clocktower, New York City, NY (8 November - 8 December) 1985 Christminster Gallery, New York City (23 November - 29 December) 2000 Prague City Center, Prague (8 December 2000 - 8 February 2001) 2001 "Zoja Villalobos - Robert Horvitz - Jiri Kornatovsky" Galerie U Prstenu, Prague (5 November - 5 December) 2002 "Divocina / priroda, duse, jazyk" (Wilderness / Nature, Soul, Language) Galeries Klatovy & Klenova, Klenova and Janovice nad Uhlavou, CR (6 May - 9 July) 2004 "The Modern and The New" Ben Uri Gallery, London, England (5 April - 23 May) 2010 "Zeichnung Wien" [Drawing Vienna] Peter Lindner Gallery, Vienna, Austria (24 - 27 April) 2013 "Reflections from Damaged Life: An exhibition on psychedelia" Raven Row, London, England (26 September - 15 December) 2016 "The Museum of Rhythm" Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (25 November 2016 - 5 March 2017) 2019 “unLINEimited” Charles University Cultural Center, Prague, CR (15 July - 13 August) BIBLIOGRAPHY - REVIEWS, PUBLISHED DRAWINGS & STATEMENTS 1972 Record album cover: Expectations by Keith Jarrett (Columbia Records; re-issued on CD) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od2z6yDhBnY 1974 Three drawings reproduced in Assemblings No. 3, edited by Henry Korn and Michael Metz (Grossman Publishers) 1975 Drawing used as frontispiece, The Paris Review 60 (page 20) 1977 "Circumstantial Evidence" by Robert Horvitz, a chapter in Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America, edited by Alan Sondheim (E. P. Dutton & Company, pages 122-135) https://horvitz.multiplace.org/individuals.txt Four drawings used to illustrate "Remarks on Recombinant DNA" by James Watson, CoEvolution Quarterly 16, pages 58-59 1978 "Portfolio: Robert Horvitz" - six drawings and a statement in The Paris Review 73 (pages 160-169) https://www.theparisreview.org/art-photography/3507/six-drawings-robert-horvitz 1979 "Robert Horvitz: An Interview" by Carolyn Carr in Dialogue, November/December (pages 16-17) 1980 Drawing reproduced in Drawing - A Contemporary Approach, by Claudia Betti and Teel Sale (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 16) 1981 Two drawings and a statement in CoEvolution Quarterly 29 (frontispiece, pages 2-3) 1999 "Revelations/Zjeveni: Kresby/Drawings by Robert Horvitz" - 40-page catalog published by Galerie Pecka in connection with the December retrospective at Manes; essays by Bruce Sterling, Vlasta Cihakova-Noshiro and Robert Horvitz 2000 "Ascetical Ecstasy: On Robert Horvitz’s Drawings" by Milos Vojtechovsky, in Umelec (Artist), January/February, pages 80-81 "Re-Inventing Drawing: Art Historian Marta Smolikova Talks with Robert Horvitz" in Grapheion number 14/2000 (August), pages 56-57 https://horvitz.multiplace.org/grapheion1.html 2001 6-minute video interview during the weekly arts program "Metropolis" on Radio-TV Serbia, broadcast on 16 March. "Robert Horvic: uvek sam smatrao da su moji crtezi procesualni radovi" (interview by Danijela Pursevic, in Serbian), Beorama #113 (April 2001), pages 29-31 "Robert Horvitz: Extreme Drawing (Extremni kresby)" by Jiri Valoch, exhibition catalog published by Dum umeni Opava (Czech Republic). "Jasny Koncept" [Clear Concept] by Jiri Valoch, Atelier 10/2001 (17 May), page 6. "Horvitz: Tvorim kresby fosili zivota" (Horvitz - his drawings are living fossils) by Jiri Machacek, Mlada Fronta Dnes, 14 March 2001, "Kultura" section, page 4. 2002 Review of "The Essence" by Jeffrey Beuhler in The Pill (Prague, February issue), page 21 "Esence Roberta Horvitze" by Lukas Krejci, Ceske Noviny [Czech News], 17 January https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/esence-roberta-horvitze/11165 "An Exhibition of Works by Robert Horvitz Opened in Prague's Jewish Museum" - Radio Prague, 22 January (transcript) https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/an-exhibition-of-works-by-robert-horvitz-opened-in-pragues-jewish-museum "The Essence" - interview and review, Czech Television (1st channel) in the "Kulturni Tydenik" [Culture Week] program, broadcast on 4 and 7 February 2013 "Critics' Picks: Reflections from Damaged Life" by Sam Sherman, Artforum International, November 2013, http://artforum.com/archive/id=43930 "Reflections from Damaged Life at Raven Row," Contemporary Art Daily, 30 November - https://contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/11/reflections-from-damaged-life-at-raven-row/ "Reflections from Damaged Life: an exhibition on psychedelia" by Eddy Frankel, Time Out (London), 21 November, http://www.timeout.com/london/art/reflections-from-damaged-life-an-exhibition-on-psychedelia "Psychedelic art: what came out of it?" by Rupert Christiansen, The Sunday Telegraph (London), 12 October, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10371924/Psychedelic-art-what-came-out-of-it.html "The Anachronistic Returns of Psychedelia or Staging Television in Times of Accelerationism," by Natasha Ginwala, Metropolis M, 18 November, http://metropolism.com/features/the-anachronistic-returns-of-psy/ 2014 "An Exhibition on Psychedelia, Raven Row/London" by Rajesh Punj, FlashArt International, 21 January http://www.flashartonline.com/2014/01/reflections-from-damaged-life-an-exhibition-on-psychedelia-raven-row-london-26th-september-15th-december-2013/ 2016 My drawing "Mental Weather" (2016) was used on the poster that advertised "The Museum of Rhythm" exhibition at Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland - https://horvitz.multiplace.org/show-poster.jpg "Mental Weather" was also reproduced in a review titled "'Muzeum Rytmu' w Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi" by Anna Sidorukin published in Magazyn Szum, February 2017. Her review ends with a quote from me (translated into Polish) https://magazynszum.pl/muzeum-rytmu-w-muzeum-sztuki-w-lodzi/ 2017 "The Museum of Rhythm" by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Frieze Magazine, issue 187 (May)- https://frieze.com/article/museum-rhythm "'The Museum of Rhythm' at Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz," Mousse Magazine, February 2017 http://moussemagazine.it/museum-rhythm-muzeum-sztuki-lodz-2017/ "The Magical Tour of Psychedelia, Psychonauts, and Sensational Art," by Jan Tompkins, Lennon Wall (31 October) https://lennonwall.aauni.edu/the-magical-tour-of-psychedelia-psychonauts-and-sensational-art/ 2018 The Museum of Rhythm, edited by Natasha Ginwala and Daniel Muzychuk, Sternberg Press – a book based on the 2017 exhibition at Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz. Includes my statement from Individuals (1977) 2020 [Forthcoming], a portfolio of 9 drawings and a 2-page statement in Art and Psychedelia: A Critical Reader, edited by Lars Bang Larsen and Caroline Woodley, AfterAll Press, London WRITINGS ABOUT ART & OTHER ARTISTS 1973 "Nature as Artifact: Alan Sonfist" Artforum (November, pages 32-35) "A Talk with George Kubler" Artforum (October, pages 32-34) https://horvitz.multiplace.org/kubler.html 1974 "Donald Burgy: Participating in the Universe" Artforum (September, pages 34-35) "Beyond Reductivism: The Work of Alan Sondheim" Artforum (December, pages 34-35) 1976 "Chris Burden" Artforum (May, cover and pages 24-31; In the September issue on page 8, replies to letters from readers) - https://horvitz.multiplace.org/burden.html 1980 "Perceptions of Contemporary Art in America & Bulgaria" Bulgarian translation in Izkustvo ("Art"), number 3/1980 (May, pages 18-21) 1983 "Art or Telecommunication" New Observations 17. edited by Peter Halley https://horvitz.multiplace.org/art-or-telecom.html 1985 "For the Reasons of Poetry: Arting in Space," Art Papers (May/June, pages 5-8) "Art Into Space" Whole Earth Review 48 (September, pages 26-33) https://horvitz.multiplace.org/Artspace.html 1989 "Seth Siegelaub: Quelques observations a propos du soi-disant 'Art Conceptuel' - Extraits d'entretiens non publies avec Robert Horvitz (1987)" in L'art conceptuel, une perspective (exhibition catalog), Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1989), pages 85-94, in English and French. 2015 "I Think We Can Make Some Trouble There: Seth Siegelaub interviewed by Robert Horvitz and Thomas Levin (March 1987)," in Seth Sieglaub: Beyond Conceptual Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exhibition catalog, 2015), pages 330-342. Note: a fuller transcript of this interview will be published in "Better Read Than Dead: The Seth Siegelaub Reader," edited by Marija Bloem, Sara Martinetti and Jo Melvin, forthcoming from Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. https://horvitz.multiplace.org/Seth-interview-final.pdf --------------------------------------------------------- Note: From 1976 to 1988, I was the Art Editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, which was renamed Whole Earth Review in the mid- 1980s. Almost every issue of the magazine had a 2- or 4-page portfolio of photographs and writings by artists which I selected, edited and laid out. The artists included Henry Flynt, Charles Ross, Alex Grey, Judy Chicago, Alan Sonfist, Donald Burgy and many others from the conceptual and "earth art" movements. See http://horvitz.multiplace.org/wer.txt for a complete list of my contributions to CQ/WER. That list does not include my contributions to the Whole Earth Catalogs.