Born 1943, Philadelphia, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009-2010
_ The Bible Illumanited: R.Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, California
2009
_ Zap! Comix Prints By Robert Crumb, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art,
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
2007
_ David Zwirner, New York, NY
_ R. Crumb’s Underground, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco, CA
_ My True Inner Self, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of The Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
_ R. Crumb: Drawings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
_ Galerie Baronian_Francey, Brussels, Belgium
_ Spruth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
2005
_ Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times, The Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
_ The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004
_ Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
2003
_ Dan Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002
_ Who’s Afraid of Robert Crumb, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
2000
_ Restaurant Placemat Drawings, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, New York
1993
_ Alexander Gallery, New York
1990
_ Modernism, San Francisco, California
1987
_ Gotham Book Mart, New York
1986
_ La Hune, Paris, France
1983
_ Modernism, San Francisco, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
_ Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis: The Jewish Color of Comic Art,
Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
2009
_ The Cresting Wave: The San Francisco Underground Comic Experience,
Electric Works, San Francisco, California
_ LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
Ohio
_ Strike a Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
_ Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963-
1990, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Winsconsin
_ Vraoum! Trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain, La Maison
Rouge, Paris, France
2008
_ David Zwirner, New York, NY
_ Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY
_ Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, Fantagraphics
Bookstore & Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
_ De Superman au Chat du Rabbin, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme,
Paris, France [catalogue]
_ Tease, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY
_ 101 Dresses, Artspace, New Haven, CT
_ A Show of Prints, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
_ La Famille d’Artistes: Exposition Crumb, Le Musée de Serignan, Serignan,
France
_ COMIX, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, The Netherlands [catalogue]
_ Cult Fiction, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England. Curated by Kim Pace
and Emma Mahony. [itinerary: Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, England;
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Aberystwyth Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth, Wales; Tullie House, Carlisle, England] [catalogue]
2006
_ Sweets and Beauties, Fredericks & Freiser, New York
_ Block party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Liquid Paper / Pure Land, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, California
_ American Funnies, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
_ Masters of American Comics, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
_ Eroffnung, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt Ammain, Germany
_ The Line of Beauty, Kathleen Cullen Gallery New York
_ Subject, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
_ Speak: Nine Cartoonists, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
_ Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art at DOMESTIC, Los Angeles, California
_ The Jewish Museum, New York
_ The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
_ Beautiful Losers, Triennale, Milan, Italy
_ Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
2005
_ David B, Robert Crumb, Jochen Gerner, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris,
France
_ Drawn to Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
_ Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
_ Masters of American Comics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
California
_ The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
_ Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, Connecticut
_ Diverse Art Space, Houston, Texas
_ Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
_ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
_ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
_ The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
_ University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
_ Draw ! , Galerie du jour agnès b, Paris, France
_ On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present, Daniel Weinberg
Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Characters: Scene 1&2, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long
Branch, New Jersey
_ Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
2004
_ Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, Fifth International Biennial
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
_ Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
_ Disturbing the Peace, Danese, New YorkGroup Show, Gallery w 52, New
York
_ Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
_ Group Show, WorkSpace, New York
2003
_ Fresh Works on Paper, a 5th Anniversary Show, James Kelly
Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
_ The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Pop thru Art, Arirao Gallery, Choongchungnam-do, Korea
_ For the Record, Drawing Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
_ Group Show, Rhodes and Mann Gallery, London, England
_ New Members and Award Recipients Exhibition, American Academy of
Arts and Letters, New York
2002
_ Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
_ Transformer II, Air de Paris, Paris, France
_ Group Show, Feigen Contemporary, New York
2001
_ It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time, Paul Morris Gallery, New
York
_ 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
_ Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
_ Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Pop and Post-Pop [on Paper], Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
_ Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
_ The Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
_ Eye Infection, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000
_ Do You Hear What We Hear, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1999
_ Guston, Crumb, McGee, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1991
_ Misfit Lit: Contemporary Comic Art, Center on Contemporary, Seattle,
Washington
1990
_ R. Crumb Comix, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
_ Zap to Zippy: The Impact of Underground Comix, Cartoon Art Museum,
San Francisco, California
1989
_ Psychedelic Solution, New York
1987
_ Gotham Book Mart, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009-2010
_ The Bible Illumanited: R.Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, California
2009
_ Zap! Comix Prints By Robert Crumb, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art,
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
2007
_ David Zwirner, New York, NY
_ R. Crumb’s Underground, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
Francisco, CA
_ My True Inner Self, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of The Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
_ R. Crumb: Drawings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
_ Galerie Baronian_Francey, Brussels, Belgium
_ Spruth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
2005
_ Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times, The Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
_ The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004
_ Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
2003
_ Dan Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002
_ Who’s Afraid of Robert Crumb, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
2000
_ Restaurant Placemat Drawings, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, New York
1993
_ Alexander Gallery, New York
1990
_ Modernism, San Francisco, California
1987
_ Gotham Book Mart, New York
1986
_ La Hune, Paris, France
1983
_ Modernism, San Francisco, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
_ Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis: The Jewish Color of Comic Art,
Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
2009
_ The Cresting Wave: The San Francisco Underground Comic Experience,
Electric Works, San Francisco, California
_ LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
Ohio
_ Strike a Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
_ Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963-
1990, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Winsconsin
_ Vraoum! Trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain, La Maison
Rouge, Paris, France
2008
_ David Zwirner, New York, NY
_ Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY
_ Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, Fantagraphics
Bookstore & Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
_ De Superman au Chat du Rabbin, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme,
Paris, France [catalogue]
_ Tease, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY
_ 101 Dresses, Artspace, New Haven, CT
_ A Show of Prints, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
_ La Famille d’Artistes: Exposition Crumb, Le Musée de Serignan, Serignan,
France
_ COMIX, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, The Netherlands [catalogue]
_ Cult Fiction, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England. Curated by Kim Pace
and Emma Mahony. [itinerary: Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, England;
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Aberystwyth Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth, Wales; Tullie House, Carlisle, England] [catalogue]
2006
_ Sweets and Beauties, Fredericks & Freiser, New York
_ Block party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Liquid Paper / Pure Land, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, California
_ American Funnies, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
_ Masters of American Comics, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
_ Eroffnung, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt Ammain, Germany
_ The Line of Beauty, Kathleen Cullen Gallery New York
_ Subject, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
_ Speak: Nine Cartoonists, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
_ Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art at DOMESTIC, Los Angeles, California
_ The Jewish Museum, New York
_ The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
_ Beautiful Losers, Triennale, Milan, Italy
_ Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
2005
_ David B, Robert Crumb, Jochen Gerner, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris,
France
_ Drawn to Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
_ Experiencing Duration, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
_ Masters of American Comics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
California
_ The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
_ Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, Connecticut
_ Diverse Art Space, Houston, Texas
_ Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
_ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
_ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
_ The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
_ University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
_ Draw ! , Galerie du jour agnès b, Paris, France
_ On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present, Daniel Weinberg
Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Characters: Scene 1&2, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long
Branch, New Jersey
_ Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
2004
_ Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, Fifth International Biennial
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
_ Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
_ Disturbing the Peace, Danese, New YorkGroup Show, Gallery w 52, New
York
_ Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
_ Group Show, WorkSpace, New York
2003
_ Fresh Works on Paper, a 5th Anniversary Show, James Kelly
Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
_ The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
_ Pop thru Art, Arirao Gallery, Choongchungnam-do, Korea
_ For the Record, Drawing Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
_ Group Show, Rhodes and Mann Gallery, London, England
_ New Members and Award Recipients Exhibition, American Academy of
Arts and Letters, New York
2002
_ Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
_ Transformer II, Air de Paris, Paris, France
_ Group Show, Feigen Contemporary, New York
2001
_ It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time, Paul Morris Gallery, New
York
_ 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
_ Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
_ Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Pop and Post-Pop [on Paper], Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
_ Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
_ Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
_ The Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
_ Eye Infection, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000
_ Do You Hear What We Hear, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1999
_ Guston, Crumb, McGee, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1991
_ Misfit Lit: Contemporary Comic Art, Center on Contemporary, Seattle,
Washington
1990
_ R. Crumb Comix, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
_ Zap to Zippy: The Impact of Underground Comix, Cartoon Art Museum,
San Francisco, California
1989
_ Psychedelic Solution, New York
1987
_ Gotham Book Mart, New York