Robert Pruitt
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| Born | 1975 Houston, Texas |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States of America |
| 🏫 Education | 2003 MFA, University of Texas at Austin; Austin Texas
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Skowhegan, Maine 2000 BA,Texas Southern University; Houston, Texas 1999 Tougaloo College Tougaloo Art Colony; Jackson, Mississippi |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, animation |
| Notable work | |
| Style | Large scale drawings |
| 🏡 Home town | Houston, Texas, USA |
| ❤️ Partner(s) | Autumn Knight |
| 🏅 Awards | * 2015 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts A.I.R
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| 🌐 Website | robert-pruitt.com |
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Robert Pruitt is an American artist primarily known for his large scale figurative drawings of black subjects, but with a practice also encompassing sculpture, photography, and animation.[1]
Early Life
Born in 1975 in Houston, TX, Pruitt grew up in Houston's Third and Fourth Wards, frequently in and around his father's funeral home, Pruitt and Pruitt.[2] He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas in 2000 and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.[3] From 2004–2008, he was a curator at Project Row Houses.[4]
Artistic Career
Pruitt is a founding member of the Houston artist collective, Otabenga Jones & Associates along with Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Kenya Evans, and Jamal Cyrus.[5] Pruitt is also a member of the two person artist collective, or "site for exploration of experimental social art practices," MF Problem.[6] He is also part of a loose collective of artists in Houston that sometimes work under the name STACKS collective and is the Co-Director of Houston Open Studio Tours.[7] Pruitt is currently based in New York, New York and is represented by the gallery Koplin Del Rio in Seattle, Washington.[8]
In 2019, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston commissioned Pruitt to create The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt, intended as the inaugural installation for a new series of annual artist commissions to create large-scale banners. On display from 2019 to 2020, Pruitt depicted three Bostonians for an inter-generational representation of the local community: former MFA intern Sofia Meadows-Muriel; community leader Jacqueline Cummings-Furtado; and museum security officer of nearly 40 years Brenda Lee. The 11-foot-high banners are titled Birth and Rebirth and Rebirth (2019), Cut Piece (2019) and Red Starbursts (2019).[9]
Pruitt has had solo exhibitions at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design; The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; McKinney Art Center, Dallas, TX; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA; University of Texas, Arlington, TX (2016); Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2016); The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS (2017), and most recently at California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018). He was a participating artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, which traveled to MoMA PS1 in New York. He is a recipient of the Artadia Artist Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award and Joan Mitchell Foundation award (2013). Pruitt recently was awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2015) and The Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Louisiana (2016).
Pruitt’s work is in the collections of The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; The Studio Museum of Harlem; the Dallas Museum of Art; the University Museum of Texas Southern University in Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and most recently the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (2016); The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Massachusetts (2016) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016).
Otabenga Jones & Associates
Pruitt is a founding member of the Houston artist collective, Otabenga Jones & Associates, along with fellow associates Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Kenya Evans, and Jamal Cyrus.[10] Formed in 2002, the collective worked from a storefront studio underneath the Eldorado Ballroom in the heart of Houston's Third Ward and takes its name from Ota Benga, a displaced African pygmy who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.[11] One hundred years later in 2006, all four members of the Otabenga Jones & Associates were individually selected as part of the Whitney Biennial; the collective was also selected as an exhibiting artist. To the associates, the collective has always been about African-Americans creating their own sense of identity. They are connected to Houston's black art community, including the art space and community organization, Project Row Houses, of which their studio was a preservation project.[12] They consider themselves to be heirs to the legacy of John Biggers, who founded the art program at Texas Southern University, where the four met in 1994 in Harvey Johnson's drawing class.[13]
MF Problem
Formed in 2012 in Houston with Autumn Knight, fellow artist and Pruitt's partner, the collective moved to New York, New York in 2016. Under the purview of MF Problem, they "focuses on collaborative, conceptual, visual and performative strategies that critique the divisions of race, power, and inequalities found in national and global social structures. MF Problem creates artwork in response to their real life as an artist couple, as visionaries, and as black magicians, and as time travelers."[14]
Exhibition History
- Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, New York[15]
- Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones & Associates, 2007, The Menil Collection[16]
- Robert Pruitt: Women, 2013, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York[17]
- Robert Pruitt: Planetary Survey, 2017, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle[18]
- Robert Pruitt: Benediction, 2017, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita Kansas[19]
- The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt, 2019–20, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[25]
Collections
- Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Studio Museum, New York, NY
- University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
- U.S. Embassy, Zimbabwe
Awards
- The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, 1999[3]
- Cultural Arts Council of Houston (now Houston Arts Alliance) Emerging Artist Grant, 1999[3]
- Artadia Award, Houston, 2004[26]
- Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 2007[27]
- Creative Capital Foundation Award, 2007[28]
- Art Matters Foundation Grant, 2009[29]
- Artist of the Year, Houston Art Fair, 2013[30]
- William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts Prize, 2013[31]
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist In Residence, 2015[33]
- Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, 2016[34]
References
- ↑ "About". Robert Pruitt. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Wards Matter". Texas Monthly. 2016-11-24. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Robert Pruitt – Koplin Del Rio". Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ Collective creative actions : Project Row Houses at 25. Dennis, Ryan N.,, Jackson-Dumont, Sandra. Houston, TX. November 2018. ISBN 978-0-692-12642-4. OCLC 1060194912. Search this book on
- ↑ Davenport, Bill; Chronicle, For The (2006-07-23). "Otabenga Jones & Associates' provocative artwork". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "MF Problem (Autumn Knight/Robert Pruitt)". CounterCurrent. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Koplin Del Rio". Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ↑ Davenport, Bill; Chronicle, For The (2006-07-23). "Otabenga Jones & Associates' provocative artwork". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ Davenport, Bill; Chronicle, For The (2006-07-23). "Otabenga Jones & Associates' provocative artwork". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ Davenport, Bill; Chronicle, For The (2006-07-23). "Otabenga Jones & Associates' provocative artwork". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ Davenport, Bill; Chronicle, For The (2006-07-23). "Otabenga Jones & Associates' provocative artwork". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "MF Problem (Autumn Knight/Robert Pruitt)". CounterCurrent. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Lessons From Below Otabenga Jones Associates". The Menil Collection. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ Rosenberg, Karen (2013-08-08). "Women Inspired to Mix and Match". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt: Planetary Survey | Koplin Del Rio | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt: Benediction". www.wichita.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "CAAM | Robert Pruitt: Devotion". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "The Potent Realism of Robert Pruitt's Black Portraiture". Hyperallergic. 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt: Devotione". RiotMaterial. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2020-08-30. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "The Majesty of Kings Long Dead – Robert Pruitt – Koplin Del Rio". Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt | The Majesty of Kings Long Dead | Koplin Del Rio | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Artist Award". artadia.org/artist/robert-pruitt/. Retrieved 2020-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Artist Award". www.louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org/artists_2007/artist.php?page=bio&name=pruitt. Retrieved 2020-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Otabenga Jones & Associates - The People's Plate". creative-capital.org/projects/the-peoples-plate/. Retrieved 2020-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Travel Grant". artmattersfoundation.org/grantees?year=2009. Retrieved 2020-06-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Artist of the Year". www.houstonartfair.com. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – 2013 William H. Johnson Prize". whjohnsongrant.org/grants_2013.htm. Retrieved 2020-06-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Pop-Up Sculpture Park". theideafund.org/grant-recipients/round-6-2014/pop-sculpture-park/. Retrieved 2020-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Robert Pruitt – Artist in Residence". www.bemiscenter.org/residency/by_year/2015/robert-pruitt.html. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Joan Mitchell Center » Artist Programs". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
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