ROBERT STUART
M.F.A., James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1984
B.F.A., Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA, 1977
AWARDS/HONORS
2004 Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1996 Finalist, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1994 Artist of the Year, Shenandoah Art Auction, Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community, Harrisonburg, VA
1987 Fellow-in-Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1983 Museum Purchase Award, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
1982 Certificate of Distinction, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Lynchburg Fine Arts Academy, Lynchburg, VA
2007 Virginia Painters: Philip Geiger and Robert Stuart, Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA
Gestalts: Works by Robert Stuart and Robert Yoder, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2006 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2005 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Glow, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Afterglow, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, NY
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2004 Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
Robert Stuart and Charles Goolsby: A Dialogue in Paint, William King Regional Arts Ctr., Abingdon, VA
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Joy Blooms, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
2003 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2000 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1999 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
1998 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
1995 Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
1994 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1993 Peden Gallery II, Raleigh, NC
1992 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1991 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1989 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1987 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2008 Invitational, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT (November 2008 – February 2009, catalog)
2006 Invitational #44 Exhibit, The Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX (catalog)
2000 The Virginia Landscape, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA (catalog)
1998 1998NewOrleansTriennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (catalog)
1990 Un/Common Ground II, Virginia Artists, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (catalog)
Harmony and Discord: American Landscape Today, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (catalog)
1983 1983 Biennial of Piedmont Painting and Sculpture, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (catalog)
1982 Eight State Painting Annual, J.B.Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (catalog)
Works on Paper, The Columbia Museum of Arts and Science, Columbia, SC
26th Biennial Irene Leache Juried Exhibition, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Shenandoah Valley Invitational Art Exhibit, The BRCC Gallery, Weyers Cave, VA
Artists and Place: Celebrating the Bounty of the Region, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
2004 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2003 William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
2002 Works on Paper, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Over the Sofa, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
9/11/01, Reflections Part II, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Reflections, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2001 New Works/New Artists, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Reconstructing Eden: Looking at the Contemporary American Landscape, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Painting More Than the Eye Can See, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
1999 Regional Juried Show, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
Moving into the Millennium: Darkness, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Tenth Anniversary Exhibit, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
1998 Moving into the Millennium: Lightness, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
1997 8scapes, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Summer Solstice Show, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
1996 Summer Solstice Show, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Regional Juried Show, Staunton Augusta Fine Art Center, Staunton, VA
1995 Six from Virginia, The Frame Gallery, Staunton, VA
Contemporary Virginia Realism, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (Catalog)
1994 Pleasures in . . . Painting . . ., Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Allegorical Table, William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, VA
1992 New Still-lifes, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1991 Drawing from the Nude, The Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, NY
New Talent: Three From Virginia, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
Drawings, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Robert Stuart Paintings & Frank Hobbs Monotypes, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1990 Recent American Works on Paper 1990: A National Juried Exhibition, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, May; Chapel Arts Center, Manchester, NH, November;
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, April 1991 (catalog)
1989 Painting and Paper, a Duo-Artist Exhibit, Shenandoah Valley Art Ctr, Waynesboro, VA
1988 Painting '88, Annual Tri-State Juried Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
1987 Regional Juried Competition, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Ventures in Creativity II, Ivy Gallery, Ivy, VA
1986 12th Annual Shelby Art League Juried Exhibition, Shelby, NC
Three Rivers Arts Festival, sponsored by Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (Honorable Mention, catalog)
Current Visions II, A Contemporary Survey of Two Dimensional Works of Art, Germanow Gallery, JCC, Rochester, NY
Ventures in Creativity, Ivy Gallery, Ivy, VA (Highest Honors - Merit Award)
1985 Ten By Ten, Margaret Heath Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
11th Annual Shelby Art League Juried Exhibition, Shelby, NC (Honorable Mention)
Lynchburg Area Juried Art Show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA
1983 Margaret Heath Gallery Invitational, Charlottesville, VA
Four Lexington Painters, DuPont Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
1981 Lynchburg Area Juried Art Show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
1980 Bath County Annual Art Exhibition, Warm Springs, VA (Third Prize)
1979 Two Artists Exhibiting, Insular Arts Gallery, Agana, Guam
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Hollins, VA
Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Augusta Medical Center, Augusta County, VA
Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
Carolina Telephone, Raleigh, NC
Crestar Bank, Richmond, VA
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
General Electric, Charlotte, NC
Hilton Hotel, Charlotte, NC
Johnson & Higgins, Inc., Richmond, VA
Markel Service, Inc., Glen Allen, VA
The Martin Agency, Richmond, VA
McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe, Richmond, VA
Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Neiman Marcus, Atlanta, GA
Neiman Marcus, Charlotte, NC
Philip Morris, Richmond, VA
Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte, NC
Sheltering Arms Rehab. Hospital, Richmond, VA
Smith Helms Mullins & Moore, Charlotte, NC
Southern Bell
Southern Progress Corporation
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
University of Richmond Alumni Center, Richmond, VA
University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA