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EXHIBITIONS

​The Whispering Light  Oct 29, 2016 - Jan 22, 2017

The Whispering Light

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 2006

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss

Syracuse University, 2015-16

Seen in Solitude: Robert Kipniss Prints from the James F. White Collection

​New Orleans Museum of Art, 2006

  • 2024

    Robert Kipniss: Selections from the New Orleans Museum of Art, CK Contemporary, San Francisco. View Catalog

    2023

    Solemn Spaces: Works by Robert Kipniss, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana 

    Robert Kipniss: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, The Old Print Shop, New York, New York

    Robert Kipniss: Shades of Nature, The Artist Book Foundation, North Adams, Massachusetts

    2018

    Robert Kipniss: An Exhibition of New and Old Paintings, Mezzotints, and Drypoints, The Old Print Shop, New York, New York. View Catalog

    2016

    Robert Kipniss: New Mezzotints, Drypoints, and Paintings, The Old Print Shop, New York, New York. View Portfolio

    2016

    Recent Acquisitions: Prints by Robert Kipniss, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia

    2012

    Robert Kipniss: Recent Paintings, Franklin Riehlman Gallery, New York, New York

    2011

    Robert Kipniss: Mezzotints and Paintings, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut

    2010

    Robert Kipniss: Light and Shadow, Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas, Wichita Falls, Texas (37 prints from the museum's collection)

    Robert Kipniss: Works on Paper and Canvas, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri

    2004

    Robert Kipniss: Mezzotints, Drypoints, Drawings, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut

    2002

    Robert Kipniss: Lithographs from the Artist’s Archives1968-1990, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco (exh. cat)

    2001

    Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Drawings, Beadleston Gallery, New York, New York (exh. cat)

    2000

    Robert Kipniss: Painter/Printmaker, Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco (exh. cat)

    Robert Kipniss: Prints and Drawings, Redfern Gallery, London

    1999

    Robert Kipniss: Mezzotints, Lithographs, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin (exh. cat)

    Robert Kipniss, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

    Transitions: Drawings, 1960-64 / Robert Kipniss, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas

    1997

    Robert Kipniss: The Image and the Medium, Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas

    1996

    Robert Kipniss Intaglios, The Century Association, New York, New York

    1994

    Robert Kipniss: Recent Paintings, Drawings, Drypoints, Mezzotints, Lithographs, Hexton Gallery, New York

    1989

    The Art of Robert Kipniss, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois

    1988

    Robert Kipniss: New Oil Paintings, Harmon Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida

    1985

    Robert Kipniss: A Collection of Recent Prints, Springfield Art Center, Springfield, Ohio

    1983

    Robert Kipniss: Inner Landscapes, Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

    1981

    The Inner Landscape: The Paintings and Lithographs of Robert Kipniss, The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut

    1981

    Robert Kipniss: Inner Landscapes, Springfield Art Center, Springfield, Ohio

    Hidden Visions: A 30-year Retrospective of the Art of Robert Kipniss, Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

    Robert Kipniss: Recent Prints,1980-81, Art Connections Gallery, Saint Louis (supplement to Karl Lunde’s 1980 catalogue raisonné by Richard Lundgren released)

    1980

    Robert Kipniss: Recent Paintings, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

    1979

    Kipniss: An Exhibition of Lithographs In Celebration of the Rededication of Koch Hall, Wittenburg University, Springfield, Ohio

    1977

    Robert Kipniss: Ten Years of Lithography, Associated American Artists, New York, New York (exh. cat)

    1975

    Robert Kipniss, Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia

    Robert Kipniss: óleos et litografías, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia (4 paintings and 45 lithographs)

    1963

    Robert Kipniss: Recent Paintings, FAR Gallery, New York

    1959

    An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Robert Kipniss, The Contemporaries, New York

    1955

    Robert Kipniss: Landscapes, Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky

  • 2022

    SAGA l The Society of American Graphic Artists, The Gallery at The Met Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,  (exh cat)

    2021

    Living With Art: The Alexander Walker Collection, The British Museum, London, and four additional UK institutions (exh cat, curated and with essay by Catherine Daunt, 4 works with commentary and illustrations, pages 146-47)

    2017

    Recent Acquisitions, The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York

    2016

    In Print, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York

    Cornucopia: Still Lifes from the Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

    2015

    Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Permanent Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York (exh pamphlet)

    Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

    Escape to Tranquility: The New American Landscape, The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi, 2015 (exh pamphlet)

    Sense of Place: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Virginia

    Eye on UI: Brodsky, Dorfman, Kipniss, Lanyon, Figge Art Museum, Davenport Iowa

    2014

    Conversations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, 2014

    2013

    New Acquisitions, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

    50/50 Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York (exh cat)

    Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

    2012

    The Disappearing Landscape: Selections from the Hofstra University Museum Collection, Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York (exh cat)

    2011

    Works from the Permanent Collection, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

    2010

    Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia

    Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

    2009

    Icons of the Permanent Collection from Coast to Coast: American Landscapes, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi

    Recent Acquisitions from the Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York, and Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Art Galleries at Lubin House, New York, New York (exh pamphlet)

    2007

    Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida and The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (exh cat curated by and with an essay by Townsend Wolfe, illustration page 106)

    From Albers to Picasso: A Selection of 20th Century Prints, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland (exh cat)

    2006

    Recent Acquisitions: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

    2006 Biennial of American Prints, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia

    Highlights from the Permanent Collection, The Art Students League, New York, NY 

    Traveled to: Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, Kentucky; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Massachusetts; Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont; Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, Minnesota; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana; The Long Island Museums of American Art, Stony Brook, New York

    2005

    The Color of Night, The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, The State of New Jersey, New Brunswick

    The Power of Place: The Berkshires, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

    2004

    Contemporary Prints from the Collection of the National Academy Museum (45 prints chosen from the collection of 1,500), National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, New York

    A Record of What Has Been Accomplished: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Art Students League of New York, The Forbes Galleries, New York, New York, (exh pamphlet) 

    2003

    Object Lessons: Additions to the Collection,1997-2002, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

    Celebrating a Decade of Growth: Selections from the Orlando Museum of Art's Permanent Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

    2002

    Pressed: Intaglio, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

    A Century on Paper: Prints by Art Students League Artists, 1901-2001, USB PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, New York, (exh cat, illustration page 19)

    2001

    Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London

    2000

    Higher Ground: Works by Master Printmakers; David Becker, Robert Cottingham, Robert Kipniss, 

    Peter Milton, Fine Arts Hall, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, 

    Recent Acquisitions, The British Museum, London

    1999

    Treasures Revealed: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Works on Paper, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, New York (exh cat.)

    No Day Without a Line, the History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers,1880-1999, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (exh cat.)

    1988

    Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

    1978

    Grabadores Norte Americanos: Will Barnet, Warrington Colescott, Robert Kipniss, Kenjilo Nanao, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

    1976

    II Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, to be digitized and republished through a grant from The Getty Foundation, “The Paper Project: Three American Biennials of Graphic Arts, 1970s,” Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

    1972

    Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

    Recent Acquisitions, New York Public Library, New York, New York

    1963

    Moods of Light, American Federation of Arts, traveled to: Vanderbilt Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee; Andrew Dickson White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Paul Sargent Gallery, Charlestown, Illinois

    1952

    The Seventeenth Annual New Year Show (exh cat), Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, 1953

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