UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2024 

A Decade of Drawing: New Acquisitions, 2014-2024, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Wisdom of Whimsy, 57W57 Arts, New York


2023

Robert Schatz, Stirner Modern Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania


2018

String Theory, Deborah Berke Partners, New York

2017
Robert Schatz, The Phatory, New York

2016
Arabesques, The Phatory, New York

2015
What the Wildflowers Tell Me, The Institute For American Art, Portland, Maine
A New Line of Thinking, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
 
2007
The Lyric Grace of Gesture, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Paesaggio, The Phatory, New York

2006 
'Scapes: Between Abstraction and Reality, Cressman Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1999 
Robert Schatz, Deborah Berke Partners, New York
Robert Schatz, oeuvres récentes, Galerie Pixi, Paris

1998
Geometries of Chance, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York

1996
Robert Schatz: New Work, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York

1994
Contemplating the Line, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York (Gallery’s inaugural exhibit)

1993
Verticals and Horizontals, University Gallery, University of Scranton

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Postcards From the Edge, 25th Anniversary, Visual AIDS Benefit, Ortuzar Projects,

New York


2021

Drawing Challenge XVIII. Jason McCoy Gallery, New York (online exhibition:

https://www.jasonmccoyinc.com/drawing-challenge#/challenge-xviii )


2020

Drawing Challenge IV.  Jason McCoy Gallery, New York (online exhibition: 

https://www.jasonmccoyinc.com/drawing-challenge#/challenge-iv )


2018

Art & Friendship.  The Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn

2017
A Dark Wood.  Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ 

2016
A Dark Wood.  Art House, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
After: Vincent Como, Raymond Mingst, Robert Schatz.  Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ (Curated by Arthur Bruso)

2015
Sanctus.  Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)

2013
Thirteen. Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
A Time In Arcadia. Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
Aspects. Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY

2011
Dividing Light Measuring Darkness. Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
9/11 Arts: A Decade Later. Commons Gallery, Steinhardt School of Art, New York University, New York

2010
Escape from New York. Paterson Arts Council, Paterson, NJ 

2009
Summer Camp II: Like A Moth To The Flame. Exile, Berlin 

2008
Unbreak My Heart. Pluto Gallery, Brooklyn 
The Kramarsky Gift of Contemporary Drawings. Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (catalogue)

2006
Mixed Bag. The Phatory, New York

2005
Works On Paper. Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, NY

Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Robert Miller Gallery, New York


2004
Art in the New U.S. Embassy. Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2003
The Big Abstract Show. The Painting Center, New York
Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Gallery Lelong, New York


2002
Invitational Salon. New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania


2001

Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York


2000
On Abstraction: Francis, Hesse, Lewitt, Lozano, Mangold, Morellet, Schatz. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York

1999
Die Kunst der Linie. Museum of Upper Austria, Linz (catalogue)
Additives on Paper. George Billis Gallery, New York 
Five Years of Nicholas Davies Gallery. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York

1998
WallPAPER. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York 
Gramercy Art Fair. Gramercy Park Hotel, New York (catalogue)

1997
Night of 1,000 Drawings. Artists Space, New York.

Empire State Pride Agenda Benefit Auction, New York


1996
Summer Group Show. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York
New York Fin de Siècle. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York
Permutations. MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York (catalogue)

1995
Summer Group Show. Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York

1992
10th International Cleveland Drawing Biennale (traveling). Derby Museum, Derby, England; South London Art Gallery, London; Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (catalogue)

1991
10th International Cleveland Drawing Biennale. Cleveland Gallery and Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, UK

1990
Auction for Action, Act Up Benefit Auction, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Small Works. Amos Eno Gallery, New York 


PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum
Meadows Museum

Pfizer Inc

Sheldon Museum of Art
The Columbus Museum

The JBG Companies

University of Scranton
U.S. Department of State


NOTABLE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

David Hughes, Kansas City

Sarah-Anne & Werner H. Kramarsky, New York

Morton Meyerson, Dallas

John Robertshaw, New York

Calvin Tsao, New York

Lawrence Weschler, Katonah


CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS
Cleveland County Council. 10th International Drawing Biennale. Exh. cat (Middlesbrough, UK: Cleveland County Council, 1991). Essays by Brandon Taylor and Wolfgang Schmitz. p. 42, illus.
 
Curious Matter. A Dark Wood. Exh. cat. (Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2016). illus., pp. 42-43.

___________. Sanctus. Exh. cat. (Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2015). illus., pp. 45-46.

___________. A Time In Arcadia. Exh. cat. (Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2013). illus., pp. 54-55

___________. Dividing Light Measuring Darkness. Exh. cat. (Jersey City, NJ: Curious Matter, 2011). illus., pp. 51-52

Deborah Berke Partners.  The Artist Program: Robert Schatz, String Theory.  Exh. cat.  (New York, NY: Deborah Berke Partners, 2018).  illus.

Eshoo, Amy (ed.). 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection At Work, 1991-2006. (New York: Fifth Floor Foundation, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). pp. 155 & 175

Gramercy International Art Fair, New York (1998). illus.

Jørgenson, Thomas. Fabulism. Lecture. (Copenhagen: Gallerie Christoffersen, 2005).


Marymount Manhattan College. Exhibitions, 1995-1996. Exh. cat. (New York: Marymount Manhattan College, 1996). Essays by Karen Harris


Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. Die Kunst der Linie: Möglichkeiten des Graphischen. Exh. cat., Landesmuseum catalogue no. 145. (Linz, Austria: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, 1999). Essays in German by: Wieland Schmeid, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Wolfgang Hilger, Peter Assmann, Amy Eshoo, Heinz Höfchen, Monika Oberchristl and Lothar Schultes. p. 327, illus.
 
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  A New Line of Thinking: Recent Sculpture by Robert Schatz.  (Lincoln, NE: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015).  illus.

Sokolowski, Thomas. Sprezzatura: The Art of Robert Schatz. Exhibition essay, Robert Schatz: New Work (New York: Nicholas Davies Gallery, 1996).


Southern Methodist University. Conversations 6: Werner H. Kramarsky and Christian Rattemeyer. (Dallas: Pollock Gallery Publications, Southern Methodist University, 2008).


The Art Institute of Boston. Academic Catalogue, 1986-1987. (Boston: The Art Institute of Boston, 1986). p. 36, illus.


U.S. Department of State.  Fine Art Collection, Embassy of the United States, Sofia, Bulgaria.  (Sofia: Embassy of the United States, 2004).


Walz, Jonathan Frederick, PhD.  Robert Schatz.  Exhibition essay (Easton, PA: Stirner Modern Gallery, 2023).


OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Vovete. Providence, 2011.  Album and CD artwork.

LECTURES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2018
String Theory, Deborah Berke Partners, New York
https://www.behance.net/gallery/70013457/The-Artist-Program-Robert-Schatz


2017
Artist talk with Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.  The Phatory, New York

2015
Friday Live, Sheldon Museum of Art.  NET Nebraska (NPR), Lincoln
 
2007
"The Lyric Grace of Gesture". University of Scranton

2006
Between Abstraction and “Reality”. Cedar Crest College
Giotto and Cézanne. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1993
Reflections on Art and Visual Experience. University of Scranton
 
EDUCATION
1985-87

The Art Institute of Boston

1984
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
 
1980-81

Barnstone Studios, Allentown


1976-80

University of Scranton, BA magna cum laude, history and philosophy