Robert Indiana, The Sweet Mystery, 1960-62, oil on canvas, 72" × 60" (182.9 cm × 152.4 cm). Photo: Tom Powel Imaging © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana Polaroid of the artist in his studio at 25 Coenties Slip in New York making Flagellant (1963/1969) with LOVE Rising (The Black and White Love) (1968) in the background. Image courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative and Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine Details:b. 1928, New Castle, Indianad. 2018, Vinalhaven, MaineConnect: (opens in a new window) robertindiana.com (opens in a new window) @robertindiana Read More One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art.Indiana, a self proclaimed “American painter of signs,” created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language, establishing an important legacy that resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre.Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana on September 13, 1928. Adopted as an infant, he spent his childhood moving frequently throughout his namesake state. His artistic talent was evident at an early age, and its recognition by a first grade teacher encouraged his decision to become an artist. In 1942, Indiana moved to Indianapolis in order to attend Arsenal Technical High School, known for its strong arts curriculum. After graduating he spent three years in the U.S. Air Force and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in Maine, and the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.In 1956, two years after moving to New York, Indiana met Ellsworth Kelly, and upon his recommendation took up residence in Coenties Slip, once a major port on the southeast tip of Manhattan. There he joined a community of artists that would come to include Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman. The environment of the Slip had a profound impact on Indiana’s work, and his early paintings include a series of hard-edge double ginkgo leaves inspired by the trees which grew in nearby Jeannette Park. He also incorporated the ginkgo form into his nineteen-foot mural Stavrosis (1958), a crucifixion pieced together from forty-four sheets of paper that he found in his loft. It was upon completion of this work that Indiana adopted the name of his native state as his own.Indiana, like some of his fellow artists, scavenged the area’s abandoned warehouses for materials, creating sculptural assemblages from old wooden beams, rusted metal wheels, and other remnants of the shipping trade that had thrived in Coenties Slip. While he created hanging works such as Jeanne d’Arc (1960–62) and Wall of China (1960–61), the majority were freestanding constructions which Indiana called “herms” after the sculptures that served as boundary markers at crossroads in ancient Greece and Rome. The discovery of nineteenth-century brass stencils led to the incorporation of brightly colored numbers and short emotionally charged words into these sculptures as well as canvases, and became the basis of his new painterly vocabulary.Indiana quickly gained repute as one of the most creative artists of his generation, and was featured in influential New York shows such as New Media—New Forms at the Martha Jackson Gallery (1960), Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art (1961), and the International Exhibition of the New Realists at the Sidney Janis Gallery (1962). In 1961, the Museum of Modern Art acquired The American Dream, I (1960–61), the first in a series of paintings exploring the illusory American Dream, establishing Indiana as one of the most significant members of the new generation of Pop artists who were eclipsing the prominent painters of the New York School.Although acknowledged as a leader of Pop, Indiana distinguished himself from his Pop peers by addressing important social and political issues and incorporating profound historical and literary references into his works. American literary references appear in paintings such as The Calumet (1961) and Melville (1961), exhibited in 1962 in Indiana’s first New York solo exhibition, held at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery. In 1964 Indiana accepted Philip Johnson’s invitation to design a new work for the New York State Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, creating a twenty–foot EAT sign composed of flashing lights, and collaborated with Andy Warhol on the film Eat, a silent portrait of Indiana eating a mushroom in his Coenties Slip studio. His first European solo exhibition took place in 1966 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, Germany, and featured his Number paintings (1964–65), a series of works on a theme that he has explored in various formats throughout his career.1966 marked a turning point in Indiana’s career with the success of his LOVE image, which had been featured in a solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery. The word love, a theme central to Indiana’s work, first appeared in the painting 4-Star Love (1961). Love was a subject of great spiritual significance for the artist, illustrated by the painting Love Is God (1964), which was inspired by an inscription in the Christian Science churches he attended in his youth. Initially experimenting with a composition of stacked letters in a series of 1964 rubbings, Indiana subsequently turned this inventive design, a formal departure from his previous works, into different hard-edged color variations on canvas. Indiana’s LOVE, selected by the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 for its Christmas card, quickly permeated wider popular culture, and was adopted as an emblem of the “Love Generation.” Appearing on a best-selling United States Postal Service stamp (1973) and reproduced on countless unauthorized products, the proliferation of the image led, on one hand, to negative criticism and incorrect assumptions of the artist as a sell-out. However, the image’s popularity more importantly emphasizes its great resonance with large and diverse audiences, and has become an icon of modern art. The universality of the subject, to which Indiana continued to return, is further evidenced by his translation of LOVE into AHAVA (Hebrew) and AMOR (Spanish).In 1978, Indiana chose to remove himself from the New York art world. He settled on the remote island of Vinalhaven in Maine, moving into the Star of Hope, a Victorian building that had previously served as an Odd Fellows Lodge. After a period spent setting up his home and new studio, Indiana turned to themes that related to his local experience, working on a suite of eighteen large-scale paintings known as The Hartley Elegies (1989–94), inspired by the German Officer paintings of Marsden Hartley, who lived on Vinalhaven in the summer of 1938. He also used found objects to create sculptures such as Ash (1985) and Mars (1990), works that reflected his new surroundings while also making reference to his past, and returned to and expanded upon his seminal American Dream series, completing The Ninth American Dream in 2001.In addition to being a painter and sculptor, Indiana has created a significant number of prints, among them the Numbers Portfolio (1968), a collaboration with the poet Robert Creeley, as well as many other works of graphic art, including the poster for the opening of the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center (1964), and the poster for the opening exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum of Art (1974). He designed the stage sets and costumes for the Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein opera The Mother of Us All, which was presented in 1967 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and expanded in 1976 for the Santa Fe Opera in honor of the Bicentennial. Indiana has also created other unique projects, such as the design for a basketball court at the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center Arena in 1977.Indiana’s artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and his works are in the permanent collections of important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) in Vienna, Austria; the Art Museum of Ontario in Toronto; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He has also been included in numerous international publications, and is the subject of a number of monographs.In 2013 the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted the artist’s first New York retrospective, Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, curated by Barbara Haskell. Indiana passed away in his home on May 19, 2018, just a few weeks before the opening of his sculpture retrospective at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Read More Robert Indiana, Eat/Die, 1962, oil on canvas, diptych, each panel: 72" × 60" (182.9 cm × 152.4 cm). Photo: Tom Powel Imaging © Morgan Art Foundation LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Image courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana, The Melville Triptych, 1962, oil on canvas, triptych, overall: 60" × 144" (152.4 cm × 365.8 cm), each panel: 60" × 48" (152.4cm × 121.9 cm). Photo: Todd White Art Photography © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana, Love Is God, 1964, oil on canvas, 68" × 68" (172.7 cm × 172.7 cm) © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana, Exploding Numbers, 1964–66, oil on canvas, four panels: 12" × 12" (30.5 cm × 30.5 cm), 24" × 24" (61 cm × 61 cm), 36" × 36" (91.4 cm × 91.4 cm), 48" × 48" (121.9 cm × 121.9 cm). Photo: Tom Powel Imaging, New York © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022. left to right: Robert Indiana, Column Die, 1963-64; Robert Indiana, Column Love, 1963-64; Robert Indiana, Column Eat/Hug/Err, 1964; Robert Indiana, Column Eat, 1963-64; Robert Indiana, Column Eat/Hug/Die, 1964; Robert Indiana, Column Hug, 1964; Robert Indiana, My Mother, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, My Father, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, Call Me Ishmael, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, Call Me Indiana, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, Bob’s Column, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, Dillinger, 1964/98; Robert Indiana, Love is God 1964. Photo: © Jonty Wilde, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1966, oil on canvas, 48" × 48" (121.9 cm × 121.9 cm). Photo: Courtesy of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/SIAE, Italy, courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Robert Indiana, The Dietary, 1962, oil on canvas, 60" × 48" (152.4 cm × 121.9 cm) © 2024 Morgan Art Foundation LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/SIAE, Italy, courtesy The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Journal View All News Announcing Representation of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative Apr 12, 2024 Our Artists in Venice Exhibitions Our Artists in Venice 2024 Mar 26, 2024 Museum Exhibitions On Robert Indiana in Venice: The Sweet Mystery Jan 01, 2024 One-Artist Exhibitions Group Exhibitions Public Collections Books and Catalogues Close One-Artist Exhibitions 01-Robert-Indiana-one-artist DatesBorn 1928, New Castle, IndianaDied 2018, Vinalhaven, MaineEducation1953, The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA2024Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery, Procuratie Vecchie, Venice, April 20–November 24, 2024. (Catalogue and Pamphlet)2023Robert Indiana at Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Center, New York, September 13–October 23, 2023.2022Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom, March 12, 2022–April 16, 2023. (Catalogue)2021Robert Indiana, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, December 7, 2021–March 8, 2022.2020Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, October 15, 2020–January 24, 2021.2019Robert Indiana, Sculpture Garden, Kasmin Gallery, New York, May 3, 2019–February 28, 2020.2018Love & Peace: A Robert Indiana Memorial Exhibition, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, November 27–December 2, 2018.Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, June 16–September 23, 2018. (Catalogue)Love Long: Robert Indiana and Asia, Asia Society, Hong Kong, February 7–July 15, 2018.2017Robert Indiana: One Through Zero, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, May 11–November 30, 2017.Robert Indiana, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland, April 9–August 13, 2017.2016Robert Indiana: To Russia with Love, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, April 7–June 7, 2016.Robert Indiana, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy, January 23–March 31, 2016.2015Robert Indiana Sign Paintings, 1960–65, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, September 10–October 31, 2015. (Catalogue)2013Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 26, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Catalogue)The Essential Robert Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 24–August 18, 2013. (Catalogue)2012Robert Indiana: Sculptures, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, October 3–November 10, 2012. (Catalogue)2011Robert Indiana: Rare Works from 1959 on Coenties Slip, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, June 12–September 20, 2011. (Catalogue)2009Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, June 20, 2009–January 10, 2010. (Catalogue)2008Robert Indiana: Hard Edge, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, September 18–November 1, 2008. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana a Milano, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, July 4–September 14, 2008. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana: The American Painter of Signs, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, January 22–May 18, 2008.2007Robert Indiana: A Retrospective, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, November 8, 2007–January 26, 2008.Robert Indiana: Der Amerikanische Maler der Zeichen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany, August 26, 2007–January 6, 2008.2006Robert Indiana, Paseo de Recoletos y Paseo del Prado, Madrid, May 4–July 31, 2006. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana: A Living Legend, Seoul Museum of Art, March 11–April 30, 2006. (Catalogue)2005Robert Indiana: Wood, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, September 9–October 8, 2005. (Catalogue)2004Robert Indiana: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961–2003, Waddington Custot, London, September 29–October 23, 2004. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana: Peace Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, April 21–May 29, 2004. (Catalogue)2003Robert Indiana: The Story of Love, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, December 20, 2003–May 2, 2004. (Catalogue).Robert Indiana: New Paintings and Sculptures, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, September 19–October 25, 2003.Robert Indiana: Recent Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, February 14–March 22, 2003.Robert Indiana: Letters, Words and Numbers, C&M Arts, New York, February 13–March 22, 2003. (Catalogue)2002Robert Indiana, Shanghai Art Museum, July 5–August 8, 2002. (Catalogue)2001Los Estados Unidos bajo la Optica de Robert Indiana, Galería Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela, May 6–June 17, 2001.Hommage à Indiana, Galerie Denise René Espace Marais, Paris, March 30–May 23, 2001. (Catalogue)1999Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana, (opens in a new window) Portland Museum of Art, Maine, June 24–October 17, 1999. (Catalogue)1998Robert Indiana: Rétrospective, 1958–1998, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France, June 26–November 22, 1998. (Catalogue)1991Robert Indiana: Early Sculpture, 1960–1962, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, September 12–November 9, 1991. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana Prints: A Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, May 16–June 30, 1991. (Catalogue)1990Robert Indiana—Decade: Autoportrait, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, November 27–December 31, 1990. (Catalogue)1984Wood Works: Constructions by Robert Indiana, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., May 1–September 3, 1984. 1982Indiana’s Indianas: A Twenty-Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Robert Indiana, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, July 16–September 26, 1982. (Catalogue)1977Robert Indiana, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, September 25–November 6, 1977. (Catalogue)1972Robert Indiana: New Paintings and Sculpture, Galerie Denise René, New York, November 22–December 30, 1972.1971Robert Indiana: Druckgraphik und Plakate, 1961–1971, Amerika Haus, Berlin, opened on December 7, 1971. (Catalogue)1968Robert Indiana, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 17–May 27, 1968.1966Robert Indiana, Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 27–October 22, 1966. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana: Number Paintings, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, June 11–July 24, 1966. (Catalogue)Robert Indiana, Stable Gallery, New York, May 3–28, 1966.Robert Indiana, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, April 30–June 5, 1966.1964Robert Indiana: New Art, Stable Gallery, New York, May 12–30, 1964.1962Robert Indiana, Stable Gallery, New York, October 16–November 3, 1962. (Catalogue) Group Exhibitions 02-Robert-Indiana-group 2023Painted Pop, Acquavella Galleries, New York, October 10–December 15, 2023.2022Mad Woman, David Nolan Gallery, New York, September 8–October 22, 2022.New York: 1962-1964, Jewish Museum, New York, July 22, 2022–January 8, 2023.One Through Zero (The Ten Numbers) (1978–2003), Roy Lichtenstein: More than Dots,He Art Museum, Shunde, China, June 18–August 15, 2022.Motions. Autos, Art, Architecture, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, April 8–September 18, 2022.Pop Art and Text, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, January 19–July 24, 2022.2017Pop Art—Icons that Matter: Collection du Whitney Museum of Art, Musée Maillol, Paris, September 22, 2017–January 21, 2018.Found in America: Chamberlain, Flavin, Indiana, Waddington Custot, London, May 5–June 30, 2017.2014Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 1, 2014–March 1, 2015.Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, New York, March 7–July 13, 2014.2013The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, Acquavella Galleries, New York, April 10–May 24, 2013.2012Pop Art Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, October 13, 2012–February 3, 2013.2001The Pop Years, 1956 to 1968, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, March 15–June 18, 2001.2000Crossroads of American Sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, October 14, 2000–January 21, 2001. (Catalogue)19976th Monte-Carlo Sculpture Biennale, Monte Carlo, Monaco, May 24–October 31, 1997.1995Dedicated by Life: Marsden Hartley’s German Paintings and Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 14–June 18, 1995.1993Indiana, Kelly, Martin, Rosenquist, Youngerman at Coenties Slip, Pace Gallery, New York, January 16–February 13, 1993. (Catalogue)1992Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 6, 1992–March 7, 1993. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 3−June 20, 1993; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 9−October 10, 1993. (Catalogue)1991The Pop Art Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 13–December 15, 1991.1987Pop Art: U.S.A.–U.K., Odakyu Grand Gallery, Toyko, July 24–August 18, 1987.Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the 50s and 60s, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, April 4–June 21, 1987.1986Definitive Statements: American Art, 1964–66, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 1–March 30, 1986.1985Dorothy C. Miller: With an Eye to American Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 19–June 16, 1985. (Catalogue)Pop Art, 1955–70, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, February 27–April 14, 1985.1983The Great East River Bridge, 1883–1983, Brooklyn Museum, New York, March 19–June 19, 1983. (Catalogue)197925 Años Despues, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, September 1979.Art for Vice-President's House from Northeast Museums, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, March 6–March 13, 1979.[KD1]1978Twentieth Century American Masters: Inaugural Exhibition, The Art Center, South Bend, Indiana, January 14–February 26, 1978.197534th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Americana Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 22–April 6, 1975.1974Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., October 4, 1974–September 15, 1975.American Pop Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6–June 16, 1974.Nine Artists: Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 10–February 14, 1974.1973Opening Exhibition of the New Museum, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, September 16–November 3, 1973.1971Amerikansk Kunst, 1950–70, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark, September 11–October 24, 1971.1970Seven Outside, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, October 25, 1970–January 3, 1971.American Art Since 1960, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, May 6–27, 1970.String and Rope, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, January 7–31, 1970.1968In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 31–November 3, 1968.Documenta 4: Internationale Ausstellung, Kassel, Germany, June 27–October 6, 1968.1967Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Janis Gallery, December 6–30, 1967.Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1967–January 7, 1968.São Paulo 9—United States of America: Edward Hopper [And] Environment U.S.A.: 1957–1967, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, September 22, 1967–January 8, 1968.American Painting Now, American Pavilion, International and Universal Exposition, Montreal, April 28–October 27, 1967.1966Art Turned On, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, December 10, 1965–January 30, 1966.1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 8, 1965–January 30, 1966.Word and Image, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 8, 1965–January 2, 1966.1965The White House Festival of the Arts, The White House, Washington, D.C., June 14–15, 1965.29th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, February 26–April 18, 1965.1964Group Zero, Insitute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 30–December 11, 1964.Nieuwe Realisten, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands, June 24–August 30, 1964.Artists for Core: Third Annual Art Exhibition and Sale, Gallery of American Federation of Arts, New York, May 6–16, 1964.New York World’s Fair, Theaterama, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York, April 22–October 18, 1964, and April 21–October 17, 1965.Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 54–64, Tate Gallery, London, April 22–June 28, 1964.The New Art, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, March 1–22, 1964.1963Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 11, 193–February 2, 1964.Signs of the Times: Paintings by Twelve Contemporary Pop Artists, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, December 1963–January 19, 1964.An American Viewpoint, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio, December 4, 1963–January 7, 1964.Richard Stankiewicz, Robert Indiana: An Exhibition of Recent Sculptures and Paintings, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 22–November 24, 1963.International Exhibition and Sale of Works of Art in Aid of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Woburn Abbey, Northampton, United Kingdom, October 27–November 3, 1963.Dunn International: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada, September 7–October 6, 1962.Banners, Graham Gallery, New York, June 4–28, 1963.Americans 1963, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 22–August 18, 1963.De A à Z 1963: 31 Peintres Américains Choisis Par the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, May 10–June 20, 1963.Assemblage, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 31–February 21, 1963. Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, March 7–28, 1963; Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan, April 12–May 3, 1963; Indiana University, Bloomington, May 10–31, 1963; the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, September 1–22, 1963; Tucson Art Center, Arizona, October 2–23, 1963; Washington University, St. Louis, November 4–25, 1963; San Francisco State College, January 16–February 6, 1964; University of Oregon, Eugene, February 21–March 14, 1964; University of South Florida, Tampa, May 7–28, 1964; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, June 12–July 3, 1964.66th American Annual Exhibition: Directors in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, January 11–February 10, 1963.1962Stock up for the Holidays: An Anthology of Pop Art, The Pace Gallery, Boston, December 10, 1962–January 2, 1963.International Exhibition of the New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, October 31–December 1, 1962.Indiana / Natkin, Stubbing and Greenfield Gallery, Mamaroneck, New York, March 24–April 14, 1962.Penthouse Exhibition: Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 26–April 16, 1962.1961The Art of Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2–November 12, 1961. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas, January 9–February 11, 1962; San Francisco Museum of Art, March 5–April 15, 1962. (Catalogue)Indiana / Forakis, David Anderson Gallery, New York, April 1–13, 1961.Premiums: Stephen Durkee, Robert Indiana, and Richard Smith, Studio for Dance, New York, March 25–April 22, 1961.1960New Media – New Forms I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, June 6–24, 1960.https://www.robertindiana.com/exhibitions/art-for-the-vice-presidents-house-from-northeast-museums [KD1] Public Collections 03-Robert-Indiana-public-collections Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAmorepacific Museum of Art, SeoulArt Gallery of Ontario, TorontoThe Art Institute of ChicagoBaltimore Museum of Art, MarylandThe Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at AustinBrooklyn Museum, New YorkBuffalo AKG Art Museum, New YorkCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaChrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VirginiaCity of Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaColby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MaineCity of Columbus, IndianaCrystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, ArkansasCurrier Museum of Art, Manchester, New HampshireDelaware Art Museum, WilmingtonDes Moines Art Center, John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, IowaDetroit Institute of Arts, MichiganFarnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, MaineFondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, SwitzerlandFonds national d’art contemporain, ParisFred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, NormanFrey Foundation, Grand Rapids, MichiganGrey Art Museum, New York UniversityFogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsHe Art Museum, Shunde, ChinaHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HampshireIndiana State Museum and Historic Sites, IndianapolisIndianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, IndianaJP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New YorkKrannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignKunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, GermanyKunstmuseen Krefeld, GermanyLos Angeles County Museum of ArtLowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FloridaMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TexasMiami University Art Museum, Oxford, OhioMiddlebury College Museum of Art, VermontMilwaukee Art Museum, WisconsinMinneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesotamumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ViennaMuseu Colecção Berardo, LisbonMuseum Folkwang, Essen, GermanyMuseum Ludwig, Cologne, GermanyNassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New YorkNationalgalerie Berlin, GermanyNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New YorkNew Orleans Museum of Art, LouisianaOklahoma City Museum of Art, OklahomaPhiladelphia Museum of Art, PennsylvaniaPortland Museum of Art, MainePrice Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OklahomaRose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MassachusettsRuhr-Universität Bochum, GermanySan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtScottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ArizonaSheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-LincolnSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, LawrenceState House, Augusta, MaineStedelijk Museum, AmsterdamTate Modern, LondonTel Aviv Museum of Art, IsraelThe Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, CharlottesvilleThe Israel Museum, JerusalemThe Menil Collection, Houston, TexasThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkThe Museum of Modern Art, New YorkTobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio, TexasTokyo Fuji Art MuseumUlmer Museum, Ulm, GermanyEdwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KansasUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann ArborUniversity of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the NetherlandsVon der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, GermanyWalker Art Center, Minneapolis, MinnesotaWeatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at GreensboroWhitney Museum of American Art, New YorkWilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MassachusettsYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, ConnecticutYeshiva University Museum, New York Books and Catalogues 04-Robert-Indiana-bib-books 2024Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Allan Schwartzman, Matthew Lyons, A.A. Bronson, and Ksenia M. Soboleva. New York: The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, 2024.Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery (exhibition pamphlet). Texts by Robert Indiana and Matthew Lyons. New York: The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, 2024.2022Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Clare Lilley, Flavia Frigeri, and Matthew Armstrong. Wakefield: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022.2019Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Joe Lin-Hill, Robert Hobbs, Douglas Dreishpoon, and Aaron Ott. Bielefeld, Germany and Buffalo, New York: Kerber Verlag; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2019.2015Robert Indiana Sign Paintings 1960–65 (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Wilmerding. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2015.2013The Essential Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Martin Krause and John Wilmerding. Indianapolis, Indiana and New York: Indianapolis Museum of Art; Prestel, 2013.Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Barbara Haskell, René Paul Barrilleaux, and Sasha Nicholas. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2013.2012Love and Fame: Works by Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Susan Elizabeth Ryan and William Ganis. Terre Haute, Indiana: Indiana State University Art Gallery, 2012. Robert Indiana: New Perspectives. Texts by Robert Storr, Thomas Crow, Jonathan D. Katz, Kalliopi Minioudaki, and Allison Unruh. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012.Robert Indiana Sculptures (exhibition catalogue). London: Waddington Custot Galleries, 2012.2011Robert Indiana: Rare Works from 1959 at Coenties Slip (exhibition catalogue). Text by Joachim Pissarro. Zurich: Galerie Gmurzynska, 2011.2010Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné. [New York]: RI Catalogue Raisonné LLC, 2010. https://www.ricatalogueraisonne.org/2009Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John Wilmerding and Michael Komanecky. Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2009.2008Celant, Germano. Robert Indiana a Milano (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008. Robert Indiana: The American Painter of Signs (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Jörg Dauer. Texts by Volker Rattemeyer and Annette Tietenberg. Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden, 2008.Robert Indiana: Hard Edge (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Adrian Dannatt. New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2008.2006Bonet, Juan Manuel, and Adrian Dannatt. Robert Indiana: Paseo de Recoletos y Paseo del Prado (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Aqualium, 2006.Robert Indiana: A Living Legend (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hyun-Mee Oh and Adrain Dannatt. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2006.Robert Indiana. Texts by John Wilmerding, Joachim Pissarro, and Robert Pincus-Witten. New York: Rizzoli, 2006.2005Robert Indiana: Wood (exhibition catalogue). Text by Adrian Dannatt. New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2005.2004Robert Indiana: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961 to 2003 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Adrian Dannatt. London: Waddington Galleries, 2004.Robert Indiana: Peace Paintings (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Adrian Dannatt and Robert Indiana. New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2004.Robert Indiana: The Story of Love (exhibition catalogue). Text by Valerie Vadala Homer. Scottsdale, Arizona: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.2003Robert Indiana: Recent Paintings (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nathan Kernan. New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2003.2002Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Text by Stephen C. Foster. Shanghai: Shanghai Art Museum, 2002.Robert Indiana: Letters, Words and Numbers (exhibition catalogue). Text by Rober Pincuss-Witten. New York: C & M Arts and Simon Salama-Caro, 2002. 2001Hommage à Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Text by Hélène Depotte. Paris: Galerie Denise René, 2001.Los Estados Unidos bajo la Optica de Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Text by Beatriz Sogbe. Caracas, Venezuela: Galería Ateneo de Caracas, 2001.2000Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech. Text by Susan Elizabeth Ryan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 1999Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Aprile Gallant, Daniel E. O’Leary, Susan Elizabeth and Ryan Portland, Maine: Portland Museum of Art, 1999.1998Robert Indiana: Rétrospective 1958–1998 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Joachim Pissarro and Hélène Depotte. Nice: Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, 1998.1977Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Robert L. B. Tobin, William Katz, and Donald B. Goodall. Austin: University of Texas, 1977.1991Robert Indiana: Early Sculpture, 1958–1962 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Robert Indiana, William Katz, and Simon Salama-Caro. London: Salama-Caro Gallery, 1991.Robert Indiana Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1951–1991 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Susan Sheehan. New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery, 1991.1990Robert Indiana—Decade: Autoportrait (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Bill Maynes and Marisa del Re. New York: Marisa del Re Gallery with Becker Graphics, 1990.Robert Indiana. Text by Carl J. Weinhardt, Jr. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.1989Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Text by Herbert Lust. Paris: Galerie Natalie Seroussi, 1989.1984Wood Works: Constructions by Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Text by Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1984.1982Indiana’s Indianas: A Twenty-Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Marius B. Péladeau and Martin Dibner. Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1982.1971Robert Indiana: Druckgraphik und Plakate, 1961–1971 / The Prints and Posters, 1961–1971 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by William Katz and Robert Indiana. Stuttgart and New York: Edition Domberger, 1971.1968Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John W McCoubrey and Robert Indiana. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.1966Robert Indiana: Number Paintings (exhibition catalogue). Text by Johannes Cladders. Krefeld, Germany: Museum Haus Lange, 1966.Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jan van der Marck and Gene R. Swenson. Minneapolis: Dayton’s Gallery 12, 1966.1962Robert Indiana (exhibition catalogue). New York: Stable Gallery, 1962.