Robert Schefman
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Robert Kidd Gallery
2008 Robert Kidd Gallery
2005 Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
2004 Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2002 Midland Center For The Arts, Midland, MI
2001 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2000 Birmingham/Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
1997 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995 Charach/ Epstien Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
1994 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1991 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 Aesthetic Arrest, New York, NY
1983 Turkish Mission to the United Nations, UN Plaza, New York, NY
1982 Sculpture for the Ancient Gates of Troy, Troy, Turkey
1979 Art in Public Places, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
1976 Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art Platform LA 2012, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Narrative Fragments, Quidley & Co. Fine Art, Boston, MA
Midwest Drawing Invitational, University of St Francis, Ft Wayne, IN
Sweet Spot, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham MI
Roots, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Fort Wayne, IN
Art LA, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Gallery Artists, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham MI
2011 Scope Miami 2011, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Carbon and Gold, The Art Gallery, Macomb Community College
Actual Size Biennial, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
Detroit, MI
R Wells Gallery, Binghamton, NY
Deep Thaw, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
ArtMRKT SanFrancisco, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
20th Anniversary Show, Janice Charach Gallery, W Bloomfield, MI
Art Chicago 2011, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Tapped, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Los Angeles Art Show, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
CCS Faculty Exhibition, Detroit, MI
2010 Art Miami 2010, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Scope Miami 2010, 101/exhibit gallery
Group Exhibition, 101/exhibit gallery, Miami, FL
Our Town, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Past-Present-Future, R Wells Gallery, Binghamton, NY
Ten Years of Contemporary Art, Oakland University Art Gallery,
Rochester Hills, MI
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
Fort Wayne, IN. Awarded Best In Show
ArtHamptons, 101/exhibit
The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Art Chicago, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Los Angeles Art Show, Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Art Under The Influence, Nothville Art House, Northville, MI
2009 Bods, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Art Miami 2009, Timothy Yarger Gallery
Monochrome, Manifest Creative Research Gallerey, Cincinnati, OH
The Bra Show, Charach Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Corpus Maximus, Yarger Strauss Contemporary, Beverly Hills, CA
Group Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
CCS Scholarship Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2008 Group Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birminham, MI
Antigone, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Chai Lighting, Charach/Epstein Museum Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
2007 Creativity Out of Conflict, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Driven: Art From the Motor City, Copper County Community Arts
Center, Hancock, MI
2006 In Response, Charach/Epstein Museum Gallery, W. Bloomfield, MI
MFA Show, University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
Realism, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
CCS at 100, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005 Group Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2004 Variations on a Violin, Padziewski Gallery, Dearborn, MI
New Realism II, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Head Count, College for Creative Studies, traveling exhibition
2003 Senses of Reality, Starkweather Art Center, Romeo, MI
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2002 Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Celebrate, Charach/ Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
2001 In Our Midst, Padzieski Gallery, Ford Arts Center, Dearborn, MI
Made in Michigan, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester,MI
Post Card Show, Charach/ Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
2000 Sex, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit,MI
Really Big Show, Charach/ Epstien Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
Exhibition 2000, BBAC, Birmingham, MI
1999 Body and Soul , Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester,MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham,MI
1998 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
National Society of Mural Painters, Art Students League, NYC, NY
Governors’ Awards for Art, ArtServe Michigan, Detroit, MI
1997 Michigan Council For The Arts Exhibition Project, Lansing, MI
BBAA 40th Anniversary Show, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAA, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham , MI
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, ILL
1995 Interventions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit,MI
Carbonari, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham , MI
Romantic Allegory, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1994 Michigan Fine Art Exhibition, BBAA, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Friends for Focus, Benefit Exhibition, Farmington Hills, MI
1992 First Night Exhibition, Birmingham, MI
Figurative/Narrative, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990 Art for Life, Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Figurative Painting in the 80's, Ruggiero/Henis Gallery, NY, NY
1984 The Dead Blimpie Show, New York, NY
1983 Modern Mythology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, NY
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Wards Island, O.I.A., New York, NY
1981 Foley Square/Federal Plaza, New York, NY
1980 On Wards Island, O.I.A., New York, NY
Sculpture Space at Utica College, Utica, New York, NY
GRANTS
2004 Benard L. Maas Prize, Benard L. Maas Foundation, Detroit, MI
2001 Artists Grant, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, MI
1999 ArtServe Michigan, Creative Artist Grant, State of MI
1996 Arts Foundation of Michigan, Detroit, MI
1995 Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1979 Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, New York
1976 Graduate Senate Research Grant, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City., IA