Robert Walden bio

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Education

1994 The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
 BFA
1992 The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
History, Art & Music Performance

Solo or Two-Person Exhibitions

2011
Walden Twice Walden Twice: A Father and Son Show, Fielding L Wright Art Center, Delta State University, Cleveland,MS
2010

Walden Twice Walden Twice: A Father and Son Show, Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2010

Robert Walden, RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Robert Walden, RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007
2007
Ontological Road Maps, Kent State Univ., Trumbull Campus Art Gallery, Warren, OH
2006

Robert Walden, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1994

New Works, Gallery 100, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

Group Exhibitions

2013
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps, AIGA Philadelphia SPACE, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Map as Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2011

One: Robert Walden, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Robert Strati, Exhibit 23, Valley Cottage, NY
Robert Walden, Holly Miller, James Greco and Audrey Stone, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Mapping, curated by TAG Fine Art, London, UK
Spring Affordable Art Fair NYC
, TAG Fine Arts, New York
NY
Art Chicago, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Chicago, IL
London Original Print Fair
, TAG Fine Arts, London, UK
Mappamundi, Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (Catalog)
New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront, Brooklyn
NY
Old Stone House: New Histories, Old Stone House, Brooklyn
NY
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, London, UK
2010

Scope Art Fair, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Miami, FL
Affordable Art Fair NYC, RHV Fine Art, New York
NY
Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
2009

Group Show, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn
NY
And so on and so forth…, Mt. Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Philadelphia, PA
It’s a Wonderful Life
, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tenth Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta GA
Postcards from the Edge
, Visual AIDS Benefit, Metro Pictures
2008

This Just In, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Zoom+/-, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lost In Place: Phyllis Ewen, Robert Walden and Heidi Whitman, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Ninth Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta GA
Primary: An Exhibit about Drawing: Alyce Gottesman, Kathrin Hilton, Gina Ruggeri and Robert Walden, University Galleries, Ben Shahn Center, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2007

Zoom+/-, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Smack Mellon Benefit, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Museum for African Art Benefit, Museum for African Art, New York
NY
Eighth Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta GA
Postcards from the Edge
, Visual AIDS Benefit, James Cohan Gallery, NY, NY
2006

I Can’t Quite Place It, Smack Mellon, Curated by Elizabeth Grady, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, NY
Seventh Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta GA
2005

Map Quest: Mapping the Creative Process, Para/Site, Beacon, NY
Now Playing, Para/Site, Beacon, NY
In the Kitchen, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Sixth Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine Benefit, Atlanta, GA
2004

Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Brent Sikkema, NY, NY
Fifth Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine Benefit, Atlanta, GA
2003

Archi+Texture, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Galerie Lelong, NY
NY
Mapping it Out, The Work Space, NY
NY
Tickled Pink, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Dancing in the Dark I, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2002

Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Speroni Westwater Gallery, NY, NY
The Atlanta/New York Connection: Atlanta Artists Living in New York City, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Maps and Charts, Penrose Gallery Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Third Annual Art Auction, Art Papers Magazine Benefit, Atlanta, GA
2001

Looks Good on Paper, Spruill Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000

Take a Second Look: Art from Recycled Material, Spruill Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Introducing…, Vaknin/Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995

Confessions (Another Taboo Art Show), The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta GA

Press and Reviews

Mappamundi, exhibition catalog, Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
Art Papers, March/April, “Calm Chaos and Paper Beauty: Robert Walden in conversation with Lara Kristin Lentini
,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, Kenneth Baker, 2008.
Los Angeles Times, July 27, “All Charted on the Maps of Our Lives
,” LA Weekly, September 5, Peter Frank, Code Comforts, 2007.
Artnet Magazine, Artnet.com, July, Stephen Maine, “Space is the Place,” 2006.
The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Atlanta, GA, August 10, Catherine Fox, “Reading Between the Lines
,” 2003.
The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, June 1, Dan Bishoff,” Aljira’s New Gallery Emerges as Fine Display Space,” 2003.
Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA, April 10, Felicia Feaster, “Disconnect: Atlanta/New York Connection Misses Mark by a Mile
,” 2002.
The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Atlanta, GA, March 29, Jerry Cullum, “It’s Up to You New York, New York,” 2002.
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, Nov/Dec, Susan Richmond, “Take a Second Look
,” The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 2002.
July 21, Jerry Cullum, “Found Objects: Everything Old is New Again,” 2000.

Awards
Resident, Edward Albee Foundation Artist Fellowship, Montauk, NY
, 2005.
Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc, 2003.
Emerge, Emerging Artists Program, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, 2002.

Collections

Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, GA
Trammel Crow, Dallas, TX
Fidelity Insurance, Atlanta, GA