Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (1938-1973, Passaic, New Jersey) work spans from land art, Spiral Jetty (1970) and Partially Buried Woodshed (1970), to sculpture, non sites, writings, projects and proposals, collages and detail drawings. He was fascinated by concepts of duality, entropy, and questions of how we might find our place in the world, radically rethinking landscapes through philosophy and science fiction. Smithson's works are in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recently his work has been in solo exhibitions at the University of Queensland, Brisbane (2018); Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey (2014); Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2013); Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2012); and Center for Visual Arts, Emmen, Netherlands (2011). In 2004 an important retrospective opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, traveled to the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, and ended at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2005.