Robert Colescott was born in Born in Oakland, California in 1925. He received his undergraduate degree in art at University of California, Berkeley in 1949 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. During a sojourn to Paris (1949-50), Colescott studied with Fernand Leger. Public Collections Colescott is represented in numerous public collections listed below including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as many private collections. Colescott was selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1997. He was the first African-American artist to represent the U.S. in a single-artist exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle, Washington Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, California Columbia College, Portland, Oregon Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, UW Seattle High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Hilton Hotel Collection, Portland, Oregon Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Reed College, Portland, Oregon Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Oregon Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona United States Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts University of Oregon, Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, North Carolina Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York One-Person Exhibitions 2000 "Robert Colescott: Recent Works", Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, September 16–October 28, 2000 2000 "Robert Colescott: Recent Work", G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Feb 11–Mar 25 1998–2000 "Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings, 1987–1997", United States Pavilion, 47th Venice Biennale, Italy SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM University of Nebraska at Lincoln Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1999 "Robert Colescott: Recent Work", G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov 5–Dec 20 1999 "Robert Colescott: Paintings", Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR, February 4–27 1998 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, April–June Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, January–February 1997 "Robert Colescott: Works on Paper", Van Every Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, July–September Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 1995–1996 "Robert Colescott: The One-Two Punch", Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM African American Museum, Dallas, TX 1995 Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York 1993 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1992 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL G.R. N'nambi Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1991 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO, February 1990 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, Oct 3–Nov 13 Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 6–Dec 6 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, March 10 Works on Paper, Overholland Museum, Amsterdam, April–July, 1990, Individual Gallery in Group Show, "Black USA" 1989 Recent Paintings, University of Texas, El Paso, September–October Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA July–August "Robert Colescott, A Retrospective," The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, June–July Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York 1987–1989 "Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, 1975–1986," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, and Traveling Exhibition Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX The New Museum, New York, NY Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1988 "The Eye of the Beholder: Recent Work By Robert Colescott," Modlin Fine Arts Center, Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, October Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1987 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY Rena Bransten Gallery, Drawings, San Francisco, CA "A Gift of Time," Roswell Museum and Art Center, 20th Anniversary of The Artist-in Residence Program, March 8–August 16th