Robert Schecter
Born New York City, 1942
EDUCATION
Yale School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A., B.F.A., 1969
Queens College, CUNY, B.A., 1965
TEACHING
Professor of Fine Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, 1972 – 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
-The Painting Center, Project Room, New York, NY 2004
-The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 2001
-Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1983
-De Cordova Museum, Beyond Measurement, Lincoln, MA, 1982
-Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1981
-Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1980
-Gallery 641, Washington, DC, 1976
-Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY 1975
-Telfair Museum of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA, 1972
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
-The Convergence of Art and Poetry, The Museum at F.I.T., NY, NY, 2003
-The Loft Pioneer Show, The Puffin Room, New York, NY 1996
-Eventa 360, Pino Molica Gallery, New York, NY 1992
-Smart Art, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, MA 1985
-The Ways of Wood, Sculpture Center, New York, NY 1982
-The Destroyed Print, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY 1982
-Artists’ Tribute to Bertha Urdang, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1982
-Ten Year Survery, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1982
-Dark Thoughts, Black Paintings, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, NY 1981
-White and Black, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1981
-Twenty-four X Twenty-four, Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT 1981
-Systems and Expressions, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY 1980
-O.I.A. Exhibition, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY 1978
-Preparatory Notes, Thinking Drawings, New York University, New York, NY, 1977
-Report From Soho, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, NY 1976
-A Change of View, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1975
-Contemporary Reflections, 1971-1972, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct 1972
GRANTS
State University of New York, Research Foundation, 1977
State University of New York, Research Foundation, 1975
PUBLICATIONS
-Robert Schecter, Recent Work, Catalogue, Museum at FIT, 2001
-Smart Art, by Joseph Masheck, 1985
-Upstart, Arts Journal of Barnard and Columbia Colleges, “On Robert Schecter,” by Amelia Arenas, 1983
-Arts Magazine, March 1980, by Amy Brook Snider
-Arts Magazine, May 1975, by Joseph Dries