Statement on Paintings:
"For the last ten years, I’ve been producing paintings of scenes and subjects that evoke unsatisfied senses of desire or loss. While there are moments of discovery within the process, an inability to fully understand my interest in the subject is a requirement to begin. The hints that do exist don’t always point in the same direction; the only common thread being some combination of experiential presence, longing, memory and mystery. Rather than affect any of these paintings with overt comment or critique, my interest is in what meaning can be derived from them in the aggregate, and what, if anything, they will reveal about the places and subjects they depict after they have left my studio for the places—of one kind or another—that are reserved for art. With American Transcendentalists and Whitman as my heroes of the faith, I hope to explore the landscapes of time and loss discovered more recently by the earnest doubts of W.G. Sebald, Cormac McCarthy, and Werner Herzog."
Robert Bingaman is an artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2016, his most recent body of work, the Memorial series, was exhibited in Kansas City. In 2014, selections from Night Pools were shown in a solo exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS. And he expanded upon the pool motif with large- scale paintings for Until It’s All You See, a solo exhibition at Studios Inc, a three-year residency program in Kansas City. Robert’s work is in collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Capitol Federal Hall at the University of Kansas, Emprise Bank Collection of Art, and significant private collections across the United States.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Memorial, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2015 Until It’s All You See, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2014 Night Pools, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2012 Successu, Central Missouri University, Warrensburg, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Elemental Forces, Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN
Sweep, Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, MN
2016 Chlorine (CL), All is Fair, Kansas City, Missouri
2015 New American Paintings: Midwest Edition, Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Studios Inc: 2015, Studios Inc, Kansas City, Missouri
2014 On Behalf of One’s Obsessions, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
9, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile Biennial, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
The Center is a Moving Target, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Sunday Painter, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Studios Inc: 2013, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2013 Thanks for the Warning, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Urban Suburban, Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2012 Have I been here before?, La Esquina Gallery, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Auxiliary Power, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS
Curatorial Studies, Subterranean Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Frontier, Paragraph Gallery, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
AIM TOO HIGH, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Shallow, Red Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Untitled Group Exhibition, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
What’s Up, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 Untitled Group Exhibition, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition: American Nocturnes, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
