Born: 1946, Santa Ana, California
Education: 1970, Univ. of California, Irvine, B.A. 1970-1971, Univ. of California, Irvine, Graduate Program 2000,
Calif. State University, Northridge, M.F.A.
Education
1970 U.C. Irvine, B.A.
1971 U.C. Irvine, Graduate Program
2000 Cal State Northridge, M.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 As-is Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Bob’s Pogo Bar, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
2014 Bob’s Your Uncle Bar, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
2013 Earth’s Pillars (Sound Sculpture), presented at The Artists Club Coffre-Fort, Brussels, Belgium
2011 The Robert Wilhite Store for Art and Design, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Musical Drawings and Sculptures, Gallery Neuartig, San Pedro, CA
2009 The Bomb, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002 Off- Main Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Huguette Caland Studio, Venice, CA
1996 California State University, Northridge, CA
1988 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
1976 Broxton Gallery, Westwood, CA
1973 Newspace Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2019 Ariels, KP projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 The Side by Side Gallery, Berlin
2017 Enter Art Foundation, Berlin
2015 Fox, Henhouse and the Crow, Brussels Art Fair, Belgium
2013 IGLU, a play by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite performed at The Rufino Tamayo Museum Theater, Chapultepec Park, Mexico, D.F.
Sponsored and presented by the JUMEX Collection, Mexico, D.F.
2013 Reading of: Espahor ledet ko uluner! by Guy de Cointet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2013 Group Exhibition,Grazer Kunstverein, Palais Trauttmansdorff, Burggasse 4, A-8010 Graz
2012 Chinese Cocktail, A Concert, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Theater, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, Pacific Standard Time
Performance sponsored by X-TRA Magazine and Getty Grant, Curated By Shana Lutker and Aram Moshayedi
2011 IGLU, a play by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, Harold M. Williams Auditorium, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Pacific Standard Time Performance
2011 5-Lite, Larry Bell- Laddie John Dill- Robert Irwin- Ed Moses- Robert Wilhite MK2 Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Pacific Standard Time Exhibition
2011 Civic Virtue, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Pacific Standard Time Exhibition
2011 Best Kept Secret, UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971, Laguna Beach Art Museum,
Laguna beach, CA, Pacific Standard Time Exhibition
2011 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 IGLU, a play by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, If I can’t Dance I don’t Want to be Part of the Revolution, Frascati WG, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, partially sponsored by the Stedelijk Museum
2010 IGLU, a play by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2009 The Beat Goes On, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009 Inaugural 09, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Reno7, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Box-Fan-Blots, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Group Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
06-07 Making Words With Things, Centre régional d’Art Contemporain du Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
2006 Group Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 Coast to Coast, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Guy de Cointet, Who Is This Guy? MAMCO Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
2004 Group Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 Group Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Marfa, TX
2001 Designs for Living, Palos Verdes, CA
2001 Art in the Circle, Manhattan Beach, CA
2000 Public Library, Boulder, CO
1999 Bill 1999, One String Quartet, Al's Bar, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1991 Artists Chairs, Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA
1987 Chair Exhibition, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1985 Donald Judd/ Robert Wilhite, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1985 Furniture and Fashion, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
1985 Future Furniture, Newport Beach, CA
1985 New Music America, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Group Exhibition, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1984 American Craft Traditions, San Francisco International Airport, CA
1984 Furniture Furnishings: Subject and Object, Rhode Island School of Design, R.I. Curated by Scott Burden
1983 Directions 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1982 Alumni Faculty Exhibition, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1982 Sonic Art, Cal State San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
1981 With More Than One Sense, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1981 New Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
1981 California Woodworking, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1980 Furnishings by Artists, Otis/Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Mach One, Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
1979 Parallelogram, PS1, Long Island City, NY
1979 Parallelogram, Intermix, Los Angeles, CA, in conjunction with "Sound" at LAICA
1979 Visual/Musical Permutations, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA
1979 Sound, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Robert Smith and Robert Wilhite
1978 Forms For Sound, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1978 Art for the Children Museum, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1978 100+, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Chinese Cocktail, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, in conjunction with Forms For Sound exhibition
1978 Hypno-Disc, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1977 Ramona, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA,
sponsored by Some Serious Business
1977 Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, in conjunction with Live From L.A. exhibition, curated by Chris Burden
1977 IGLU, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, The Theatre Vanguard, Sponsored by Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Cigar, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA.
1977 Ethiopia, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by The San
Francisco Art Institute, The University Art Museum, and Diana Fuller.
1977 Ethiopia, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 Live From LA, Curated by Chris Burden. LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Works From Ethiopia, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1976 Beyond the Artists Hands, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
1976 Sequence Photographs, Broxton Gallery, Westwood, CA
1975 Group Show, Newspace Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1976 Ethiopia, a collaboration by Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, Barnsdall Park Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, Sponsored by Cirrus Gallery
1976 Buckeroo-One For All, Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Fire Paintings, Floating Wall Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1975 San Francisco Chronical Concert, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Los Angeles Times Concert, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Marine Flare, Newport Beach, CA
1975 L.A. Whitewater, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Empire State Building Glider, New York, NY
1974 Drawings, Newspace Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Public Art Commissions
1985 Gyro / Cone, sound sculpture, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, CA Commissioned by the New Music America Festival 1985
1983 Jade Garden, Artist Apartment, Created in collaboration with David Ireland, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. Funded by
a matching Grant from the National Endowment For The Arts
Records
1979 Sounds From Shapes
1979 Sound, Recorded documentation of LAICA Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Buckaroo/ One for All
1975 Bob Wilhite in Concert
Fellowships and Grants
1986 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment For the Arts.
1981 Artist Fellowship Grant, N.E.A.
1979 Artist Fellowship Grant, N.E.A.
1977 CETA Grant for Art In Public Places.
Teaching Experience
2018-Present Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Werkplaatz Typographie, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2013 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 HEAD, (Sound Sculpture) Master Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland
2012 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
89-00 Santa Monica College of Design, Art, and Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
99-00 Cal State Northridge, Northridge, CA
95-96 Cal State Northridge, Northridge, CA
1980 Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1979 Otis-Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1978 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1978 Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1977 U.C. Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, Goleta, CA
Additional Accomplishments
68-69 3 Meter NCAA Division II, 3 meter diving champion. University of California. Irvine