Born: Denver CO, 1931 / Died Albuquerque NM 2006
Military Service: US Marine Corps Fighter Pilot, 1953-1957
Master of Arts Degree: University of California at Los Angeles, 1960

Seleted One-Person Exhibitions
More than 60 exhibtions since 1964, including:

2011

Robert Heinecken, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Robert Heinecken, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2003

Robert Heinecken: A Material History, The Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ

2000

Media Amnesia, Robert Heinecken, Les Recontres, Arles, France

1999

Robert Heinecken Photographist: A 35 Year Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Robert Heinecken: Editions, Suites, Portfolios Artist Books, Magazines, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995

Robert Heinecken: Miscellany, Ezell Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994

Robert Heinecken: Altered Magazines, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1992

Robert Heinecken: New Work, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Robert Heinecken: Recent Photograms, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

Robert Heinecken: Recent Work, Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, NY

1990

Gallery MIN, Tokyo, Japan

1989

Robert Heinecken: A Case Study in Finding an Appropriate TV Newswoman, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, Saint Louis

Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA

South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings, SD

Robert Heinecken: A Retrospective 1962-1989, Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, NY

Robert Heinecken Selected Works from 1966 to 1989, Sunny-Gate Photography Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1988

Robert Heinecken: The Nuclear Family, Vision Gallery, Boston, MA

1987

Robert Heinecken: New Work, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Robert Heinecken: New Work, Printworks, Chicago, IL

Television / Source / Subject: Photographic Works and Installations by Robert Heinecken, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1986

Heinecken: Selected Works from 1966-1986, Gallery MIN, Tokyo, Japan

Center for Creative Photography, Unviersity of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

1983

Works by Robert Heinecken, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MI

Robert Heinecken: Food, Sex and TV, Fotoforum Kassel, Universitat Kassel, Kassel, Germany

1982

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1981

Light Gallery, Los Angeles

Light Gallery, New York

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

1980

Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Robert Heinecken: A Selection of Photographic Work from 1960-1980, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

Werkstadt fur Fotographi, Berlin, Germany

1979

Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

Light Gallery, New York

Mary Porter Senson Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz

Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, De Kalb, IL

1978

University Gallery, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

1977

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Columbia College

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Texas Center for Photographic Studies, Dallas, TX

1976

Light Gallery, New York, NY

1974

Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1973

Fine Arts Gallery, California State College, San Bernardino, CA

Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

Light Gallery, New York, NY

1972

Robert Heinecken: Photographic Work, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

Pasadena City College Gallery, Pasadena, CA

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

1971

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

University of Oregon Gallery, Eugene, OR

1970

California State College, Northridge, CA

Phoenix College Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

Witkin Gallery, New York

1969

Thorne Hall Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

1968

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1966

Fine Arts Gallery, California State College, Los Angeles

Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

1965

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1964

Mount St. Mary’s College Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1960

Art Galleries at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
330 group exhibitions since 1964, including:

2010

The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

They Have Not The Art to Argue With Pictures, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

A Relative Expanse, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY

Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists since 1955, X Initiative, New York, NY

2002

Robert Heinecken, Robert Rauschenberg, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Making Light: Photography and Humor, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

1999

Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Beyond the Photographic Frame, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bodies of Work: Series and Obsessions, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

Looking into the Collection: Celebrity, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

Radical PAST: Contemporary Art in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

1998

John Baldesarri, Robert Heinecken, Ed Ruscha, Pace MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Collaborations 1998, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Constructed Self: Who Do You Think You Are?, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

Digital Frontiers: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in Twentieth-Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Metamorphosis: Photography in the Electronic Age, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

Photo Image: Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, PA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Photography at Princeton: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting and Teaching the History of Photography, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Photography’s Multiple Roles, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Pioneers in Digital Photography, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA

1997

Beyond Seeing: American Photography in the Twentieth Century, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO

L’Empreime (The Imprint), Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

New Realities: Hand-Painted Photographs: 1839 to the Present, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA

De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

Picture This, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Self-Portrait, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

1996

American Masters of Photography: A One-Hundred-Year Survey, Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

A Celebration of Twenty-Five Years of Light Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Graham Nash’s Greatest Hits, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

Illinois Photographers in the Nineties: The Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Nash Editions, Digital Photography, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

The Seventies: Photography in the Service of Ideas, PaceWildensteinMacgill Gallery, New York, NY

Truths and Trials: Color Photography Since 1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

1995

The Body Photographic, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Harvard Art Museum: 100 Years of Collecting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Luz y Tiempo, Foundation of Cultural Television, Mexico City, Mexico

Metamorphosis: Photography in the Electronic Age, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phildalphia, PA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Moholy-Nagy and Present Company, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Twentieth-Century Photography, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

What Photographs Look Like, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1994

After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monson Collection, Henry Art Gallery University of Washington, Seattle, WA

The Camera I, Self Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Experimental Visions: The Evolution of the Photogram Since 1919, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Forecast: Shifts in Direction, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Lessons in Life: Photographic Works from the Boardroom Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Metamorphosis: Photography in the Electronic Age, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phildalphia, PA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

New Acquisitions / New Work / New Directions 2: Photography from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Permanent Collection Exhibition, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Fictions, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

Publications

Recto/Verso, a portfolio of 12 photograms, published by Landweber/Artists, Berkeley CA, 1988
Docudrama, 1986

He/She, 1980

Heinecken, a major monograph edited by James Enyeart, Friends of Photography, Carmel CA and Light Gallery, New York NY, 1980

Vary Cliché, 1978

Are You Rea, a portfolio of 25 lithographs, 1968

Just Good Eats…, 1971

Manmag, 1969

Formal Teaching Experience

University of California at Los Angeles Department of Art (photography and related media), 1960–1991. Chairman of 45 MFA. thesis committees, 1964–1991. Initiated graduate program in photography, 1964. Appointed Professor of Art, 1975. Vice Chairman UCLA Department of Art, 1979–1980. Chair, UCLA Department of Art, 1988–1989. Professor Emeritus, July 1991.

Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL, spring 1983

Columbia College, Chicago IL, spring 1983

Harvard University, summer 1971

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fall 1970

San Francisco Art Institute, summer 1970

State University of New York, Buffalo, summer 1969

Informal Teaching Experience

Visiting artist, workshops, juror, and lecturer extensively in USA, 1967–present

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Photography in France, Paris, France, and Fotographica ‘92, Breda, The Netherlands, 1992

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Sunny Gate Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1986

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1984

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Fotoforum, University of Kassell, GDR, and Royal College of Art, London, England, 1983

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at UNCA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1981

Presentation in conjunction with exhibition at Werkstadt fur Photographie, Berlin, GDR, 1979

Presentations in conjunction with exhibitions at Venecia, Venice, Italy and Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, 1979

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

UCLA Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 1960–present

Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education, 1992

Polaroid Corporation grants to use 20" × 24" camera, 1984, 1985, 1988

National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist's Grant, 1977, 1981, 1986

Members' Award, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, 1984

Photographer of the Year, Friends of Photography, Carmel CA, 1985

Guggenheim Fellowship in Art, 1976

Professional Activities

Work and writings have been reproduced in numerous national and international publications.

Substantial acquisitions and archive maintained at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. Archive was initiated in 1979 and has continued to collect representative works.

Curated 3 major exhibitions at Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1968, 1976, 1985.

Personal library held at the UCLA Art Library, Los Angeles CA

Served as Chair of the Society for Photographic Education, 1971 & 1972.

Represented in the United States by Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill Gallery, New York NY and Los Angeles CA

Collections
50 permanent public collections and numerous private collections
The Recto/Verso portfolio has been acquired by the following:

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Bank of America / Security Pacific Bank Collection

Carnation Collections, Los Angeles CA Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ

Kiyosato Museum, Kiyosato, Japan

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago IL

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

University of Colorado, Boulder CO

University of Maryland, Catonsville MD