Whitman, Robert, 1935-

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Dates:
Birth 1935
Gender:
Male
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones. Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.

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Subjects:

  • Conceptual art
  • Happenings (Art)
  • Performance art

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  • Artists, American

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