Robert Hodge
Born in 1979 in Houston, TX
Lives and works in Houston, TX
EDUCATION
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
2000-03 Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
“TBA” David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas
2020
“Resilient” Public Art Post-It Mural , Greenway , Houston , Texas
Lawndale Arts Center” Leroy’s Installation/ Last Concert Album Release” Between the Devil and the Deep”
2019
“Untitled” University of Texas Arlington, Texas
“It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back” Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Texas
“The Low End Theory” David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas
“CitySinging” installation “Leroy’s”Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas
2018
“Between the Devil and the Deep” Exhibition review and Album release. Main Street Projects
“Black On Both Sides” Kulture Gallery, Houston Texas
“If You know… You Know” Pecan Library Art Gallery, South Texas College
2017
“She lives in My Lap” Artist in Residence (AIR) Pittsburgh, PA
“The Beauty Box” in collaboration w/ Alisha Wormsley and the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh,PA
“For the Culture” August Wilson Center of African American Culture, Pittsburgh, PA
Volta 13 Basel, Freight+Volume, Basel, Switzerland
“Rhythm For the Suffering”, Freight+Volume, New York, NY
“Between the Devil and the Deep”, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
20ft Tall, Arts+Leisure, New York, NY
2016
Gentrification: The Real Urban Living, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX
2015
Young Masters NYC show on LES/ site 109 Gallery
2014
Destroy and Rebuild, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, TX
Word is Bond, PEVETO Gallery, Houston, TX
2013
“A Memory Worth Fighting For”, PEVETO Gallery, Houston, TX
“Promise You Will Sing About Me”, Uptown Gallery Space, Memphis, TN
“Living in the Past Is My Future”, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX , curated by Vicki Meek
2010
“Niko Hapo Bodo”, Khon’s, Houston, TX
2008
“Black Maybe”, 3 Muse Gallery, Houston, TX
“Black Maybe”, Coma Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
“Sensory Overload”, Tipping Point, Houston, TX
2007
“Turn off the Radio: Proper Listening”, H Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
Grand Light Lodged Between Two Roads, 3 Muse Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Icon, Premium Goods, Houston, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
“Slowed and Throwed” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
“This Is America” | Art USA Today Kunsthal KAdE, AR Amersfoort-NL
2019
Wider West and Deeper East. Wider Seoul , South Korea
“TBA” Robert Hodge and Alicia Eggert, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington Texas
“Citysings” Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2018
“Reflections: Hip Hop and Subculture” Winston Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Alien vs Predator, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
“Untitled” Issue #1 Gallery, Houston, Texas
2017
Houston vs. Dallas, Blue Orange Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
Friendly Fire, Station Museum, Houston, TX
Politics of Sound, Archive at Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
2014
TBG:Presents, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Proper Listening, Mestize Gallery, Houston, TX
Orbital Two, Talento Bilingue de Houston-TBH Center, Houston, TX
Hieroglyphics, Houston Community College ArtHub Gallery, Houston, TX
Untitled, Coincide Space, Houston, TX
2013
The Beauty Box, Everything Records Collective, public installation funded by Idea Fund and Houston Arts Alliance
Coming Through the Gap in a Mountain on an Elephant, Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX
2012
Anthem, Bastrop House, Houston, TX, curated by Gabriel Martinez
Untitled, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte NC
eetFunk, M2 Gallery, Houston, TX
Black Panther Carl Hampton Fundraiser, El Dorado Ballroom, Houston, TX
Box 13 Art Space Fundraiser, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, TX
Palais des Beux Arts, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
25th Anniversary Exhibition & Gala, African American Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2011
Untitled, Allen Center/Continental Center Exhibition, Houston, TX
Untitled, Eat Gallery, Houston, TX
2010
Dare to go Further, Lawndale Art Center. Houston, TX
2009
Amnesia Project 7, Contemporary Museum of East Africa (Go Down Center), Nairobi, Kenya
Paya Paa Now, Paya Paa Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Awakenings Movement, Watatu Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Montrose Art Soiree, Sky Bar Building, Houston, TX
Art is Life, Fu Collective+ Gallery, Denver, CO
NeoPopStreetFunk, Nance Street Gallery, Houston, TX
Love Song, The Art Hotel Gallery, Dallas, TX
Black History Tribute, The Art Hotel Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008
Art-Official Intelligence, Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX
Selected Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
5A City Wide Exhibition, Rice University, Houston, TX
5A City Wide Exhibition, MOCAH, Houston, TX
Otherwise Constricted, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Stand Tall, Gallery 2111, Houston, TX
Sam Cooke Theory, Artist Front, Houston, TX
Heros Alter Egos, Space125 Gallery, Houston, TX
Some One Else, Bosque Gallery, Houston, TX
Early Bird, Catalina Coffee House, Houston, TX
Houston Collects, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2007
Museum of Fine Arts 5A City Wide Exhibition, Houston, TX
Active, Midtown Art Center/ Collective, Houston, TX
Our Neighborhood, Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX
Future Present Exhibition Series: 2, Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX
Recent Works, The GRAB, Houston, TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Art Homes Tour, Riverside Lofts, Houston, TX
Fables and Myths, H Gallery, Houston, TX
Love Movement, Exhibition Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX
Don’t Sleep Exhibition, Premium Goods, Houston, TX
The Beautiful Struggle, Art Crawl 2007, 3Muse Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
Art Crawl 2006, 3 Muse Gallery, Houston, TX
Venus Flytrap, 3 Muse Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Freedom Fighters, Premium Goods, Houston, TX
Untitled, Mocha Life, Houston, TX
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Fauerso, Neil. “Artpace Spring Artist-in-Residence Exhibition,”
Glasstire, April 3, 2017
McFadden, Michael. “SHOW UP: Robert Hodge,”
Arts and Culture Texas, March 20, 2017
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Robert Hodge,”
Artforum, November 14, 2016
Anspon, Catherine D. “Soul Man: This Art Phenom Burst Onto the Houston Scene By Listening to His Atlanta Roots (and the Music),”
Paper City,November 14, 2016
Elliott, Amber. “Meet ‘Houston’s Most Interesting Men’ Class of 2016,”
Houston Chronicle, September 7, 2016
“Robert Hodge: Destroy and Rebuild” Catalogue,
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, TX, 2014
Binkovitz, Leah. “24 Hours at a bus stop: It’s art. ‘The Black Guys’ Third Ward nod to the Art Guys,”
Houston Chronicle, December 17, 2014
Glentzer, Molly. “Robert Hodge’s ‘Destroy and Rebuild’ confronts European art with hip-hop culture,”
Houston Chronicle, October 11, 2014
Schulze, Troy. “Heroes Alter Egos,”
Houston Press, Capsule Art Reviews, October 15, 2008
Danna, Monica. “Robert Hodge: Musician/Artist,”
The Houstonist, September 28, 2007
Rhodes, Dusti. “Turn Off the Radio,”
Houston Press, September 27, 2007
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND JURIES
2018
Houston Arts Alliance Established Artist Grant
2019
Lawndale Arts Center residency program
2017
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh
2015
Idea Fund- Andy Warhol Foundation Recipient : 2 ½ years :The Juneteenth Album
2014
City of Houston: Thanksgiving Parade Float: In memorial to Cleveland Turner AKA: Flower Man
Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Young Masters prize finalist in London ,England
2013
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant
Houston Arts Alliance Established Artist Grant
Project Row Houses/Nathan Cummings Grant- Funded “Lightin’ Hopkins Bus Stop”
HOST “gimmie the loot” grant- The Beauty Box
2012
Idea Fund Grant / Andy Warhol Foundation Recipient
2009
Houston Art Alliance, Individual Artist Grant Juror
2008
Texas Neighbors Juried Exhibition, Dallas, TX
Houston Arts Alliance, (Emerging) Individual Artist grant
2007
Selected “Best Of Show” in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 5A City Wide Exhibition
The Big Show Lawndale Art Center Juried Exhibition, finalist
The Orange Show Charity Event