Robert Leroy Hodge

Grounded in the rich continuum of African American history and cultural expression, Robert Hodge’s work celebrates resilience and reclamation, with his commemorations of African American musical and cultural icons serving to both preserve the past and illuminate the present. With a nod to “sampling culture” and Rauschenberg’s principle of working in “the gap between art and life”, Hodge’s collage-based works pair urban detritus and found objects with cut-out images, lyrics, and other signifiers of the African American experience, forming a duality of meaning wherein fragments of everyday urban life become conduits of artistic expression. Cut, sewn, scorched, and painted, Hodge collapses the space between his reclaimed materials and the traditions he invokes, suggesting alternative pathways through the self-described “layer cake” of African American history. Hodge is a recent recipient of the Artadia grant and Y.A.R residency at Casa Ocea in Merida, Mexico.

Robert Hodge Selected CV Resume

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/ SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022

“TBA” Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY

“TBA” Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Between the Devil and Deep” album release at ArtPace

2021

“DNA” David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX

2020

“Friendly Fire” Album release in collaboration with The Station Museum of Contemporary Art

“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, TX

2018

“Reflections: Hip Hop and Subculture” Winston Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, Texas

“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

Cynthia Corbett Gallery Young Masters prize finalist in London, England

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

2021 The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

2021 The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Contemporary Arts Museum

Houston, TExAS

2021 HSPVA 50 years “The Happening “Houston, TX

2021 “Slowed and Throwed” Artpace, San Antonio, TX

2021 “Everyday” Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX

2021 “Carriers” Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX

2020 “The Golden Cage” Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX

2020/2021 “Slowed and Throwed” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX

2020“This Is America” | Art USA Today Kunsthal KAdE, AR Amersfoort-NL

2019 -2020). Wider West and Deeper East. Wider Seoul, South Korea

2019 “TBA” Robert Hodge and Alicia Eggert, University of Texas at Arlington,

Arlington Texas

“Citysings” Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas

2018 Alien vs Predator, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA

2018 “Untitled” Issue #1 Gallery, Houston, Texas

2017 Houston vs. Dallas, Blue Orange Gallery, Houston, TX

2016 Friendly Fire, Station Museum, Houston, TX

2016 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

StreetFunkPop, 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, MOCHA, Houston, TX

Otherwise Constricted, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Stand Tall, Gallery 2111, Houston, TX

Sam Cooke Theory, Artist Front, Houston, TX

Heroes 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

“Artpace at 25” Artist -in-Residence from 2008-2019

The People are the light “publication made possible by Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation

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 RESIDENCIES

2022 Artadia Award

2022 A.I.R residency Pittsburgh, PA

2021 Yucatán Artist Residency at Casa Ocea

2020 DNA Residency and Exhibition

2018 Houston Arts Alliance Established Artist Grant

2018-19 Lawndale Arts Center residency program

2017 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh

2015 Idea Fund- Andy Warhol Foundation Recipient: 2 1⁄2 years: The Juneteenth Album

2015 Joan Mitchell Center residency program

2014 City of Houston: Thanksgiving Parade Float: In memorial to Cleveland Turner AKA: Flower Man

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