Education:
1998
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Solo Exhibitions:
2022
Performance Documents (Part 1), PRAZ DELAVALLADE, Los Angeles, CA.
2021
We Have Little Lives, R.D.F.A, Los Angeles, CA.
2014
I Think We’re Alone Now, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2011
The Place This Is, Salt Lake Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Recycle LACMA, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Lest We Forget, QED, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Thesaurus, EnView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2000
Lower Alabama, Zona Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1999
Recently Rediscovered, the Work of Nikolai Vance, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021
Funhouse, R.D.F.A, Los Angeles, CA.
2019
Making Light, Serious Topics, Barely Fair, Julius Caesar, Chicago, Il.
Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (plus Cat house), Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
2014
The Season of Spring, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Fail-Safe: Discomfort Close to Home, Craft Alliance, St Louis, MO
Gallery Tally, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
East of Encino, North of MOCA, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Teach-In, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2012
Interviews, Curio, Venice, CA
Fontbron Academy: No Nutritional Value: An Introduction to Modern Food, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Fontbron Academy: Tear Down These Walls! A Frank Discussion on Home Repair, GuestHaus Residencey, Los Angeles, CA
Fontbron Academy: Moveon.now: Tomorrow’s Transportation Today, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Fontbron Academy: Aggressive Zoology: How to Avoid and Animal Attack, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fontbron Academy: 8 Steps: A User’s Guide to Addiction, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Fontbron Academy: Don’t Be Sad: Happiness Through Beauty, For Your Art on Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA
Baker’s Dozen 4, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2011
Narratives of the Perverse - II, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Horror of Tradition, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Against The Grain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Fair Exchange: Los Angeles Artists Engage the L.A. County Fair, Millard Sheets Gallery, L.A. County Fair Grounds, Pomona , CA
Organica, EnView Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2005
Sugartown, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Altered State, Analogue Press, Los Angeles, CA
Not Easel Art, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA
In Bloom, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Best of Collage Party, Outpost, Los Angeles, CA
2004
AC, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Art Mart, Ghetto Gloss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
On Your Own Device, Koning Willem II College, Tilburg, Netherlands
Minimal Art Discount, Du Vague à l’Art, Luxembourg
Found Stolen Video Show, Mobius, Boston, MA
1997
Luminous Code, Texas City, TX
Selected Bibliography:
2017
Janet Marstine. Critical Pratice: Artists, Museums, Ethics, Routledge Press, 2017.
Steven Luber. Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present, Harvard University Press, 2017.
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, Issue #133, 2017
Alessandro Marzo. “Robert Fontenot: gesti che tradiscono una forte intimità”, TOH!, September 14, 2021.
2016
Subhadra Das. “Happily Never After: A Moral Proposition for the Management of Museum Collections”.” UCL Museums & Collections Blog, February 11 2016.
2015
Jill Morena. “Museum Life: The big “D”.” Worn Through, September 8, 2015
2014
Stephan Horbelt. “The Gay Agenda, Don’t Miss the Homo Riot.” Frontiers, March 19 -April 1, 2014.
2013
Marie-Anna Tseliou. “Radical Craft Interventions in Museums and Galleries.” Engage 33: Critcal Craft. Karen Raney (ed.) engage, The National Association for Gallery Education, 2013.
2012
Vincent Dilio. “Artists in T-shirts: Robert Fontenot.” Informant Bureau, December 12,2012.
Julie Grist. “Life Lessons Through the Lens of Art.” Larchmont Buzz, July 6, 2012.
Daniel Rolnik. “Artist Interview: Robert Fontenot’s Bread Dough Sculptures” Beautiful/Decay, April 4, 2012.
2011
Ryan Whitecar. “This is the place (where we will see bread dough sculptures).” UVU Review, April 18, 2011
Becky Wright. “Utah icons rendered in bread dough.” Standard-Examiner, March 31, 2011.
Glen Warchol. “Art preview: Utah’s distinctive places rise via bread-dough icons.” The Salt Lake Tribune, March 25, 2011
2010
Garth Johnson. “De-Accessories: The Recycle LACMA Project.” FiberArts, April-May, 2010.
2009
Vanessa Romo. “Forget Ashes To Ashes: In L.A., It's Art To Art.” Weekend Edition, October 11, 2009.
Candace Jackson. “An Artist Transforms a Museums Leftovers.” Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2009.
Kurt Anderson. “A Slight at the Museum.” Studio 360, September 4, 2009.
Lauren Friedman. “Recycling a Museum’s ‘Trash” Back Into Art.” PBS Newshour ART BEAT, Augus 12, 2009.
Jillian Steinhauer. “Robert Fontenot on Recycling LACMA.” ArtInfo, August 6, 2009.
Siel Ju, “Ex-museum art, upcycled” Mother Nature Network, July 27, 2009.
Rita Gonzalez. “Raiding and Recycling the Collection.” Unframed, July 23, 2009.
Heather Schedel. “Rags to Recyclables: Robert Fontenot’s Deaccession Reinventions.” FLAVORWIRE, July 22, 2009
Tyler Green. “Critiquing Deaccessioning by Creating.” Modern Art Notes, July 22, 2009.
Lee Rosenbaum. “’Recycle LACMA’: Hilarious Send-Up of Deaccessioning, LA-Style.” CultureGrrl, July 21, 2009.
2008
Christopher Bedford. “Against the Grain.” Frieze, November – December, 2008.
Carol Cheh. “Against the Grain.” THE, September 2008.
Leah Ollman. “Reaping What They Sew.” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2008.
Taras Matla. “Artists Bound Together by the Common Thread of Tradition.” 20 Minutes into the Future, August 15,2008
Leah Ollman. “A Show’s Artists in a State of Unrest.” Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2008.
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer. “Against the Grain.” Art Forum, July 28, 2008
2006
Julian Bermudez. “’Organica’ at Enview Grows on Observer.” Grunion Gazette, August 10, 2006.
2005
Gendy Alimurumg. “The Handmade Life.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 6, 2005.
James Scarborough. “Show Offers New Word for Art – Needlepoint.” Grunion Gazette, July 28, 2005.
2004
“Goings on About Town: A.C.” The New Yorker, September 6, 2004.