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Robert Grosvenor

June 8–August 24, 2025

Robert Grosvenor has eluded artistic categorization during his long career, producing diverse, singular works that explore the spatial dynamics between object, architecture, and viewer. Part of the seminal exhibition Primary Structures (1966) at the Jewish Museum in New York, which introduced minimalism, Grosvenor has continued his own astonishing creative path over the following 59 years.

For this exhibition, Grosvenor presents recent works spanning sculpture and photography in the woodland Archive Gallery. It serves as a playful and significant continuation of his recent show Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery, expanding the dialogue through new spatial, formal, and contextual provocations. 

“I was drawn to strange juxtapositions of things—why one thing is next to another, and how one thing next to another becomes something completely different.”
 —Robert Grosvenor, The Brooklyn Rail, 2024 

In the sun-washed gallery, an altered orange scooter, a finned boat, and a lettered yellow construction share space—each blending found objects with handmade elements in Grosvenor’s distinct sculptural language. On an adjacent wall, vivid color photographs highlight his focus on overlooked voids, unexpected configurations, and humorous details. 

“Just as the sculptor who reveals a figure buried in a marble block, Grosvenor reveals the inspirations of industrial geometry, buried in our lack of attention.”

—Steven Holl, from the Robert Grosvenor exhibition brochure at ‘T’ Space, 2025

 

Images:

Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, circa 2000-2013, photograph, image: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)

Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, 2023, fiberglass, aluminum and polyurethane paint, 40 x 64 x 190 in. (101.6 x 162.6 x 482.6 cm)

Robert Grosvenor, untitled, 2019, wood, paint and aluminum, 6 x 24 x 3 in. (15.2 x 61 x 7.6 cm)

Robert Grosvenor, untitled, 2020, Valmobile scooter circa 1961 with Nason acrylic enamel paint, rabbit’s foot keychain, key, 27 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 14 in. (69.9 x 62.2 x 35.6 cm)

© Robert Grosvenor. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Photos: Steven Probert

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Biography

Robert Grosvenor (b. 1937, New York) has eluded artistic categorization during his long career, producing diverse, singular works that explore the spatial dynamics between object, architecture, and viewer. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France, and the Universitá di Perugia in Italy. In the 1960s, he was included in the seminally important group exhibitions Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, 1966) and Minimal Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1968). One-person exhibitions of Grosvenor’s work have been presented at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (1992); the Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2005); the Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2017); and the ICA Miami (2019). Grosvenor was included in the Whitney Biennial in 1968, 1973, and 2010 and the Venice Biennial in 2022. Grosvenor is included in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Storm King Art Center, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Serralves Museum, Porto; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others. Grosvenor lives and works in Long Island, NY.

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