Born                       New York City, 1942

 

Education             Yale School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A., B.F.A., 1969

                                Queens College, CUNY, B.A., 1965                            

                          

Solo                       -Robert Schecter, M55 Art, Long Island City, NY, 2009               

Exhibitions          -The Painting Center, Project Room, New York, NY 2004

                               -The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 2001

                               -Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY   1983

                               -De Cordova Museum, Beyond Measurement, Lincoln, MA, 1982

                               -Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY   1982

                               -Bertha Urdang Gallery, White and Black, New York, NY   1981

                               -Bertha Urdang Gallery, Systems and Expressions, New York, NY   1980

                               -Gallery 641, Washington, DC, 1976

                               -Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY   1975

                               -Telfair Museum of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA, 1972

 

Selected               -Painters who Sculpt / Sculptors who Paint, M55 Art, Chelsea, NY, 2014

Group                   -Five Sculptors, Able Fine Art NY Gallery, New York, NY 2011

Exhibitions          -Reload, M55 Art, Long Island City, New York, 2008

                               -Group Exhibition, M55Art, Long Island City, New York, NY 2008

                               -The Convergence of Art and Poetry, The Museum at F.I.T., NY, NY, 2003      

                               -The Loft Pioneer Show, The Puffin Room, New York, NY1996

                               -Eventa 360, Pino Molica Gallery, New York, NY1992

                               -Smart Art, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, MA1985

                               -The Ways of Wood, Sculpture Center, New York, NY1982

                               -The Destroyed Print, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY   1982

                               -Artists’ Tribute to Bertha Urdang, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1982

                               -Ten-Year Survey, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY   1982

                               -Dark Thoughts, Black Paintings, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, NY1981

                               -White and Black, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY1981

                               -Twenty-four X Twenty-four, Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT1981

                               -Systems and Expressions, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY1980

                               -O.I.A. Exhibition, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, 1978

                               -Preparatory Notes, Thinking Drawings, New York University, New York, NY, 1977

                               -Report From Soho, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY1976

                               -A Change of View, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1975

                               -Contemporary Reflections, 1971-1972, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct1972

 

Teaching               -Professor of Fine Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and 1972 - 2006

 

Publications        -Robert Schecter, Recent Work, Catalogue, Museum at FIT, 2001

                               -Smart Art, by Joseph Masheck, 1985

                               -Upstart, Arts Journal of Barnard and Columbia Colleges,

                               -“On Robert Schecter,” by Amelia Arenas, 1983

                               -Arts Magazine, March 1980, by Amy Brook Snider

                               -Arts Magazine, May 1975, by Joseph Dries

 

Grants                  State University of New York, Research Foundation, 1977

                               State University of New York, Research Foundation, 1975