Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York City  

AWARDS    

1995 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant

1970 Caps Grant, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS   

1999 "Big Bungalow Suite" Polk Museum, Lakeland, FLA
1998 "Big Bungalow Suite" University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
I Space, University of Illinois, Chicago, ILL
"Big Bungalow Suite" University of Nevada, Las Vegas Museum of
Art, NV
1997 Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Big Bungalow Suite" Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps
College, Claremont, CA
1996 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
"Big Bungalow Suite" Arizona State University Museum of Art,
Tempe, AZ
1995 "Adornments" Hirschl and Adler Gallery, NYC
"Big Bungalow Suite" University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton, NY
1994 "Big Bungalow Suite" Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
1991 Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
1990 Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC
1989 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA
Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
1985 Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
1984 Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
1983 Fondation du Chateau de Jau, Case de Pene, FRANCE
1982 Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WISC
Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, FRANCE 1981
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
James Mayor Gallery, London, ENG
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA (retrospective)
1980 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FRANCE
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
1979 Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, GERMANY
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
l978 Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
1977 Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS   

1996 "Inside: The Work of St. Clair Cemin, Joel Otterness and Others"
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1994 Palm Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1993 Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
1989 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1988 "The Flower Show" Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, ILL
Manufactures du Sevres, Porcelains, FRANCE
1987 "A View of the Workshop: Selections from Tyler Graphics"
Katonah Gallery, NY
"Art in Fashion/Fashion in Art" Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
1986 "House and Garden: 10th Anniversary Exhibition" Nassau
County Museum of Art Roslyn, NY
"After Matisse" Independent Curators, Inc. NYC 1985
"Anniottanta" Luogo d'Esponsizione, Bologna, Italy
1984 "Flower as Image in Contemporary Art," Wave Hill Gallery,
Bronx, NY
"The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters," Wadsworth
Atheneum; Hartford, CT
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture" Museum
of Modern Art, NYC
"The Restoration of Painterly Figuration" Kitakyushi Municipal
Museum, Japan
"American Art Scene l970" organized by Whitney Museum and
travelled to La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Museo
Tamayo, Mexico City; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh;
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
1983 "Content in Abstraction" High Musem of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture & Design"
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
"A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank AG
Zurich
" La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
"Back to the USA" Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland and travelled
to Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn Germany; Wurttembergischer
kunstverin, Stuttgart, Germany
1982 "Paintings and Drawings from the Sidney Janis Gallery, New
York" Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"Collaboration Patsy Norvell and Robert Zakanitch" Sidney Janis
Gallery, NYC and travelled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm
Beach, FLA
1981 "Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1980 "Open 80" 39th Biennale, US Pavillion, Vencie, Italy travelled to
Kunst foreningen Museum, Copenhagen; Henie Onstad Museum,
Norway; Biblioteca National, Madrid, Spain; Gulbenkian Museum,
Lisbon, Portugal
1979 "Pattern Nouvelle Peinture Americaine:" Galerie d'Art
Contemporain des Musees de Nice, France travelled to Galerie
Alexandra Monnett, Brussels, Belgium
1976 "Ten Approaches to the Decorative" Alessandra Gallery, New
York, NY
1974 "Continuing Abstraction in American Art" Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1973 "Whitney Biennial" Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY
"The Way of Color" Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1971
"The Structure of Color" Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Recent Acquisitions" Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Kolner Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
1968 "New Art USA-Baroque-Minimal" Modern Art Museum, Munich,
Germany
1967 "Whitney Annual" Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS        

American Can Company, Greenwich, CT
American Telephone & Telegraph, New York, NY
Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. New York, NY
Frances and Sydney Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA
Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwauke, WI
Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Chicago, ILL
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Musee de Strasbourg, FRANCE
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton,NJ
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Rothschild Bank, Zurich, Switzerland
Tremaine Collection, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

COMMISSIONS        

1999 Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
1998 Miami Cultural Center, Ceasar Pellis & Associates

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY  

David Pagel : “The Curio Series,” catalogue essay, Locks Gallery,
Philadelphia PA, 1999

Carter Rattcliff‘: “The Politics of Ornamentation”
Art in America, April 1998

Larger Than Life, catalogue, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,
Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1997

Hunter Drohowjosha Philp, Sunday Calendar, L.A. Times,
Sept. 7, 1997

Jean Feinberg: “The Passion and Power Builds: the Ogre series of
Robert Zakanitch,” Arts Magazine, October 1985

Arthur Danto: “Colossal Canvases: Big Bungalow Suite,” The Nation,
March 28, 1994

John Perrault: “The Cultivated Canvas,” Art in America, March 1982

Who's Who in America, Marquise Publications, since 1980

Carter Rattcliff, “ The fate of gesture:Jackson Pollock and post war
American Art,” Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996

Irving Sandler, “Art of the Post-Modern Era," Harper Collier, 1996

Marilyn Oliver Hapgood, “Wallpaper and the Arts,” Abbeyville Press,
1992

Daniel Wheeler, “Art since mid-century:1945 to the present,”
Vendome Press, 1991

Robert Jensen and Patricia Conway, “Ornamentalism,” forward by
Paul Goldberg, Crown Press, 1983

Elliot Caplan, Robert R. Zakanitch, feature film premiered in NYC
1982

EDUCATION        1954-58
BA Cooper Union, New York, NY and affiliate, Newark School of Fine
and Industrial Art, Newark, NJ
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TEACHING        1999
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK

1996
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA

1988
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK

1977
The Art Institute of Chicago, visiting artist program, Chicago,IL

1972-73
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
SELECTED LECTURES AND PANELS        1999
Polk Museum of Art, panel with Dave Hickey and Carter Rattcliff,
Lakeland, FL
Locks Gallery, interview by critic, Gerard Brown, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Hunter College, New York, NY
Ceres Gallery, panel with Paul Brach: "...in response to the Womens
Art Movement," New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA

1997
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1996
University of Iowa Museum, interview by art historian, Arthur Danto,
Iowa Falls, IA

1994
Empire State College, New York, NY

1993
University of Texas, panel with Arthur Danto, Peter Schjeldahl:
"Whatever Happened to Beauty," Austin, TX

1992
University of South Florida, panel, Tampa, FL

1991
Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
Vermont Studio School, VT

1990
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK

1989
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK

1988
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Lone Wolf, OK

1978
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

1977
CAA, panel, Washington, DC
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1973
University California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valen

1972
CAA, panel, Los Angeles, CA

1971
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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