b. 1939, Emporia, Kansas
Lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Education
1958-62
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
North Room: Robert Lostutter, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Kyōsei, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2012
Garden of Opiates, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
The Singing Bird Room of Robert Lostutter, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2009
Early Girls, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2002
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1999
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1995
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
LedisFlam Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Robert Lostutter 1969-1989, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL and Dekalb, IL
1987
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984
Robert Lostutter: The Watercolors, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; traveled to The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, MO; and Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY 1980 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975
Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1973
Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1971
Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Some Kind of Monster Roster, Analog Diary, New York
2020
Hybrids: E’wao Kagoshima, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Robert Lostutter, and Kembra Pfahler, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
Uncommon Accumulation: The Mark and Judy Bednar Collection of Chicago Imagism, The Madison Musuem of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Condo London, The approach, London, England
2015
Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Homegrown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012
About Face, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Painthing on the Möve, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England. Curated by Albert Oehlen, John Corbett, and Jim Dempsey
Animal Instinct, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2002
Union League Club, Chicago, IL Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
Self-Portraits 2000, Printworks, Chicago, IL
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1999
Small Works, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
Landfall Press, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Seriesseriesseries, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
1996
Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
48th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
Landfall Press: Twenty-five Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1995
Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI
1993
Union League Invitational Show, Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Imagery: Incongruous Juxtaposition, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
Realism, Figurative Painting and the Chicago Viewpoint: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
LedisFlam Gallery, New York
1989
Chicago Work: Art from the Windy City, Bruce Gallery, Erie Art Museum, Edinboro, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1988
The Developing Image: Continuity and Change in the Chicago Artistic Tradition, The Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1987
Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL Endangered Species, Kine Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985
39th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Last Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1983-85
Chicago: Some Other Traditions, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. Traveled to: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB; Norman MacKensie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan; Sarah C. Blaffer Art Gallery, University of Houston, TX; Lock Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1983
Contemporary Images: Watercolor of 1983, Allan Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
1982
Drawing New Direction, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ. Curated by the Museum of Modern Art
Hot Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1981
Drawing from Chicago, College of Fine Art, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Masters of American Watercolor, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Chicago and Vicinity: Prizewinners Revisited, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1978
Artists Portray Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Chicago Collects Chicago, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL Chicago Self-Portraits, Nancie Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Flower Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1977
Drawings, Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Annual, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Masterpieces of Recent Chicago Art, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1976
The History of the Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1976 Visions: Distinguished Alumni 1945 – Present, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1975
North East West and Middle: Drawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1974
19th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Lostutter and Paschke, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1973
Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1972
After Surrealism: Metaphor and Similes, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
1971
Society of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1962
First Biennial of Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Illinois State Museum, Normal, IL
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY