Robert Pruitt

Robert Pruitt was born in 1975 in Houston Texas. He received his BFA from Texas Southern University (2000) and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin(2003). Pruitt  has had numerous solo exhibitions including The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Oxbow, Seattle, WA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA among many others.

Pruitt was a participating artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, which traveled to MoMA PS1 in New York. He was a founding member of the Houston artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates. Pruitt has received awards from Artadia, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Studio Museum in Harlem. Pruitt was awarded residencies at the Hermitage Artist Residency, Englewood, Florida; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA.

Pruitt’s work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; The Studio Museum of Harlem; Dallas Museum of Art; University Museum of Texas Southern University in Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Massachusetts; US Embassy in Zimbabwe; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Portland Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art | University of Texas at Austin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX.