Robert Szot
At the age of 25, after testing out careers in journalism and music, Robert Szot transplanted himself from Texas to New York and began teaching himself how to paint. Since 2001, he has been producing abstract oil-on-canvas and -panel paintings, full of overlapping blocks of color, expressive lines, and, sometimes, hints of architecture and human figures, reflecting his ongoing dialogue with himself and his adopted city. Speaking of his relationship to the place that fuels so much of his art, including a series of large-scale compositions inspired by the disappearing grittiness of the Bowery, he explains: “You love [New York] and you hate it, but it’s just that thing that keeps you coming back over and over again. And I feel like my work is the same. I love it and I hate it, but I’m compelled to stay.”
Robert Szot is represented by Galerie Gabel in France. Szot’s work has exhibited in a variety of galleries across the United States from New York to Los Angeles and Texas. His works have been collected in America and abroad and can be found in corporate collections like Credit Suisse and important private collections like Beth DeWoody.
2019
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION Jack Fischer Gallery San Francisco, California
2018
SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION II Anita Rogers Gallery New York, New York
DISTANCIA Kelsey Michaels Fine Art Laguna Beach, California
WORKS ON PAPER SMINK Gallery Dallas, Texas
WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION Anita Rogers Gallery New York City, New York
2017
WESTERN PLANS SMINK Gallery Dallas, Texas
2016
GOOD HEAVENS Muriel Guepin Gallery New York, New York
BEAUTY CULTURE SMINK Gallery Dallas, Texas
ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO courtesy of Muriel Guepin Gallery San Francisco, California
2015
OUT OF THE EATER Muriel Guepin Gallery New York, New York
TEN DAYS IN JUNE Muriel Guepin Gallery New York, New York
ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO courtesy of Muriel Guepin Gallery San Francisco, California
2014
WOKE UP ON BROADWAY Muriel Guepin Gallery New York, New York
ART MARKET HAMPTONS courtesy of Muriel Guepin Gallery Bridgehampton, NY
WHITNEY ART PARTY New York, New York
2013
MIAMI PROJECT courtesy of Muriel Guepin Gallery Miami, Florida
LEFT BANK BROOKLYN Lawrence Fine Art East Hampton, New York
3 SPEECHES Muriel Guepin Gallery New York, New York
AT WILDERNESS Muriel Guepin Gallery Brooklyn, New York