Robert Kinmont

Robert Kinmont (b. 1937, Los Angeles) currently lives in Northern California. Between 1968 and 1981, he exhibited in galleries and institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the 1968 “Sculpture Annual” at the Whitney Museum, New York. Between 1975 and 2004, Kinmont studied Buddhism and worked as a carpenter, returning to his artistic practice in 2005.

Alexander and Bonin presented solo installations of his sculpture and photography in 2009 and 2011, and in 2010 Kinmont was included in several group exhibitions such as “The Traveling Show” at Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, and “The Moon is An Arrant Thief” at the David Roberts Foundation, London. In 2013, Kinmont was included in “Plans for Escape: An Exhibition under Construction,” at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo.

In 2011, Kinmont was included in “State of Mind,” a survey of new California art circa 1970 co-organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. The following year he was included in “Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974,” at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles; which traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich.

In 2014, Alexander and Bonin presented a solo show of new sculpture, “trying to return home educated.” The following year, Kinmont had two solo shows; “Jump” at RaebervonStenglin, Zurich and “trying to understand where I grew up” at the di Rosa in Napa, CA. Also in 2015, his work was included in “Afterlife”, curated by Julie Ault, at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, New York. Kinmont’s photographic series 8 Natural Handstands,1969/2009 was included in “Sublime – The tremors of the world” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2016. That same year, he was included in “Full Moon,” the inaugural exhibition at Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. A solo show of Kinmont’s work was presented at Alexander and Bonin in 2017.

Submitted by Alexander and Bonin