Robert Josiah Bingaman (born November 4, 1981) is an American artist born in Wichita, Kansas and currently living and working in Humboldt, Kansas. Raised in a semi-suburban midwestern environment, his work consistently reflects several aspects of his upbringing, including the suburban landscape, the wonder of nature, and popular American architecture and design, as well as his own personal travels. Bingaman also intentionally relates his work to American and European literary sources such as Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, and W.G. Sebald, respectively. Bingaman is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri. His work consists of large-scale paintings and works on paper.
Education
Bingaman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Kansas in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007.
Exhibitions
In 2014, selections from "Night Pools", an ongoing series of paintings, were shown in his first one-person museum show at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas. More recently, he expanded upon the pool motif with large-scale paintings for "Until It's All You See", a solo exhibition at Studios Inc, as part of a three-year residency program in Kansas City. In September 2016, he debuted a new body of work, "Memorial", at Haw Contemporary, in Kansas City, Missouri. His work has been shown in various group exhibitions across the United States.
Public Collections
The Art of Emprise, Emprise Bank, Wichita, Kansas
Inergy, Kansas City, Missouri
KPMG, Kansas City, Missouri
Lockton, Kansas City, Missouri
The University of Kansas School of Business, Lawrence, Kansas
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
References
Sources
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