Robert C. Mueller

Born: April 24, 1954. Highland Park, IL

Currently resides in Indianapolis, IN

Education:

1972 Chatswood High School, Chatswood, N.S.W. Australia

1985 B.F.A. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

1988 M.F.A. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Employment:

1988-2019 Associate Professor of Printmaking, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1989-2019 Technical Director of the Alagarto Press

Selected Grants and Awards:

2004 Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Fund

Awarded travel monies to Limerick Ireland - Group exhibition

2001 Fall one semester Sabbatical Leave

Awarded travel monies to Iceland - August five week trip - artist books

1998-99 Teaching Improvement Program Award – TIP

1997 Faculty Scholarship Enhancement Fund

1996 Awarded Fulbright Scholar – Iceland Summer of 1997

1994-95 Teaching Improvement Program Award – TIP

1988 Division of Sponsored Research. New Faculty Grant: $8,500.00

Purchase of Takach-Garfield lithography Press

Teaching/Lecturer

2005 University of Florida International Studies Abroad Program- Skopelos, Greece. June 19 - July 6

2004 Craftsummer Program, Miami University Oxford Ohio, Workshop – Drawing. June 24 - 29

2003 Craftsummer Program, Miami University Oxford Ohio. Artist Book. June 23 - 27

Masterclasses/Workshops/Visiting Artist

2008 EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY

2006 Venice, Italy

2004 Converse College Spartanburg SC. Taught master classes in lithography and intaglio.

Worked with students on collaborative 3 color litho print. Edition of 13 under supervision of Professor Doug Whittle.

Presented lecture Mar. 12 Millikan Auditorium. Workshop dates Mar. 11-13.

Critiqued 3 students work.

1997 The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque NM. Sketchbook two-day workshop.

Program Director: Susan McAllister

1997 Fulbright Workshop/Slide/Lecture Series – Iceland, Reykjavik.

Between May 7 and June 23 conducted six workshops demonstrating printmaking processes and lectures research.

1996 Visiting Artist workshop and lecture, Nov. 2-6, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Organizer: Craig Dongoski – Visiting Artist Nov. 12-19

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2020 “Let it Grow” Hoofprint Studio’s Ten Year Anniversary, Chicago, IL

2008 “Split Location”. Collaborative and individual works by Robert & Stephen Mueller.

Cofrin Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL

2007 “Double Branch”. Collaborative and individual works by Robert & Stephen Mueller.

North Branch Gallery, Skokie, IL

2005 “Point Tandem”. Selected works of Robert & Stephen Mueller.

Lipa Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Faculty and student exhibition and reception, July 4.

Skopelos Foundation, Skopelos, Greece

Included in exhibition 8 untitled prints and artist book

2004 “SOFA” exposition at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Nov.4-7.

“Limerick Ireland” – “Site, Intervention, Identity” Limerick City Gallery of Art

2003 39th Annual Faculty Exhibition, The Madonna Building, (Art Basel) Miami, FL

2002 Hermanamientos 2” Exposicion de Estudiantes / Professors De La Universidad De Florida.

University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico. Oct. 15-24.

1999 University of Hawaii Hilo, Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition” Sept 15

1997 Group Exhibition of Vitreographs, Etchings and Relief Prints by American Artists –

Icelandic Print Studio Gallery, Rekjavik Iceland. May 5- June 1.

1996 “Hand-Pulled Prints IV” Stonemetal Press Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX

Awarded First Place.

“25th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition” Peoria IL, Heuser and Hartman Galleries.

Awarded Juror’s Merit Cash Award.

1994 Capitol Building Gallery – Tallahassee “Earth Elements” Two-person exhibition.

1993 “1st Egyptian International Print Triennale” National Center for Fine Arts, Giza,

“National Works on Paper Exhibition” University of Texas at Tyler, TX

1991 “International Triennial of Graphic Arts” Cracow, Poland. Additional venues in Nuremberg and Augsburg.

Image published in catalogue pp.193.

“Farrington-Keith National Juried Exhibition” Clara Kott Von Storch Gallery, Dexter, MI

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 Solo Exhibition, Cofrin Gallery, “Black, Red, Yellow, White”, Gainesville, FL

1996 Solo Exhibition, Harris House of Atlantic Center for the Arts, Aug. 23-Oct.4

1994 “Backpacking Through Remote Terrains” –Gallery, Shands Cancer Center

1993 “Phantom Cargo: Images for Survival” Univ of South Carolina Art Gallery, Spartanburg, SC

“Phantom Cargo: Images for Survival” Albany Museum of Art, GA

1992 “Circumference”, Florida School of the Arts, Main Gallery. St. Johns Community College, Palatka, FL

Selected Publications/Citations

2005 Point Tandem catalogue. Essay by Stephen Luecking.

2003 Gainesville Sun - Gallery section. Sited work and photograph. Jan. 24

1998 Non-referred: Co-Authored with Kenneth Kerslake “Robert Mueller” Interview by K. Kerslake.

“Contemporary Impressions” – The Journal of American Print Alliance. Vol.6, #2 Fall 1998

Editor: Dr. Carol Pulin. Illustrations from Icelandic sketchbooks and prints.

Four total and a reproduction of Icelandic artist print by Valgerdur Hauksdottir

“Landscape” from Alagarto Press. Pages 14-17.

1992 “Printmaking: A Primary Form of Expression” Author: Eldon L. Cunningham,

1991 Catalogue - International Triennial of Graphic Arts “Triennale ‘91” Cracow, Poland

pp.193, black and white reproduction “Water Witch 1” Intaglio.

Selected Collections:

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY

Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL

High Lake Sculpture Garden, West Chicago, IL

The New York Public Library, NY

Penland School of Craft, NC