Known primarily as a sculptor, Robert Grosvenor (b. 1937, New York, NY d. 2025, East Patchogue, NY) has eluded artistic categorization during his sixty-year career, producing diverse, singular works that explore the spatial dynamics between object, architecture, and viewer. His work was included in the seminally important group exhibitions Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, 1966) and Minimal Art (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1968), which helped define minimalism. He soon diverged from this movement to create challenging works that resist assimilation to any of the prevailing art movements.
In 2025, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany presented the artist’s first institutional one-person exhibition in Germany, which featured over thirty works from 1965 to 2025. One-person exhibitions of Grosvenor’s work have been presented at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (1992); the Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2005); the Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2017); and the ICA Miami (2019). Grosvenor’s work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Storm King Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Serralves Museum, Porto; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1991
steel, concrete block, fiberglass and plastic
87 x 42 1/2 x 86 in. (221 x 108 x 218.4 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled (yellow)
1966/2016, aluminum and epoxy enamel
13 x 28 x 8 feet (398.7 x 844.6 x 252.1 cm) 55 1/8 in. (140 cm)
Installation view, Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery 1959-1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 19 - September 10, 2017
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1989-90
concrete blocks, plexiglass, and painted steel
46 1/2 x 157 3/4 x 247 1/2 in. (118.1 x 400.7 x 628.7 cm)
Installation view, Renaissance Society, February 11 - April 9, 2017
Photo by Tom Van Eynde
Robert Grosvenor
Quadrum, 2005-2006
steel, aluminum, fiberglass, enamel paint
4 parts, aluminum: 13 x 204 x 84 inches (33 x 518.2 x 213.4 cm), painted steel: 24 x 72 x 48 inches (61 x 182.9 x 121.9 cm), painted steel: 24 x 72 x 48 inches (61 x 182.9 x 121.9 cm), aluminum: 83 x 83 x 1 1/2 inches (210.8 x 210.8 x 3.2 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, circa 2000-2013
photograph
image: 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm) frame: 13 x 14 1/2 in. (33 x 36.8 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 2009
fiberglass, flocking and aluminum
composed of two units: red unit: 48 x 48 x 192 in. (121.9 x 121.9 x 487.7 cm), aluminum unit: 48 x 312 x 1/2 in. (121.9 x 792.5 x 1.3 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Subdivision D, 2000
unique photocopy
11 x 8 1/2 in. (28 x 21.7 cm)
frame: 12 x 9 5/8 in. (30 x 24.3 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 2011
aluminum, fiberglass, plastic, concrete blocks, spray paint
element #1 (table) 56 x 92 x 165 1/2 in. (142.2 x 233.7 x 420.4 cm), element #2 46 1/2 x 58 x 243 1/2 in. (118.1 x 147.3 x 618.5 cm), overall: 56 x 239 x 243 1/2 in. (142.2 x 607.1 x 618.5 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1999
fossil rock, sheet metal, plastic and acrylic enamel paint
rock pile left - 34 1/4 x 36 x 34 1/2” (85.6 x 90 x 86.2 cm), rock pile right - 34 1/4 x 35 1/2 x 36” (85.6 x 88.7 x 90 cm), platform - 5 3/4 x 176 x 89” (14.3 x 440 x 222.5 cm), two plastic elements - 24 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 93” (61.2 x 61.2 x 232.5 cm), each overall - 34 1/4 ” x 31’10” x 28’6” (85.6 cm x 9.5 m x 8.5 m)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1997
stone, concrete, steel, glass, 4’5” x 30’9 1/2” x 8’4” (1.35 x 9.38 x 2.54 m) overall
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1995-96
1st element: slate, brick, mortar, wood, wheels; 2nd element: sheet metal, welded steel, paint
1st element: 15 1/4 x 173 x 90 3/4 in. (38.7 x 439.4 x 230.5 cm); 2nd element: 45 1/4 x 118 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (114.9 x 300.4 x 49.5 cm); overall: 45 1/4 x 173 x 163 in. (114.9 x 439.4 x 414 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1987-88
steel, plastic, 75 x 96 x 245 inches 190.5 x 243.8 x 622.3 cm
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1980-81
pine, creosote, paint, 67 x 133 x 74 inches (170.2 x 337.8 x 188 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1994
fiberglass, metal, plastic, and paint
38 x 167 in. diameter (96.5 x 424.2 cm diameter)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1974
masking tape, pencil on paper
39 1/8 x 62 inches (99.4 x 157.5 cm)
Robert Grosvenor
Untitled, 1975
wood, creosote, grease
8 x 102 x 9 inches (20.3 x 259.1 x 22.9 cm)
