Terry Zwigoff’s documentary Crumb was named the best film of 1994 by the late critic Gene Siskel and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995. Other one-person exhibitions have been organized by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, a show which to traveled the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (both 2005), and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2004). A major solo show devoted to Crumb’s work was organized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in 2007, and traveled from 2008 to 2009 to the Frye Art Museum, Seattle Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and the Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California. In 2011, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, New York. A retrospective of Crumb’s work was held in 2012 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Solo exhibitions of Crumb’s work were recently presented at the Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Mansfield (2020) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California (2018). In 2016, the Cartoonmuseum Basel hosted Aline Kominsky-Crumb & Robert Crumb: Drawn Together, the first comprehensive museum presentation of the artists’ joint work. In 2013, it was presented as part of the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. The exhibition was previously on view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2009, before traveling to the Portland Art Museum, Oregon Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine and the San Jose Museum of Art, California. Over 200,000 copies have been printed worldwide, and translation rights have been sold to fifteen countries, with published translations currently in circulation in French, German, and Italian. The momentous project received instant critical acclaim, topping many bestseller lists, including #1 on The New York Times Graphic Books list. Norton in October 2009, the book chronicles all fifty chapters of Genesis in a tapestry of detail and storytelling, rendered frame by frame in meticulous comic-book fashion. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, presented 207 individual black-and- white drawings from his now landmark The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. The artist’s 2010 gallery show, The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb: Sauve qui peut ! (Run for Your Life) was on view in 2022. At David Zwirner, Paris, the exhibition R. Crumb, was presented at the gallery’s New York location in 2019. Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R. In 2017, David Zwirner, New York featured an exhibition of the collaborative work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb and R. In 2016, Art & Beauty marked Crumb’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner, London. Crumb moved to the dynamic Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in 1967, and relocated in 1991 to the south of France, where he currently lives and works. Sullivant, James Gillray, amongst others, his drawings offer a satirical critique of modern consumer culture, and often seem to possess an outsider's perspective-a self-conscious stance which Crumb often relates to his personal life.īorn in Philadelphia in 1943, R. Inspired by Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, T.S. Crumb has used the popular medium of the comic book to address the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, irony, racial and gender stereotypes, sexual fantasies, and fetishes.
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