Robert Schefman

Works
  • Ania
    Robert Schefman
    Ania, 2015
  • Accept The Sky Above Me
    Robert Schefman
    Accept The Sky Above Me, 2022
  • Maintain the Garden
    Robert Schefman
    Maintain the Garden, 2022
  • A Dark Year
    Robert Schefman
    A Dark Year, 2022
  • The Birds are the Keepers of Our Secrets
    Robert Schefman
    The Birds are the Keepers of Our Secrets, 2019
  • Banquet
    Robert Schefman
    Banquet, 2024
  • The Secrets Project: I Have Slept With Over 100 Men
    Robert Schefman
    The Secrets Project: I Have Slept With Over 100 Men, 2022
  • Arrival Fallacy
    Robert Schefman
    Arrival Fallacy, 2023
  • The Heart Swings
    Robert Schefman
    The Heart Swings, 2021
  • In Love With My Best Friend
    Robert Schefman
    In Love With My Best Friend , 2019
  • On the Edge of the Moon
    Robert Schefman
    On the Edge of the Moon, 2019
  • Any Particular Secret
    Robert Schefman
    Any Particular Secret, 2017
  • Secrets
    Robert Schefman
    Secrets, 2016
Exhibitions
Biography
Robert Schefman
Robert Schefman is a sculptor and painter. After achieving an MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa, he moved to New York City, setting up a studio and producing large scale minimalist steel sculpture.  Gradually adding painting to his studio practice, Schefman has continued to make illusionist narrative work the focus of his practice. Fascinated with connecting threads in the social fabric, he uses the illusionist format to address the unchanging reality of sight.
 
Schefman’s work is in numerous private and public collections including The Broad Museum of Art, East Lansing, MI; The Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Flint Museum of Art, Flint, MI; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL; The 19th District Court, Dearborn; Ford Arts Center, Dearborn; Wayne State University, Detroit; The Cooley Law School, Lansing; The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and private collections in Detroit, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He was in The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, which toured to multiple museums in the U.S. including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC.  Schefman’s work has been exhibited widely including The Detroit Institute of Art, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Midland Center for The Arts, The Krasl Art Center, Oakland University, The Salamagundi Club, Foley Square/ Federal Plaza, New York City, Robert Kidd Gallery, Manifest Research Gallery and David Klein Gallery.
 
A native of Detroit, Schefman earned a BFA from Michigan State University, and an MFA from the University of Iowa.  Awards include the Kresge Artist Fellowship, Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Bernard Maas Prize, ArtServe Michigan, The Arts Foundation of Michigan, and the University of Iowa. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and is represented by the David Klein Gallery in Ferndale, MI.
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Press
Art Fairs