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Education
M.F.A.
2007
Photography
Lesley University College of Art and Design
B.A.
1999
Sociology/Anthropology and Art History
The College of the Holy Cross
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Mercer Gallery,
Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Durbin Gallery,
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Liberal Public Library,
Liberal, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Dodge City Public Library
Dodge City, KS
2016 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Gallery at Penn
College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Pool Art Center Gallery,
Drury University, Springfield, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Brent and Jean
Wadsworth Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2015 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, John B. Davis Gallery,
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Seven Photographs, The Photovillage, New York, NY
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery,
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Sidney Larson Gallery,
Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Visual Arts Gallery,
Carroll College, Helena, MT
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Wright Art Gallery, Delta
State University, Cleveland, MS
2014 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Joan Derryberry Art
Gallery, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Annex Gallery, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2013 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Moraine Valley
Community College, Palos Hills, IL
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Clayton Staples Gallery,
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Schuster Art Gallery,
Gannon University, Erie, PA
Drive Safely, The Photography Gallery, Virginia Intermont
College, Bristol, VA
2012 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Northern Illinois
University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Drive Safely, Graphic Arts/Fine Arts Gallery, Moberly Area
Community College, Moberly, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Human Thread,
Chicago, IL
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Muslim American
Society - Islamic Circle of North America 11th Annual
Convention, Chicago, IL
2011
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Wilson
Gallery, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Paper
Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Muslim/American, American/Muslim: Portrait of a Brooklyn Masjid, The Elise B. Rosefsky Memorial Gallery, Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Coburn Gallery,
Ashland University, Ashland, OH
Muslim/American, American/Muslim: Portrait of a Brooklyn Masjid, Mezzanine Gallery, St. John's University, Manhattan
Campus, New York, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Lupke Gallery,
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
2010 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Drive Safely, Meeting Room Gallery, Acton Memorial Library,
Acton, MA
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Center for the
Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Thompson
Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2009
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Grace
Institute, New York, NY
2008
Drive Safely, Eye Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Above/Below, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2004
The Straphangers, The Pour House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Straphangers, Grand Cental Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Abandoned, The Guild Room Gallery, Brookline, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 SILENCE=BETRAYAL: Dale Rich and Robert Gerhardt,
LookOut! Gallery, Residential College in the Arts and
Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2017 Muslim In New York, The Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
Muslim In New York, The Jewish Community Center of
Manhattan, New York, NY
Building Bridges Not Walls, Williamsburg Art and Historical
Society, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Photographing Culture, UC Blue Ash College Art Gallery,
University of Cincinnati, Cincinatti, OH
2015 Can You Move it All Up One Inch?, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Beneath Raw Skin, Art Space Gallery, Willimantic, CT
American Photography Today, Center for the Arts Gallery,
Towson University, Towson, MD
After Rabat, Revival Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
Celebrate Diversity: Steve Mathews and Robert Gerhardt,
Murfreesboro Peace and Justice Art Projects, Rotunda Gallery,
City Hall, Murfreesboro, TN
Other Lives: Daniel Farum and Robert Gerhardt, The Art Gallery
at the Sam Hill Warehouse, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
2013 See You in September: A Culture Transformed, Skylight Gallery,
New York, NY
Good Question Gallery: Five Years of Synergy, Good Question
Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Art and Struggle, Graduate Gallery, Ontario College of Art
and Design, Toronto, Canada
Triangulating Urbanism: History, Culture and Decay,
Good Question Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Holy Lives, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint
Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2011 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, Jewish Cultural Center of Reading,
Wyomissing, PA
Response and Healing, Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks,
Reading, PA
Fair at the Square, Bronx Council on the Arts,
Bronx, NY
2010 Human Rights Arts Festival, Amnesty International
Silver Spring, MD
The Mythical State of Jefferson, Schneider Museum of Art,
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Sleeping with Strangers, Salon Ciel, New York, NY
2009
American Race, Truman State University Art Gallery, Truman
State
University, Kirksville, MO
Fight or Flight, 13 Pockets, Chicago, IL
2008 Never Routine: Women in the Course of Their Daily Lives, Grace
Institute, New York, NY
On the Street, Kingston Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2007 MFA Graduate Exhibition, University Hall Gallery, The Art
Institute of Boston, Cambridge, MA
2005 Nudes, The Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
Identity, The Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Seven Conteporary Photographers, The New York Law School,
New York, NY
The Art Event, The Space, Long Island City,
Queens, NY
The Photo Show, Gallery 402, Organization of Independent
Artists, New York, NY
Chania 2004, The Omma Center for Contemporary Art, Chania,
Crete, Greece
2003
Animal Images, The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago, IL.
Small Works, Insight Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
2002
Woman Image, Image of Woman, The University of New Haven,
East Haven, CT.
Opening Exhibition, SPACE Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998
Senior Juried Art Exhibit, The College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, MA
Collections
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Drury University, Springfield, MO
Furman University, Greenville, SC
The Grace Institute, New York, NY
Idaho State University Department of Art, Pocatello, ID
Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
School of Creative Arts, University of St. Francis, Fort Wanyve, IN
Various Private Collections
Grants/Awards
2018 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
2016 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
2013 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
2010 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
2005 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist’s Grant
2004 Juror’s Award,
The Photo Show, Gallery 402, Organization of
Independent Artists, New York, NY
1998 Juror’s Award for Photography,
Senior Juried Art Exhibit,
The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Select Bibliography
Publications as Author
The Museum of the City of New York, July 31, 2017
Exhibition Catalogues
Penny Lutz, 2015-2016 Exhibitions
The Gallery at Penn College, 2015
Richard Cutrona, Muslim/American, American/Muslim
Good Question Gallery, 2012
Marilyn Fox, 9/11 Memorial Exhibition
Penn State Berks, 2011
Aaron and Peter Fine, American Race: Contemporary Art Reflecting on
Race in the Year of Lincoln's Bicentennial, Truman State
University, 2010
Claudia DeMonte, Woman Image, Image of Woman
University of New Haven, 2002
Print Media
Dodge City Daily Globe, November 7, 2017, p. 1
The New York Times, February 26, 2017, p. MB7
Springfield News Leader, Weekend, February 4, 2016, P. 8-9
The National, December 27, 2015 p. 8-9
Louise Siddons and Pouya Jahanshahi, "
Venturing Beyond the Frame"
Art Focus Oklahoma, September/October 2015, p. 16-17
Jenny Hopkins, "
Photo gallery at ISU illustrates Muslim-American life"
Idaho State Journal, January 11, 2015, p. D3 - D4
Muhammad Yusuf, "
Clicking to Connect"
Time Out,
The Gulf Today, December 18, 2014, p. 22-23
Sarah Glenn, "
New Pocatello Mosque spurs photographer to exhibit work"
Idaho State Journal, December 11, 2014, p. A2
Chaya Babu, "
The Other Casualty of 9/11" India Abroad, January 17, 2014, p. M11 - M12
Yashwant Raj and ANI, "Racists Vandalize ad, GAP makes Sikh poster
boy," Hindustan Times, November 28, 2013, p. 1
Amy Rahn, "Robert Gerhardt at Dibden Center at Johnson State College"
Art New England, Vol. 31, Issue 6, November/December 2010, p. 67
Damaso Reyes, "Life on the Border: A window on another world,"
New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 100, No. 29,
July 16-July 22, 2009, p. 20
James Spina, "Parting Glance,
" 20/20 Magazine Jobson Publishing, July 2007
Julie Zauzmer, "Museum displays images of Muhammad: Muslims who
have the world's most common name"
The Washington Post, May 2, 2017
Ibriz Sheikh, "An American tourist makes a tough call: Karachi or Lahore"
The Express Tribune, March 28, 2017
Daniel Tchetchik, "Being a Muslim in the United States"
Haaretz, March 19, 2017
Sarah Gilbert, "Life as a Muslim in New York"
The Guardian, March 5, 2017
Tanvi Misra, "Muslims of New York"
CityLab, March 1, 2017
Julius Motal, "Muslim Life in New York City"
American Photo, February 27, 2017
Alexander Nazaryan, "'Muslim in New York' Exhibit Shows How Muslims
Have Contributes to New York Culture for Centeries"
Newsweek, February 22, 2017
Priscilla Frank, "Photographers Depict The Range and Beauty of Muslim
Life in New York"
The Huffington Post, February 15, 2017
Sarah Cascone, "Muslim Culture Comes to the Fore at the Museum of the
City of New York"
ArtNet News, February 13, 2007
Raphel Pope-Sussman, "Photos: New Show at Museum of the City of New
York Will Celebrate Muslim Community"
Gothamist, February 12, 2017
Joelcy Kay, "A Place to Worship in America - Muslims & The Freedom of
Religion"
Edge of Humanity Magazine, February 5, 2017
The Guardian, November 21, 2015
Christine Hauser, "A Defaced Gap Ad Goes from the Subway to the Web
to its Demise"
New York Times, The Lede Blog, November 27, 2013
Misty Sidell, "GAP Slams racist graffiti after ad featuring Sikh jewelry
designer Waris Ahluwalia is vandalized with anti-Muslim slurs"
Mail Online, November 26, 2013
Samantha Olivieri, "A Discussion with Robert Gerhardt"
Salon Ciel Blog, April 25, 2011
Radio/Television
Garden City, KS, September 20, 2017
Metropolis, ARTE, Germany and France, April 23, 2017
Fiona Powell, Interview, ArtScene, WVIA-FM
Williamsport, PA, January 18, 2016
Josh Rindlfeisch, "Eye on the Valley"
Pocatello Access Television, Pocatello, ID, January 26, 2015
Shaela Litzu, Interview,
NPR Morning Edition, KISU-FM
Pocatello, ID January 20, 2015
Karole Honas, "Muslim Exhibiton Opens"
ABC 8 News, Pocatello, ID, January 20, 2015
Shaela Litzu, Interview,
NPR Morning Edition, KISU-FM
Pocatello, ID January 13, 2015
Rick Cartwright,
Broadstrokes: A Closer Look at the Arts CATV, Fort Wayne, IN, October 2011
Conferences/Symposia
Muslim American Society - Islamic Circle of North America
11th Annual Convention, 2012
Chicago, IL
Talk: Muslim/American, American/Muslim
Agents of Change: Art as Activism, 2012
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Panel: Art and Injustice in a Global World
CAS Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, 2011
Against Global Indifference: Awaking to Action
Ashland University, Ashland, OH
Talk: Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma
Making Meaning of 9/11: Local Impacts, Global Implications, 2011
St. John's University, Manhattan Campus, New York, NY
Talk: Muslim/American, American Muslim
Crossing the Boundaries XIX: CONFLICT, 2011
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Talk: Muslim/American, American/Muslim
22nd Annual Noble Peace Prize Forum, 2010
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Panel: The Karen: Varied Perspectives
Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival, 2010
Silver Spring, MD
Event: Artist's Talk and Portfolio Review
Lectures/Presentations/Critiques/Workshops
2018 Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI (lecture and workshop)
Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, Brooklyn, New York (presentation)
Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan (lecture and critique)
2017 George Fox University, Newberg, OR (lecture and critique)
The Musuem of the City of New York, New York, NY (workshop)
Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College, New
York, NY (lecture)
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL (lecture)
Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS (lecture)
Garden City High School, Garden City, KS (presenation)
2016 Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA (lecture)
Drury University, Springfield, MO (lecture)
St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA (lecture)
Pakistan American Cultural Center, Karachi, Pakistan (lecture)
Al Hamra Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan (lecture)
2015 Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID (lecture)
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK (lecture)
Delta State University, Cleveland, MS (lecture)
2014 Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN (lecture)
2013 Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (lecture and critique)
Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA (lecture and critique)
2012 St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA (lecture)
Human Thread, Chicago, IL (lecture)
2011 Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY (lecture)
Ashland University, Ashland, OH (lecture and critique)
University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, IN (lecture, workshop
and critique)
2010 Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN (lecture and critique)
Salon Ciel, New York, NY (presentation)
Johnson State College, Johnson, VT (lecture and critique)
Furman University, Greenville, SC (lecture and critique)
2007 Lesley University, Cambridge, MA (presentation)