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Solo Exhibitions
2021 Mic Check, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT
2020 Mic Check, Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Mic Check, Central Reading Room, Melville Library, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, NY
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
2022 Is It Nothing To You: Jon Henry and Robert Gerhardt, Chapman
Gallery, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
2021 Come Together, Human Rights Institute Gallery, Kean
University, Union, New Jersey
2019 Collecting New York's Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious,
The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
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 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
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
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
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 Identity, The Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Seven Conteporary Photographers, The New York Law School,
New York, 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
Small Works, Insight Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
2002
Woman Image, Image of Woman, The University of New Haven,
East Haven, CT.
Collections
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn, NY
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 Wayne, IN
Various Private Collections
Grants
2020 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
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
Select Bibliography
Select Publications as Author
Blind Magazine, October 13, 2021
Blind Magazine, October 12, 2021
Blind Magazine, August 31, 2021
Blind Magazine, August 11, 2021
Street Photography Magazine, June 2021
Blind Magazine, June 8, 2021
Blind Magazine, May 9, 2021
Hong Kong Free Press, April 24, 2021
Blind Magazine, March 26, 2021
Hong Kong Free Press, February 28, 2021
Japan Professional Photographers Society, September 18, 2020
The Correspondent, July 2020, p. 26-27
The Correspondent, April 2020, p. 28 -29
The Correspondent, January 2020, p. 18-19
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2019 - January 2020
Ilford Photo Magazine, June 6, 2019
Street Photography Magazine, May 18, 2018
The Diplomat, January 26, 2018
Stories: Behind-the-Scenes, The Museum of the City of New York,
July 31, 2017
Exhibition Catalogues
Carey Weber, Carrie Mae Weems, Roberto Lugo and Robert Gerhardt
Fairfield University Art Museum, 2021
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
Art New England, September/October 2021, p. 70
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
Ebony, July 14, 2021
Patch, July 13, 2021
Hong Kong Free Press, April 24, 2021
Hong Kong Free Press, March 14, 2020
Hong Kong Free Press, December 15, 2018
The Washington Post, May 2, 2017
The Express Tribune, March 28, 2017
Haaretz, March 19, 2017
The Guardian, March 5, 2017
CityLab, March 1, 2017
American Photo, February 27, 2017
Newsweek, February 22, 2017
The Huffington Post, February 15, 2017
ArtNet News, February 13, 2017
Gothamist, February 12, 2017
Edge of Humanity Magazine, February 5, 2017
The Guardian, November 21, 2015
New York Times, The Lede Blog, November 27, 2013
Daily Mail, November 26, 2013
Salon Ciel Blog, April 25, 2011
Radio/Television/Podcasts
State, December 10, 2020
Radio, 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, Interview,
Broadstrokes: A Closer Look at the Arts CATV, Fort Wayne, IN, October 2011
Conferences/Symposia/ Panels
2021 Come Together, Panelist, Kean University, Union, NJ
2019 Black Lives Matter Under the Lens, Panelist, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, New York
2012 "Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Muslim American
Society - Islamic Circle of North America 11th Annual
Convention, Chicago, IL
"Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," Art and
Injustice in a Global World, Panelist, Agents of Change: Art
as Activism, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2011 "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma,"
Against Global Indifference: Awaking to Action, CAS Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Ashland
University, Ashland, OH
"Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Making Meaning of
9/11: Local Impacts, Global Implications, St. John's
University, Manhattan Campus, New York, NY
"Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Crossing the Boundaries
XIX: CONFLICT, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2010 "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," The Karen:
Varied Perspectives, Panelist, 22nd Annual Noble Peace Prize
Forum, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
"Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," Amnesty
International Human Rights Arts Festival, Silver Spring, MD
Lectures/Presentations/Critiques/Workshops
2021 Lecture, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
2019 Lecture, Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College,
New York
2018 Lecture and Workshop, Residential College in the Arts and
Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Presentation, Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, Brooklyn, New York
Lecture and Critique, Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan
Lecture, Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College,
New York
2017 Lecture and Critique, George Fox University, Newberg, OR
Workshop, The Musuem of the City of New York, New York, NY
Lecture, Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College,
New York
Lecture, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
Lecture, Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS
Lecture, Garden City High School, Garden City, KS
2016 Lecture, 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
2015 Lecture, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Lecture, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Lecture, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
2014 Lecture, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
2013 Lecture and Critique, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Lecture and Critique, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
2012 Lecture, St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
Presentation, Human Thread, Chicago, IL
2011 Lecture, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Presentation and Critique, Ashland University, Ashland, OH
Lecture, Workshop and Critique, University of St. Francis,
Fort Wayne, IN
2010 Lecture and Critique, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Presentation, Salon Ciel, New York, NY
Lecture and Critique, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Lecture and Critique, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2007 Presentation, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong
National Press Photographers Association
PEN America
Education
M.F.A. 2007 Lesley University College of Art and Design
B.A. 1999 The College of the Holy Cross