1998
Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Art, Boston, MA
Collaborations William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
A Theater of Art lll, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1997
Hudson, Wiley, Shaw - Collaborative Works, Hayward State University, Hayward, CA

Thirty Five Years at Crown Point Press, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

1996  Illustrious History 1871-Present, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA

1995  Advice and Dissent collaborative Work: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

California in the 60s - Funk Revisited, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1994  Selections from Rene di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Advice and Dissent Collaborative Work: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Imagery Series Collection, Rockford College, Rockford, IL

Academy of Art College, Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco

1993  Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA; National Museum of American Art, D.C.

1992  Robert Hudson: New Sculpture, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1991  Selections from the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Collection, Redding Museum of Art and History

American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA

Collection of Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA

Robert Hudson: Sculpture, William T. Wiley Painting, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1988  Spectrum: New Developments in Three Dimensions, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1985  Fortissimo: Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

1984  Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

California Sculpture Show, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; C.A.P.C. Musee dArt Contemporain de Bordeaux, France: Stadiche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, West Germany; Yourshire Sculpture Par, West Bretton, England; Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Hovidkodden, Norway (organized by the California/International Arts Foundation as part of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival)

1982  A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

The West as Art: Changing Perception of Western Art in California Collections, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

100 Years of California Sculpture, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1980  Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1979  The First Western States Biennial Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (organized by the Western States Arts foundation with assistance from the Denver Art Museum)

1976  Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1975  34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Condition of Sculpture Hayward Gallery, London (Arts Council of Great Britain)

1971  San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, M.H. de Young memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

The Nicholas Wilder Collection: Portrait of an Art Dealer, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

1970  Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1969  14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, Walker Art Center and Daytons Department Store, Minneapolis, MN

1968  The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1967  Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1966  The Slant Step Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1965  Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists under Thirty-Five, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Young American Sculpture - East to West, American Express Pavilion, World’s Fair, New York, NY

1964  The Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1963  The 82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1962  Some Points of View ‘62: San Francisco Bay Area Painting and Sculpture, Stanford University Art Gallery and Museum, Palo Alto, CA

1961  Art of San Francisco: Ninetieth Anniversary Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1960  San Francisco Art Association Seventy-ninth Annual: Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Northern California Sculptors Annual, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA

AWARDS

2014  Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a Lifetime of Artistic Achievement

1979  Awarded Public Sculpture Commission under the General Services Administration's Art-in-Architecture program to execute the sculpture, Tlingit

1976  John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

1972  Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.

1969  Repair Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Travelled to: A S S S C Art Gallery, Sacramento State College, Sacramento, CA

1965  Nealie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA

Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, CA

AT&T Corporation

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Denver Art Museum, CO

Des Moines Art Center, IA

di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Sanford University, CA

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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Kozloff, Max. The Further Adventures of American Sculpture, Arts Magazine, February 1965, p. 31.

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Friedman, Martin. 14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, Art International, February 1970, pp. 38, 40, 50.

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