EDUCATION
1983-85 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas; Core Artist-In-Residence Program
1975-76 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1974-75, 1979 University of Michigan, School of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, B.F.A.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1999 Texas Filmmakers Production Fund (for film), Austin Film
Society, Austin, Texas
1997 Creative Artist Fellowship (for Photography), Cultural Arts Council, Houston,
Texas
1996 Artist Fellowship (for Film & Video), Texas Commission on the Arts,
Austin, Texas
1995 Artist Fellowship (for Film & Video), Texas Commission on the Arts,
Austin, Texas
1994 Artist Fellowship (for Film & Video), Texas Commission on the Arts,
Austin, Texas
1993 NFRIG, New Genres Grant, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
1991 Regional NEA/AFI Grant for Film/Video, Southwest Media Project, Houston,
Texas
1990 Creative Artist Fellowship (for Photography), Cultural Arts Council, Houston,
Texas
1989 Artist Fellowship (for Film & Video), Texas Commission on the Arts,
Austin, Texas
1988 Regional NEA/AFI Grant for Film/Video, Southwest Media Project, Houston,
Texas
1987 Regional NEA Fellowship in Photography, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas
City, Missouri
1986 Regional NEA/AFI Grant for Film/Video, Southwest Media Project, Houston,
Texas
1984 Regional NEA/AFI Grant for Film/Video, Southwest Media Project, Houston,
Texas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Robert Ziebell
1996 Lawndale Visual and Performing Arts Center, Houston, Texas, Huntsville
Still Lives
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas, In Color
1994 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, Robert Ziebell
1992 Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, Robert Ziebell
1989 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Robert Ziebell
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall,
Texas
2004 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Small Works
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Group Show
2001 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas
2000 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, Texas: A Sense of Place
Zola Liberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Escapeland
UTSA Blue Star Space, San Antonio, Texas, Editable Material
The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas, On Death Row
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, Texas, Casey Williams & Robert Ziebell
1999 ¼ Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas, Visions in Light
Artscan,Houston, Texas, Objects of Desire
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, Field of Vision
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, Group Show of Texas Coastal Photographers
1997 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Still Lives at the Bijoux
1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Texas Modern and Post-Modern
Froelick/Adelhardt Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Blue Sky Anniversary Show
1995 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Texas Myths and Realities
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Re-Thinking the Natural
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, Coastal Bend Art
1994 Glassell School of Art/Fotofest, Houston, Texas, Paradoxical Scale
South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, Texas, Coastal Bend Art
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, New Work
1993 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists
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The 1993 Phoenix Triennial
1993 Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, Forest Through The Trees
1992 Lawndale Alternative, Houston, Texas, Politics As Usual
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Urban/Suburban
1991 Sewall Gallery, Houston, Texas, Creative Partners
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, The State I'm In
1990 Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas, Catalogue, Reinventing Reality
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Recent Acquisitions
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
1998 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1996 Art Institute of Chicago - Film Center, Chicago, Illinois; Featured film
and speaker
1993 The Texas Film Festival, College Station, Texas
1992 Great Plains Film Festival, Lincoln, Nebraska
Ann Arbor Film Festival 30 Year Anniversary, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Featured Film
and speaker
1991 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio; Featured film and speaker
1991 Independent Images Conference, Austin, Texas; Featured film and speaker
1990 Florence Film Festival, Florence, Italy; Featured Film/European Premier
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001 Rebecca Cohen, “Catherine
Chalmers, Rob Ziebell: Two Photographers”,
ArtLies, Summer.
Wendy Weil Atwell, “Rob Ziebell at d berman gallery, Austin”, Voices
of Art,
Vol. 9, No. 2.
Jennifer Joy, “d berman gallery Bugs Out”, The Daily Texan, 29 March.
1998 Allen Myerson, "Confronting Texas, Myths and All, With a Camera",
New
York Times, Arts Section, February 5.
1996-7 Elizabeth McBride, "Robert Ziebell", Art Lies, Issue #13, Winter,
pp. 42 – 43.
1996 Catherine D. Anspon, "Dia De Los Muertos", Public News, October
30, pg. 16.
"Pick of the Week – This State I’m In", Chicago Reader,
March 14-20, pp.16,17.
1995 Elizabeth McBride, "Fotofest Houston", Art Papers, Vol. 19, #3,
April – May, pp. 55–56.
1994 Patricia Johnson, "Exhibits Explore Perception, Spirituality",
The Houston Chronicle, Nov. 25, pg. 3, section D.
Mark Peter, "Robert Ziebell: Little Secrets" Art Lies, May/June, pg.
14.
Susan Chadwick, "Photography Exhibits Capture Range of Art Form in Texas",
The Houston Post, March 31, pg. 1, 8, & section D.
1993 Amy Sparks, "The State She's In", The Free Times (Cleveland),
October 14 – 20, Vol.1, Issue 3, pg. 18.
1992 Karen Emenhiser, "Honey, I Shrunk the Ids", Dallas Observer,
June 25, pg. 28.
1991 Kerhy Fix, "No Slackers Here; Independents at Work in the Lone Star
State", The Independent, August/September, pp. 24 – 25.
Harry Kloman, "Robert Ziebell: Houston's Warhol?", In Pittsburgh,
May 1 – 7, pg. 22.
Steven G. Kellman, "Off-Off-Hollywood", The Texas Observer, April
5, pg. 28 – 29.
1990 David Theis, "Altered State", Houston Press, November 29, pg.
50.
1988 Joan Seeman Robinson, "Contra Positions", Spot (Houston Center
for Photography), Summer, pg. 15.
Neil Printz, "Super Canvas: The Beauty and the Blight", Cite, Spring/Summer,
pg. 3.
1987 Jamey Gambrell, "The State of Texas Art", Art In America, March,
pp. 122, 124.