Robert Godfrey has had over 50 solo exhibitions and has been invited to participate in nearly 200 group shows.
His first solo show was in New York City in 1973 at the Brata Gallery. Recent solo gallery exhibitions have been at Goya Galleries (Melbourne, Australia), Galerie Ruth Sachse (Hamburg, Germany), Reed Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark), Black Mountain Center for the Arts (North Carolina), Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia).
He has been invited to exhibit in numerous museum exhibitions including, the National Academy Museum (NYC), North Carolina Museum of Art (solo installation), Butler Institute of American Art (solo), Asheville Art Museum (solo), Greenville Art Museum (solo), Mint Museum (NC), Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (NC), Accademia d'Arte Moderne, Montecatini (Italy) Museo di Murlo (Italy), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Befa (Italy), Museoa Gernika (Spain), Muzeul National de Arta Cluj (Romania), Counihan Gallery (Australia), Gernika-Lumoko Kultura Etxea (Spain).
During 2007 Godfrey will participate in exhibitions in North Carolina, USA (solo); Ballerat and Moreland, Australia (group); Tbilisi, Georgia, in the former Soviet Union (group); and Florence, Italy (group).
His work, which deals with narrative structures and human relationships, was featured in the publication Art and Humanist Ideals: Contemporary Perspectives (Complied by William Kelly. Macmillan Publications, Australia, 2003).
Godfrey received his training in art from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and Indiana University, Graduate School of Fine Arts. He was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar to Denmark where he was affiliated with Det Kongolese Danske Konstakademi. He is the recipient of the Butler Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts presented by the Butler Institute of American Art. A native of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Godfrey has lived and worked in Asheville, North Carolina, since 1985.
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