Bob Goldstein
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Bob Goldstein
web: www.bobgoldstein.art
IG: @bob__goldstein

Science is a rich source of visual textures, organic shapes, and historical characters for much of my work. I bridge art and science, working professionally in both. I frequently find myself limited while working in science from forms of expression that find outlets in my art. I'm a professor in Biology and adjunct faculty in Art at UNC Chapel Hill, where I run a research lab and co-teach a cross-disciplinary Printmaking and Biology studio art course. Much of my work builds from my background as a scientist, making use of both ideas and processes that span art and science worlds (an example).

Exhibition record
2025    Rebus Works, Peel x Rebus, Raleigh, NC 
2025    
ICYMI! – Northside District, Chapel Hill, NC 
2025    Into the Void; From the Void, Remarque Print Workshop & Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2025    My Own Utopia – Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery, Highland Heights, KY
2025    Blue Outtakes: A Cyanotype Collection – The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, and Lenscratch, online exhibition
2025    Down to Earth – Arts Center, Carrboro, NC
2024   
Print Rodeo 8x8 Exhibition – PrintAustin, Austin, TX
2024    Works on Paper – Firefly Artists Gallery, Northport, NY
2024    IYKYK – Northside District, Chapel Hill, NC
2023    Durham Art Guild 69th Annual Juried Exhibition – Truist Gallery, Durham, NC
2023    Solo pop-up show, Clement Gallery, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts
2023    Best of the East Coast – juried show, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2023    Applied Force – group show of screen printed art by NC-based artists, Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2023   
30×30: Art, Nature, and Science – juried show, Museum of Life & Science, Durham, NC (collaborative piece with Beth Grabowski)
2022    Only You Can Set You Free – group show, Kelly St Community Garden, Bronx NY (curator John Vasquez Mejias)
2022    Elemental – Speedball and Iredell Arts group show, Statesville, NC (jurors Zeb Love, Aftyn Shah, Nina Tran)
2022    Home – Orange County Arts Commission, Eno Mill Gallery, Hillsborough NC
2022    Four Rivers Print Biennial – juried show, Carbondale, IL (jurors Susanna Crum & Rodolfo Salgado, Jr)
2022    The Contemporary Print – juried show, Austin, TX (juror John Hitchcock)
2021    Peeling in the Years – juried show, Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2021    Durham Art Guild 67th Annual Juried Exhibition – SunTrust Gallery, Durham, NC
2021    Solo exhibition: Post-Human, Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2021    TRACES of Print Day in May – online juried show
2021    The Art of a Scientist – Duke University online show
2020    Intersecting Methods, group show, Stockton University Art Gallery (collaborative piece with Beth Grabowski)
2020    Mixed Concrete – Habitat for Humanity Orange County benefit show
2019    The Art of a Scientist – Golden Belt Gallery, Durham, NC
2019    Recent Acquisitions – UNC Archives Wilson Special Collections show
2019    Mixed Concrete – Habitat for Humanity Orange County benefit show
2018    The Art of a Scientist – Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center

Permanent Collections
  • Poster House museum, New York
  • University Archives, UNC Wilson Library Special Collections
  • North Carolina Collection, UNC Special Collections
  • Sloane Art Library

Selected mentions & coverage
2023    The Art of Science - Short doc and web site by Calli Westra about my work in art & science
2023    Portrait of an artist - 27587 magazine
2022    Emergency - a movie that used my science gig posters as backdrops in laboratory scenes
2021    The Art is Formally Known as Prints - Carolina Alumni Review magazine
2020    NY Times, Sept 22 - story begins with an anecdotal lead about a screen printed poster I made
2019    This scientist-designer makes awesome posters for university lectures - Fast Company online
2011    Rädertierchen als Posterboys - Zeit online

Publications
2023    YMCK - Pressing Matters magazine
2021    Coronavirus Spread - The Concern, issue 3
2021    A Lab of Her Own - Nautilus vol 41 and online (a magazine article built in part from original science history research and including a photogravure print)
2011    Visualizing with ImageJ - Make vol 27.

Invited lectures, workshops, panel discussions
2024    ENFOLD Sci-Art workshop, BWF Research Triangle Park
2023    Toledo CellulArt Scientist/Artist lecture, Center for Visual Arts, University of Toledo
2022    Visiting Artist series, Duke University Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
2021    SwitchPoint Covid-19: Back to the Future, short talk on COVID PSAs
2019    Keynote Speaker, Duke University STEAM Forum
2018    The Art of a Scientist interactive panel discussion, Duke University

Representation
Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
Picture
photo by Donn Young
Picture
photo by Calli Westra
  • Post-Human
  • Gig Posters for Scientists
  • PSAs
  • Other printmaking
  • Art of Science
  • Emergency
  • Teaching
  • Contact
  • About