Bob Goldstein
Instagram: @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 makes use of both ideas and processes that span art and science worlds (an example).

Exhibition record (solo shows in boldface)
2025     2024   
  • Print Rodeo 8x8 Exhibition – PrintAustin, Austin, TX
  • Works on Paper – Firefly Artists Gallery, Northport, NY
  • IYKYK – Northside District, Chapel Hill, NC
2023
  • Solo pop-up show – Clement Gallery, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, OH
  • Best of the East Coast – juried show, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
  • Applied Force – group show of screen printed art by NC-based artists, Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
  • Durham Art Guild 69th Annual Juried Exhibition – Truist Gallery, Durham, NC
  • 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)
  • The Contemporary Print – Austin, TX (juror John Hitchcock)
  • Four Rivers Print Biennial – Carbondale, IL (jurors Susanna Crum & Rodolfo Salgado, Jr)
  • Elemental – Speedball and Iredell Arts group show, Statesville, NC (jurors Zeb Love, Aftyn Shah, Nina Tran)
  • Home – Orange County Arts Commission, Eno Mill Gallery, Hillsborough NC
2021   
  • Solo exhibition: Post-Human – Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
  • TRACES of Print Day in May – online juried show
  • Peeling in the Years – Peel Gallery, Carrboro, NC
  • Durham Art Guild 67th Annual Juried Exhibition – SunTrust Gallery, Durham, NC
2020   
  • Intersecting Methods, group show, Stockton University Art Gallery (collaborative piece with Beth Grabowski)
  • Mixed Concrete – Habitat for Humanity Orange County benefit show
2019   
  • The Art of a Scientist – Golden Belt Gallery, Durham, NC
  • Recent Acquisitions – UNC Archives Wilson Special Collections show
  • Mixed Concrete – Habitat for Humanity Orange County benefit show
2018   
  • The Art of a Scientist – Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center
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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 cover story, pages 20-33 and online (a magazine article built in part from science history research and including an original photogravure print)
2011    Visualizing with ImageJ - Make vol 27, pages 116-121

Invited lectures, workshops, panel discussions
2025    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, How and why to bring science to art and art to science
2024    ENFOLD Sci-Art workshop, BWF Research Triangle Park, NC
2023    Toledo CellulArt Scientist/Artist lecture, Center for Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Printmaking for Science and Art
2022    Duke University Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Visiting Artist series
2021    SwitchPoint Covid-19 conference: 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