'Having invented a language of forms that suits his needs, he is continually refining, adjusting- his manner of expression. Jacks has often been called a Romantic, even though his work is vigorously abstract, and has been closely aligned with minimalism and colour-field painting.'

- John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday March 15th, 1997

BIOGRAPHY

1958-60
Prahran Technical College, Melbourne 1961-62 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Professional experience

1968
Lecturer Rochdale College, Toronto

1976
Artist-in-Residence, Hot Sun Foundation, Austin, Texas

1978
Artist-in-Residence, University of Melbourne

1980-83
Lecturer Sydney College for the Arts, Sydney

1983
Artist-in-Residence, Prahran College, Melbourne

1984-88
Lecturer Prahran College, Melbourne

1987
Visiting Lecturer, Cornwall School of Art, U.K.

1989
Artist-in-Residence, Joye Foundation Studio, Sydney

Solo exhibitions

2007
Anna Schartz Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Robert Jacks, Working in Multiple Dimensions, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin

2005
On Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

2004
The Living and the Dead, James Joyceof the Dead, Dublin

2003
Metro 5, Melbourne
Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University
Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2002
‘A Reason to be Cheerful’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo

2000
Flags and other Abstractions, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

1998
Ramp, Herring Island Gallery, Herring Island
Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne
Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1997
Sketches of Spain, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney

1996
Sketches of Spain, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Robert Jacks From the Studio, Castlemaine
State Festival, Castlemaine

1995
Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

1994
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Robert Jacks: Harmonice Mundi- Works from the 1970s and 1990s

1993
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic.
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1991
Robert Jacks - Works from New York 1969-1978, Deutscher Fine Art

1990
Robert Jacks- On Paper 1958-1990, The Ian Potter Gallery, The University

1989
Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1987
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Australian Galleries, Melbourne

1986
Gallery 52, Perth
Arts Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

1985
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Anima Gallery, Adelaide

1984
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
ACCA, Melbourne

1983
Gallery 52, Perth
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1982
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

1981
David Reid Gallery, Sydney
Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1980
David Reid Gallery, Sydney
Art Projects, Melbourne
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1979
Arts Projects, Melbourne
Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane

1978
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
University Gallery, The University of Melbourne

1977
Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney
ACT, Toronto, Canada

1975
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne

1973
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Bonython Gallery, Sydney
A Space, Toronto

1972
A Space, Toronto, Canada

1971
New York Cultural Centre, New York
Whitney Museum Artists Resource Centre, N.Y.

1969
Pollock Gallery, Toronto, Canada
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
Clune Gallery, Sydney

1967
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne

1966
Gallery A, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions

2008
2 x 2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney

2007
Australian Drawing John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Neo Minimalism and some Anticedents, John Buckley Gallery Melbourne

2005
#Pitch your Own Tent, Monash University Museum of Melbourne

2004
Barnados, The National Gallery, Melbourne

2002
Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria

2000
Significant Contempory Artists, Smyrnious Gallery, Melbourne

1999
A Letter to Picasso: The Stamp in Contempory Art, National Philatelic Centre and Archives, Melbourne

1998
A Decade of Contempory Australian Printmaking, Metrapolitan Museum of Seol, Korea
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Sketches Of Spain, Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane

1995
The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, University Art
The Festival, the Foundary and the Artist, Melbourne International Festival
Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

1993
From the Lithographer's Workshop, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney

1992
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
Re-View, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne

1990
Central Street, Charles Nodrum Gallery,Melbourne

1989
Interior Views, Victorian Regional Galleries

1987
Surface and Reflection, Art Gallery of N.S.W, Sydney
Painters and Sculpters - Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art,
Contemporary Australian Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Selected Contemporary Drawings, Heide Parkand Art Gallery, Melbourne
Voyage of Discovery, The Cresent Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1986
Colour and Transparency, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
A Resistant Spirit, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1985
The Subject of Painting, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
Victoria: Views of Contemporary Artists, Benalla, Victoria

1984
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne

1983
Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
Sydney Opera House Tenth Anniversary, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
The Mosaic, The Grid, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70s and 80s, Art Gallery of S.A.,
Classicism and Romanticism in Contemporary Painting, Geelong Art Gallery,
Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of W.A., Perth
Continuum 83, The First Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art in
Australian Abstract Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery,

1981
Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney

1978
Four New York Painters: Fundamental Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art

1977
University Art Collections, Grey Gallery, NewYork

1974
Third Annual Contemporary Reflections, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, U.S.

1973
Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney

1972
Large Works on Paper, Reese Palley Gallery, New York

1970
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1968
The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, tour to Art Gallery of
Canadian Artists '68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1963/4/5
New Generation, Museum of Modern Art,Melbourne

1962
Contemporary Art Society Annual, Argus Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Parliament House, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
New York University, New York, USA
Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
Artbank, Sydney
Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney
Sony Corporation, New York, USA
BHP Corporation, Melbourne
UNESCO, Sydney
The University of Melbourne, Parkville
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
University of Queensland, Brisbane
Albury Regional Art gallery, NSW
Australian club, Melbourne
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Bendigo art Gallery, Victoria
Burnie Art Gallery, Victoria
British Museum London
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
Centre for Contempory Art Hamilton New Zealand
Darwin Community College, Darwin
Geelong Art Gallery
The Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria
Monash Medical Centre
Museum of Contempory Art , Sydney
Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
National Gallery Of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
New York University, NYC
Newcastle Regional Gallery NSW
Parliament House Art Collection Canberra
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney
RMIT University, Melbourne
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
State Bank, Sydney
Tarrawarra Museum of Art , Victoria
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Toowoomba Community College
University of Melbourne
University of Queensland, Brisbane
University of Western Australia, Perth
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut, USA
Weseyan University, Connecticut, USA
Woollongong City Art Gallery,NSW

1998
Ramp, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Parkes Victoria, Red

1995
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria
Gallery Park and Rose Garden, sculpture cast at Meridan Foundry, Melbourne, &
St Leonards Apartments, St Kilda, Melbourne, steel screens for 4 stairwells

1993
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, rugs for reception area

1992
Matsushita Corporation, Chifley Tower, Sydney, two large paintings for
Swanston Walk, Melbourne, brass inlayed into bluestone pavement

1988
Woodside Offshore Petroleum, rug for foyer

1986
State Bank, Sydney, lift lobby, floor 35 and 36, marble floor