Robert Bingaman

Robert Josiah Bingaman (born Wichita, Kansas November 4, 1981) is an American artist known for his large-scale paintings and works on paper inspired by his semi-suburban midwestern upbringing.

Career Robert Bingaman studied painting at the University of Kansas (BFA, 2005) and visual arts at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis (MFA, 2007). His career began in earnest in 2014 after he gave an artist's talk at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, where he captivated the Kansas City art world with his series of Night Pools, declaring “I make paintings of things I care about.” Things he cares about can be summarized as: the suburban landscape, the wonder of nature, and popular American architecture and design. Bingaman has used his personal travels and literary sources as inspiration for his work, citing Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, and W.G. Sebald for their influence.

Bingaman is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri and currently lives and works in Humboldt, Kansas.

Public Collections The Art of Emprise, Emprise Bank, Wichita, Kansas Inergy, Kansas City, Missouri KPMG, Kansas City, Missouri Lockton, Kansas City, Missouri The University of Kansas School of Business, Lawrence, Kansas Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas