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exhibitions

Permanent/Long-Term Exhibitions

  • Redpath Pteranodon, a 16-foot wingspan origami Pteranodon installed at the Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  • Original Origami, a rotating exhibition of some of my latest work at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.

  • A small number of works are on permanent display at the Paper Tree store in Japantown in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Current/Upcoming Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

  • The Shape of Things: Traditional Paper Arts from Asia, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13 - February 22, 2009

  • Origami Arts, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY, USA, January 9 - 31, 2009

  • Flip It, Fold It, Figure It Out, Traveling Exhibition, Various cities, USA, October 1, 2005 - December 31, 2008

  • Transforming Kami: the Art of Origami, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 6 - December 31, 2008

  • Transforming Kami: the Art of Origami (second exhibit), San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 1 - December 31, 2008

  • Art Show at the Cloverdale Regional Library, Cloverdale Regional Library , Cloverdale, CA, USA, October 25 - November 22 ,2008

  • Squares -- Folds -- Life: Contemporary Origami, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA, February 17 - July 20, 2008

  • CANVAS: Creating and Exploring in 3D Virtual Reality Environment, Dennos Museum, UIUC, Traverse City, MI, USA, January 20 - June 30, 2008

  • Paper Transformed -- Origami, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA, April 6 - June 22, 2008

  • Design and the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, February 19 - May 12, 2008

  • Origami Now!, Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA, June 16, 2007 - June 3, 2008

  • Paper Transformed, Mingei International Museum, Escondido, CA, USA, February 20, 2007 - February 20, 2008

  • Origami by Robert J. Lang, Mole Hole Gallery , Fort Myers, FL, USA, January 28, 2007 - February 4, 2008

  • Four Masters of Origami, K Gallery, Alameda, CA, USA, November 2 - December 20, 2007

  • Masters of Origami, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA, October 29 - November 10, 2007

  • Platform 21 = Folding, Platform 21, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 11 - September 30, 2007

  • Folding into Form - Masterpieces of Origami, Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, May 11 - October 7, 2007

  • Treasures of Origami Art, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel, August 17 - December 31, 2007

  • It's All in the Fold - More Than Just Origami, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts , Chicago, IL, USA, July 28 - August 29, 2007

  • Bird Sightings, Atrium Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston, ME, USA, April 22 - June 15, 2007

  • Folding the Monumental Pteranodon, Redpath Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 15-21, 2007

  • California Origami, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA, USA, February 1 - April 30, 2007

  • Natural Folds, Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, Jamestown, New York, USA, September 22 - December 31, 2006

  • Magician Transforming Paper into a Bird, Zeum, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 25 - September 30, 2006

  • Into the Fold: the Origami Art of Robert J. Lang, Redpath Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 28 - April 22, 2006

  • Origami by L. Allen, R.J. Lang, C. Palmer, Fermilab Art Gallery, Batavia, IL, USA, September 1 - November 7, 2005

  • Masterworks of Origami, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, USA, September 11 - October 30, 2005

  • Masters of Origami, Hangar-7 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria, July 7 - September 30, 2005

  • Intersections: Art/Science/Mathematics, The Gibson Gallery, SUNY, Potsdam, NY, USA, March 10 - April 20, 2005

  • Origami Masterworks, Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, San Diego, CA, USA, October 10, 2003 - February 2005

  • Counterparts, Peninsula Museum of Art , Belmont, CA, USA, September 3 - November 7, 2004

  • Shoreline Folds, Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, Hayward, CA, USA, April 10 - August 31, 2004

  • The Origami Art of Robert J. Lang, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA, USA, Fall, 2003

  • The Transform: Paper Art and Paper Engineering, Atrium Gallery, California State University at Fullerton , Fullerton, CA, USA, November 22, 2002 - April 18, 2003

  • Paris-Origami, Caroussel du Louvre , Paris, France, 1998

  • Origami, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 1998

  • Premier Solo Exhibition in Japan, Gallery Origami House, Tokyo, Japan, 1992

  • New Dimensions - Japanese Cultural Arts, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens , Pasadena, CA, USA, 1989

  • Paper Innovations, Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art , La Jolla, CA, USA, 1987 - 1988

  • Marvelous Animals in Stone and Paper, The Bard Cosman Foundation , New York, NY, USA, 1986

  • Plicare Charta, Jocelyn Center for the Arts , Torrance, CA, USA, 1985

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