The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative (RILI) is the leading entity dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the late American artist Robert Indiana’s work.
RILI advances appreciation for and recognition of the artistic legacy of Indiana, maintaining a collection and archive, so that scholars, curators, and arts professionals can learn about this highly original body of work. RILI also works actively to organize and support exhibitions, public installations, and publications that expand the scholarship and awareness of Indiana’s art.
A seminal figure of American art who played a central role in the development of assemblage, hard-edge painting, and Pop art for over four decades beginning in the 1960s, Robert Indiana resonates with today’s audiences through his explorations of American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language.
The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative was established in 2022 by Simon Salama-Caro, who began working with Robert Indiana as his gallerist in 1988. He devoted the following three decades to safeguarding and advancing Indiana’s artistic achievement.
In 1995, Salama-Caro began working with Indiana as his exclusive worldwide representative for the authorized production, sale, promotion of such iconic sculpture series as LOVE (1966), ART (1972), AHAVA (1977), ONE Through ZERO (The Ten Numbers) (1978), and AMOR (1998), and has continued in this role since the artist’s death in 2018. In 1998, Salama-Caro was entrusted by the artist to author and produce a catalogue raisonné of his complete oeuvre.
Today, Simon Salama-Caro and the Salama-Caro family steward The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative. Together they work closely and collaboratively with the Star of Hope Foundation, created by Robert Indiana in 2016, helping to fund the non-profit’s arts-related programs through royalties from the sale of works by Indiana and proceeds from intellectual property rights related to his works.
