Robert Barber
BIO
Robert Barber received an undergraduate degree from the Minneapolis School of Art and an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1952. He later taught at Illinois University of Wesleyan before moving to Tucson, Arizona in 1956. He has been producing art since his teens, yielding a vast array of work spanning nearly three-quarters of a century, and continues to paint and draw on a daily basis at the age of 100.
Outside of a few local Tucson exhibitions, Barber was virtually unknown until a 2015 full-scale retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, co-curated by Anne-Marie Russell and Jocko Weyland. Kerry Schuss introduced the work of Robert Barber to an international audience at Independent Fair 2016 in New York. Most recently, in 2018, Robert Barber's work was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual "Invitational" exhibition.
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