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Robert Boyd

Adjunct Professor

Robert Boyd is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of video installation, photography and sculpture. His work has been widely exhibited at venues such as P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; Indianapolis; Participant Inc, New York; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf; Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT; Kunste-Werk, Berlin; Artsonje Center, Seoul; Context Galleries, Derry; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; and Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.

Awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work (2009); a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2009); A Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2006); and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Photography (2004). His work has been reviewed in publications such as Flash Art, The New York Times, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out and The New Yorker among others, and is represented in several public collections including the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Creation in Paris.

His video, Xanadu, was an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
 

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