Robert Roesch

Sculptor and professor Robert Roesch was born in New York City. He earned a BA from the State University of New York, Farmingdale, and BFA from Pratt Institute, New York City.

He has received numerous grants, including a Fulbright Specialist Award in Japan. He represented the United States in the 2009 Baku Bienniale, Azerbaijan, and exhibited at the Cairo Biennale, Egypt, in 2007 and 2009.

Roesch's work is in museum collections nationally and internationally, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Paper Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum, Japan; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt; International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX; and Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark. He has completed 20 major public art projects in the United States including the gateway to the city of Wichita Kansas and the entrance to Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.

Roesch and his wife, artist Suzanne Horvitz, were cultural advisors to the United States embassies in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Syria, Argentina, Ecuador, and Myanmar. Their collaborative sculpture Transduction is a permanent installation at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ. 

Roesch is chair of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where he teaches a sculpture seminar on digital imaging. He is a member of the Philadelphia Art Commission. Roesch splits his time between Philadelphia and his studio in the New Jersey Pinelands near Hammonton.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1946

New York

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

European American