Robert Storr

American, 1949

Robert Storr received his B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1972 and his M.F.A. in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He attended Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been widely exhibited in New York, Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and Paris, and is in the collections of the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and many other institutions.

Storr was a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for twelve years; he was the first American to serve as the Director of Visual Arts of the Venice Biennale in 2007; and he was previously Dean of the Yale School of Art for ten years. Storr has authored major texts on many artists, including Philip Guston, Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, among others. He is the recipient of five honorary doctorates and awards from organizations including the International Association of Art Critics and the Archives of American Art. In 2000, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and was later promoted to Officier of the same order. Storr lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York.

Bio courtesy of Vito Schnabel Gallery