http://www.robertroesch.com
robert@robertroesch.com

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

• Robert Roesch was born in New York State, lives in Philadelphia Pa, and works in a studio in the New Jersey Pine lands.  He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and the State University of New York.
• Roesch was the Chair of Sculpture and a sculpture faculty member at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After 35 years he has retired in the spring of 2022.
• He is chairperson of the Philadelphia Art and Architecture Commission.
• He has received 12 grants, including a Fulbright Specialist Award that brought him to lecture and exhibit throughout Japan in 2006-07 and to represent the United States in the Baku Biennial in 2009. He represented USA in the Cairo Biennale in 2019. His work is in museum collections Internationally.
• 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 in Corpus Christi.
• Together with his wife, artist Suzanne Horvitz, Roesch was the Cultural Advisor 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 in Hamilton, NJ.
• Roesch was an invited artist in the 2007 and 2009 Biennials in Alexandria  Egypt.
• He was the guest of the Chinese Government and the Academy of Fine Arts in Hang Zhou, in 2008 . He built a solar powered sculpture for Westlake, Hang Zhou. In 2010 he complete a second sculpture Rainwall-”a Moment in the Garden” sited in downtown JianDe. He created a third sited public artwork- “The World in Balance” for the 2016 G20 Summit held in Hang Zhou, China.
• In 2021 along with Suzanne Reese-Horvitz he curated BORDERLESS Digital practices in changing times. for the Noyes Museum.
• Roesch is exhibiting video and digital artwork at Schau Fenster Gallery in Berlin, Germany opening 03.26.2021
• He will be joining National Autonomous University of Mexico’s CRISIS GAIA project exhibition, 2022.

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS:

2016“THE WORLD IN BALANCE” Awarded by the city of Hangzhou, China for the G20 summit

2012 “TRANSITION” Awarded by Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers Fla..

2011 “RAINWALL” (a moment in the garden)” Public Art Project in Jiande China
Awarded by the Government of China.

2010 “TAKEFLIGHT” Public Art Project in Norwich CT.
Awarded by the State of CT.

2008 “TRANSDUCTION CHINA” A permanent feature in Hangzhou China’s West Lake area
Awarded by the Government of China.

2003 “MOMENTUM” Texas A & M, Corpus Christi, Sculptured Entrance to the University
4 acres.  280 feet by 46 feet high
Part of the sculpture’s design has become the logo for the Texas A&M Corpus Christi campus

2002 “PEACOCK LIGHT RAIL SHELTERS” Horvitz/RoeschCollaboration

Awarded by the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.2 trolley shelters. The sculptural elements are stainless steel, bronze, gold leaf, and polychrome elements. They stand at the entrance of the Philadelphia Zoo.

2002 “ALCHEMY” FL Atlantic University – three 16-foot stainless steel and cor-ten spires
they occupy the entrance to the Science and Education Building.
Awarded by the State of FL in 2001.

1998 “MOONHARP REFLECTING POOL” A sculptured water environment 13ft. x 60ft. x 40ft.
Awarded by General Instruments Corp, Horsham, PA.

1999 “ORION PROJECT” Awarded by the state of NC, a hillside work of lighted pyramids
identifying the major stars in the constellation Orion, marking the entrance to
the Science and astronomy Complex, NC State Arts,

1997 “WIND SPIRIT GATEWAY” The Gateway to The City of Wichita KS  -ten 16 foot lighted
stainless steel spires with two 20 ft. stepped limestone berms, topped by two 18 ft.
stainless steel shapes.
Awarded by the City of Wichita.

1997 “WATERWALL” Brass & Stainless Steel, light and water 22ft. X 16ft. X 4ft.
Awarded by Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC

1994 “CATALYST” 13ft. X 12ft. X 10ft. X 80ft. Tensile supported stainless steel, lighted
cor-ten & landscaped areas of wildflowers and river rock.
Computer associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

OTHER SITED COMMISSIONED WORKS INCLUDE:

PLUNGING BREAKER:                      Atlantic Galman Group,   Longport, NJ
Untitled:                                               South Walnut Plaza, Wilmington, DE,
Softly Spoken Words:                        Sanborn Square Park, Boca Raton, FL,
Wave: Lynmark Group,                   Suffern, New York
Untitled: State University of NY,    Farmingdale, New York

SELECTED CORPORATE AND MUSEUM PURCHASES:

WOODMERE MUSEUM OF FINE ART                       Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

SMILOW MEDICAL CENTER                                       Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PERELMAN MEDICAL CENTER                                   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NOYES MUSEUM                                                            Oceanville, New Jersey
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE                                        Hamilton, New Jersey
PAPER MUSEUM                                                             Tokyo, Japan,
KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM    Kyoto, Japan
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRIA MUSEUM                    Alexandria, Egypt
NOVELTY                                                                        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BENEFICIAL                                                                     Wilmington, DE
RCA VICTOR                                                                   New York, New York
USIA Arts America                                                         Washington, DC
A R A TOWER                                                                  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL                                        New York, New York
FIDELITY BANK                                                               Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MARINE MIDLAND BANK                                           New York, New York
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART                            Coral Gables, FL
McALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM                      McAllen Texas
(Horvitz/Roesch collaboration)
GLASMUSEUM EBELTOFT                                         Ebeltoft Denmark
(Horvitz/Roesch collaboration)
WICHITA MUSEUM OF ART                                       Wichita, Kansas
RHONE-POULENC RORER INC.                                Collegeville, Pennsylvania
WESTLAKES TRAMMEL CROW CO.                         Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2021 BORDERLESS Stockton University, NJ

2019 CAIRO BIENNALE                                          Cairo, Egypt

2013 WATERFRONT SCULPTURE WALK             Atlantic City, NJ.
2013 SMILOW MEDICAL CENTER                       Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013 Kramer Hall Gallery Noyes Museum         Hammonton, NJ
2012 Gallery HAC                                                    Hammonton, NJ
2010 NOYES MUSEUM                                            Smithville, NJ
2010 Sande Webster Gallery                                 Philadelphia Pennsylvania
2009 Baku Biennial                                                 Azerbaijan
2008 Sande Webster Gallery                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Tera Gallery                                                     Kyoto, Japan
2007 City Arts                                                           Wichita KS
2006 Sande Webster Gallery                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Moon Gallery,                                                 Rome, GA
2000-01 American Cultural Center Gallery        Alexandria, Egypt
1999 Le Pont Gallery,                                              Aleppo, Syria
1999 Gallery Amar                                                   Latakia, Syria
1999 Sande Webster Gallery                                  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

2015 Represented The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Shandong Art University, Jinan, China and spoke at an international forum of Foundational Education of Fine Art

2015 Fulbright specialist – On the roster until 2017, Japan

2009 Independence foundation grant
Fulbright Senior Specialist – On the Roster until 2011 Baku, Azerbaijan
2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist – On the Roster until 2011 Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
2001 Cultural Specialist United States Information Agency Alexandria, Egypt
2000 ACULSPEC Specialist United States Information Agency Damascus and Aleppo, Syria
1998 Cultural Specialist United States Information Agency Cairo, Egypt
1997 Cultural Specialist United States Information Agency Damascus, Syria
1996 Ford Foundation Grant through the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1996 Cultural Specialist United States Information Agency Ecuador and Argentina

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Philadelphia Art & Architecture Commission, Appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter 2008 to present. chairperson from 2021
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Professor of Fine Arts from 1983 to 2022
Chairperson of Sculpture past 16 years
Cultural Advisor to the United States Embassy, Burma, Ecuador, Argentina, Egypt,  Syria & Azerbaijan.
Parsons School of Design, New York,  Instructor of design (4 years)
State University of New York at Farmingdale, New York, Associate professor  (2 years)
Long Island University at Southampton College, New York, Assistant professor  (11 years)

FORMAL STUDY:

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York School of Fine Arts BFA
State University of New York at Farmingdale, New York School of Art and Design BA

GALLERY AFFILIATION:

Joanne Nerlino Associates    New York, New York
ARDT                                        Southampton New York