Robert Durham

(Vanderbilt University, B.A., University of Georgia, M.F.A.)

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Robert Durham credits his life-long love of literature as being the biggest influence on his development as a painter. His paintings employ imagery both beguiling and disconcerting, humor (often dark), and a realist style to develop psychological narratives of people and inanimate objects.

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Durham’s work has been published in New American Paintings #34 as well as exhibited in numerous exhibitions and museums domestically and internationally. In 2002 he was asked to participate in True Colors, an exhibition of American artists’ response to 9/11 arranged by Meridian International Center in Washington, DC. With support from the State Department the show subsequently went on to venues across America, Europe, the Middle East, and Slovakia. He exhibits regularly with Cumberland Gallery, and his work is included in many public and private collections.

Durham lives and works in Nashville, TN, where he divides his time beween paining and teaching. He currently teaches drawing and painting at Vanderbilt University.