Robert Chambers (American, born 1958)

Robert Chambers was born in Miami in 1958. Chambers earned his B.F.A. from University of Miami in 1983 and his M.A. in 1990 from New York University. In 1993, Chambers began his teaching position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Miami. Chambers has been the recipient of the Nancy Graves Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Chambers was granted a residency at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia in 2009 and has work in the permanent collections of the Kemper Museum, Kansas City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.Chambers was featured at Laumeier in 2004, Robert Chambers: In Sit U, a whimsical survey with works made over a fifteen year period.Chambers currently lives and works in Miami.