Robert Gober

The artist Robert Gober was born in Wallingford, CT in 1954 and studied at Middlebury College, Vermont and the Tyler School of Art in Rome. He lives and works in New York. He is best known for his sculptures, but also has made photographs, prints, and drawings and has curated exhibitions. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs, and has themes of nature, sexuality, religion, and politics. The sculptures are meticulously handcrafted, even when they appear to just be a re-creation of a common sink. His work is in many museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, The Menil Collection and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He represented the United States at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has had several one-person museum exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Dia Center for... full article at wikipedia