Chicago-based artist Robert Burnier for Twilight Hour, January 26, 2021. Twilight Hour is a speakers series collaboratively run by the Painting and Sculpture + Expanded Practices programs and organized by Emily Hermant and Elizabeth McIntosh for the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Robert Burnier (American, b. 1969) is an artist who lives and works in Chicago. He received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute in Painting and Drawing in 2016. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (1991). Exhibitions include Temple at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Black Tibernius at the Chicago Riverwalk, Of No Particular King, at Arts Club of Chicago, Primary, at Korn Gallery, Drew University, New Jersey, Lip To My Ear, at Vacation Gallery, New York, Objectified, at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, So That Justice Should be Tyrant, at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Ghost Nature, curated by Caroline Picard, at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL and La Box, Bourges, France, The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Imaginary Landscapes, curated by Allison Glenn, at Chicago Urban Art Society and Jenny From the Color Block, at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Upcoming solo and three-person shows include David B. Smith gallery Denver, CO and Corvi-Mora gallery, London. His work has been exhibited at art fairs in Miami, New York, Chicago and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has served on the boards of several arts organizations, including Heaven Gallery, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outisder Art, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago.