About Robert Rohm

Rohm was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1934 and passed away on June 4th, 2013 in Charleston, Rhode Island. He attended Pratt Institute in New York, where he to received his Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1956; Rohm also earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1960 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Rohm’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries both nationally and internationally, including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, The Seattle Art Museum, The Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland and the O.K. Harris Gallery in SoHo. Rohm returned to Pratt Institute as a teacher before moving to Rhode Island after receiving a Guggenheim Grant in 1964. There, he settled in as a faculty member in the University of Rhode Island’s Art Department. Rohm loved to travel, and his experiences abroad often influenced his perspective on life –a perspective reflected in the work exhibited at the Norton Center.