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Robert Colescott represented the United States at the 47th Venice Biennale, the oldest and most prestigious of all the international art festivals. He was the first African-American to represent the U.S. in a single-artist exhibition at this important venue. His paintings are in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as many private collections. His early influences include study with Fernand Leger in Paris (1949-50). He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught painting from 1983 to 1995. Curator Miriam Roberts describes Colescott’s work as “Simultaneously seductive, hilarious and disturbing, the paintings of Robert Colescott depict a world of contradictions and dichotomies – between art and life, tragedy and comedy, men and women, black and white, oppressor and victim, Europe and Africa, past and present.”
