Robert Katz
Robert Katz’s sculptural installations often utilize a rich visual language to explore issues about personal identity and remembrance. His art reflects themes of exile, redemption and moral imperative. His sculptures have been exhibited at the Jiangsu Chinese Art Academy in Nanjing, China; the Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale, New York; The Charter Oak Cultural Center, Connecticut, and his mixed media installation, The Five Books of Moses was recently installed at the List Visual Arts Center on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the designer of numerous Holocaust memorials including Dwelling of Remembrance at the Scarsdale Synagogue in New York and the Slivka Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Maine.
Katz has been the resident artist at the Seeds of Peace International Camp, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow,
Poland. He has also been a guest speaker at Oxford University and the Interfaith Programme at Cambridge University, England. He was invited to share his video/acoustic installation, Were The House Still Standing at the World Affairs Council and at the Nexus Centre for the Humanities in Newfoundland and the Canadian Immigration Museum in Halifax. He has presented his work at numerous Holocaust and visual culture international symposiums in Austria, Germany, Israel, Poland and England.
Most recently he was a finalist in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Design Competition and he is currently the recipient of the JAW Art Fellowship from the Amen Institute for which he created The Biblical Tableaux.
Katz grew up in Brooklyn New York and he earned his undergraduate degree from New York University. In 1973 he moved to Montana where he established a studio practice and where he received a MFA from the University of Montana. For the past forty years he has lived in central, Maine. He is a Professor of Art at the University of Maine at Augusta and serves on the Board of Directors of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine.
To see Robert’s artwork check out his website: www.robertkatzsculptor.com