Robert Therrien was born in 1947 in Chicago, and has been living and working in Los Angeles since 1971. Recent solo exhibitions include Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2006); Kunstmuseum Basel Kupferstichkabinett (2008); De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2011). Since 2009, a major group of his works has been part of ARTIST ROOMS, a collection of international contemporary art established through The d’Offay Donation with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, The Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments -- most recently on view at the Scottish National Gallery of Art (2010-11). 

Therrien's work appears in numerous public collections worldwide, including The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; The Getty Center, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.