Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
Artist Details
Sculptor, photographer, painter, and printmaker Robert Cumming was born in 1943 in Worcester, MA. He received his BFA in 1965 from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA and his MFA in 1967 from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, IL. Cumming was the subject of a solo exhibition at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY and California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (2019-20). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (1969); 9 Artists/9 Urban Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (1970); and Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1978). Cumming died in 2021 in Desert Hot Springs, CA.
Bio updated as of 2023.