ROBERT BERLIND was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He received a BA in Art History at Columbia, and an MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 1963, studying with notable faculty such as Alex Katz and Neil Welliver, alongside fellow artists Rackstraw Downes, Brice Marden, Chuck Close and Janet Fish. Berlind’s work began to appear in group and solo exhibitions in New York and elsewhere in the 1970s during a period of renewed appreciation for representational painting. He was included in several projects of The Artists’ Choice Museum, a roving artist-run organization formed to support exhibitions of figurative and landscape painters. One such show took place at Tibor de Nagy in 1980. The gallery would later present four solo exhibitions; several were reviewed in the New York Times, as well as in Art in America. A survey exhibition originated at Wright State University in 1997 and travelled to other venues including the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York. The Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia exhibited his work in 2008. This is his second at Lennon, Weinberg. Berlind taught at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of Art and Design at SUNY Purchase. His critical writing has appeared in Art in America, Border Crossings and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2013, he received the prestigious Art Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in association with Creative Capital. He twice received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants from the NEA and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. He was a member of the National Academy and received their B. Altman Award for Painting in 2007 and the Award for Excellence in Painting in 2015. His work is included in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Colby College Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum, Farnsworth Museum, the Mattituck Museum, and National Academy Museum. Robert Berlind and video artist Mary Lucier married in 1997. He died on December 17, 2015.