Robert Seydel

Robert Seydel, born in New York, NY, lives in Amherst, MA, where he is Assistant Professor of Photography at Hampshire College. He received a BFA in English and Photography from New York University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and served for a number of years as Director of Exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. Seydel received a regional fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his serial work, A Short History of Portraiture. A selection from his ongoing Book of Saul was published in 2005 in 1913: A Journal of Forms, issue 2. Work from the series Eckstein-Sousa was exhibited in Five Contemporary Visual Poets at The Wright Exhibition Space (Seattle, WA, 2006). This exhibition at CUE Art Foundation marks his first solo exhibition in New York City.