Robert Zeller Author

Robert Zeller is an artist, writer, and teacher who lives and works in Oyster Bay, New York. Zeller received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He finished his education with atelier training at the Water Street Atelier and in-depth anatomical and structural study with the sculptor Sabin Howard. Zeller is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Houston, Paris, and New York.

Zeller’s first book for The Monacelli Press, The Figurative Artist’s Handbook, a survey of figurative art, both historical and contemporary, spanning from the Egyptians through David Salle, Lucian Freud, and others, was a bestseller in the US, UK, Australia, and other English-speaking countries. 

Zeller founded The Teaching Studios of Art in 2009, an international art school devoted to teaching traditional techniques to artists of all ages and skill levels, and offers both in-studio and online lessons. He has taught drawing and painting workshops in New York, Rome, and Ireland.

Zeller co-curated two exhibitions for Booth in New York: Not All Doors Are the Same in 2019 and The New Baroque in 2017. In the fall of 2021, he was one of nine figurative artists from across the US chosen for art historian / critic Donald Kuspit’s overview of contemporary art, Varieties of Figurative Expression, at George Bergès Gallery.