Robert Carroll was born in Painsville, Ohio and studied at Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating in 1957. He was awarded the Agnes Gund Travelling Scholarship. He moved to Italy in 1960 and has lived in Rome ever since, painting in a bold semi-realist style. Noted Italian art critic Professor Dario Micacchi describes Carroll as “a resistance figure in the Pop Art invasion of Europe, holding out his humanist lyricism against the movement”. In the United States Carroll has exhibited in New York, Chicago, Madison and Washington D.C. and other major cities. In Europe he has shown in London, Vienna and numerous Italian galleries. Although he first burst onto the scene in the 1960s, Carroll remains a prominent artist, with his work headlining a touring exhibition “Art for Life” in Bologna, Pisa and Catania in Sicily in 2003. The same year he also exhibited at the Lazzaro Signature Gallery of Fine Art in Stroughton, Wisconsin and First Peoples’ Gallery and Art Metro in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently represented by the Galleria Di Summa in Rome. His paintings are held in a number of Italian public collections and by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
