Robert Cozzolino

Robert Cozzolino is a Minneapolis-based independent curator, art historian, and critic who approaches curation collaboratively, in partnership with artists, colleagues, and broad communities. “Starting where you are” is critical to his practice—knowing the immediate context and deeper history of the place in which he works. Dr. Cozzolino is drawn to artists who express the full range of human experience, especially those who aspire to visually express the intangible. Although he has worked on topics from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he often collaborates with contemporary artists in examining history. He considers himself a curator of fluid time, not bound by the labels and bins imposed on the field. Among his over forty exhibitions are Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2021–22), World War I and American Art (2016–17), Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis (2014–15), David Lynch: The Unified Field (2014), and With Friends: Six Magic Realists, 1940–1965 (2005).