Robert Markey
Robert Markey
Robert Markey was born in New York in 1947. He earned his B.S. in physics from M.I.T in 
1969 and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Until 1980 his main focus was music, performing on classical guitar and sitar. In 1981 he began to work in the visual arts and also began his study of Tae Kwon Do. For the past twenty five years those two disciplines have been at the center of his life. He has traveled extensively, working, studying and teaching in Japan, India, Europe, Central and South America.
Markey works in several media including painting, sculpture, installation, video and mosaics. He has done public art projects in cities around the country including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston and Minneapolis. His first video was aired on PBS, and he received national media coverage for his public performance work on domestic violence. He is represented by the Elaine Beckwith Gallery in Jamaica, VT and the Tappan Z Gallery in Tarrytown, NY.
He currently works out of his studio in Ashfield, Massachusetts.