Fine Art: Robert Wallace Selby

Robert Wallace Selby was born in Haverhill MA in 1949, and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Robert returned to New England in 1976, where he wrote at the Boston Globe and Yankee Magazine before becoming the Providence Journal’s Staff Artist.

In 1986, Selby began his teaching career with a weekly course at the Rhode Island School of Design. During his career in academia, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Madrid, Spain. Robert continued on to teach at Champlain College’s Game Art Program until 2015.

Selby’s conceptual realist paintings, which feature distinctly American cultural revelations have shown across the country, including exhibits in New York, Detroit, and Washington, D.C.

Today, Robert can be found working full-time as a painter in his studio in Wiscasset, Maine.