Education
Awards & Fellowships
Wynn Newhouse Award
Richard Benson PrizeYale School of Art
Critical Practice AwardYale School of Art
ArtPrize 2-D Juried Award FinalistDisabilities and Sexuality
Solo Exhibitions
The Secret Society of Disabled PeopleDisArt FestivalGrand Rapids, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
Voices Embodied: PrognosticationDesign Museum of Chicago
Queer Lens: A History of PhotographyJ. Paul Getty Museum
DON'T LOOK NOW: A Defense of Free ExpressionArt at a Time Like This
Disrupt and ResistMason Exhibitions
PURE JOY1969 Gallery
VarianceRISD Museum
Reframing History / 35 ChaptersPhotoVogue Festival
Touching History: Stonewall 50Palm Springs Art Museum
Public Collections
Leslie-Lohman Museum of ArtNew York, NY
RISD MuseumProvidence, RI
ONE Archives at the USC LibrariesLos Angeles, CA
Residencies & Commissions
AARP National Campaign Commission
Teaching & Academic Appointments
Selected Lectures, Artist Talks & Panels
Maine College of Art & DesignVisiting Artist Lecture
University of PennsylvaniaGuest Lecture
Yale School of ArtVisiting Artist Lecture
UCLAGuest Artist Lecture
ONE ArchivesOpening Talk for No Content Warning
Yale School of ArtVisiting Artist Lecture
Otis College of Art and DesignArtist Talk
RISD MuseumSix Photographers on Care
University of MiamiPublic Lecture
University of ZurichArtist Talk
Harvard UniversityArtist Talk
Selected Bibliography & Press
MomusErin O'Leary, "For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism"
Getty PublicationsQueer Lens: A History of Photography
The Art Newspaper"Censorship on social media not only limits artists' online reach"
AftenpostenJakob Semb Aasmundsen, "Kunsten hans sprenger grenser: Jeg elsker kroppen min"
CARLAPhilip Anderson, "Robert Andy Coombs at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries"
Cultured MagazineNicole Martinez, "Photographer Robert Andy Coombs Captures the Lust of Life"
Vulture / New York MagazineJerry Saltz, "Pleasure, Helplessness, Fear, and Taboo in the Work of Photographer Robert Andy Coombs"
Vogue / PhotoVogue"Reframing History: The Disabled Body"
The Advocate"What Are Your Preconceptions of Disability and Sexuality?"
Hyperallergic"A Truck Exhibition on Bodily Autonomy Is Traveling Cross Country"
Hyperallergic"Slimming Down the Short Lists: A Look at 10 ArtPrize Finalists"
LAist"Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning"
Talk Art Podcast"Robert Andy Coombs"
Taylor & Francis, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesJeffrey Moulton Benevedes, "Shifting Identity, Emerging Self: An Interview with Robert Andy Coombs, aka CripFag"