Robert Standish, born in Los Angeles, California, is an American artist. Standish received a BA in psychology from Antioch University in 1996. Standish’s debut painting exhibition took place in Los Angeles in 2002, and received a highly favorable review in FlashArt magazine. Works by Standish are in the collection of noted art collector Lewis Manilow and in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
In 2011, Robert curated a successful show at Rivera and Rivera gallery in Hollywood called “Ward of the State: Tony Ward Artists’ Muse”. The exhibition highlighted a diverse collection of images by artists whose lives and careers have at various points been impacted by Ward, as subject, muse and myth.