Robert Zeller is a visual artist, writer and curator who received a BFA from a joint program of the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn, where he creates Surrealist-inspired work. He has curated group exhibitions in New York City, and his art has been exhibited and collected in the United States, Europe and Mexico. Zeller has written two books for Monacelli Press, an imprint of Phaidon, The Figurative Artist’s Handbook (2017), and New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting (2023). He contributed a chapter to Photography: Real and Imagined (2023), profiling the permanent collection of Surrealist photography of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Zeller has also written essays for exhibition catalogs and contributed essays to The Brooklyn Rail and other influential art periodicals and blogs. Zeller has been interviewed and quoted for articles in The New York Times and CNN. His books have been reviewed by Colossal, MutualArt, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, and other online platforms. Zeller has recently given lectures, held artist-panel discussions and book-signings at Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills, Lyles & King gallery and Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC. He has taught workshops in Rome, Italy and in Enniskerry. Ireland. In addition, Zeller is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.