ROBERT RIGSBY HAMMOND

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Robert Hammond is a self-taught artist who lives and works in New York City. With work in private and corporate collections, his work can be seen publicly in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Battery Park, CraftSteak New York and Craft Dallas.

From 2002 to 2005 he served as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in 2002 consulted on the WTC memorial project, "Tribute In Light". In 2008 he was awarded a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and was named one of Crain’s "Forty Under 40."

As co-founder of Friends of the High Line Robert helped to take the High Line, a 1.5 mile disused rail structure on Manhattan’s West Side, from the brink of demolition in 1999 to a projected opening of a public park at the end of 2008.

Robert was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1969.