Carole Robb (1943) is a British artist and member of the National Academy of design in New York. She lives between New York City, London, Rome and Venice. Robb was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1943 and studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art, (1961-1965) and then at Reading University (MFA 1979) under Terry Frost. That same year Robb received a British Arts Council award from the Greater London Association and won the British Prix de Rome for painting from the Royal Commission and spent the year in Rome. Following this she went to New York City on a Fulbright Artist Fellowship.
Before leaving for the USA Robb had teaching positions at the Royal Collage of Art and the Slade School of Art in London and continued her teaching at the New York Studio School for Drawing, Painting and Sculpture as Head of Atelier (Painting) from 2005 to 2013. Robb is currently the Artistic Director of the Rome Art Program in Italy, which she established in 2009.
Robb’s paintings are included in a number of private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The National Academy Museum in New York, The Imperial War Museum and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Fulbright Collection and the Royal Commission of 1851, London and The British School at Rome, Italy.
Carole Robb is represented in the USA by Denise Bilbro Fine Art, New York.