Robert Brokl received his MFA from UC-Berkeley in 1982; his teachers included Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, and Jay DeFeo. His work focuses on his life, pets, art, and travel; it is inspired by German Expressionism and Japanese woodblocks. Brokl has served as a visiting lecturer at UC-Davis and SF State. He was an artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include the Monterey Museum of Art (2024) and Piedmont Center for the Arts (2022). The Gottlieb Foundation Grant was awarded in 2006. His work has been exhibited at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery from 1981 to 2021.
Brokl has written art and book reviews for Square Cylinder, Journal of the Print World, and Bay Area Reporter; awards from the California News Publishers Association, 2024. Topics have included David Hockney, Wolfgang Tillmans, George Platt Lynes, Paul Wonner, William Brown, Augusta Rathbone, Bernice Bing, and Richard Caldwell Brewer.
His work is in public collections, including the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Achenbach Foundation, FAMSF; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland; Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis; RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI; and Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.
