Rob Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1994 and 2019, he was an Acadia National Park Resident Artist.

Robert has twice received support from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and has been awarded the Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for painting.In addition to the National Park Service residencies, he has enjoyed residencies with the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation, the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming.

His paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections.

Rob is represented by The Page Gallery in Camden, Maine and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.