Robbert Flick earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited work all over the world, with shows at LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, SFMOMA in San Francisco, the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., Deightor Hallen in Hamburg, Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, and Min Gallery in Tokyo. Flick's work is in a number of public collections as well. He has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a COLA (City of Los Angeles) individual artist grant, and a Getty Scholarship.