Born in Detroit, Michigan, USA, he lives and works in New York. Lobe has had more than 30 one-person exhibits, among these are: “Wood Sculpture,” Zabriskie Gallery, New York; “Robert Lobe: Hammered Aluminum Sculpture,” Willard Gallery, New York; Texas Gallery, Houston; Willard Gallery, New York; Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; “Robert Lobe: New Work,” Blum Helman Gallery, New York; “On Nature,” Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles; “The Palm at the End of the Parking Lot,” Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri; “A Clearing in the Woods,” The Katonah Museum, Katonah, N.Y.; Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York; “Four Trees,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; “The Landscape Transformed: the Sculpture of Robert Lobe,” Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, California. Robert Lobe has particpated in more than 50 group shows, like: “Anti Illusion: Procedures/Materials”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Documenta 6,” Orangerie, Kassel, West Germany; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; “The Americans, the Landscape,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; “1987 Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Sculpture, Inside-Outside,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Exhibition traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; “4 Americans: Aspects of Current Sculpture” The Brooklyn Museum N.Y.; “Dialogue with Nature: Nine Contemporary Sculptors,” The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; “Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: Northeast Region,” First Lady’s Garden the White House, Washington, D.C. He has obtained several prizes and grants such as: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Guggenheim Sculptor in Residence, Chesterwood, Mass. Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant; Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His work is part of important public and private collections, such as: National Gallery, Washington, D.C., Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, General Services Administration, U.S. Geological Survey Building, Reston, Va., Washington State Arts Commision, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Wash., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass., Chase Manhattan Bank, Levi Strauss Corp., Microsoft Corp.