Nace en Detroit, Michigan, USA. Vive y trabaja en New York, N.Y. y en Jersey City, N.J. En su amplia trayectoria, Robert Lobe cuenta con más de 30 exposiciones individuales, algunas de ellas son: Escultura en Madera, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Robert Lobe: Escultura forjada en aluminio, Willard Gallery, New York; Texas Gallery, Houston; Willard Gallery, New York Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; Robert Lobe: New Work, Blum Helman Gallery, New York; Blum Helman WareHouse, New York; On Nature, Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles; The Palm at the End of the Parking Lot, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Missouri; Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York; A Clearing In The Woods, The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY; Four Trees, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; The Landscape Transformed: The Sculpture of Robert Lobe, Montalvo Cal. Ca. Ha participado en más de 50 exposiciones colectivas, algunas de las más importantes son: Anti Illusion: Procedures/Materials, Whitney Museum of American Art, Documenta 6, Orangerie, Kassel, Alemania; Indoor/ Outdoor Sculpture Show, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, N.Y.; Young American Artists: Exxon National Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.; The Americans, the Landscape, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; About Place: Contemporary American Landscape, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bienal del Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Sculpture, Inside-Outside, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, la exposición viajó al Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; 4 Americans: Aspects of Current Sculpture, The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Dialogue with Nature: Nine Contemporary Sculptors, The Phillips Collection, W. D.C.; Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, The White House, W.D.C.; As Far As the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Entre los premios y becas que ha obtenido por su trabajo están: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Guggenheim Sculptor in Residence; Chesterwood, Mass.; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant. Algunas colecciones públicas y comisiones que cuentan con su obra son: Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis (permanent site-specific installation), Missouri; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 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.