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Robbie Conal received an MFA from Stanford University in 1978. He taught painting and drawing at the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts for 12 years.

Conal participated in "Table of Free Voices" in Berlin on September 9, 2006. His postering raids have been featured in newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, and in national periodicals including Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, People, Interview, BOMB, ID, Print, and Beautiful/Decay. Conal's work has also been seen on CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, Life & Times on KCET, and MTV News. He was the subject of the 1992 documentary Post No Bills. He has written two books, Art Attack: The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Artist and ARTBURN, a collection of his work published in LA Weekly. Conal's art is included in Line Drive, published by Hamilton Press in October, 2008. This limited-edition portfolio of 13 hand-pulled lithographs celebrates the participating artists' love of baseball.

Conal has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Los Angeles, and the Getty Trust. He lives and works in Mar Vista, California.

Conal's work is currently on display at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. Read our listing for more info.

Robbie Conal
Fishbowl (70s spin-off), 2003
Oil on photomontage
56 x 57 in.
Courtesy Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica

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