Robert Heinecken

Robert Heinecken was born in 1931 in Denver, Colorado. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a fighter pilot in the 1950s before pursuing a Master of Arts degree at the University of California at Los Angeles. Heinecken has had 60 solo shows since 1964, including a major 1976 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, which travelled to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the...See more

Robert Heinecken was born in 1931 in Denver, Colorado. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a fighter pilot in the 1950s before pursuing a Master of Arts degree at the University of California at Los Angeles. Heinecken has had 60 solo shows since 1964, including a major 1976 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, which travelled to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Frederick S. Wight Galleries at UCLA. Other solo exhibitions have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography, the Pasadena Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Heinecken currently lives in Chicago. See less