Robert Voit, born 1969 in Erlangen, first studied with Gerd Winner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich before becoming Thomas Ruff's master class student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2001. From 2011 to 2013 Robert Voit taught as a lecturer and guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. With New Trees (Steidl, 2014) and The Alphabet of New Plants (Hatje Cantz, 2015), he presented two highly acclaimed monographs, each of which was awarded the German Photo Book Prize in silver. Robert Voit has received numerous prizes, including the Sophie Smoliar Award (2000), the European Architecture Photography Prize (2003), the hausderkunst Prize (2004) and the sponsorship of the International Lake Constance Conference. He has also held the photographer's residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the artist's residence La Brea Matrix in Los Angeles. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, the New Public Library, New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the Fotografische Sammlung, Munich, Lenbauchhaus, Munich, and the DZ BANK Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany. Robert Voit lives in Munich.
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