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Roberto Bertoia

  • Associate Professor Emeritus

Department

Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Sculpture

Roberto Bertoia teaches sculpture classes at all levels as well as drawing and special topics. Bertoia has exhibited in national and international juried and invitational exhibitions. He has been commissioned by Winston-Salem State University and the University of Binghamton. He continues to experiment with site, context, material, and craft as it relates to his investigation of isolation, absence/presence at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and design. Bertoia completed his B.F.A. in sculpture in 1978 at the University of Windsor–Ontario, and his M.F.A. in sculpture at Southern Illinois University in 1982, the year he began teaching at Cornell.

portrait of a man wearing a blue jacket using a drill press

Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Sculpture

Classes

  • Introduction to Drawing

    ART 2501

  • Independent Studio in Drawing

    ART 4509

  • Introduction to Sculpture

    ART 2401

  • Sculpture: Sculptural/Artistic Practice

    ART 3401

  • Sculpture Installation

    ART 3404

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Cornell University Faculty Research and Development

    1988, 1989, 1990, 2006

  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation

    1986–87

  • Yaddo

    1984

  • E.T. Greenshields Foundation

    1981–82

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Roberto Bertoia (two-person show)

    Windsor Whipworks Gallery, Windsor, New York, 2009

  • Exhibition

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2007

  • International Contemporary Furniture Fair

    Jacob Javitts Center, New York City, 2006