Robert Therrien was born in Chicago in 1947 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), among other venues. Most recently his work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY), and the Kunstmuseum, Basel.

Therrien's work appears in numerous public collections worldwide, including The Broad Art Foundation (CA), The Getty Center (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Musée National d'Art Moderne (FR), Centre Georges Pompidou (FR), Museum of Contemporary Art (CA), The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Tate, London, and Whitney Museum of American Art (NY).