Robert Bridges has been a curator for thirty years, and currently serves as the chief curator of the Art Museum of West Virginia University, with holdings of over 4,000 works of art. Bridges has curated more than a dozen museum exhibition since the museum’s opening in 2015. Exhibitions include Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist, Paintings and Sculptures by Sally and Peter Saul, Shepard Fairey: Work Against the Clampdown, a solo exhibition by Nina Chanel Abney, Independent Vision: Self-Taught Artists from Appalachia, and Studio Window: The Prints of Grace Martin Taylor. From 2001 to 2015, he organized over 80 exhibits in the Mesaros Galleries at the College of Creative Arts. Among them are the international exhibition Ceramic Art from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and two national exhibitions featuring the work of American Modernist Blanche Lazzell.
Bridges has written several book chapters and magazine articles. He is a co-editor of the book Blanche Lazzell, The Life and Work of an American Modernist (2004) from WVU Press.
