Roberto Arcoleo

Roberto Arcoleo was born in New York City into a working-class Italian-American family. Roberto didn’t fit in, and he started living on the streets at fifteen. With the help of his uncle he managed his way through High School and into college where he studied psychology hoping to find answers. Later, that same uncle gave him a camera, and he discovered photography; there he found solace. He gained recognition under a name other than Arcoleo. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College and later saw his art reviewed in the New York Times. Roberto’s work has been acquired by major collections, he was the first artist working in photography to be given a one-person exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, he was awarded a stay at the American Academy in Rome, and his work is presently in the National Gallery of Art.