Robert Tombs is an Ottawa, Canada-based artist/graphic designer/arts administrator. He was elected President, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2018. As a graphic designer, he works collaboratively with artists and art galleries in the creation of printed matter, exhibitions and web sites. A travelling retrospective, Robert Tombs: Index. Graphic Works 1985–2015, organized by the Owens Art Gallery, opened at the Owens in October 2015, and Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in December 2015. His experimental practice in painted installation includes Brigus Mark (Brigus, Newfoundland, 2007); Die Moral der Farbe: Erfurter Fenster [The Morality of Paint: Erfurt Window] (glassbox, Erfurt, Germany, 2008); Empire (Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 2011); L’Occupation (ParisCONCRET, Paris, France, 2013); and Factory (Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, 2024). Factory includes his experimental video, Autobiography (2023). In 2021, Tombs curated Objekt: ett läsrum / a reading room / une salle de lecture, an exhibition of bookworks by 56 RCA members and selected non-members, at SUPERMARKET: Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2022–23, Tombs curated Ghost Stations: Amanda Dawn Christie, Thaddeus Holownia and Radio Canada International and Marina Roy, Jinny Yu and the Painted Object at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and co-curated, with Dr. WonJoon Chung and Henk van Assen, art+language: Contemporary Korean Graphic Design at Korean Cultural Centre Canada. Tombs has received 45 arts awards to date and is included in a number of public collections including Artexte; Canada Council Art Bank; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada Library; Winnipeg Art Gallery; American Institute of Graphic Arts; Columbia University; Yale University; Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design; Angermuseum Erfurt; and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.