Robert Gober was born in a small town in Connecticut in 1954 and is known for his wry, terse, whimsical sculptural lexicon and his depiction of domestic, quotidian objects, such as legs, babies’ cribs, doors, wallpaper, newspapers, and kitchen sinks. He came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with works that were widely associated with the postminimalist movement in New York, many of which draw favorable comparisons to Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, as well as the assemblages of the Surrealists. Over the decades Gober has adapted and recreated his works for solo exhibitions and permanent installations at seminal institutions and events such as the Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Schaulager in Basel, and the Serpentine Gallery in London.