Robert Roesch born in New York State, lives in Philadelphia, and
works in a studio in the New Jersey Pinelands. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and State University of NY. Roesch is Chair of Sculpture at PAFA where He teaches Sculpture Seminar, Digital Imaging, and is a critic. He is a member of the Philadelphia Art and Architecture Commission.

Roesch received 12 grants, including a Fulbright Specialist Award to lecture and exhibit throughout Japan (2007) and to represent the USA in the Baku Biennial (2009). His work is in museum collections Internationally. He has completed 20 major public art projects in US including the Gateway to Wichita Kansas and the entrance to Texas A & M.

Roesch and his partner, artist Suzanne Horvitz, were Cultural Advisors to The US Embassies in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Syria, Argentina, Ecuador, and Myanmar. Their collaborative sculpture "Transduction" is a permanent installation at Grounds For Sculpture. Roesch was an invited artist in the 2007 and 2009 Biennials in Egypt. He was the guest of the Chinese Government (2008) where he built a solar sculpture in Hangzhou and in 2010 completed "Rainwall- in Jiande. He installed a sited sculpture for Florida Gulf Coast University in 2012. Currently He’s working on a sited sculpture in Philadelphia and Idaho.