Roxy Paine was born in 1966 in New York. Since 1989, his work has been internationally exhibited and is included in collections such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, LAMOCA, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Asher B. Durand award for artistic accomplishment by the Brooklyn Museum. He has permanently sited works at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, National Gallery of Art, DC, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and the Wanas Foundation, Sweden. He lives and works in New York.