COURTNEY COLLINS GALLERY, Big Sky, Montana. ROBERT OSBORN/THE COURTNEY COLLINS COLLECTION. Opening reception on December 27th, 2025, from 5 until 7 PM, Courtney Collins Fine Art Gallery, Big Sky, Montana.
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WESTERN HOME JOURNAL MAGAZINE: The Mind Method of Montana Artists; an article about the collaboration between gallery owner Courtney Collins and photographer Robert Osborn and the collection of five large format photographs which will be exhibited at the Courtney Collins Fine Art Gallery in Big Sky, December 27th, 2025. The website link below features a podcast of an in-depth discussion about Robert Osborn’s method of photography.
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LECTURE BY ARTIST at the Charlie Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. The artist will discuss the process behind his photography and participate in an open question-and-answer session. October 30, 2025, 6 until 8 PM.
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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT OSBORN, a major exhibition at the CM Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. Opening reception will be Thursday, May 29, 2025, from 5 to 7 PM. The exhibit will be up until January of 2026.
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STREET PEOPLE OF THE FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION exhibition and book release at the Bozeman Art Museum. Exhibition opening, reception, and book signing March 28, 2025, 5:30 until 8 PM.
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COURTNEY COLLINS GALLERY, Big Sky, Montana, August 7th, 2024, 5:30 PM: Reception for ROBERT OSBORN/SIX PICTURES exhibit.
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June 1, 2024, until October 31, 2024, the BAIR MUSEUM in Martinsdale, Montana, will host an exhibition of Robert Osborn’s photographic images of Montana cowboys, Northern Plains Indians, and the Street People of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. There will be sixteen images in the exhibit.
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January 5 - April 6, 2024: “Art Embodied,” a group exhibition at the Bozeman Art Museum, Bozeman, Montana. ROBERT OSBORN will have two images in the exhibit and sometime in January will give a lecture on creativity: how it REALLY happens…or doesn’t.
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July 2023: Exhibition of Robert Osborn’s photography at the COURTNEY COLLINS GALLERY in Big Sky, Montana. Artist’s reception will be July 19, 2023, at 5:30 PM.
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There will be a gorgeous article in the July 2021 issue of COWBOYS & INDIANS magazine titled THE ART OF ROBERT OSBORN. On newsstands in early June.
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Coming in 2022, Robert Osborn’s beautiful and tragic opus: STREET PEOPLE OF THE FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION, an art portrait photography book, five years in the photographing.
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Robert Osborn’s photographs of the STREET PEOPLE OF THE FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION will be part of a group show entitled “Click-Expose the West” at the PHIPPEN MUSEUM in Prescott, Arizona. The show will be held in the Marley Gallery of the museum from MARCH 7th through JULY 19th, 2020.
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OUR NEW GALLERY IS OPEN! We are now on Main Street in the heart of Historic Downtown Livingston. Our new Address is 110 South Main. Come visit.
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In October of 2018, in an ages old Naming Ceremony, Robert Osborn was adopted into the Assiniboine Indian Tribe. In July of 2019, he was adopted into the Lakota Sioux tribe.
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The following is a direct link to a 45 minute podcast interview of Robert Osborn by Kirby Flanagan (www.flanaganfotos.com). The interview is a behind-the-scenes discussion of how a number of Osborn’s recent portraits occurred and the processes that produced them. UPDATE: Once you are at the below linked podcast, if you scroll up from there you will find another more recent podcast interview with Robert Osborn about his approach to creativity.
https://photographingthewest.net/cowboys-and-indians-with-portrait-photographer-bob-osborn
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If you are interested in reading a review of Robert Osborn’s book; “The Cowboys of Central Montana: 50 Portraits,” by Jonathon Blaustein, who manages to contort a review of an art photography book into a political rant, enter the following into the Google search field: a PhotoEditor: This Week in Photography Books: Robert Osborn. Once you get past Blaustein’s views on how cows are destroying the planet by farting, there is actually a nice review of the book, albeit brief.
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The following is a link to a brief but interesting interview of Robert Osborn about creating his cowboy book. The interview is by Emon Hasson, a New York photographer, writer, and movie producer:
https://www.genbmx.com/blog/bob-osborn-the-cowboys-of-central-montana-photo-book