Untitled (Thunder Road)

His large, photorealistic charcoal drawings show scenes from current political issues, such as a demonstration of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the President of the United States Obama or an American soldier. Other images take a more general look on the world and society; Robert Longo depicts the sublimity of planet earth, wildly dancing people as well as daunting atomic explosions, the masks of jet fighter pilots or the jaw of a shark with its innumerable sharp teeth.

His works are part of important public collections such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the LA County Museum of Contemporary Art, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Albertina, Vienna, the Tate Gallery, London, the Jüdischen Museum, Berlin, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.