Bob Nugent received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1971. Since that time Bob has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Travel Grant and a California Arts Council Grant for his work in Brazil. He has had over 90 one-man exhibitions and has been included in over 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. Bob first became interested in the rain forests of South America in the summer of 1984 during a trip to São Paulo, Brazil to visit a friend. Over the past twenty-two years he has made repeated sojourns (27 trips) to South America and in particular the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Presently returning to Brazil two to three times a year, Bob continues his research and study of the flora and fauna of the Amazon Region as well as other parts of the country.
