Robert Montgomery is a contemporary artist based in London, well known for his work in public space. He makes lightworks, billboard poems, paintings, fire poems, woodcuts, and watercolours. His work brings text art closer to the language of poetry. He represented the UK in the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. His work is in museum collections across the world including the Albright Knox Museum in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has had solo museum projects at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City, and the Cer Modern Museum in Ankara. His work was recently included in the Musée du Louvre exhibition “La Suite de l’Histoire” in Paris, the Louvre’s first exhibition of contemporary sculpture. His work is hugely popular on the internet, the piece “The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You” has been shared online more than 200 million times.