Biography
Born on July 9, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan, Robert Wyland grew up in Madison Heights and studied at Detroit's Center for Creative Studies. His calling came at fourteen during a family trip to Laguna Beach, California, where he saw the ocean for the first time and watched grey whales migrating along the coast. In 1977, he moved to Laguna Beach and in 1981 painted his first "Whaling Wall" on the side of a hotel car park, launching a project that would span nearly three decades.
The Whaling Walls — over one hundred monumental murals depicting life-size whales and marine life — remain one of the largest public art projects in history, seen by an estimated one billion people each year. His mural on the Long Beach Convention Center, covering more than three acres, earned a Guinness World Record for the largest mural ever painted. The hundredth wall was completed in Beijing in 2008, the same year the series was displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Dubbed "the Marine Michelangelo" by USA Today, the artist has been recognised by the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Congress. In 1993, he founded the Wyland Foundation, dedicated to environmental education for children through art and science. In 2018, he painted the hull of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Bliss, continuing his lifelong commitment to ocean conservation through art.
The Whaling Walls — over one hundred monumental murals depicting life-size whales and marine life — remain one of the largest public art projects in history, seen by an estimated one billion people each year. His mural on the Long Beach Convention Center, covering more than three acres, earned a Guinness World Record for the largest mural ever painted. The hundredth wall was completed in Beijing in 2008, the same year the series was displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Dubbed "the Marine Michelangelo" by USA Today, the artist has been recognised by the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Congress. In 1993, he founded the Wyland Foundation, dedicated to environmental education for children through art and science. In 2018, he painted the hull of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Bliss, continuing his lifelong commitment to ocean conservation through art.
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