Robert Patierno has exhibited his paintings, prints and drawings in galleries and museums throughout Europe and across the United states. Patierno has placed prints, paintings and drawings in the permanent collection of The Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium and the Frans Masereel Centrum Pour Grafiks, Kasterlee, also in Belgium. As well, the Erie Art Museum, the Lancaster Museum, and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania have collected his work. Many Universities have accepted his work to their permanent collections granting both one man and group show opportunities. His work is sought by corporations and individual collectors alike. He was invited to show at the Albany Museum, Albany, Georgia. Patierno was a featured northeastern artist in New American Painting in 1999. Robert was a Founder of the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, starting the school with other faculty in 1983 and seeing it through its evolution to a four year, BFA granting institution. The Fine Arts Department was developed by Patierno where he was Chair for a decade before his resignation in 2003. Robert paints murals also, and resides in Pennsylvania.