Rob Dunlavey has been based in the Boston area since 1985. He loves making art and as a child, was frequently praised by his teachers. As a teenager, Rob attended Youth Studio classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1980, majored in Sculpture, Printmaking and Drawing at Southern Illinois University. He went on to receive an MFA in sculpture in 1984 from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. During college, he worked as a graphic artist and illustrator and also as a photographer and scientific illustrator for the Black Mesa Archaeological Project on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona.

After a year of searching, Rob landed in Boston and began a journey back to his illustration roots. His first freelance jobs were for the op-ed pages of the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. Since then, Rob's work has been commissioned by The New York Times, Global Investment Magazine, NFPA Journal, AMC Outdoors, Playboy, Business Week, Better Homes & Gardens, Scholastic, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, Medicus USA and Arnold Worldwide Communications, and many others.

In 1999 Rob began working on two large children's museum commissions for the Lee Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership: The Miami Children's Museum and the Children's Museum of the East End (Long Island, NY). These projects were recently completed.

In the past two years, Rob has been steadily developing and designing more personal images and is actively promoting this new work.

He is married and has two daughters.