Bobby Greeson is a multidisciplinary artist equally comfortable with photography, filmmaking or design. His parents enrolled him in painting classes at age 6 and bought him his first camera at age 8 (which he still has). Driven by a passion for new experiences, he is a lifelong traveler, having visited around 60 countries and all seven continents.
You can now see Greeson’s work—images from his travels of Bristlecone Pines and Upper Antelope Canyon—at the Museum of the Big Bend at the giftshop hallway gallery on the Sul Ross State University campus in Alpine
Greeson started his professional life as a graphic designer before moving into photography and then filmmaking. He has done design work for a variety of clients, including Boeing, Marriott Hotels, Verizon, the USA Film Festival, the University of North Texas, British Petroleum, Arco Oil & Gas, and NASA.
With his longstanding business partner and their music services company, Art4Music, he has worked extensively in the music industry for clients that include ZZ Top, Willie Nelson, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Motley Crue, Steve Earle, James Brown, Joe Walsh and Talking Heads. Greeson has three Grammy nominations for art direction and album design.
Greeson has photographs that are part of the Smithsonian Permanent Collection and is the author of three books of his work. His photography has been published in National Geographic, Texas Monthly, D Magazine, Rolling Stone, the Smithsonian Magazine, Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Houston Post, and the New York Times.
He is currently employed at Sul Ross State University where he is the “Sul Ross media guy.” He also teaches several photography classes and lives in Alpine with a previously feral cat.