Rocky Horton is a conceptually based multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Horton received his undergraduate education at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, and his M.F.A. in studio art from West Virginia University in December of 2003. Since then, he has served as an art professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an active founding member of COOP, a curatorial collective in Nashville, established in 2010. Horton still lives and works in Nashville, alongside his wife, artist Mandy Rogers Horton, and their four children.