1958 - Born in Amsterdam
1977 - From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists (for a part) of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in Bergen (Noord-Holland).
2004 - His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), Groninger Museum(2002); Fries Museum (2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988); Documenta, Kassel (1987), São Paulo Art Biennial (1985), Venice Biennale (1990).
1994 - Scholte lost both his legs when a hand grenade exploded under his car. In 1995 a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of his house inTenerife.
2015 - Rob Scholte has his own museum and art gallery in the city of Den Helder, The Netherlands.
