Robin Hill (Studio)

Robin Hill
Born 1955
Houston, Texas
Nationality American
Education Kansas City Art Institute
Known for Drawing, sculpture, cyanotypes
Website www.robin-hill.net

Robin Hill is a visual artist whose work focuses on the intersection between drawing, photography, and sculpture. She is represented by Lennon-Weinberg, Inc. Lennon-Weinberg, Inc, Another Year in LA and Don Soker Gallery. Her work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and abroad and is in numerous private and corporate collections. She is on faculty of the Art Studio Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis, and divides her time between New York City, California, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Professional career

Since completing her BFA at Kansas City Art Institute in 1977, Hill has exhibited with Lang & O'Hara Gallery (1987, 1989, 1991), Lennon Weinberg(1995, 1997, 2004, 2011),[1] Eli Marsh Gallery(1997), Fotofest (2000), State University of New York at Purchase Gallery (2001), Project Row Houses (2002), University of California, Davis Art Center (2003), Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, FR (2005), California State University, Stanislaus Gallery (2006),[2] Dan Soker Gallery (2003 and 2007), Another Year in LA (2006, 2011, 2015), Lesley Heller Project Space(2007), Jay Jay Gallery (2008), Shasta College Gallery (2009), and Ramon's Tailor (2014).

Additionally, she has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions such as “Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance” (2012) at SOMArts, San Francisco, CA; "Emergence and Structure" (2012), University of Florida Gallery, which traveled to Freedom Tower/Miami Dade College, and Lafayette College; “Tomorrow’s Legacy: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years”(2011) at the Crocker Art Museum; “Synthesis and Distribution, Experiments in Collaboration” (2005), for which she collaborated with Stephen Kaltenbach[3] at Pace University Art Gallery; and “Thinking in Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing” (2004), curated by Ron Janowich for University of Florida Gallery.

In addition to having collaborated with Kaltenbach, Hill has collaborated with Ulla Warchol[4] and Janko Gravner.

Public collections

Hill’s work has been collected by Planet Fitness, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor; Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park, CA; Brooklyn Union Gas, Chatham Imports, New York; Champion International Paper, Cleary Gottlieb, New York; Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. New York; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Fogg Art Museum, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis; Rosenthal & Rosenthal, New York, NY; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy; Prudential Insurance Company, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, MA; Lee & Silva Terry, Atlanta, GA; Long Island University, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY; Hammer Museum; Crocker Art Museum, and Jones Day, Cleveland, OH; and The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek

Teaching

In addition to having been Professor of Sculpture at University of California, Davis since 2001, Hill has held numerous teaching positions in the art departments of State University of New York at Purchase (1998-2001), Parsons School of Design (1991-2001), Rhode Island School of Design(1997-1998) and Middlebury College(1991). Additionally; she has served as a Visiting Artist at Amherst College, Anderson Ranch, Bennington College, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, California State University, Sacramento and California State University, Stanislaus, Claremont Graduate University, Empire State College, Haverford College, Kansas City Art Institute, Lafayette College, Maryland Institute College of Art, Middlebury College, Muhlenberg College, Parsons School of Design, Pont-Aven School of Art, Purdue University, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Syracuse University, Union College, University of Iowa, University of California, Riverside, University of Oregon, Virginia Commonwealth University

Awards, fellowships, and residencies

In addition to having received a University of California, Davis New Initiative/Collaborative Research Award, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, Hill has been awarded numerous university grants to support her teaching, travel and research. In 2012, she was awarded a residency at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India.

References

  1. ↑ Robin Hill: Case Discussions. Lennon Weinberg. New York. 2011.
  2. ↑ Robin Hill: Multiplying the Variations. University Art Gallery. Stanislaus. 2006
  3. ↑ http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/collab/collabshow.html
  4. ↑ "Object Lessons". Zettel III. Issue 3 pp. 50-62.

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