Education

  • 1985

  • MFA Sculpture/Ceramics San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

  • 1982

  • MA Painting San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

  • 1977

  • BFA Painting Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

    Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2006

  • Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

  • 2003

  • Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, CA
  • Santa Cruz Art League Distinguished Artist Award Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 2000

  • Antennae Gallery, Washington, DC
  • Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA

  • 1999

  • Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA

  • 1997

  • D.P. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
  • Viewpoint Gallery, Carmel, CA
  • Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
  • Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA

  • 1990

  • Mission College Gallery, San Jose, CA

  • 1989

  • Allegra Galelry, San Jose, CA

  • 1988

  • Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, CA
  • Porter House Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 1987

  • Allegra Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • Solano Community College, Suisun, CA

  • 1985

  • Esta Robinson Contemporary Art, New York, NY

  • 1984

  • Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    Public Collections:

    Flemish Ministry of Culture, Antwerp, Belgium
    Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
    Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
    Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
    Holualoa Foundation for Art and Culture, Holualoa, Hawaii

  • 2007

  • Consciencia: Working with Knowledge, Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu Hawaii

  • 2005

  • Material Effect, Moss Landing, CA
  • California Black and White, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA

  • 2004

  • Collapsing Histories, Gallery EF, Tokyo, Japan
  • Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • Collapsing Histories, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Kala Print Exhibition, National Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus (catalog)
  • Grabado sin Fronteras/Printmaking Without Borders, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA and Estamperi a Quitena, Quito, Ecuador (catalog)
  • Radical Printmaking, Thatcher Gallery at USF, San Francisco, CA

  • 2002

  • Crater Lake Residency Fellows, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR

  • 2001

  • Yuma Symposium Presenter’s Exhibition, Yuma, AZ
  • Below the Surface, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

  • 2000

  • Radical Printmaking, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 1999

  • Kala Institute Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

  • 1998

  • Paper Invitational, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
  • Pacific Prints, Palo Alto Art League, Palo Alto, CA
  • Shadows 2000, Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
  • Crocker Kingsley National, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • 1997

  • Drawings: Realism to Abstraction; A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • Time and Place: Fifty Years of Santa Cruz Studio Ceramics (catalog) McPhearson Center for Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Beyond Boundaries: North American Printmaking, Juried by Wayne Thiebaud (catalog), Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

  • 1996

  • GOLA Festival, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
  • Monotype: Method to Magic, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA/Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 1994

  • Moore Art II, Villa Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA

  • 1993

  • Mythologies, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Paintings, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
  • KTEH Exhibition and Auction (First Place Award – Painting) Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

  • 1992

  • The Body: Interpretations of the Human Figure (catalog) EMU Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  • The Hall / Dickler Collection (catalog) Hall, Dickler, Lawler, Kent & Friedman, New York, NY
  • Four Artists of the Pacific Coast, Klamath Falls Art Association, Klamath Falls, OR

  • 1990

  • Women Artists 90, Matrix Gallery/Winkler Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA
  • Exemplary Contemporary, curated by Barbara Haskell (catalog) University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 1989

  • National Print Invitational, Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX

  • 1988

  • The Dog Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Fate of the Animals, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
  • Do You Know the Way From San Jose?, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
  • Pacific Prints, curated by Kenneth Baker, Palo Alto Art League, Palo Alto, CA

  • 1987

  • Western Places, curated by Anna Lisa Saulwick (catalog), Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT
  • Small Works Invitational, curated by Moira Marti Geoffrion (catalog), Tangeman Hall, Cincinnati, OH
  • Exemplary Contemporary, curated by Graham Beal (catalog), University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 1985

  • The Seder Table, The Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • The Animal Influence, San Jose Art Center, San Jose, CA

  • 1983

  • Personal Mythology (Merit Award), Diseno Studios, Austin, TX

    Reviews and Publications

  • 2005

  • Soldiers/Stones, ZYZZYVA, Fall 2005, p.121

  • 2004

  • Collapsing Histories at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, D. Buuck, ARTWEEK, 2/04, p.14

  • 2003

  • Previews: Robynn Smith, Debra Koppman, ARTWEEK, 9/03, p.6 click here for article

  • 1997

  • Q&A with Robynn Smith, Roslyn White, Gallery Magazine, 3/9/97 (Monterey)

  • 1996

  • Inner Circle by Robynn Smith, Dr. Narayan Singh Khalsa, ArtistWriter, vol.5.2, March/April, p. 5 (Pleasanton)
  • Magical Monoprints, George Rivera, ArtistWriter, vol.5.2, March/April, p.3-4 (Pleasanton)
  • Moore Art II, Salli McQuaid, ArtistWriter, vol.5.2, March/April, p.12-13 (Pleasanton)

  • 1993

  • Creating the System: Mythologies at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Edie Meidav, ARTWEEK, 7/8/93, p.20-21

  • 1992

  • Parallel Circles for Two Artists, Susan Lea Hubbard, Alta Vista Magazine, 6/7/92, p.21
  • Icons & Dogs, Rick Deragon, Monterey Herald, 6/5/92, p.3D

  • 1990

  • Open Studios 90, Cruzan Magazine, October-November Issue
  • Of Mice & Men, Rick Deragon, Monterey Herald, 5/25/90, p.17

  • 1989

  • Arthur Williams, Sculpture: Technique, Form, Content (Worcester: Davis Publications, 1989), p. 82
  • Diverse Approaches, Featured at Exhibition by MPC Faculty, Monterey Herald, 9/10/89, p. 6D

  • 1988

  • Goats on Exhibition at Conference Center, Monterey Herald, 5/8/88, p.6D

  • 1987

  • Critic’s Choice, San Jose Mercury News, 6/31/87, p. 17D
  • Eclectic Exhibit Shares Zip Codes and Quality, San Jose Mercury News, 6/19/87

  • 1986

  • Slowly Sculpture Continues to Change, ARTSPEAK, 12/85 (New York)
  • The Animal Influence, METRO, vol. 1, no. 20, 7/85, p.11 (San Jose)

    Awards and Fellowships

  • 2003

  • Santa Cruz Art League Distinguished Artist of the Year - Exhibition Award
  • Frans Masereel Center for Graphic Art, Kasterlee, Belgium -Residency Fellowship
  • Exemplary Contemporary at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Univeristy of Santa Cruz, First Place Solo Exhibition Award

  • 2002

  • Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL - Residency Fellowship

  • 2001

  • Grater Lake National Park, Oregon - Residency Fellowship

  • 1998

  • Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA - Residency Fellowship

  • 1997

  • Frans Masereel Center for Graphic Art, Kasterlee, Belgium - Residency Fellowship

  • 1996

  • San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - Artist in Residence in Printmaking

  • 1995

  • Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL - Residency Fellowship

  • 1994

  • Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA - Residency Fellowship

  • 1992

  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT - Residency Fellowship

  • 1990

  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT - Residency Fellowship

    Teaching Experience

  • 1989- Present

  • Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA - Full Time Studio Instructor
  • Montery Peninsula College, Montery, CA - Creative Arts Division Chair

  • 1993-95

  • Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA - Art Department Chair

  • 1989

  • University of California, Santa Cruz, CA - Lecturer
  • Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA - Instructor
  • DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA - Instructor

  • 1988

  • Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA - Instructor
  • DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA - Instructor
  • Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA - Insturctor

  • 1987

  • University of California, Santa Cruz, CA - Lecturer
  • Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA - Instructor
  • Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA - Instructor
  • West Valley College, Saratoga, CA - Instructor

  • 1986

  • Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA - Instructor

  • 1985

  • San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - Lecturer

    Lectures & Workshops

  • 2004

  • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • Holualoa Center for Art and Culture, Holualoa, HI
  • Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA

  • 2001

  • Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ
  • RISD in Rome, Rome, Italy

  • 1998

  • University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, CA

  • 1996

  • City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
  • University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

  • 1995

  • Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI

  • 1994

  • Monterey Bay Artists Day, Monteresy, CA
  • Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR

  • 1993

  • San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

  • 1988

  • Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
  • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

  • 1987

  • University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  • University of Northern Kentucky, Covington, KY

  • 1986

  • Scripps College, Claremont, CA