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EDUCATION:

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

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

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

CURRENT TEACHING POSITION:

Full Time Studio Art Instructor, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California 1989-

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2008
Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2007
Gallery 33 East, Long Beach, CA
2006
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2003
Santa Cruz Art League Distinguished Artist Award Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, 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
1996
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1995
A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
D.P. Fong Galleries, San Jose, CA
1994
Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
Villa Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA
1993
"Access Exhibition," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
D.P. Fong & Spratt 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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2009
Meditations on the Apocalyptic, Kellogg Gallery, California Polytechnic, Pomona, CA
Hecho en Mazatlan, Museum of Art, Mazatlan, Mexico
Collage+Assemblage+Construction, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2008
Print Matter(s), Studio Channel islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
2007
Consciencia, International Art Society of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
2006
Portal Spaces, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2005
Material Effect, Nido Gallery, Moss Landing, CA
California Black and White, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2004
Collapsing Histories, Gallery EF, Tokyo, Japan 2004, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2003
2003
Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Kala Print Exhibition at the 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 Estival, 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

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Atelier d'Lile, Quebec, Canada
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
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2009
Magpie Studios, Dianne Longley, Imprint- Journal of the Print Council of South Australia, Spring 09, p.12
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
2003 Casein Art Competition Winners, Cathy Bennett, American Artist, 11/03, p.64
Exhibit Highlights Two Advocates of the Original Print, Richard Bennett, Register-Pajaronian, 10/23/03, p.12-14 (Watsonville)
Daring and Distinguished, Christa Martin, Santa Cruz Good Times, 10/30-11/5/03
Cut From the Same Stone, Patrick Knowles, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 10/23/03, p.B1-2 Stories to Tell, Nancy Redwine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 10/18/03, p.B1-2
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

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2009
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO- Visiting Artist
2008
Atelier de L'lle, Val-David, Quebec, Canada – Residency Fellowship
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, University of California Santa Cruz, First Place Solo Exhibition Award
2002,1995
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL – Residency Fellowship
2001
Crater 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
1994
Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA – Residency Fellowship
1992,1990
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT – Residency Fellowship

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

2008
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2007
Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI
2006
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
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
2000
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
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1995
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
1994
Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
1993
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA