Jenny Robinson American, b. 1957

Member, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE), London UK

Member, Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS), CA USA

Member, Boston Printmakers (Invited Membership), Boston, MA USA

-- 

 

 

EDUCATION

1977-81 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, West Surrey College of Art and Design, UK

 

AWARDS

  • Laureate of the 2019 Mario Avati Engraving Award, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  • Fellowship Award Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Italy
  • Fellowship Award 2016, Vermont Studio Center USA
  • The Print Center's Honorary Council Award of Excellence, Philadelphia USA
  • Otis Philbrick Purchase Award 2015, Museum of Fine Arts Collection, Boston, MA USA
  • Oehme Graphics Award 2915, Boston Printmakers, Juror Willie Cole, MA USA
  • Jincheon Print Museum Purchase Award, Pacific International Print Festival Invitational, Korea.
  • Hiromi Paper Prize, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennale 2013, Boston MA USA
  • Recipient Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award 2011
  • Prize Winner, 5th Annual California Centered, Juried Show, Merced, CA USA
  • Joseph Kaveney Merit Award, 8th National Janet Turner Print Competition, Chico CSU ,CA 2010
  • Award winner ‘Printed’ A Juried Exhibition Guest Curator: Archana Horsting, Cabrillo College, CA USA
  • Library of Congress Purchase ‘Billboard’ Fine Prints and Photograph Collection, Washington, USA
  • Work purchased by Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA USA
  • Best in Show Purchase Award, The Janet Turner 7th Annual Print Exhibition, Chico CA USA
  • Winner of the Printmaking Today Prize, Originals 07, Mall Galleries, Juried, London UK

 

SELECTED PURCHASED WORKS IN MAJOR COLLECTIONS

  • Permanent collection of the International Print Triennial Society, Krakow Poland (SMTG)
  • Library of Congress Fine Prints Collection, Washington DC USA
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Print Collection, MA USA
  • Google Collection, San Francisco, CA USA
  • Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA USA
  • Ashmolean Museum, Print Collection, Oxford, UK
  • Sheldon Museum Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska USA
  • Janet Turner Print Collection, Chico, CA, USA
  • Jincheon Print Museum, South Korea
  • Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, London UK
  • Zukerman Museum, GA, USA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • International Contemporary Print Biennal of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Canada

 

2018

  • ‘Vacuum Editions’, Opificio Della Rosa, Italy
  • Luce Liquida, Fellowship Exhibition, Sculoa Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
  • ‘Pressed’ 40 years of the Hartford Art school Print workshop, the Joseloff Gallery, HAS, CT USA
  • Abstract and Symmetry, Solo exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA USA
  • Jenny Robinson, Structural Anatomies, Solo Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA USA
  • International Print Triennial Printmaking Exhibition, Boston Printmakers, Krakow, Poland (SMTG).
  • Layers Beneath the Moment, Deans Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
  • Big Print, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, USA
  • Till Richter Museum, Portfolio Exhibition, curated by Miguel Aragon, Germany
  • artMarket International Art fair, San Francisco , CA USA
  • ‘In Print’ Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, VA USA
  • ‘The Farthest Shore’, SRJC, Santa Rosa, CA USA

 

2017

  • Boston Printmakers North American Biennial Exhibition, Boston, MA USA
  • Finalist, The Print Center’s 91st Annual International Competition, Philadelphia USA
  • ‘Constructs’, Solo Exhibition: Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA USA
  • ‘New prints’, Winter 2017, International Print Center, NYC USA
  • artMRKT International Art Fair, Fort Mason, Kala Gallery, San Francisco CA USA
  • ‘Signs and Signifiers 2’,The Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith University, New York, USA
  • Artist in Residence, Masters of Intaglio, Alfred University, NY USA
  • 11th Turner National Print Competition Exhibition, Chico, CA USA
  • NIU Print Triennial New Prints 2015/16 presented at Soeffker Gallery, St Paul, MN USA
  • ‘Beyond Ink’, Invitational Printmaking Triennial, Jack Olsen Gallery, Northern Illinois University, IL USA

 

PREVIOUS

  • Northern Print, International Print Biennale, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, UK
  • Under Pressure, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 4 Contemporary Printmakers
  • Schema, Scale and Construction, Solo Show, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX USA
  • ‘Structure’ Solo Show, Zarrow Art Center, University of Tulsa, OK USA
  • Structural Forms, Solo show, Gallery 72 ,Omaha, Nebraska USA
  • Curator, ‘Altered States’, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA
  • IPCNY, New Prints Winter,
  • IPCNY The BIG Picture Show, New York City