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O B I N H I L L
http://www.robinhill.net
Resides and works in Woodland, CA and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
EDUCATION
1977 B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 upcoming: Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento California, May.
2007 New York, NY, Lesley Heller Gallery, May.
San Francisco, CA, Don Soker Contemporary Art, Robin Hill: Drawing the Line,
May 4 – June 16.
2006 Stanislaus, CA, University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus,
Multiplying the Variations, September 9 – October 9, (catalog).
Los Angeles, CA, another year in LA, Kardex, an installation by Robin Hill with
Sam
Nichols, June 9 – July 7.
2005 Pont-Aven, France, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Extractions,
New Work by
Robin Hill, May 28 – June 20.
2004 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Multiplying the Variations: New Works by
Robin Hill, September 23 - October 23.
2003 San Francisco, CA, Don Soker Contemporary Art, Beach Debris, November 4 -
29.
Davis, CA, The Davis Art Center, Casting a Net: an Installation of Cyanotype and
Sculpture by Robin Hill, January 9 - February 7.
2002 Houston, TX, Project Row Houses, Round 16, October - January.
2001 Purchase, NY, The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, Robin
Hill: Selected Works 1986-2000, February 23 - March 15, (catalogue).
2000 Houston, TX, Fotofest 2000, Robin Hill: Installation, March 3 - April 3.
1997 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Robin Hill: Sculpture and Drawing, October
9 -November 8.
Amherst, MA, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Robin Hill: Sculpture and Drawing.
1995 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Robin Hill, February 11 - March 11.
1991 New York, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, Robin Hill, March 14 - April 13, (catalogue).
1989 New York, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, Robin Hill.
1987 New York, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, Robin Hill.GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Los Angeles, CA, Pillow Talk, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, in conjunction with
The
Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, April.
Riverside, CA, University of California Digital Arts Network (UCDarnet),
"Epicenter- 2007", installation of "Kardex, 2006", February.
2006 Long Branch, NJ, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Collecting, from the Collection of Donald
Rothfeld, July- August.
Davis, CA, Local Delivery, Work by UC Davis Art Faculty, November-
December.
Davis, CA, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & the Fine Arts Collection, Flatlanders,
A Regional Roundup, July – August.
Los Angeles, CA, another year in la, Gift Shop, curated by David E. Stone
November 17 - December 15.
Davis, CA, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection, Recent
Acquisitions, January – March.
San Jose, CA, Institute for Contemporary Art, Contributing Artist, Annual Fall
Auction, October.
Kirkcudbright, Scotland, the Tollhouse Art Center, Convergence, curated by
Nana Gregory, July – August.
2005 New York, New York, Pace University Art Gallery, Synthesis and Distribution,
Say It Back:
a collaboration between Robin Hill and Steve Kaltenbach: curated by Ron Janowich,
Merijn Van Der Heijden and Will Pappenheimer, November- December.
2005 Rennes, France, Distillations, Institute Franco-Americain, Curated by Nana
Gregory,
January.
Pont-Aven, France, Un Petit Peu, Small Amounts of Work and Amounts of Small Work,
by Pont-Aven School of Art Faculty, Garage Gallery, June 19
New York, NY, Lennon-Weinberg Gallery, June 24 – August 1.
2004 San Francisco, CA, Mostly Monochrome, Don Soker Contemporary Art, Curatated
by Dee Hibbert Jones, December 1 – January 29, 2005
2003 Gainsville, Florida, University Gallery, Thinking In Line: A Survey of Contemporary
Drawing, curated by John Moore and Ron Janowich, November – January, 2004,
(catalog).
Boston, MA, French Library and Cultural Center, Pulp Fiction-Works on Paper, March.
Riec-Sur-Belon, France, Espace Melanie, Distillations, 10 Years of Art-Making
in Pont-Aven, August.
Paris, France, Mona Bismark Foundation, “Is, Was, Will Be, the past present
and future of the Pont-Aven School of Art”, September.
Davis, CA, John Natsoulas Gallery, Gone West, Four Artists New In These Parts,
February, (catalogue, essay by Peter Frank).
San Francisco, CA, LIMN Gallery, made OF paper, curated by Christine Duvall, January
– March.
Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Art Institute, Art and Design Auction, March 29,
(catalogue).
Davis, CA, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, Modern Multiples:
Selections from the Fine Arts Collection
Sacramento, CA, The Crocker Museum, Annual Benefit Art Auction
Los Angeles, CA, The Brewery, Approaching Perfection, curated by Mery-Lynn McCorckle,
September.
2002 New York, The Work Space at Dolgenos, Newman & Cronin LLP, Proximity,
curated by Robin Hill, with works by Joe Amhrein, Susanna Coffey, Caroline Cox,
Jane Dickson, Matt Ferranto and Joe Stauber, Susanna Heller, Robin Hill, Theodora
Varnay Jones, Catherine Murphy, Jack Risley, (catalogue, essay by Hearne Pardee).
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New Year New York New Work, January 19 - February
16.
2001 San Francisco, CA, Don Soker Gallery, Group Exhibition, November - April.
Philadelphia, PA, Ericson Gallery, From One Thing to Another: Pat Badt and Robin
Hill,
October 19 - November 17.
New York, Smack Mellon Studios, Popular Mechanics, curated by Kathleen Gilrain,
May 31 - July 8.
New York, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y, Milestones for Peace, curated
by Doron Polak, February 5 - March 23.
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Drawing Rooms: Carl Palazzolo, Denyse
Thomasos, Robin Hill, January 16 - February 10.
2000 Brooklyn, NY, Flipside, Phlat Stuff: Robin Hill, Mary Judge, November 5 -
December 17.
Los Angeles, CA, Post Gallery, Haulin’ Ass: Pierogi in L.A., November -
December.
Baltimore, MD, The Contemporary Museum, Benefit Exhibition, April.
Brooklyn, NY, Pierogi, Super Duper New York, April - June.
Houston, TX. FotoFest 2000: Installations, March.
1999-2000 New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Photographs by Painters, Photographers,
Sculptors, December 11 - January 22.
1999 New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Painting and Sculpture, Color and Form,
September.
Washington, D.C., Starwood Urban, Urban Configuration 11: A Year in the Life,
curated by Janet Phelps.
1998 Kansas City, MO, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Preview, June 26 - August 1.
Brooklyn, NY, Crest Hardware, The Crest Hardware Show, May 25 - July 3.
Brooklyn, NY, eyewash, Photic, works incorporating photographic processes, May
26 – June 21.
New York, NY, The American Academy of Arts and Lettters, Invitational Exhibition
of
Painting and Sculpture, March 9 - April 5.
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., UTZ: A collected exhibition, curated with
Stephanie
Theodore, February 6 - March 7.
1996-1997 Schenectady, NY, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Place, curated by
Robin Hill,
December 8, 1996 - January 26, 1997; Allentown, PA, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg
College, January 28 - February 23.
Brooklyn, NY, The Rotunda Gallery, Informed Choices, November 21 - January 4.
1996 New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Summer Group Exhibition: Mitchell,
Jaffe, Westerlund Roosen, Morales, Jaudon, Korman, Hill, Workman, Thomasos, June
11 -August 1.
New York, NY, E.S. Vandam, Place, organized by Robin Hill, including work by Sharon
Horvath, Mary Hambleton, Suzanne Bocanegra, Robin Hill, January 11 - February
3.
1995-1996 New York, NY, The Work Space, Accumulation, curated by Robin Hill, November
18 -January 13.
1995 New York, NY, The Police Building, Sculptors Thinking Drawings, curated by
James Holl, October 19 - November 18, (catalogue).
Summit, NJ, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, The Creative Process: Drawings
by Sculptors, September 8 - October 22, (catalogue).
New York, NY, The Work Space, Cover to Cover, July 19 - September 16.
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Group Exhibition, September 5-30.
1994 New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Gallery Artists, January 8-29.
Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, 29th Annual
Exhibition of Art on Paper, November 14 - January 9, (catalogue).
1993 New York, NY, Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, Structure: Painting Invitational
1993, curated by Hugh Keenan, October 2 - November 1.
Lodz, Poland, The Artists' Museum, Construction in Process IV "My Home is
Your Home,”
October 1-7.
Philadelphia, PA, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Drawings from 55 Ferris Street, September
10 - October 16. Traveled to New York, NY, Wynn Kramarsky, October 29 - November
20.
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. Works on Paper By Gallery Artists, July -
September 25.
Brooklyn, NY, 55 Ferris Street, 55 Ferris Street 111, curated by Frederieke S.
Taylor with Joseph Zito, March 14 - April 25.
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Sculpture: Robin Hill, Peter Soriano, Joseph
Zito, January 7 - February 13.
1992 New York, Sculpture Center, On Paper.
Brooklyn, NY, Long Island University, Six Sculptors, organized by Marian Griffiths,
(catalogue).
New York, NY, Rosa Esman Gallery, Organization of Independent Artists, Benefit
Exhibition.
1991 New York, NY, M-13 Gallery, Organization of Independent Artists, Benefit
Exhibition.
New York, NY, White Columns, Benefit Exhibition.
1990 San Francisco, CA, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Wax and Lead.
Long Island City, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park.
Long Island City, NY, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, China:
June 4, curated by John Yau, Nancy Spero, and The Asian American Arts Centre.
1989 Arau, Switzerland, Aagrawer Kunsthaus, Sculpture: Material + Abstraction,
2 x 5 Points of View, curated by Corinne Diserens, June 18 - July 31. Traveled
to Lausanne, Switzerland, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, October 17 - December
11; New York, NY, City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs and The Swiss Institute,
January 5-February 10, 1989, (catalogue).
1988 Brooklyn, NY, Rotunda Gallery, Trilogy.
New York, NY, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Paintings and
Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards.
1987 Birmingham, MI, Hill Gallery, Part to Part.
1986 New York, NY, Zabriskie Gallery, Robin Hill-Sculpture, Hannah Villiger-Photographs.
New York, NY, Richard Green Gallery, Transformations, curated by Stephen Westfall.
New York, NY, El Bohio Community and Cultural Center, Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibit, curated by David Hacker.
New York, NY, Anne Plumb Gallery, Stay Tuned.
New York, NY, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, Sculpture.
1985 New York, NY, Artists Space, Selections, organized by Kay Larson.
Brooklyn, NY, Grand Army Plaza, Memorial Arch, Five Sculptors, curated by Mariella
Bisson.
New York, NY, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, Small Works 1985, juried by
Allan Stone.
1984 New York, NY, Arsenal Gallery, Trees and Trails.
Greenvale, NY, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, Unaffiliated Artists II.
New York, NY, Virtual Garrison, Sculpture Survey.
New York, NY, Craig Cornelius Gallery.
1983 New York, NY, The First Women's Bank, Diversity.
Brooklyn, NY, A Place Apart, 8 + 1 + 1.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND GENERAL BOOKS
Pritikin, Renny. catalog essay, Richard L. Nelson and the Fine Arts Collection,
Flatlanders, a Regional Roundup.
Nana Gregory, catalog in conjunction with Kirkcudbright, Scotland, the Tollhouse
Art Center,
Convergence, curated by Nana Gregory, July – August.
Ivana Mestrovic and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Socrates Sculpture Park, ISBN-10: 0300120982, (illustration).
Rubinstein Raphael. catalog essay, Robin Hill: Multiplying the Variations,
California State University Stanislaus, exhibition catalog, 2006 ISBN:0-9773967-6-2
Janowich, Ron and Moore, John L., Thinking in Line, A Survey of Contemporary
Drawing, University Gallery, 2004.
The Desert Art by Theresa Pappas, Word Tech Editions, Spring (cover image; Robin
Hill)
Frank, Peter. catalog essay, Gone West, Four Artists New In These Parts, 2003.
55 Ferris Street Ill. Brooklyn, New York, 1993.
Collischan Van Wagner, Judith. Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women.
New York: Hudson
Hills Press, 1990.
Holl, James. Sculptors' Thinking Drawings. OIA Police Building Gallery, 1995
Theresa Pappas. catalog essay, Robin Hill: Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York,
1991.
Martone, Michael. Place, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New
York, 1996.
Selections from the Artists File. New York: Artists Space, 1985.
Sculpture: Material and Abstraction, 2 x 5 Points of View. Introduction by Corinne
Diserens. Essay by
Stephen Henry Madoff. Aarau, Switzerland: Aarauer Kunsthaus, 1988.
Six Sculptors. Essay by George Melrod. Brooklyn, NY: Long Island University,
1992.
The Creative Process: Drawings by Sculptors. Summit, New Jersey, 1995.
Unaffiliated Artists 11. Greenvale, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, 1985. PERIODICALS
Angel, Karen. “In Store,” the Village Voice, June 23, 1998.
Braff, Phyllis. "Unaffiliated and Original," The New York Times, August
5, 1985.
Brenson, Michael. "No Man's Land: Socrates Sculpture Park," The New
York Times, March 8, 1991.
—————. "Robin Hill at Lang & O'Hara Gallery,"
The New York Times, February 17, 1989,
(illustration).
—————. "Introducing Swiss Sculptors to US
and Vice Versa," The New York Times, January 27, 1989, (illustration).
—————. "Sculpture Breaks the Mold of Minimalism,"
The New York Times, November 23, 1986, Section 2:1.
—————. "Robin Hill at Zabriskie Gallery,"
The New York Times, July 25, 1986.
"Brooklyn Exhibit at Rotunda Gallery," Starrett Sun, February 19,
1988.
Brown, Kenneth. "Brooklyn's Rotunda Gallery Spotlights 'Trilogy' of Visual
Arts," Kings Courier, February 19, 1988.
Carvalho, Denise, “Focus: Robin Hill: Between the Physical and the Invisible,”
Sculpture Magazine,
Vol. 24, No.7, September, 2006
Cyphers, Peggy. "Sculptural Works by Robin Hill," Arts Magazine, September
1991.
Dalkey, Victoria. “Multiple Choice; Reproductions Earn a Special Place
in Art Collections,” The Sacramento Bee, April 27, 2003.
Dea, Cynthia. "Get the Soundtrack Too", LA Times Calendar Highlight
- July 6,
(illustration).
Elsasser, Brian. “Robin Hill at Davis Art Center,” Artweek, March
2003, Vol. 34, Issue 2.
flavorpill LA, "Robin Hill with Sam Nichols at another year in LA"
http://la.flavorpill.net/mailer/issue171/index.html June 6-12.
Frank, Peter. “Robin Hill with Sam Nichols at another year in LA”,
Art in America, November 2006,
Illustration.
--------------- “Robin Hill, Multiplying the Variations,” AC Fall-Winter,
2004 1.2
Frehner, Mathias. "Post Minimal Art in Kunsthaus, Aarau," Neue Zurcher
Seitung (Switzerland), July 8, 1988.
"Gallery Spotlights Works of 3 Brooklyn Artists," Daily News, February
17, 1988.
Gomez, Edward M., cover article: “Abstract Sculpture: From Big Ideas to
Abstract Forms,”
Art and Antiques, May, 2005. (illustrations).
Greenpoint Gazette (Brooklyn), November 30, 1982.
Hakanson, Joy. Detroit News, July 19, 1987.
Jaeger, William. "Another Way of Looking at the World," Times Union,
January 5, 1997, G2.
Johnston, Laurie and Susan Heller Anderson. "New Angles on Art," The
New York Times, September 19, 1983.
Kaplan, Steven. "Head Heart and Hands," Art Finder, Spring 1987, (illustration).
Karmel, Pepe. "Robin Hill," The New York Times, February 17, 1995.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Six Sculptors," The New York Times, July 31,
1992.
Koplos, Janet. “Robin Hill at Lennon, Weinberg,” Art in America,
June 1998.
Koster, Kristin and Kendall, Tina. Other Voices, the e-journal of Cultural Criticism,
Cultural Recycling,
"Handmade, Repetition, Narrative: An Interview with Robin Hill", Robin
Hill and
Ron Janowich, 28 pages with illustrations, Volume 3, Number 1, May 2007
http://www.othervoices.org/3.1/rhill/index.php
Larson, Kay. "Sculptor Robin Hill Gathers Momentum," New York Magazine,
April 15, 1991.
Madoff, Steven Henry. "Sculpture Unbound," ARTnews, November 1986.
Martin, Walter and Steven Cramer. "Benefit Group Show, curated by David
Hacker," 108, An East Village Review, June 1986.
Mattick, Jr., Paul. "Robin Hill at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America,
September l995.
McGill, Douglas C. "A Garden of Sculpture," The New York Times, June
13, 1986.
Melrod, George. "Robin Hill at Lang & O'Hara Gallery," ARTnews,
September 1991, (illustration).
—————. "Exploring Nature and Line as Metaphor:
Robin Hill," Art and Antiques, February 1995, p.29.
—————."Robin Hill, Peter Soriano, and Joseph
Zito," ARTnews, April 1993.
Miro, Marsha. Detroit Free Press, July 19, 1987.
Moyle, Marilyn. “Treasures from the Vault,” The Davis Enterprise,
May 15, 2003.
Nahas, Dominique. "Seeing is Believing," Review, October 15, 1997.
Olivant, David. “Multiplying the Variations: Robin Hill at California
State University, Stanislaus,
artcritical.com, edited by David Cohen, October 16, 2006
Pardee, Hearne. "Robin Hill," Artnews, May 1995.
Preston, Malcolm. "Varied Show of Independents," Newsday, July 28,
1985.
Preston, Sandy. "Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women,"
Contemporary Collectors Magazine, April 1990.
"Robin Hill," BOMB, No. 6, 1983, (illustration).
“Robin Hill at Lennon-Weinberg Gallery,” Abstract Art Online, October
1, 2005.
Schaffner, Ingrid. “Robin Hill," Artforum, summer 1995.
"Sculpture Exhibit at Aargauer Kunsthaus," Aargauer Taghlatt (Switzerland),
June 19, 1988.
"Sculptural Language of Form," Der Bund (Bern, Switzerland), July
6, 1988.
Servetar, Stuart. "Galleries: Downtown," New York Press, March 1,
1995.
Smith, Roberta, “Robin Hill at Lennon-Weinberg Gallery,” New York
Times, October 15, 2004.
Stuttig, Bill. "Artist Painted in a Corner," The Daily News, April
29, 1990, (illustration).
"Trilogy Now on View at Rotunda," Phoenix, February 25, 1988.
Thorson, Alice. “Cohen’s ‘Preview’ Unites Abstract Talents,”
The Kansas City Star, July 24, 1998
(illustration)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2004 Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Davis
2003 Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Davis
2002 The Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of California at Davis,
for The Poetics and
Politics of Place
Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Davis
1999 The New School, Faculty Development Grant
1991 The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1987 The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1986 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
1985 The New York State Council for the Arts, Fellowship for Five Sculptors
1983 Artists Space, New York, Emergency Materials FundPUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Union Gas, Brooklyn, NY
Chatam Imports, New York
Champion International, New York
Cleary Gottlieb, New York
Cowan, Liebowitz & Lachman, New York
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Washington, DC
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection
Rosenthal & Rosenthal, New York
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York
Prudential Insurance Company Newark, New Jersey
Bingham, Dana & Gould, Attorneys, Boston, Massachusetts
Lee & Silva Terry, The Metro Companies, Atlanta, Georgia
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York
Wynn Kramarsky, New York
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles TEACHING
Associate Professor, Sculpture, University of California at Davis, 2001-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor & Artist In Residence, Sculpture, Purchase College,
SUNY, School or Art &
Design, 1998-2001
Faculty & Coordinator of Senior Program, Parsons School of Design, New York,
1991-2001
Faculty, New York University, 1999-2000
Faculty, Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France, 1997, 2000
Faculty, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, 1997-1998
VISITING ARTIST
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Middlebury College, Middlebury, CT
Parsons School of Design, New York
Empire State College, New York
State University of Arkansas, Jonesboro, AK
Brooklyn College, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
California State University, Sacramento and Stanislaus, CA
