Marc Andre Robinson
Education
2003 Whitney Independent Studio Program, New York, NY
2002 MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1998 BFA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Residencies and Awards
2009 Art Matters Grant for artists focusing on communication and collaboration across national borders.
2008-09 Workspace Artist-in-Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Artist-in-Residence, Rock Tower, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 Workspace 07, Artist in Residence, Queens Library, Queens, NY
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Acadia Summer Art Program, Acadia, ME
2003 Whitney Independent Studio Program, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Diachronic, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
2009 You Are the Current/I Am the Wire. Tina Kim Gallery New York, NY
Marc Andre Robinson. Salamatina Gallery, Manhasset, NY
Group Exhibitions
2010 Keep Your Seat, GAM-galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2009 Can't Rape the Willing. The Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY
Collected. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm Tina Kim, New York, NY
Obama, Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD
2008 Governor's Island Art Fair, New York, NY
Forming Lines, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Ethnographies of the Future, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ethnographies of the Future Tides Foundation, New York, NY
Untitled (on Paper), Moti Hasson, New York, NY
Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2007 Workspace '07, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY, August 07
In the Poem About Love You don't Write the Word Love, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Artists Space, New York
Past Over. Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Space Between, Daryl Roth Theatre, New York, NY
MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 Passport. Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
When Artists Say We. Artists Space, New York, NY
Relics and Remnants. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Frequency. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2005 Scratch-A.I.R. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
MX80. Brecht Forum, New York, NY
Argos Festival. Argos Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Propeller. Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
America vs. America. Reykjavik, Iceland; Oslo and Bergen, Norway;
Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden
E-Flux Video Rental. Electronic Flux Corporation, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
2004 Apogee. Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY
Veni Vidi Video II. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Moving Outlines. Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Stream: On Location. Location One, New York, NY
2003 24/7: Wilno-Nueva York (Visa Para). Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Reality/Fiction: (Re)Constructing Representation. Jamaica Center for
Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Float. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
ISP Open Studio. Whitney ISP, New York, NY
Off the Record. Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
2009 http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-backstory-castoff-chairs/#more-4571
2008 (link) Blog Review from Forming Lines
(link) E-flux from Informed by Function
2007 "Unmonumental" New Museum Exhibition Catalogue, Phaidon Press
"Unmonumental" Art News, December
2006 Beckwith, Naomi "Behind the Black" Frequency Catalogue
Brockington, Horace "Wavelength (#2)" NY Arts Magazine, March/April, Vol. 11
2005 Leighton, Tonya. "In the Poem About Love You Don't Write the Word Love" catalogue
Cotter, Holland. "Scratch" New York Times, July 29, 2005
Kelley, Robin D.G. "On the Density of Black Being" Catalogue Essay, 2005
"Scratch" New Yorker September 9, 2005
"Political Charge Energizes Group" Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2005
2004 Ligon, Glenn. "David Hammons: The Poetics of Blackness" Art Forum, Sept.
2003 Cotter, Holland. "Off the Record" New York Times, May 16, 2003
Reisman, Sara. "Reality/Fiction: (Re)Constructing Representation" Catalogue
2002 McNatt, Glenn. "Artist Pursues Liberation and Growth" Baltimore Sun, May 6
Public Collections
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Artist Pension Trust, New York
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Museum of American Art, Philadelphia
Commissions
2009 New York Times Magazine, Sculpture Installation for T Magazine exclusive
2006 Outdoor Public Sculpture, Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore, MD. Series of outdoor bronze projects that included outreach program with E. Baltimore middle-school students. Sponsored by the Living Classrooms Foundation