Amy Robson is a British/American artist who creates drawings, paintings and prints that consider the experience of being in a place – physical or psychological. Her work pushes representational boundaries with disjointed pictorial spaces and uncanny juxtapositions to emphasise contemporary dislocation and collective anxiety. A decommissioned nuclear missile silo, the former Stasi Headquarters, an ancient village in Greece or the Wandsworth recycling centre – these historical and quotidian locations inform weird and wonky responses that suggest the uncertainty and strangeness of being alive in the modern world.
Born in America, Amy Robson has lived in the UK for over 25 years. She trained at the Royal Drawing School and holds an MFA from Chelsea College (UAL), London. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, the US and in Europe. She has been selected for residencies with PADA Studios in Portugal, Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming and DRAW in France. She is a member of London-based Pollen Collective. Her writing has been published in Turps Banana magazine and she coordinated and curated ‘Larger Apples & Better Cotton,’ an exhibition of American women artists based in the UK.
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Amy Robson (b. Pittsburgh, PA)
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, 2016-18
MBA and BA (History), University of Virginia, 1995, 1990
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
ING Discerning Eye, 2024, Mall Galleries, London
Conversations of the Thousand Acres, 2024, SAGE Arts, Sheridan, WY
Circle II, 2024, Kindred Studios, London
Questions of Travel, 2024, Marie Jose Gallery, London
Pollen Olympiada, 2024, Bakery Gallery Camden Passage, London
Beyond Confinement, 2023, Koppel Project Station, London
Young Masters, 2022, London
Hastings Open, 2022, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Larger Apples & Better Cotton, 2022, 44 Great Russell Street, London (produced and curated)
IDentity: (Self)-Made by Women, 2022, 1st Dibs
Green & Stone Print Exhibition, 2022, London
Artworks Open 2021, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Circle, 2021, with Pollen Collective, 44 Great Russell Street, London
Here, I Made This: Dialogues of Distance, 2021, One Paved Court, London
In The Wild, 2021, The Artist Lounge, virtual
Wells Art Contemporary Prize, 2020, Wells, UK
Wiltshire Creative Summer Open, 2020, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
Keep Looking, 2020, Jane Deering Gallery, Annisquam, MA (solo)
(And with good) Reason, June 2020, Cultivate, London
Squeeze, 2020, Karen Tronel Gallery, London
BLUE, 2019, AH Studio, London
Present Tense, 2019, HPLTC, London (solo)
Bombeiros, 2019, PADA Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Chelsea College (UAL) Degree Show, 2018, London
Where It Is, 2018, Triangle Space, London
Nasty Women Chelsea, 2017, MAFA Gallery, London
Marlborough OS Summer Exhibitions, 2014-17, Mount House Gallery, Wiltshire
Charlie Walker Memorial Trust Art Exhibition, 2016, Donnington Priory, Berkshire
Chase Art Exhibition, 2014, Royal College of Art, London
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Fellowship, Jentel Artist Residency, Wyoming, USA, 2024 & 2021
Draw International Residency, Caylus, France, 2022
Young Masters Art Prize, Exhibiting Artist, London, 2022
Published essay on Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in Turps Magazine, Issue #22, Feb. 2020
PADA Studios + Turps Banana Residency, Awarded 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
Shortlist Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2020
Shortlist John Moores Painting Prize, 2018
Shortlist Jackson’s Open Painting Prize, 2020, 2018