aurora robson

Education

2000

Columbia University, B.A. in Visual Art & Art History (Magna Cum Laude)

1993

Apex Technical School, Welding Program (Certified structural welder)

1987

Central Technical School of Fine Arts, (Admitted via drawing portfolio)

Solo Exhibitions

2013

Sustenance, Masters+Plavin, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2012

Sacrifice + Bliss, The Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, OH

2011

Everything, All At Once, Forever, The Figge Museum, Davenport, IA

 

Be Like Water, David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State, (large scale installation) Muncie, IN

2010

Be Like Water, Skybox, (large scale solo installation) Philadelphia, PA

2009

Land Mines, Salve Regina University Art Gallery, Newport, RI

Honor System, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC

2008

The Great Indoors, Rice Gallery, (large scale installation) Houston, TX

2007

Makapiapia, (Installation at the Islip Art Museum Carriage House, Islip, NY

2006

The Jungle, (Solo installation at Art212) New York, NY

2005

Wake up, Wake up, it’s in the Morning, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

Convergence II, Monmouth University Gallery, West Long Branch, NJ

Reimagining Past Posessions, Transform Gallery, Westchester, NY

2011

Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery (University of Rochester), Rochester, NY

 

Being American, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Lucky 13, MKG, Houston, TX (forthcoming)

Under the Sea, Mass MoCa Kidspace, North Adams, MA

Repurposed, Welch Gallery at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Water Views, The Figge Museum, Davenport, IA

Hudson River Contemporary, Boscobel Gallery, Garrison, NY

Green Light III, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC

2010

Convergence, Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY

Women, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Spill, 212Gallery, (two person exhibit) Aspen, CO

2D/3D, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

Elements of Nature, City of Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, CA

Debris, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY

Spark, Borrow and Steal, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Two Degrees of Separation, Satori Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Trash Menagerie, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Up-Cycling, Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA

New Now, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Abstractions and Contractions, Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY

Thinking Small, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008

Micro Macro, Satori Gallery, New York, NY

Painting Pink Pajamas, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL

Discarded to Distinctive, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH

Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Lather, Rinse, Repeat, 4 person show, Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY

Couplets, 2 person show with Lisa Solomon, Square Foot Gallery, Nashville, TN

2007

Force Fields, Sevengaits, Southbridge, MA

The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy & Illusion from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

Impossibly Familiar, FIT Art Market Graduate Thesis Show, New York, NY

Wallworks 3, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA

Scapes Within, Poietis Gallery, Inaugural Exhibit, New York, NY

Memento-Mori, The Artists Network, New York, NY

2006

The Summertime Show, Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005

Faculty Exhibit, The Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

Resonant Part II, Hun Gallery, New York, NY

Spring Combustion, 3 person show, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Mostracolletiva Colorfixation 02, Barone & Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy

Introduction’02, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004

13, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

La La Land, Makor Gallery, 2 person show, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography

2013

Post-Sustainable: New Direction in Ecological Design, by Mike Silver and Mitchell Joachim, Metropolis Books (forthcoming)

2012

Fantastic Plastic, (Cover) by Cindy Gaillard, City Scene Magazine, Columbus
Crazy Art, (Back Cover) coffee table book, Chantal Alles

2011

Ocean Debris Becomes a Work of Art, by Devany Vickery-Davidson, Ke’Ola Magazine

Day Trip, Issue No. 4, Weiden + Kennedy

(Cover) Lost and Found, by Thalia A-M Bruehl, Green Building + Design Magazine

2010

Fantastic Plastic Oceans, by Sean Corbett, Philadelphia Weekly

Drawn Together, by Edward M. Gomez, Art + Antiques Magazine

Spill, by Stewart Oksenhorn, The Aspen Times

California Exhibitions that Keep the Summer Hot, Dewitt Cheng, Huffington Post

Bushwick Open Studios Profile, Aurora Robson, by Mike Steyels, Bushwick BK.com

Debris, Beyond Race Magazine, by Lindsay Sturm

Green Art: 10 Artists Working with Recycled Materials, by Makena Hudson, Beautiful Decay

2009

In The Studio: Aurora Robson, by Edward M. Gomez, Art in America

Aurora Robson: Recycled Art, by Wendy Campbell, Daily Art Fixx

ECO ART: Aurora Robson Recycled Plastic Sculptures by Moe Beitiks, Inhabitat

Aurora Robson Art From Recycled Plastic Bottles & Junk Mail by Jasmin Chua, Treehugger

Plastic Power, Aurora Robson’s Landmines, by Lisa Utman Randall, The Mercury

Exhibit is a Fun Way to Take in the Trash, by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe

Aurora Robson, by Nimo Mohamed, Format Magazine (Issue #60 – Female Issue)

Transformation, Garden 91 Magazine

2008

(Cover) The Great Indoors, by Garland Fielder, Arts Houston Magazine

Art: Message in a Bottle, by Steven K. Lee, Plenty Magazine

The Front Row, Aurora Robson interview by Meghan Hendley, Houston Public Radio

The Great Indoors, by Julia Ramey, Houston Press

Robson Displays Her 'Body' of Work, by Douglas Britt, Houston Chronicle

Aurora Robson : The Great Indoors, Houston Arts Alliance

Emerging Art in Bushwick, by Alex Callender, NY Art Beat

Aurora Robson’s "She Bang", by Christopher Reiger, HungryHyaena.blogspot.com

Artist of the Week by Elizabeth MacCrellish, Squamartworkshops.com

Domestic Terrorism by David Maddox, Nashvillescene.com

Aurora Robson Interview Pt. 1, by Jill Danyelle, The Laboratory

Aurora Robson and Lisa Solomon, Juxtapoz

2007

Inspired Metamorphoses by Alexandra Novo, Attitude Magazine

Dream Catcher, by Steve Watson, Wonderland Magazine

Pollinium, by David Cohen, Artworld Digest Magazine

2006

Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump, by Margery Gordon, Artinfo.com

Blurb, by Ami Kealoha, Coolhunting.com

Fashion & Art, by Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times - Styles Section

2005

Contemporary Sculpture, by Edward E. Gomez, Art & Antiques Magazine

Best of the AAF, Domino Magazine

Wake up, Wake up It’s in the Morning at Richard Levy Gallery, NM, Alibi’s

Review of Pentimenti’s Introduction '02, February 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer

Artist Executes Work with Skill, by Wesley Pulkka, The Sunday Journal

2004

AAF by Raul Zamudio, ArtNexus

Awards, Grants, Fellowships

2013

TED/Lincoln Reimagine Prize

2011

Dave Bown Projects Award

2010

Sculpt the Future Foundation Grant

 

The Arthur Levine Foundation Grant

2009

The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture

The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

Residencies

2013

TEDActive, Palm Springs, CA

 

Mary Baldwin College, Stanton, VA

2012

Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio

2010-11

Parker School/The Waimea Ocean Film Festival, Waimea, HI

2007

Islip Museum Carriage House, Islip, NY

2002

Maho Bay Eco-Resort, St. John, USVI

Teaching

2013

Mary Baldwin College, Stanton, VA - Sculpture & Intercepting the Waste Stream

2004-6

The Education Alliance Art School, New York, NY - Taught electric & gas welding/sculpture

2001

144 Music & Arts, New York, NY - Developed & taught photography to 6th graders in Queens

 

Corporate & Major Collections

Alliante Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, Daniel Fine Art, LA, The Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, The Four Seasons Hotel, St. Louis, MO, Merrill Lynch / Bank of America, NJ, Neiman Marcus, Bellevue, WA, Grand Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Orleans, LA, David Owsley Museum, Muncie IN, Poipu Beach Hotel, Kauai, HI, Rice University, Houston, TX, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete + Visual Poetry, Miami, FL

 

Notable Collections

Stephen Arcano, Julie Baker, Suzanne Deal Booth, Matthew + Renee Boulis, Al Castaneda, Calleen Cordero, Maura Kehoe Collins, David Collins + Tim Collins, Evalyn Daniel-Putnam, Jenny Doussan, Rick Edrich, Helena Fredriksson, Heidi Gerger, Charles Harper, Gregory Higgins, Otto Hinzmann, Molly Hipp Hubbard, Kim Larson Knell + Gary Knell, John Koegel, Jennifer Kostuik, The LaCharlotte Family, Colleen Flynn-Lawson, Steven K. Lee, Emily Leff, Michael Levine, Natasha Lifton, Amanda Nicole, Jay Randolph, Laurie Roberts Conklin + Pat Conklin, Antoon Schollee, Paul Siegel + Lauryn Siegel, Whitney Stevens, Ruth I. Dreessen + Thomas J. Van Laan, Lori Unger, Richard + Harriet Warm, Beth Weiner, Debi Weschler