Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell was born in Los Angeles, California

She lives and works in Santa Monica, California

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023  Robin Mitchell: Spellbound, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2021  Robin Mitchell: Emanations, online virtual exhibit, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2018  Robin Mitchell: Paintings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2018  59. Robin Mitchell: "Mirror", Proxy Gallery, Culver City, CA

2016  Robin Mitchell: How Many Heartbeats in a Lifetime?, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica , CA

2013  Robin Mitchell: Moment to Moment, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2011  Robin Mitchell: Treasure Maps, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009  Robin Mitchell: New Paintings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007  Robin Mitchell: Code Paintings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007  Robin Mitchell, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001  Fragrant, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA

1984  Robin Mitchell, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1983  Robin Mitchell, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981  Robin Mitchell, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1974  Robin Mitchell, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

9/13/2023 - 1/21/2024

https://www.redcat.org/events/2023/the-feminist-art-program

 

2022

Surface Tension, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA

 

Abstract 2 + 2, Vita Art Center, Ventura CA

https://www.vitaartcenter.com/robin-mitchellabstract-22

 

Hurry Slowly, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach

 

Womanhouse 1972 - 2022 50 th Anniversary Exhibit, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

https://anatebgi.com/cpt_exhibitions/womanhouse/

 

2019

Valley Girl Redefined, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA

Ineffable, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Tomes: An Exhibition of Artist Books, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

 

2018

Visions of Elysium, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, CA

 

2015

Southern California Abstraction Now, Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

PRETTY RAW: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

 

2014

Toward the Heart of the Matter: Abstracting From Nature, Sturt-Haaga Gallery, Desconso Gardens, Flintridge, CA

Curiouser and Curiouser: Work Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Art Division, Los Angeles, CA

 

2011

Crises and Whispers, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2010

Ou-boum, Art Gallery, Long Beach City College

 

2009

Everywhere & Nowhere, the Spiritual Temperament in Recent American Art, International Festival of Sacred Arts, New Delhi, India

 

2008

Painting in Southern California, The 1980s:Driven to Abstraction II, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, curated by Geoffrey Young, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

Some Paintings: The Third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

LA (A Select Survey of Art From Los Angeles), Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

Emphasis Santa Monica, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

 

2007

Works On/Of Paper, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions, California institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

30th Anniversary Exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

2006

Off the Wall: Murals, Armory Northwest, Armory Arts Center, Pasadena, CA

Immodesty, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles CA

COLA 1996-2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

 

2005

Los Angeles Printmaking Society 18th National Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA

Pressing On, Kent State University, School of Art Gallery, Kent, OH

 

2003

L.A. Post Cool, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Tinseltown, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA

 

2002

L.A. Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

25th Anniversary Exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

2001

The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

 

2000

Luminous, Ikon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Cake, Pasadena City College Art Gallery

L.A. Brastractionists, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1998

City of Los Angeles (COLA) Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

Art At Michael’s, Michael’s Restaurant, Santa Monica, CA

L.A. New Art/Arte Actual en Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Madrid, Spain

 

1997

Plastered, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

L.A. New Art/Arte Actual en Los Angeles, Sala de Exposiciones, Cuenca, Spain

My Favorite Femmes, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Distant Bodies, L. A. Art Core, The Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA

XX-Sight, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Remembrance of Exhibitions Past: 20th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

L.A. Slide, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA

Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola-Marymount University

$100 Show, Post, Los Angeles, CA

 

1996

Feminist Directions 1970/1996, Sweeny Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, Riverside CA

True. Bliss.,  Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

Blessings and Beginnings, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Teeming, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Love’s Labors Lost , SI.T.E., Los Angeles, CA

Thought Works @ L.A., Art Center, Battle Creek, MI

Thought Works @ L.A., Valdosta College Art Gallery, Valdosta, GA

$100 Show, Post, Los Angeles, CA

Aftershocks, collaborative group print portfolio, Josephine Press, Santa Monica, CA

 

1995

Aftershocks, Artworks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Transcendental Meditations, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA

Hodge Podge Lodge, The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Restless Voices: Abstractions from Los Angeles, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Surface Tension, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

 

1994

Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Selby Gallery of the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

December, Jerold Burchman Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California

Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

Faculty Exhibition: Department of Art Studio, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

1993

Coastal Abstractions, Manhattan Beach Friends of the Fine Arts. Curated by Peter Frank.  Catalog.

The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Sue Spaid

Aspects of Painting in Los Angeles, Gallery of the College of Creative Studies, U C Santa  Barbara

 

1992

A Small Show, Susan Landau Contemporary Art, West Los Angeles, CA

Abstract Paintings, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Coming Unraveled, Otis School of Art and Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.  Curated by Anne Ayres

Coming Unraveled is a  part of The Los Angeles Exhibition.

L.A. Xtension, ART LA 92/Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center

Drawing Show, Nomadic Site at Bliss, Pasadena, CA.  Curated by Adam Ross.

Los Angeles: Works on Paper, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Inscapes, Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

 

1991

Abstract Variations, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Professor's Choice, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA

 

1989

Experience-Reordered, L.A. Abstractions, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

 

1988

L.A. Weekly Critics' Picks Exhibit, LA 88 Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair

Registry, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA

Small Works, Cal Arts Alumni Exhibit, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

Twenty Artists-Los Angeles, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina.

 

1986

Southern California Monoprints: The Singular Image, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Santa Ana, CA.

Summer Exhibit, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA.

 

1984

The Cotton Exchange Show, LACE- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

The Finals, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles.

Environs III: W. Washington Blvd., Art Gallery of the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Olympiad: Summer 1984, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles.

 

1983

At Home, collaborative installation with Miriam Schapiro, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.

Faculty Exhibit, Art Gallery, California State University at Fullerton. Fullerton, CA.

 

1982

Art Today, Offices of Welton-Beckett Architects, Santa Monica, CA

Group exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

Faculty Exhibit, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.

 

1980

Group exhibit, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles.

 

1979

Color, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Art Exhibition Space, Los Angeles.

Faculty Exhibit, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.

Abstract Works on Paper, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1978

L.A. Painters, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont CA.

Group exhibit, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Exhibition Space, Los Angeles.

Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA.

 

1977

100+, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curated by Robert Smith.

We Were All Here, Art Gallery, California State University at Northridge. Curated by Joanne Julian. Catalog.

Los Angeles Women Artists, touring exhibit organized for the State of North Carolina.

 

1976

24 Southern California Women Artists, Cerritos College, El Cerritos, CA. Curated by Gil Steele

Group exhibit, Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalog.

 

1975

Robin Mitchell, John Miller and Dave Thomas, Art Gallery of Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA.

Contemporary Concerns II, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curated by Walter Hopps.

Selections from Five Orange County Galleries, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA. Curated by Charles C. Hill.

 

1974

Eleven Young Californians, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles.

Robin Mitchell/Jim Oliver, Gallery TJB, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Charles C. Hill

 

1973

Women Artists Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Womanspace Gallery, Los Angeles.

Thirteen Artists on Paper, Art Gallery of the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

1972

Small Images, Art Gallery of California State University at Los Angeles.  Curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels.

New Artists/New Work, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Curated by Laura Lee Woods.

Womanhouse, collaborative project of the Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023

Mallinson, Constance, @artiq_cm, Spellbound exhibition review on Instagram blog

 

2021

Kapon, Annetta, PROXY GALLERY 2018 - 2020, PROXY Gallery catalog

 

2019

Brown, Betty, "Valley Girl Defined" Artillery Magazine, March 5, 2019

https://artillerymag.com/valley-girl-redefined/

 

2018

Silsbee, Kirk, “Hitting the Mark with Robin Mitchell” artsmeme.com

www.artsmeme.com/2018/03/20/hitting-the-mark-with-robin-mitchell

 

Zellen, Jody, “Nancy Monk and Robin Mitchell: From the Delicate to the Explosive”, ArtNowLA March 2018

http://artnowla.com/2018/03/21/nancy-monk-robin-mitchell/

 

Rubin, David S., “The Power of Mark Making”, Editor’s Roundtable, Visual Art Source, March 23,2018

http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&aID=4623

 

2017

COLA 20 Catalog, City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

 

2016

Whitney, Kay, “How Many Heartbeats In A Lifetime” review, Art About Town, Fabrik, Issue 31 June/July 2016, pp 88-89

https://issuu.com/fabrik/docs/fabrik31?e=1031955%2F3670505

 

Moret, A, “Robin Mitchell: How Many Heartbeats In A Lifetime”, Art .Ltd Magazine, May/June 2016 p. 25

 

2015

Siegel, Katy, “The Heroine Paint” After Frankenthaler, published by Gagosian Gallery

 

Roberta Smith, New York Times, Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World, June 03, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/design/review-pretty-raw-recounts-helen-frankenthalers-influence-on-the-art-world.html

 

Smee, Sebastian, “Raw Power at Rose Art Museum”, Boston Globe, Art Review February 19, 2015

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/02/19/frankenthaler-provides-pivot-for-provocative-show/2OLyybA3Fr2ALC5vOhhE3M/story.html

 

2014

Fallon, Michael, “Creating the Future:Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s”, Counterpoint Press

 

2013

David Pagel, Moment to Moment exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, July 2013

 

2010

Schor, Mira, A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life, Duke University Press

California International Arts Foundation, L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980

 

2009

Miles, Christopher, Robin Mitchell at Craig Krull Gallery, LA Weekly, November  5-11, 2009, page 41.

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/robin-mitchell-at-craig-krull-gallery-2162357

 

Miles, Christopher, Art Around Town, L.A. Weekly, March 13-19,2009, page 52

 

2008

Harvey, Doug, Some Paintings: The Artists in the Third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial, L.A. Weekly, January 11-17, 2008

 

2007

Mallinson, Constance, Robin Mitchell at Jancar Gallery, Art in America, September 2007

Pagel, David, Robin Mitchell at Craig Krull Gallery, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2007, Calendar Section

Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA catalog

Frank, Peter, Still Waters and Restless Currents, L.A. Weekly, August 3-8, 2007, page 82

 

2006

Peter Frank, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, September 28, 2006

Tommy Freeman, Immodesty” at Another Year in LA, Artweek, November 2006, Volume 37, Issue 9 pp 19 -20

 

2005

Los Angeles Printmaking Society 18th National Exhibition, catalog, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA

 

2002

Duncan, Michael, L.A. Post Cool, catalog essay, San Jose Museum of Art

Cooper, Bernard, “In the Raw”, Los Angeles Magazine, December 2002, pp 124-128

 

2001

Duncan, Michael, The Importance of Being Earnest, catalog essay

 

Willette, Jeanne S.M. “COLA: 1997-98” at the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Artweek, July-August 1998, pp 29-30

City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, COLA 1997-1998 Individual Artists Grants Catalog

Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Week, L.A. Weekly, June12-June 18, 1998, page 155

 

1998

Wilson, William, “COLA” Puts Spotlight on Local Winners, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1998, Calendar Section, page F22

 

1997

Schor, Mira, Wet: On painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, Duke University Press

Spaid, Sue, Trudging the Gradient From Art to Fashion, Gradient, A publication of the Communication Arts

and Liberal Studies Departments at Otis College of Arts & Design, pp 22-23

_______: RIBOT: No. 5: History, published by College of Neglected Knowledge, edited by Paul Vangelisti, Los Angeles, CA

Lillo, Jose Maria, L.A. New Art/Arte Actual en Los Angeles, Sala de Exposiciones, Cuenca, Spain, catalog

Davis, Bruce, Some Personal Observations on Contemporary Printmaking and the 14th National,

Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition, catalog

Martin, Victoria, Teeming at Post, Artweek, February, 1997, page 23

Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Week, L.A. Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 10, January 31-February 6, 1997

 

1996

Jones, Amelia and Laura Meyer, Feminist Directions 1970/1996, exhibition catalog,

Sweeny Art Gallery University of California at Riverside

Joyce, Julie, True. Bliss., exhibition catalog, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Whitney, Kay, Love and Scarcity: The Anonymous Is A Woman Awards, New Art Examiner, December + January 1996/1997, pages 52-53

Muchnic, Susan, The Kindness of Strangers, L.A. Times, Calendar Section F, Page 1, August 30, 1966

Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Week, L.A. Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 3, December 13-19, 1996, page 150

BIBLIOGRAPHY continued

Duncan, Michael, Flash and Filigree, Art in America, December 1996, page 113.

Kandel, Susan, Infectious Spirit, L.A.Times, Art Reviews, Calendar Section, December 19, 1996, page F6

Leddy, Pat, Aftershocks at Artworks, Artweek, June 1966, Volume 27, Number 6, pp 24-25

Whitney, Kay, Unnamed Group Benefits Female Artists, The Albuquerque Tribune, Arts Section, pp B1 and B8

 

1995

 RIBOT: No. 3: Beauty, published by College of Neglected Knowledge, edited by Paul Vangelisti, Los Angeles, CA

Crowder, Joan, On the Surface, Santa Barbara News-Press, February 10, 1995, pages 25-26 with reproduction.

 

1994

Cubarrubia, Eydie, Feel the Emotions of Abstract Art, Bradenton Herald, August 12, 1994

Crowder, Joan, From the Gritty to the Sublime, Santa Barbara New-Press, January 14, 1994, pps 25-27

Duncan, Michael, L A. Rising, Art in  America , December 1994, pp 72-82 with  color  reproduction.

_______. Restless Voices: Abstractions from Los Angeles, exhibition catalog, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Broude, Norma and Mary Degarard, Editors, The Power of Feminist Art,The American Movement of the 1970’s, History and Impact, Abrams

Colpitt, Frances, Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, catalog, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

Altabe, Joan, Super-Realism Colors Superb Abstract Show, Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 26, 1994

 

1993

Frank, Peter, Coastal Abstractions. Exhibition catalog essay, Manhattan Beach Friends of the Fine Arts

Spaid, Sue,The Layered Look: Transience, Superimposition and Identity, essay accompanying exhibition

Kandel, Susan, Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1993

Darling, Michael, In the Arena, Santa Barbara Independent, March 18, 1993

Duncan, Michael, Report From Los Angeles:”LAX” Lifts Off, Art in America, April, pps 50-55. Color repro.

Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, January 15-21, 1993, page 95

 

1992

Pagel, David, Coming Unraveled,  Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1992. Section F, page 16

Ross, Adam, Drawing Show catalog. Nomadic Site at Bliss, Pasadena, CA.  Summer 1992

Ayres, Anne, LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, exhibition catalog, reproduction.  December 1992

_______. Dialogue: Robin Mitchell and Kay Whitney,  Visions Art  Quarterly, Winter, 1991/92, Vol. 6  No.1

 

1989

Moore, Sylvia, Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, mid March, Arts, 1989

 

1988

Frank, Peter, Signs and Apparitions: Four Artists from Southern California, Contemporanea, June 1988

 

1987

Svitil, Torene,State of the Arts, Exposure Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue II, 1987. Black and white reproduction.

 

1984

Gardner, Colin, ArtScan , Images and Issues, July/August 1984

Donahue, Marlena, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1984, section IV

Knechtel, Tom, Promises of More, Artweek, April 21, 1984.  Black and white reproduction.

 

1983

Brown, Betty, review, Arts Magazine, April 1983, page 44, volume 57, number 8

Muchnic, Suzanne, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1983, section IV

Anderson, Isabel, Compared Energies, Artweek, February 19 1983, Vol. 14, Number 7.B &W repro.

 

1982

Danieli, Fidel, Four Painters, Images and Issues, Summer 1982. Black and White reproduction.

Dellabough, Robin, Shattering the Glass Slipper, Cal Arts Today, March 1982, Volume VII, Number 4

 

1981

Muchnic, Suzanne, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1981, section IV

_______. Reproduction/black and white, L .A. Weekly, March 6-12, 1981.

 

1977

Wilding, Faith, By Our Own Hands; The Women Artists' Movement in Southern California 1970-1976, Published by XX, 1977

Julian, Joanne, We Were All Here, exhibition catalog, October 1977, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA

 

1975

_______. Exhibition catalog, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Gallery Exhibitions, 1975, Los Angeles, CA

Pieszak, Devonna, Current Concerns II: A View, LAICA Journal, Number 5, April 11/May 1975, page 50

_______. Reproduction, Artweek, 1975

Ballatore, Sandy, Current Concern II, Artweek, 1975

 

1974

Seldis, Henry, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times. April 26,1974, page 15, section IV

 

1972

_______. Anonymous Was A Woman, published by the Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, 1971-72

_______. Woman House, catalog published by the Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts, 1971-1972

 

EDUCATION

1972-1974 California Institute of the Arts     Master of Fine Arts

1971-1972 California Institute of the Arts     Bachelor of Fine Arts

1970-1971 University of California at Los Angeles

1968-1970 California State University at Northridge

 

AWARDS and  HONORS

2016 City of Santa Monica Arts Cultural Affairs Division Project Fellowship

2007 Finalist for the Eduardo Carrillo Prize for Painting

2006 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artist, Mid-Career Award

1997 City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department Visual Artists Grant

1997 Cash Award with funds from Lea & Luis Remba (Mixografia Workshop, Inc.) and Jean & Leslie Burg,

 Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition

1996 Anonymous Was a Woman Visual Artists Award

1991 Course Improvement Development Grant, University of California at Irvine

1991 University of California at Irvine Career Development Grant

1989 University of California at Irvine Career Development Grant

1987 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship for Painting

1974 California Institute of the Arts, Full Tuition Scholarship / Graduate Assistant Teaching Stipend

1973 California Institute of the Arts, Partial Tuition Scholarship

 

INDIVIDUAL LECTURES and TALKS

Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach 2022

Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica CA 2022

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 1992

University of California at Irvine, Studio Art Department, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1981

Otis/ Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Graduate Program in Painting, 1988

University of California at Los Angeles, Kaleidoscope Program, 1986

University of California at Santa Barbara, Art Department, 1985, 1994

University of Southern California, School of Fine Art, 1984, 1983, 1981 and 1977

Claremont Graduate School, Art Department, Claremont Colleges, 1983, 1977, 1988, and 1989

University of California at Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, 1976, 1990 and 1994

Rancho Santiago College, Art Department, 1985

California Institute for Women, Department of Corrections 1994

California State University at Long Beach, Art Department 1996, 2002, 2014

California State University at Sacramento, Art Department 2002

Santa Monica College, Mentor Program, Art Department 2016

 

LECTURES

Why Color Matters

Art Division, Los Angeles, CA 2016

 

Blessings and Beginnings

Panel Discussion, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, January 1997

 

Drawing

California State University Summer Arts Program, Drawing Workshop, July 1996

 

Abstract Painting: Dead or Alive?

 paper presented at College Art Association Conference, Boston 1996

 

Surface Tension,

Dialogue with Michael Darling, part of exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. February 1995

 

Edgar Degas’ “Bellelli Sisters”: An Appreciation

Looking at Art With Artists Series, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. June 1994

 

Some Painters on Painting: The Process and the Dialogue

Panel Discussion, College Art Association Conference, Seattle, 1993

 

L.A.X.

Panel Discussion, ART LA 92/Los Angeles Art Fair, December 1992

 

Beauty

Southern California Women's Caucus for the Arts, Panel Discussion, October, 1992

 

Painting: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1975-91

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, December 1991

 

INTERNET LINKS

 

Robin Mitchell Website

www.robinmitchell.net

 

Craig Krull Gallery Website

http://www.craigkrullgallery.com/

 

Tumblr site/ Archive of Artwork

rmcobalt.tumblr.com

 

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Art Feminist Art Base: Robin Mitchell, Brooklyn Museum of Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/robin_mitchell.php

 

Feminist Art: A Reassessment

http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/04/forum.html#Mitchell

 

MEANING 25TH Anniversary Issue Online

http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/meaning/05/meaning-online-5.html - mitchell

 

Drawing Center Viewing Program

http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio.cfm

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Santa Monica College, Art Department

Associate Faculty, Summer 1998 through present

 

Pasadena City College, Visual Arts and Media Studies

Assistant Adjunct Professor: Spring 1997 through present