Robin Mitchell





	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 SOLO EXHIBITS 2013 _____Moment to Moment, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011 _____Treasure Maps, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2009 _____Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 _____Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 _____Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 _____The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA 1984 _____Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 _____Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 _____Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1974 _____Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Cries and Whispers, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Ou-boum, Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA 2009 Drawing Installation, Drive By Gallery, Venice, CA 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, Pasadena, CA 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 Aftershocks, collaborative group print portfolio, Josephine Press, Santa Monica, CA Aftershocks, Artworks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Transcendental Meditations, William Turner Gallery, Venice, 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 1995 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, CA Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Faculty Exhibition: Department of Art Studio, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 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, CA 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. 1978 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 2009 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 1998 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 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 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, Costal 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 AWARDS & HONORS 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 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 California State University at Sacramento, Art Department 2002 Heart of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2009 LECTURES AND PANELS 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, 1991 Painting: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1975-91 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, December 1991 INTERNET LINKSINKS Robin Mitchell Artwork Gallery Craig Krull Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Art Feminist Art Base: Robin Mitchell, Brooklyn Museum of Art Feminist Art: A Reassessment 2006 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists Drawing Center Viewing Program (search: Robin Mitchell) VIEW RESUME AS PDF