NANCY ROBINSON
RESUME
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2017 Finalist, Next Step Fund, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
2009 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2005 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
1997, 2001 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
2000 Travel and Study Grant, Jerome, Target and General Mills Foundations
1997-2002 Jerome Scholarship, Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, Mentor Program
1998 Jerome Artist Residency Grant, Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, MN
EDUCATION
1971 B.A. in English, cum laude, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
1976 Night classes at Atelier Lack, Minneapolis
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1999-2001, Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Division
Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, 1990-2002, Mentor
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Minneapolis Institute of Art
2007, 2001 Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Talking Pictures: New Paintings by Nancy Robinson and Patricia Olson, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2001 Residual Matter, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
1997 Nancy Robinson and Melissa Stang, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 MY BODY/MY CHOICE, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2022 Spring Saint Paul Art Crawl, Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative 2021 Fall Saint Paul Art Crawl, Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative 2021 Keep on Keepin’ On, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2020 -2021 Foot in the Door Show 5: the Virtual Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art 2020 Pandemic Art Lessons: an Online Initiative of the Women’s Art Institute, invitational virtual exhibition, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St Catherine University 2020 Socially Distanced and Mixed Media, Saint Paul Virtual Art Crawl, Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2019 Wish You Were Here 19, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018 The Sketchbook Show, Red Garage Studio, Minneapolis 2017 Figuring It Out: Five Female Artists Exploring the Female Idea, Buena Vista University 2016 Unfiltered: Nancy Robinson, Sue Coe and the Guerrilla Girls, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis 2016 WARM Guerrillas Feminist Visions, Grainbelt Bottling House
2015 New Works by So-and-So, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis
2014 Self and Others, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 God’s Sketchbook for Creation, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
2011-2013 Art 4 Shelter, Burnet Gallery and Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Grupo Soap del Corazon: El Milagro, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2002-2010 Bird x Bird, Minneapolis, MN
1998, 2000, 2003-2005, 2007 Annual Warehouse Show, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2003-2004, 2006-2008, 2011, Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
1999, 2010 Foot in the Door Show, The Minneapolis Institute of Art
2007 Nuestra Frida, Grupo Soap del Corazon y Art Jones Gallery, Minneapolis
2007 Swan Song, Swan Song Gallery, Maiden Rock, Wisconsin
2006 Deck the Walls, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Memory, Myth and Metaphor, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN
2005 Grant Recipients Exhibition, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN
2004 Women’s Art Institute Faculty Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2004 Figure and Psyche: Four Artists Plumb the Depths, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, MN
2004 Generations IV, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
2003 Affordable Art Fair, New York City, NY
2002 Her Story: 175 Years of Portraying Women in Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN
2002 Generations III, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
2001 Fellowship Recipients Exhibition, Minnesota State Arts Board
2000 Warm Mentor Program Exhibition, No Name at the Soap Factory, Mpls, MN
2000 Hair Stories, The Minneapolis Institute of Art
1999 North Shore Images, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1997 Other Realities, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Fellowship Recipients Show, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN
Make Believe, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
SELECTED REVIEWS AND CITATIONS
Artnet Magazine
April, 2009, “Twenty Top Shows”
Arts, Magazine of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
March/April/May 2009, “Continuing Stories” (Tamatha Sopinski Perlman)
July/August 2000 , “Hair Raising Stories” (Rob Silberman)
Chicago Reader, October 6, 2000, “The Culture Club”
City Pages, Minneapolis, MN
March 4, 2016, “Freeloader Friday: 31 things to do this weekend” (Jessica Armbruster)
February 19, 2016 “Freeloader Friday: Doughnuts, Beer and Dance Parties” (Jessica Armbruster)
February 18, 2016: This Week’s Must-See Art Shows” (Sheila Regan)
July 19, 2015, “A-List: New Works by So-and-So” (Camille LeFevre)
July 2014, “Self and Others” (Jessica Armbruster)
November 2103, A-List (Camille le Fevre)
September 11, 2002 , “Baby Please Don’t Go” (Michael Fallon)
January 17, 2001, “ The A List, Art Opening” (Juliette Crane)
July 26, 2000, “Follicular Follies” (Michael Fallon)
September 15, 1999, “Fall Arts Preview” (Michael Fallon)
June 18, 1997, “Secrets and Lies” (Francis Hwang)
KFAI Radio, January 12, 2016, “MPLSART.com on the Morning Blend: Guerrilla Girls Takeover and More”
KARE-TV, Channel 11, Morning News, July 24, 2000, “Hair Stories”
KMSP-TV, Channel 9, Evening News, July 6, 2000, “The Buzz: Hair Stories”
KNOW-FM, Minnesota Public Radio, 91.1 FM, July 14, 2000, “Hair Stories”
Lake Minnetonka Magazine, 2015, “Art Across the River” Minneapolis City Cable 34/ Metro Cable Network, Channel 6, June 1997, “Artifacts” Television Art Show
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 19, 2016, “Instinct Art Gallery to Close in Minneapolis” (Mary Abbe)
January 16, 2016, “Guerrilla Girls Swing into Twin Citites for Art-world Takeover” (Kristin Tillotson)
July 23, 2015, “Minnesota Artists Featured in New Shows at the Textile Center and Instinct Gallery, Minneapolis” (Mary Abbe)
July 2014, “Art Spotlight: Self and Others” (Mary Abbe)
December 12, 2013, “Experience the Joy of Looking” (Mary Abbe)
April 10, 2009, “Myth and Legend” (Mary Abbe)
October 1, 2006, “Artcetera” (Mary Abbe)
June 15, 2001, “Free Time” (Claude Peck)
February 9, 2001, “Free Time” (Mary Abbe)
January 14, 2001, “8 Days Out, Highlights of Coming Events, ART”
January 19, 2001, “Painting the Horrible” (Mary Abbe)
July 21, 2000, “Free Time: Very Hairy” (Mary Abbe)
July 12, 2000, “Heads Up: Hairy Exhibit”
July 9, 2000, “8 Days Out” (Mary Abbe)
March 1, 1998, “Grants Send Artists Back to Nature” (Mary Abbe)
June 12, 1997, “It’s Showtime in Minneapolis Art Galleries” (Doug Hanson)
January 18, 1997, “Talking pictures tell the stories in college exhibition” (MaryAbbe)
Minnesota Monthly
April 2009, “The Agenda” (Melinda Feucht, Tim Gihring, Emily Stickler)
Minnesota Women’s Press
January 2016, GoSeeDo: “Unrestrained Voice”
July 2014
Mpls.St.Paul, Minneapolis, MN
April 2009, “Guilty as Sin” (Stephanie Xenos)
MPR News
August 2014, “Your Minnesota Weekend: 5 Things to See” (MPR News Staff)
July 25, 2014, “In Self and Others Portrait Painters Still Thrive in the Age of Selfies” (Euan Kerr)
9/12/11, Art Hounds: Hamlet, Latino artists and a neighborhood art crawl
PULSE of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
July 19-25, 2000, “The natural look: a hair-raising take on history” (Steven Lang)
May 28-June 4, 1997 “Flanders Shows Two of theArea’s Fine Artists” (Michelle Olson)
Southwest Journal, Minneapolis, MN
January 19, 2016 “Nicollet Mall’s Instinct Art Gallery is Closing” (Eric Best)
August 2015, “Those So-and-Sos” (Dylan Thomas)
The Minnesota Daily, Minneapolis, MN, July 21, 2000, “Hairy Deal” (David Gustafson)
THE RAKE, Minneapolis, MN, September 2002, “State of the Arts” (Jon Zurn)
SPNN-TV, Channel 19, February 2008, “Lowertown” Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, Storm Lake, Iowa, November 14, 2017, “Figure it Out Exhibit at Witter Explores the Female Idea”
St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, MN
July 13, 2000, “Fresh Hair” (Mason Riddle) The Villager, Saint Paul, MN, November 11, 2020, “LESSONS OF THE PANDEMIC: THE ART THAT EMERGES FROM ISOLATION” (Janet Lunder Hanafin)
YouTube
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Video Interviews, MAEP Exhibition interview for Holy Land and Sin and Guilt
Featured artist, SPNN’s Lowertown
Where Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
July 2000, “What’s on Right Now: Hot Tips”
SELECTED LECTURES, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Bethel College, 2001, Guest Artist Speaker, Senior Seminar
College of Visual Arts, 2009, Guest Artist Speaker
Form + Content Gallery, Artist Talk during the art show Talking Pictures: New Paintings by Nancy Robinson and Patricia Olson Hamline University, 1997, Guest Artist Speaker
Instinct Art Gallery
2016 Interviewed by Robyne Robinson during the art show Unfiltered
2014 Special Event Guest, Novel Reading during the art show Self and Others
Metro State University, 2000-2004, 2008-2011, 2014-2021 Guest Artist Speaker
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2009, Artist talk during solo exhibition Sin and Guilt: New Paintings by Nancy Robinson
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1999-2011 Guest Artist, Women’s Art Institute
1996-1998 Guest Artist Lecturer, various undergraduate and graduate classes
Minnesota Museum of American Art, 1997, Artist Speaker
Northwestern University, 2000-2003, Guest Artist Speaker North Hennepin Community College, Juror, Student Painting Show, 2017, 2019 Saint Catherine University, 2013-2019, Guest Artist, Women’s Art Institute
Saint Catherine University, 2014, Special Event Guest, Novel Reading
St. Olaf College, 2021, Artist Lecturer, Arnold Flaten Memorial Artist Series
University of Minnesota, 1997, 2000-2005 Guest Artist Speaker
Visual Arts Minnesota, St. Cloud, MN, 2006, Juror, “Essential Art” Exhibition
White Bear Center for the Arts, 2011, Juror, “Northern Lights” Art Exhibition
White Bear Lake High School, MN, 2012, Guest Artist Speaker
Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota. 1991-1997, Facilitator “Fresh Art” open meetings for women artists