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SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITS
2022 ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY, robin holder United States of Anxiety, Curated by Rose Viviano
2022 The Labor Museum, Haledon, NJ, On Immigration and Labor
2021 LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA, Who Are We? , Curated by Lauren Oliver
2021 California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, robin holder: On Labor and Youth. Curated by Rachel Schmid
2020 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, Access and Inequities. I Hear You. Do You See Me?
2017 United States of Anxiety, Center for the Digital Arts of Westchester New York
2014 Robin Holder: A Layered Perspective, NCCU Art Museum, Durham, NC, Curated by Kenny Rogers
2014 OUTSOURCED!, American Labor Museum, New Jersey
2012 Bloomfield College, New Jersey, OUTSOURCED!, Curated by Halima Taha
2011 The Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, Robin Holder: An American Consciousness
2011 Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Gallery at 1199, OUTSOURCED!, New York City
2010 The Spelman Museum, Atlanta, An American Consciousness
2009 An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective, The David C. Driskell at the University of Maryland, College Park, Curated by Dorit Yaron and Dr. Robert Steele
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, The YWCA of USA, Washington State Arts Commission, Bellevue Hospital, Art Commission of the City Of New York, Cumberland Family Care Center, New York City, United Parcel Service, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Con Edison, Tampa University of South Florida, Kenkeleba House Gallery, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, The 3M Corporation, Queens Borough Public Library, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, University of Delaware, The African American Museum of Tampa, Cynthia Sears Artist Book Collection, African American Museum of Cleveland, Atlanta Branch Libraries, Aljira, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Drexel National Bank of Chicago, Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture, Florida A & M University, David Driskell Center Permanent Collection, Clark Atlanta Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Telavi State University, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art
COMMISSIONS
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC, Migrations, Thirty four windows for subway
New Jersey Transit. Five paintings, Bayonne.
Bread & Roses Cultural Project, 2002 Calendar. September image
Absolut Vodka. Commissioned artwork. Absolut Holder
State of Connecticut Arts Commission. Transformations. Sixteen leaded glass windows
School Construction Authority, New York City. Rites of Passage. Eight wall installations
Gallery Saoh, Tokyo, Japan. Cup design for Café du Monde
YMCA of the USA, New York City. Edition of prints for The Imperative One Awards.
Wayside Baptist Church, New York, Oh Glorious Dawning. stained glass window
Percent for Art, New York City. Six stained glass windows for lobby
Public Art for Public Schools, New York City. Portraits and Patterns. Seven ceramic tile murals.
School Construction Authority, Camino de Animales. Concrete plaza: 6,500 sq. ft.
The New York Foundation for the Arts. A filmed public service announcement produced for television
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2024 New Jersey Artist Fellowship Award
2020 Executive Fellow in Clark Hulings Fund Art Business Accelerator Program.
2019 Fellow in Clark Hulings Fund’s Art Business Accelerator Program.
2005 Lafayette College, PA Resident Artist: Temple Visual Arts Festival
2000 Brooklyn Community Access Television, New York. Residency
1999 The Isamu Noguchi Museum, New York City. Teaching Residency
1994 El Museo Del Barrio, New York City, Teaching Residency
1993 New York Foundation for the Arts, Teaching Residency at P.S. 1
1990 Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Award
COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECTS
2024 Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, Guest Artist
2024 Darryl Chappell Foundation. Mentor
2022 Bainbridge Island Museum robin holder at the DogEar Festival
2021 Art Students League of New York Exhibition, Creating Community Cinque Gallery Artists
2021 Montclair Art Museum, NJ, Discussion with Adger Cowans, robin holder, Curlee Holton and Halima Taha
2021 The Wells Foundation COVID19 The Influence and Inspiration of WOMEN , Curator Kabuya Bowens, Guest Carrie Mae Weems
2019 Interviewer. Tina Dunkley at The Wilmer Jennings Gallery, NYC, Sanctuary for the Internal Enemy: An Ancestral Odyssey.
2019 Co Curator of Disillusionment A curated series of interviews and exhibition of 25 women artists responding to the theme by referencing being wrapped, covered, clothed, dressed in disillusionment
2018 Interviewer: Kentler Connects Collectors: How To Be a Voice in culture today Panelists: Perian Carson and Wes Cochran of The Cochran Collection, Georgia
2017 Participating Artist in Realigning: Mid Career Artist Intensive, The Brooklyn Arts Council
2017 Resident Artist at Landing Family Shelter Art and Literacy Project with Studio in a School, Queens New York
2017 Foil Stamp Printing Demonstration at the Southern Graphics Conference, Atlanta
2017 Art, Apprehension and Awe: An Earth Day Conversation with Helen Ramsaran and Marina Gutierrez interviewed by Robin Holder Wilmer-Jennings at Kenkeleba
2016 Essentia, Exhibition Panel Discussion Julia de Burgos Center, New York City
2016 Art Action Academy at the Queens Museum. Sponsored by Center for Artistic Activism and NEA
2015 Remembering Bob Blackburn, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York City. Panel Moderator: Robin Holder
2014 Conversations at Kenkeleba: Ancestral, Cultural and Collective Memory in Contemporary Imagery- featuring the work of Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Tafa and Dread Scott. Robin Holder, Interviewer
2014 Conversations at Kenkeleba: Collaborations Featuring the work of Jasmine Murrell, Amir Bey and Nicolas Esteves. Robin Holder Panel Moderator
2012 Movement in Color, Exhibition 1 East 53 Street Gallery, NYC, Sponsored by the Studio In A School Association
2010 The Harlem Children’s Zone in collaboration with NY Historical Society. Resident Artist
2008 Hatch Billops Collection and Archives: Artist and Influence: Robin Holder. Interviewed by Dr. Halima Taha
2006 Experimental Printmaking Institute. Serigraph edition for Atlanta Black Arts Festivals
2001 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artist As Catalyst. Collaborative Residency with Art Sanctuary, Grands As Parents and Church of the Advocate
2004 The New York Times Foundation Community Arts Residency through Arts Horizons
2000 Robin Holder: Self Identity and Narrative, The Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, and community arts workshops
1995 Altos de Chavon- Parsons School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic, Visiting Printmaker
INTERVIEWS
2023 Wa Na Wari Artist Talks: robin holder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1Fj4iWn4E
2021 https://theartstudentsleague.org/event/cinque_gallery_robin_holder/ Cinque Gallery Series: Robin Holder Interviewed by Nanette Carter
2020 Artist talk with robin holder hosted by Manhattan Graphics Center, New York City
2020 Interviewed Artist. Artists on Coping: Robin Holder. Arts Spiel: Reflections on the work of contemporary artists. Online art blog.
2016 Art Settlers of New York: The Magic of Artist Robin Holder: An Art Prophet of Social Justice, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center. Interviewed by Rafaela Ronnie Bellini
2015 Artist of the Month, Garnet Internet News: Today’s News Powered by Women
2011 And the Women Gather, Internet TV interview with Lorna Owens, Miami
2000 Cool Women, produced by Debbie Allen, Romance Classics Cable Television
1997 WABC Six O’clock News with Art McFarland Salon Renaissance
1994 Tampa Educational Cable Consortium. Interviewed by Marilyn Mars
1992 Sesame Street Feature of Robin Holder’s arts in education residency with Museo del Barrio
1991 WMVS/WMVT-TV Channel 10, Milwaukee, WI. Interview with Sonya Masingale for Black Nouveau
1990 CATV CABLE Channel 23, New York City. Interview with Felix Leo Campos for After Dark
1989 Societe Radio Canada (CBC), Montreal. Interview with Pierre Craig for Le Point
1988 WBAI-FM ArtsMagazine, Interviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Aired live on May 30 5PM
1987 WBAI-FM Arts Magazine: Dialogues with Contemporary Artists, Interviewed by Vincent Smith
CATALOGUES, BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 Betty Blayton: An Eternal Quest for Harmony by robin holder, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Benjamin Wigfall& Communications Village
2021 robin holder’s exhibit at ArtRage Gallery Carl Mellor, Syracuse Post Standard
2021 I Am A Man by robin holder, The Nation.Com: OppArt Artistic Dispatches From the Frontlines of Resistance
2020 For and About the People: robin holder. Essay by Dr. Halima Taha. Published by Kentler International Drawing Space and Black Art in America
2018 Brooklyn On My Mind: Black Visual Artist From the WPA to the Present, by Myrah Brown Green, Schiffer Publishing
2016 Changing Light: A New Visual Language by Virginia Myers, WDG Publishing
2013 Central Booking Gallery Magazine, Collaborative project Call and Response
2012 In the Eye of the Muses: Selections from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection by Jerry Cullum, Tina Dunkley
2009 Cohen, Michelle, The Monacelli Press, Public Art for Public Schools
2007 Art and Metaphor: Robin Holder, Portlock Black Cultural Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2006 Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres, The Monacelli Press, Along The Way: MTA Arts For Transit
2005 New York’s Percent for Art Program, Essay by Eleanor Heartney, Introduction by Adam Gopnik
2004 Carroll, Kathleen, The Record, Artists Haven, Section L July 9 pgs. L-1 & L-5
1998 Taha, Halima, Collecting African American Art: Works On Paper and Canvas, Crown Publishers
1996 Britton, Crystal A., African American Art: The Long Struggle, Todtri Productions Limited for SMITHMARK Publishers
1995 Midmarch Arts Press, Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African- American Women Artists, NYC
1993 Henkes, Robert, The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Twentieth Century, Published by McFarland & Company
1991 Holder, Robin, Animal Totems, Woman of Power: The Living Earth, Issue Twenty, Spring
1991 Kelley, Caffyn, Wild Things, The Wisdom of Animals, Women Artists’ Monographs, Gallerie Publications
1986 York, Hildreth, Bob Blackburn and The Printmaking Workshop, Black American Literature Forum, Spring-Summer, Volume 20, Numbers 1-2
1986 Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925-1985, Catalogue Essay: David C. Driskell
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Jersey Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections. Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey
2024 Printmaking and the Unconventional Pathways of African American Artists, Mystic Museum of Art, CT
2024 Fire in Her Eyes , Kvasnevski Schwartz Projects, New York City
2023 Making Impressions: Archives, Printmaking and Robert Blackburn, Helio Salcedo, Kabuya Bowens-Saffo, AJ Smith, robin holder
2022 In What We See, Norfolk State University, VA, Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, NC
2022 Robert Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, A Community of Artists
2022 Boundless, Bainbridge Island Museum, WA
2022 The Mystic Museum, CT, Missing Narratives
2021 Wilmer Jenning Gallery, New York City, Migration Stories
2021 Misericordia University, Dallas, PA, The Fine Print: African American Printmakers
2021 Bo Bartlett Center, GA, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi Music As Image and Metaphor
2020 ArtRage Past and Present, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, New York
2020 Imagining De Gentrified Futures, curated by Betty Yu, Apexart, New York City
2019 Sally, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, NY Conceived by JoAnne McFarland and Sasha Chavchavadze
2018 By and About Women, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC. Curated by Dr. Michael Harris
2018 Fake News: Art and Artifice, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Audrey Anastasi
2018 Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental Printmaking Institute, University of Delaware, Curated by Galina Olmsted
2018 Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Interchurch Center, NYC. Curated by Debra Vanderburg Spencer
2018 Restoring Pride in Culture: Legacy & Tradition, SUNY Ulster, Kingston,NY. Curated by Marline Martin, Director of Greene County Council On The Arts
2017 Protest/Profest: Global Burdens, Center For Book Arts, NYC. Curator: Alexander Campos
2016 Changing The Subject: The Women Artists of EPI, Bone Black Print Studio & Gallery, Austin
2016 Peril and Progress, Civil Rights in America, Anne Arundel Community College, MD
2016 Essentia, Taller Boricua at Julia de Burgos Center, New York City. Curated by Nitza Tufino
2016 INspired: Celebrating 20 Years of African American Art, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans
2014 Ascending Yellow, Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, Curated by Tina Dunkley
2016 Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Structure, Curator: Agnes Murray
2011 Foil Imaging: A New Art Form, Arts Iowa City Gallery, Curator: Virginia Myers
2011 Emergence: Contemporary Artists to Watch, Galerie Myrtis, Curator: Myrtis Bedolla
2009 Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya Lawyer & Tamara Madden, Community Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse
2008 New Prints: Artists’ Commentary, International Print Center New York, Curated by Nick Lamia, Gary Simmons, Robin White, Martha Wilson
2005 Aljira, Newark, New Jersey, African American Printmakers: The Legacy Continues, Curator, Cynthia Hawkins
2004 Gettysburg College, PA. Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization
2004 Dell Pryor Galleries, Detroit, Rhythm and Verse
2003 Cinque Gallery, New York City, Bearden: Legacy I
2000 Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Blackness in Color, Curators: Salah Hassan & James Turner
1999 James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Women United, Curator: Charlotte Armstead-Williams
1999 Windows To The Soul: Robin Holder, Charlotte Ka, Jide Ojo, Skylight Gallery, Restoration, Brooklyn
1997 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, Piecework
1996 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Of The Spirit, Curator: Joyce Scott
1996 The Cinque Gallery, New York City, Unique Editions: The Process
1994 Art In General, New York City, Gathering Medicine, Coast to Coast: National Women Artists of Color
1990 Curators: Clarissa Sligh & Carole Byard: Essay: Lucy Lippard, Art in General, Ancestors Known and Unknown
1988 Tradition in the Arts: Elizabeth Catlett & Emerging Artists: Robin Holder & John Penuelas, Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
PANELS AND LECTURES
2024 In Conversation: Enrique Chagoya and robin holder, Honolulu Art Museum
2023 Live! at the Library: Artists Approach the Book, Library of Congress. Artist Panel
2017 Interviewer of Kentler Connects Expanding Perception in a Global Culture. Kentler International Drawing Space, New York City
2011 BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Dialogues in the Visual Arts: The Hatch Billops Archives
2011 College Art Association: Creative Catalyst: Robert Blackburn, Master Printer, Chair: Susan Stedman
2006 High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2006 The Brooklyn Arts Council: Regrant Program
2005 Percent for Art Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York
2003 Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NYC
2003 Bronx Council on the Arts: Individual Artist Grant
2003 Delaware Division of the Arts: Individual Artist Grant: Works on Paper
2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Individual Artist Fellowships: Works on Paper
2002 Brooklyn Arts Council: Individual Artists Grants
2001 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Community Arts Institute