JOYCE ROBINS
Education
Cooper Union BFA 1966
Yale University Summer School of Art 1965
The City College of New York BSLA 1995
Awards and Honors
Chrysler Foundation Design Awards Finalist, 2000
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Artist 2000
New York State Creative Artists Public Service Grant for Sculpture 1982
One Person Exhibitions
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus OH. 2005
Silas-Kenyon Gallery, The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown MA, 2003
Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House, New York, 2002
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, 1998, 1997. 1996, 1994, 1993
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY, 1992
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, 1991, 1990, 1988, 1987, 1986,1984, 1983, 1981, 1980
Nobe Gallery, New York, 1979
Selected Group Exhibitions
Invitational Exhibition, The American academy of Arts & Letters, New York, 2006
New Work, Silas-Kenyon Gallery, The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown MA 2005
Pieces 6, Gallery 128, New York 2005
Colored Pencil, KS Arts, New York 2004
Out of the Studio, Dorsky Museum, State University of New York at New Paltz, 2004
New Work, Silas-Kenyon Gallery, The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown MA 2004
Flix,Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Ireland 2003
Rivington Beach, Gallery 128, New York 2003
Benefit for the Afghan Women’s Mission, Gallery 128, New York 2001
Clay on the Wall, Gallery 128, New York 2001
Super Duper New York, Pierogi 2000, New York 2000
Group Show, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York 2000
Correspondence,College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 1999
Pierogi 2000 at Vassar, (Curated by Joe Amrheim) College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
and Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson NY 1998
Interior Landscapes, (Curated by Cliff Diver) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington DE 1998
Two-Person Show, (Curated by Paul Kotula) Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1998
Utz - A Collected Exhibition, (Curated by Stephanie Theodore and Jill Weinberg) Lennon Weinberg Gallery,
New York 1998
Pierogi 2000: Flatfiles, (Curated by Joe Amrhein) Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1997
Pierogi 2000: Flatfiles, (Curated by Joe Amrhein) The Gasworks, London and Corner House,
Manchester, England
Current Undercurrent, (Curated by Charlotta Kotik and Joe Amrhein) Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn 1997
Visiting Faculty, College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 1996
Insites II: Lower East Side Artists Re-Think Neighborhood Streets, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement
New York January 1996
Domestic Policies, Art Gallery of the State University of New York at New Paltz June 1995
Function,Gallery 128, New York 1995
Insites: Artists Designing Sites On The Lower East Side, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement,
New York 1994
Hundred Hearts, The Contemporary, New York 1994
Friends,55 Mercer Gallery, New York 1994
Drawings,Wynn Kramarsky Gallery, New York 1993
Drawings,Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia 1993
Summer Group, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia 1993
A New American Flag, Max Protetch Gallery, New York 1992
The 55 Ferris Street Show, 55 Ferris Street (Curated by Frederieke Taylor) Brooklyn, 1992
WFMU Group, Germans Van Eyck Gallery, New York 1992
Group Show, Artists Space, New York 1992
Group Show, Sculpture Center, New York 1992
Four Artists: Haynes, Metz, Nozkowski, Robins, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York. 1992
Object/ Subject, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia 1991
Group Show, Sculpture Center, New York 1988
No Peace/Know Peace, Gallery 128, New York 1987
The Suitcase Show, Linz, Austria; Warsaw, Poland 1987
The Inspiration Comes From Nature, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York 1986
Off the Wall, (Curated by Carlo McCormack and Earl Willis) Kamikaze Club, New York 1986
55 Mercer Street at Drew, Art Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey 1986
Letters,(Curated by Judy Collischan and Carol Becker Davis) The Clocktower, New York 1986
Smart Art, (Curated by Joseph Masheck) Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. 1986
The Gathering of the Avant-Garde: The Lower East Side 1950-1970, Kenkelaba House
and the Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement, New York 1985
Small Scale Sculpture, Mathews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia 1984
Reflections,Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post University, Greenvale, New York 1984
Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York 1984
Is This a Natural World, (Curated by Eve Sonneman) Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles 1984
Twelve Years: 55 Mercer, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York 1983
Polychrome Sculpture, (Curated by Marjorie Strider) Lever House, New York 1982
Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Ward’s Island, New York 1981
Installations in Five Elements, Kenkelaba House, New York 1981
Five Sculptors, Nobe Gallery, New York. 1981
Scale and Matter, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York 1975
Group Show, Artists Space, New York 1975
Two-Person Show (with Paula Tavins), 55 Mercer Gallery, New York 1974
New York Women Artists, Art Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Women Artists at Williams College, Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown MA. 1972
Thirteen Women Artists, 117 Prince Street, New York 1972
Bibliography
LAWRENCE ALLOWAY: Review The Nation January. 1974
ReviewThe Nation March. 1972
“New York Women Artists” (catalog essay), Albany, New York. 1972
HOLLAND COTTER Joyce Robins The New York Times, October 1997
DAVID CARRIER: “Joyce Robins” Art in America, March 1987
CLIFFORD DIVER: Interior Landscapes (catalog essay) Wilmington DE, 1998
VICTORIA DONAHOE: “Small Scale Sculpture” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 1984
JILL DUNBAR: “Scale and Matter” The Villager, March, 1975
JOE FYFE: “Joyce Robins” American Ceramics, Volume 14, No. 2 (Spring 2003)
ANA HONIGMAN: “Clay on the Wall” NY Arts, March. 2001
YANICK RICE LAMB: “Flag Deconstruction” The New York Times, January 1994
JOSEPH MASHECK: “Joyce Robins” Smart Art, New York, 1985
“Constructive Issues in Relief” Artforum, November. 1982
MARIO NAVES: Review The New York Observer, April 29, 2002
JOHN PERRAULT: “Big Apple Clay: Joyce Robins” American Ceramics, Volume 14, No. 2 (Spring 2003)
ReviewThe Village Voice, 1972
ROBERTA SMITH ReviewThe New York Times March 1998
FREDRIEKE TAYLOR: 55 Ferris Street (catalog essay) Brooklyn NY, 1992
JUDY VAN WAGNER: “Reflections”(catalog essay) Greenvale NY, 1984
ELLEN WEXLER: “In-sites” (catalog essay) New York, 1995
KARL WILLERS “Out of the Studio” (catalog essay) New Paltz, 2004