Walter Robinson - Room 307
Born in Northern California in 1950, Walter Robinson grew up in Palo Alto during a period of social and political change that included the Vietnam-era protests on the nearby Stanford campus. His Salvadorean mother taught him how to sew; his engineer father—a polyglot xeno-cryptography enthusiast—taught him to use woodworking tools. Politics and his parents’ interests (Catholic mysticism, textiles, multilingualism, problem-solving, decoding puzzles) were direct influences on Robinson’s later socially critical work, executed in an eclectic range of found and fabricated materials.
An alumnus of the M.F.A. program at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, CA (1978), Robinson also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts. While living in California and working as a contractor, he had solo exhibitions at the Palo Alto Cultural Center, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Montalvo Arts Center, as well as numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Crocker Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; and the Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA.
Since moving to Lamy, New Mexico in 2014, Robinson’s work has been exhibited at 516 Arts in Albuquerque, at the Center for Contemporary Art and in the Alcoves 16/17 series at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe. It has been reviewed in print and online publications including Artforum, ArtReview, Vanity Fair, Juxtapoz, the San Francisco Chronicle, THE Magazine and artpractical.com. His art is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO.
For more information about the artist, please visit his website.