About Jenny
IJenny Robinson is originally from London. She studied for her BFA in Printmaking in the United Kingdom before moving to San Francisco where she lived for 20 years. In 2018 she moved to Slovenia for 2 years, and has recently relocated to Australia, where she founded the Jenny Robinson Print Studio, an open access printmaking Atelier, in Sydney’s Inner west.
Robinson is a passionate exponent of printmaking and its place in the larger art world. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious Mario Avati Gravure Laureate Award from the Academic des Beaux Arts in Paris, France where she had a retrospective solo exhibition in September 2021.
She has won numerous Awards and Fellowships, has exhibited widely and has work is in many private and public collections internationally.
Artist’s Statement
Jenny’s work explores the visual language of architecture, structure, and form, often reimagining familiar elements of the built and natural environment through abstraction and deconstruction. Drawing on symmetry, tessellation, and formal reduction, she reframes recognizable spaces — industrial sites, frameworks, and skeletal structures — into new, imagined constructs that are at once familiar and transformed. Her work blurs the line between observation and invention, inviting viewers to reconsider the spaces that shape our collective memory.
Materiality is central to Robinson’s practice. Her large-scale drypoints and works on paper are printed on gampi tissue — a lightweight, translucent, yet exceptionally strong paper — chosen for its delicate physical properties and conceptual resonance. The tension between the fragility of the medium and the weight and solidity of her subject matter echoes the paradox inherent in her work: the illusion of permanence in environments that are, by nature, impermanent.
Often referencing the visionary spirit of the paper architects, Robinson uses printmaking as both a technical and conceptual tool — constructing spaces that exist between reality and imagination, solidity and dissolution. Her practice becomes a meditation on time, process, and the shifting relationship between material, memory, and the environments we inhabit.
Referencing traditions of both architectural drawing, scale and experimental printmaking, Robinson’s work captures a shifting relationship between space, time, and material — a distilled reflection of how we inhabit, record, and let go of the structures around us.
Awards
Laureate de Mario Avati Gravure Award, Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris ,France 2019
Fellowship Award Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Italy 2018
Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, VT, 2016
The Print Center's Honorary Council Award of Excellence, Philadelphia. 2016
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection, Otis Philbrick Purchase Award, , Ma 2015
Oehme Graphics Award, Boston Printmakers, Juror Willie Cole, 2015
Jincheon Print Museum Purchase Award, Pacific International Print Festival Invitational, Korea, 2013
Hiromi Paper Prize, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennale, Boston MA, 2013
Recipient Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award 2011
Prize Winner, 5th Annual California Centered, Juried Show, Merced, CA 2011
Joseph Kaveney Merit Award, 8th National Janet Turner Print Competition, Chico CSU, CA 2010
Award winner ‘Printed’ A Juried Exhibition Guest Curator: Archana Horsting, Cabrillo College, CA
Library of Congress Purchase ‘Billboard’ Fine Prints and Photograph Collection, Washington,
Work purchased by Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
Best in Show Purchase Award, The Janet Turner 7th Annual Print Exhibition, Chico CA
Winner of the Printmaking Today Prize, Originals 07, Mall Galleries, London, Juried
Selected Purchased Works in Major Collections
Collection of La Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Academie des beaux Arts , Paris
Permanent collection of the International Print Triennial Society in Krakow (SMTG)
Library of Congress Fine Prints Collection, Washington DC
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Print Collection, MA
Google Art Collection, San Francisco, Ca
Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Ashmolean Museum, Print Collection, Oxford, UK
Sheldon Museum Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mricosoft Art Collection, Seattle WA
Janet Turner Print Collection, Chico, CA
Jincheon Print Museum, South Korea.
Arts Council of Great Britain Collection, London UK
Zukerman Museum, GA, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Opened the Jenny Robinson print studio, an open access printmaking studio in the heart of Sydney.
2023
Finalist, Burnie Art Prize, Tasmania
Paris Print Fair, Galerie Document 15, Paris, France
2022
Baldessin Studio, The Legacy. Australian Galleries
Fragile Symmetry, solo Show, Davidson Galleries, Seattle Gallery Artists
Unique Impressions, international invitational Exhibition, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2021
Jenny Robinson, Solo Exhibition, Pavillion Comtess de caen, Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris France
Solo Exhibition, Galerie Document 15, Paris, France
2020 IAPA (Invitational International Academic Printmaking Alliance) online exhibition, China
Premio Leonardo Sciascia amateur d’estampes (invitational) X Edition - 2021-2022, (Travelling) Italy
2018-2020
‘Dasein’, Edition/Basel, Basel ,Switzerland
Bienniale Internationale D’estampe Contemporaine de tois-Rivieres, Quebec
Luce Liquida, Fellowship Exhibition, Sculoa Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
Abstract and Symmetry, Solo exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca
Jenny Robinson, Structural Anatomies, Solo Exhbition, Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, Ca
International Print Triennial Printmaking Exhibition, Boston Printmakers, Krakow, Poland (SMTG).
Layers Beneath the Moment, Deans Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Big Print, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, Il
Till Richter Museum, Portfolio Exhibition, curated by Miguel Aragon, Germany
artMarket International Art fair, San Francisco, Ca USA
‘In Print’ Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, Va, USA
Finalist, The Print Center’s 91st Annual International Competition, Philadelphia
2017
Boston Printmakers North American Biennial Exhibition, Boston, MA
Finalist, The Print Center’s 91st Annual International Competition, Philadelphia
‘Constructs’, Jenny Robinson Solo Exhibition: Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
‘New prints’, Winter 2017, International Print Center, NYC
artMRKT International Art Fair, Fort Mason, Kala Gallery, San Francisco Ca
‘Signs and Signifiers 2’, The Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith University, New York
Artist in Residence, Masters of Intaglio, Alfred University, NY
11th Turner National Print Competition Exhibition, Chico, Ca
NIU Print Trienniel New Prints 2015/16 presented at Soeffker Gallery, St Paul,
‘Beyond Ink’, Invitational Printmaking Triennial, Jack Olsen Gallery, Northern Illinois University, IL
2016
Northern Print, International Print Biennale, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, Uk
Under Pressure, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 4 Contemporary printmakers.
Schema, Scale and Construction, Jenny Robinson at Flatbed Press, Austin , Tx
‘Structure’ Jenny Robinson, Zarrow Art Center, University of Tulsa, OK
Signs and Signifiers, Magrath Gallery, Louisville, KT
Structural Forms, Jenny Robinson Prints, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska
artMRKT International Art Fair, Fort Mason, Kala Gallery, San Francisco
2016 Print Austin, Flatbed Contemporary Print Fair Printmaking Demonstration, Austin Texas
Redline Gallery, Denver Print Month, Bolder Co march/April 2016
Large Works on Paper, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Impression, A print Survey, Blueline Arts, CA,
2015
Boston Printmakers North American Biennial Exhibition, Boston, MA
IPCNY, Autumn, New prints program, NYC, NY
INK! The Slipe Gallery, University of Hartford, CT
Curator, SCALE, Contemporary prints selected form the CSP, Arc Gallery, San Francisco,
ArtMRKT, International Art fair, Kala Gallery, San Francisco CA
‘Giants in the Sky’ NUMU, New Museum of Los Altos, CA
Codex international Book Fair, Kala Institute of Art, CA
Demonstration, SGIC (Southern Graphics International Conference), UT Knoxville, TN
“Original Prints”, Royal society of Painter Printmakers (RE) Bankside Gallery, London
2014
Curator, ‘Altered States’, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA
Pacific International Print Festival Invitational, Korea, (Purchase Award)
Standout Prints, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
IPCNY (International Print Centre NY) New Prints 2014, Christies, New York City
IPCNY, New Prints Winter, 2014
IPCNY The BIG Picture Show, New York City
‘Collaborate, Sculpture/printmaking’, Berkeley, Ca
Demonstration, SGIC (Southern Graphics International Conference) Kala Art institute, Berkeley CA
Visiting Artist and lecturer, University at Buffalo, NY
Visiting lecturer and Juror, Student Awards, Chico state University, CA
Artmrkt International Art fair, San Francisco CA
2013
Solo Show ‘Recent Monoprints and Etchings’, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
artMRKT, International Art Fair, Fort Mason, San Francisco CA
Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennale, Boston MA,
Jincheon Print Museum, Korea, Invitational.
Visiting artist in Residence Nebraska University, Lincoln, NE
IPCNY ‘New Prints’, New Narratives, New York
87th Annual International Juried Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Codex International Book Fair, Richmond CA
