About Jenny

Jenny 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, 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, 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, California, 2010

  • Award winner ‘Printed’ A Juried Exhibition Guest Curator: Archana Horsting, Cabrillo College, California

  • 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, California

  • 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, Georgia, USA

Selected Exhibitions

2026

  • Solo Exhibition, Nine Fathoms Deep Gallery, Wellington, NZ

  • Finalist, Ravenswood Art Prize, Sydney Australia

  • ‘Frameworks,’ Solo Show, Gallery No.85, Seattle, Washington

2025

  • Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London UK,

  •  Sydney Contemporary Art  Fair, Sydney, Australia

  • Guanlan Invitational Printmaking Exhibition, China Printmaking Museum, China

  • Unique State, Group Exhibition, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

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, Canada

  • Jenny Robinson, Structural Anatomies, Solo Exhbition, Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, California

  • 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

  • Till Richter Museum, Portfolio Exhibition, curated by Miguel Aragon, Germany

  • artMarket International Art fair, San Francisco, California

  • ‘In Print’ Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, Virginia, 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, New York City

  • artMRKT International Art Fair, Fort Mason, Kala Gallery, San Francisco, California

  • ‘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, New York

  • 11th Turner National Print Competition Exhibition, Chico, California

  • 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