Corinne Robbins
received a BA from Bennington College and a MFA from Hunter College, in 1985. She worked for the renowned installation artist, Judy Pfaff as her studio assistant for four years, then went on to work at the Warhol Foundation and Max Protetch Gallery, in the 1990s. During a time when the art world was exploding with conceptual work, she dutifully painted fanciful, impressionistic landscapes, in her Brooklyn studio. Deeply embedded in the New York art scene, she began to feel oddly discouraged by it. In 1998, she quit painting altogether, turned to design, and opened a successful shop in Manhattan selling 20th century modern furniture where she sourced museum quality furniture and lighting for acclaimed interior designers and architects. In 2004, she bought a home in upstate New York, and began to paint again prolifically, after a six year hiatus. Her recent achievements include a merit award from the Vermont Studio Center in 2020. While at her residency she started a series of diptychs depicting northern Vermont’s winter landscapes. Some of these were exhibited at the Albany Institute in Albany, NY, as well as, at the Bennington Museum in an exhibition titled Vermont’s Utopia: Imagining the Future. Robbins was a finalist for the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant in 2019, and in 2017 her work was featured in a two person show at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. Recently she attended the Byrdcliffe Art Residency in Woodstock, NY during the month of September in 2021 and embarked on a new subject by following the stars and painting deep space.EDUCATION
1985 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Hunter College, New York, NY
1982 BA, Painting and Printmaking, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2021 Byrdcliffe Art Residency, Woodstock, NY, Residency
2020 Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT, Merit Grant and Residency
2019 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, Finalist
COMMISSIONS
2021 Eleven Six, Kingston, NY, Artisans/Designer/Collaboration
2015 Wingate Wilderness, Kanab, UT, Twelve Symbols of Change
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock, NY, Byrdcliffe Reflections
Arts, Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY, Spring Thaw
2021 Arts, Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY, The Thread Show
2021 Eleven Six, Kingston, NY, New Lands
2020 Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, Vermont’s Utopia: Imagining the
Future, curated by Jamie Franklin, museum director
2020 Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, Exhibition by Artists of the
Mohawk-Hudson Region, Susan Cross, Senior Curator at MASS MoCA, North Adams,
MA, Juror
2020 LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY, Group Show
2019 Modern Living Supplies, High Falls, NY, Liminality in a Landscape
2018 OCCS, Old Chatham, NY, The Space Between
2018 LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY, Big Holiday
2018 LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY, True North
2017 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Mark Beard and Corinne Robbins
2017 OCCS, Old Chatham, NY, New Works on Paper
2016 OCCS, Old Chatham, NY, New Paintings
2014 Foliage Pop UP, New York, NY, Silent Omissions
2014 DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2010 MDH Fine Arts, New York, NY, Recent Work
2008 MDH Fine Arts, New York, NY, Recent Work
2005 Michael Salmon Gallery, New York, NY, Solo Painting Show
1990 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, A New American Flag