Kenya Robinson

Teaches at Pioneer Works

Kenya (Robinson) is a community-taught artist from Gainesville, FL. An artist, international southerner, mischief maker and shit-starter, she was a resident of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s WorkSpace Program (2009–10), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2014) and the Triangle Arts Foundation in 2015. A member of the 2014 class for the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, she currently co-hosts #trashDAY, a livestream radio show produced by Clocktower Productions. In addition, her sculptural work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the 60 Wall Street Gallery of Deutsche Bank.

Her sculpture, Commemorative Headdress of Her Journey Beyond Heaven, was acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture for their permanent collection in 2014. She has presented performance work at Sid Gold’s Request Room; MoMA PS1; JACK; The Kitchen; Thomas Hunter Project Space; The Museum of Modern Art. And, in 2011, her durational project, The Inflatable Mattress, was featured in the Home Section of The New York Times. (Robinson) has been a contributor to The Huffington Post and Intercourse Magazine. Most recently, she was included in the October/November 2016 issue of Modern Painters with her essay, “The Fate of Excellence”, and was the inaugural resident for Recess Arts’ online residency ANALOG. An iteration of her Creative Capital funded project, CHEEKY LaSHAE: Karaoke Universal, will be included in the Out of Line Series for the High Line during the Summer of 2017.