About

Olivia Robinson is an installation artist, using photography, weaving, video, inflatable sculpture, multi-media and circuitry. She views installation and performance as mediums for connections between people and communities across boundaries and history. After earning her BFA in fiber art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she received a MFA in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Robinson has been awarded several residency and research fellowships, at such places as the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, the Global Arts Village in New Delhi, India, and the Tasara Weaving Center in North Beypore, India. She was awarded the Trudy Morse, Malcolm S. Morse Award for new media in 2005. Her exhibition and performance record includes the Baltimore Museum of Art, the WPA/Corcoran Museum, the American Visionary Art Museum, the Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro in Sardegna, Italy, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Performa 05 at PS1, and the 2005 and 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festivals.

Robinson helped establish the Community Arts Partnerships at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she worked as an assistant director and community artist-organizer. She was also a founder, director and performer with Little Big Bang performance troupe, which performed at museums, galleries, raves, community festivals, and on the streets. She helped Little Big Bang win grants from state and local art agencies. As an artist-educator, she has worked in after school programs in Maryland and New York, with the organization Hope House at federal prisons in Maryland and North Carolina, and as a founding coordinator of the Be The Media community technology workshops at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York. Robinson is assistant professor in the Fiber/Material Studies program at Syracuse University.

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