Walter Robinson
Biography
Walter Robinson, Incredible Exploits, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Walter Robinson (b. 1950, Wilmington, DE—2025, New York, NY) lived and worked in New York, NY since 1968 when he arrived to attend Columbia University, where he studied Art History and Psychology. A retrospective exhibition of 80 paintings was organized in 2014 by Barry Blinderman for the University Galleries at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. The exhibition traveled to the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA and Jeffrey Deitch in New York. A 1986 sheet painting, Baron Sinister, was recently acquired into the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and exhibited in the exhibition, Fast Forward: Paintings from the 1980s.
Select Works
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Incredible Exploits, 2021 -
Dirty Harry, 2021
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Model in the Studio, 2023
Exhibitions
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American Portraiture: Selling the Self
12 May - 15 Jun 2023Alex da Corte, Andy Warhol, Ernesto Renda, Jeff Koons, Leon Golub, Mario Ayala, Mike Shultis, Rebecca Ness, Red Grooms, Sylvia Sleigh, Walter Robinson This exhibition examines two elements constitutive to...Read more -
Hollywood at the Hearth: Willie Stewart & Walter Robinson
27 Oct - 10 Dec 2022Sex sells quickly, dreams require budgets and marketing campaigns. For close to a century now America, and more specifically Hollywood, has sold dreams domestically and abroad. The dream business touches...Read more -
Janus
30 Jun - 26 Jul 2022The ancient Roman god Janus embodied beginnings and endings, transitions and time, as well as doorways and passages. Depicted with two faces, one looking towards the future and one back...Read more
