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EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute M.F.A. 2004, Painting and Drawing
San Francisco, CA
New College B.A. 1990, General Studies
Sarasota, Florida Emphasis Art and Literature
UNIVERSITY TEACHING HISTORY
University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
2007-2012 (resigned due to illness)
San Francisco Art Institute Academic Associate, Studio Art and School of
Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003-2007
University of California, Berkeley Instructor, Post-Baccalaureate Program
Spring, 2007
San Francisco Art Institute ACE Instructor, 2004-2006
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Guest Lecturer California College of Arts, 2006
Guest Lecturer San Jose State, 2006
San Francisco Art Institute Teaching Assistant 2003-2004
COURSES TAUGHT
PsychoGeographies Interdisciplinary Seminar
Advanced Drawing
Advanced Painting
Art and Mythologies (Roland Barthes)
Painting III-IV
Graduate Painting Seminar
Art Practices II
Hybrid Media
From Line to Life Drawing
Narrative Art
Painting I and II
Mixed Media Painting
Figure Drawing
Two-Dimensional Design
Foundations I and II
Service on Doctoral, MFA, Masters, and Honors Thesis Committees
Creative Watercolor
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OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Portland Adult Community - Creative Watercolor, 2018-19
Artery, San Francisco - Adult Continuing Education, Painting and Drawing, 2004-2007
CEYA Institute on Aging, San Francisco - Painting with the elderly and dementia patients, 2004-2006
Creativity Explored, San Francisco - Mural workshops with artists with developmental disabilities, 2006
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ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS
Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002-2004
Artist Residency, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico, 2007
Creative Research Grant, University of New Mexico, 2009
Project Assistance Grant, University of New Mexico, 2009
Drawing Center of New York Viewing Program, 2009
Project Assistance Grant, University of New Mexico, 2010
Artist Residency, Center for Contemporary Art Andratx, Mallorca, Spain 2011
EXHIBITIONS
The Herb and Dorothy Show, Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT, 2012
Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall (solo), Ethel Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor Maine, 2011
Introductions, Center for Contemporary Art Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, 2011
Desire .10, Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010
2009 University of New Mexico Faculty Exhibit, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
Objet Inutile, Musée de Préhistoire, Quinson, France, 2009
Interspecies/Intertext, Center for Gendre Research, Uppsala University, Sweden 2009
The Fine Art of Drawing, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2008
You Know How I Feel (4-person collaboration), Center for Contemporary Arts, Munoz Waxman Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2008
Giving Shelter, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, 2008
Perspectives on San Francisco Character, The Urbanist, SPUR, 2007
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2007
Artists Go Lightly, Temporary Autonomous Museum, 2007
The Deluge (solo), Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Objects of Desire, six space gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
The World Domination of Painting (and Drawing), Ego Park Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2006
The Excitable Gift (4-person collaboration), Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Snow Blind Water Drop (solo), sixsace gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2006
Otherkin (solo), Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 2005
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY, 2005
Marking Traces, 33 Grand, Oakland, CA, 2005
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2005
That’s So Queer, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Conversations with the Wall, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Vernissage, San Francisco Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, 2004
Topographies with SF Dept of Vernacular Drawing, Walter and McBean Galleries, SF 2004
New California Masters, San Jose Works, San Jose, CA, 2004
Paper Cuts, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA, 2004
Memory/Loss, Lacunae Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004
Egression, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003
3rd Street Inside Out, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003
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CONFERENCES AND CURATING
Co-Curator, Motels and Motion on the Mother Road, State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM, 2011
Curator: At First Sight, UNM Graduate Introductions, 2010
Visualizing Creaturehood: the Uncanny, Meet Animal Meet Conference, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2009
Building Bridges, Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 2008
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mount Desert Islander, “Artist Tests Boundaries of Figurative Drawing,” Donna Gold, January 2011
Albuquerque Journal, “Mother Road and her Neon,” MaLin Wilson-Powell, February 2011
Santa Fe Reporter, Critic’s Pick, “You know how I feel,” Charlotte Jusinski, October 2008
Albuqerque Journal/Santa Fe North, “Feeling It,” Kim Russo, October 2008
THE Magazine, “Giving Shelter,” Alex Ross, 2008
Current TV, “Artists Go Lightly,” Eight-Minute Documentary, Apryl Berney, September, 2007
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Artists Go Lightly,” Katie Kurtz, 2007
KQED Gallery Crawl, Interview: The Deluge, Mark Taylor and Marie K. Lee, 2006
7x7 Magazine, Ultimate Guide to San Francisco, Featured Artist, Fall, 2006
7x7 Magazine, Featured Artist, The Deluge, September, 2006
Flavorpill, “Robin Ward: The Deluge,” Brianna M Smith, Issue 231, October 2006
East Bay Express, “The World Domination of Painting (and Drawing),” Jakki Spicer, 2006
Art in America, “Robin Ward at Lisa Dent,” Mark Van Proyen, October 2005
Art on Paper, “Otherkin at Lisa Dent,” Laura Janku, May/June 2005
Artweek, “Robin Ward at Lisa Dent,” Jordan Essoe, April 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critic’s Choice, “Otherkin,” 2005
Contra Costa Times, Robert Taylor’s Papercuts,” 2004
Artweek, “New California Masters,” DeWitt Cheng, 2004
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ACADEMIC SERVICE
Search Committee for Professor of Art and Ecology, 2010
Painting and Drawing Area Representative 2009-10
DASC, 2009-10
Search Committee for Professor of Foundations, 2008
Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2008-09
Foundations Committee, 2009
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