Jeffrey Robins was born in San Diego, CA (1989) he earned a BFA from University of California, San Diego and is currently an MFA Candidate at the Hartford Art School. Robins has exhibited in the US and internationally, he lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
His practice is informed by interests in psychoanalysis and spirituality, often depicting friends, family members and himself. His bodies of work explore psychological states and utilize visual equivalencies to approach the ineffable.
︎ robins.jeffrey@gmail.com
︎ @jewishsoundingname
PRESS
Nowhere Diary Interview 2021
AINT BAD Feature 2019
STAY Gallery Interview 2019
AWARDS
2018 Charcoal Book Club Publishing Prize Finalist, Chico Hot Springs, MT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 I Thought I Saw the Light, Museum of Fine Art, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2019 I Thought I Saw the Light, STAY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 I Thought I Saw the Light, Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2012 Faux Film/ Misleading Memories, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 UAS @ UAG, University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2013 Equinox, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2013 Amalgamy, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2012 Le Friend, T.F.R. Gallery, Leucadia, CA
2012 American Free Spirits, The Canvas Shop, Seal Beach, CA
2012 Undergraduate Art Show, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2011 Undergraduate Art Show, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2014 Miranda Conway selected works, Costa Mesa, CA
2014 Shadow Spaces from the Art | Crime Archive, co-curator, SDSU, San Diego, CA
2013 UAS @ UAG, co-curator, University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2012 Undergraduate Art Show, co-curator, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2011 Undergraduate Art Show, co-curator, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
EDUCATION
2022 MFA Photography, Hartford Art School
2013 BA Magna Cum Laude, Studio Art and Photography, University of California San Diego