The work of Marc Andre Robinson is inspired by history-containing objects and iconography with a focus on African American identity and political histories. Robinson’s interdisciplinary processes involve concept-congruent techniques and media including sculpture, installation, drawing, and interactive public projects.
His attention frequently gravitates toward materials that have residual energies and palpable imprints of labor, craft, and politics. Robinson reconsiders these repositories of power, of lives lived, and invents connections within new spaces of meaning. By repurposing materials, he cultivates active dialogues between the notion of the historical and the immediacy of the present day consequences of existing with a racialized body..
Born in Los Angeles, Robinson participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Robinson has exhibited in the US and abroad at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New Museum of Contemporary Art, GAM Torino, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Awards include the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, Art Matters Artist Grant, the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist Residency, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residency, and Rocktower Artist Residency in Kingston, Jamaica. Robinson currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Robinson lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Union.