KEZ LEIGH ROBINSON, Artist

My work of coordinating global visual projects for the United Nations has enabled a life of visual and cultural riches having lived and worked on four continents: Australia, Europe, Africa and the USA.  

In 2014, after 20 years working as a visual designer and photographer, I moved to New York City to attend art school at the Art Students League. I now devote my time to a full-time professional art practice and describe myself as a “multidisciplinary” artist preferring to create in both 2d and 3d.

I am always keen to explore the visual storytelling possibilities that serendipitous outcomes with innovative techniques and materials offer. Process and experimentation have become central to my art practice and have resulted in the development of a unique technique using acrylic paint skins. The dried skins are each manipulated individually by hand and fashioned into 3D forms then combined to create a sculptural relief painting.

The resulting artwork encourages curiosity across its entirety, compelling the viewer to move in closer, be intrigued.  Ultimately, I desire to achieve a finished artwork that invites exchanges between reality, enchantment and raw truth.

ART EDUCATION

2018-Present Resident Artist, Studio Back2Back, Manhattan & Long Island City, New York, USA

2018  Resident artist at Art345, East Harlem, New York, USA

2014-2016  Studied painting and drawing at The Art Students League of New York, USA with mentors:

Ronnie Landfield - abstract expressionist painting

Kenneth McIndoe - painting

Costa Vivagiakis - anatomical drawing

Barbara Yeterian - abstract expressionist painting

Paul Ching Bor - watercolour techniques

Elizabeth Allison - expressive watercolour

Notable artists such as Jackson Pollack, Georgia O'Keefe, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Alexander Calder attended the Art Student's League of New York.

1998 Completed a postgraduate degree in Design, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

1997  Completed a Diploma in Colour and Design, School of Colour and Design, Sydney, Australia

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Art Expo New York, USA (4-7 April)

2023 Hamptons Fine Art, East Hampton, New York, USA

2023 ‘Off the Wall’, group exhibition, Plaxall Gallery, New York, USA

2022 Open Studio Exhibition, Long Island City, USA

2021 Group exhibition, Pictor Gallery, New York, USA

2021 Art Expo New York, USA

2020 ‘International Women’s Day’, juried group exhibition, One Art Space Gallery, New York, USA

2020 ‘LIC-A’, juried group exhibition, Atlantic Gallery, New York, USA

2019 ‘Off the Wall’, group exhibition, Plaxall Gallery, New York, USA

2019 The Other Art Fair, Dallas, Texas, USA

2019 ‘Creative Mosaic’, group exhibition, Plaxall Gallery, New York, USA

2016 ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, group exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, Australia

2016 ‘Back to Back Realised’, solo exhibition, New York, USA

2016 Group exhibition (painting), Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, USA

2015 ‘DREAMS’ group exhibition, Gallery d’Arte, New York, USA

2015 Group exhibition (painting), Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, USA

2012 'Envisioning’, A Trio of Photographers, Serena Hotel, Kampala, Uganda

2010 BBC World Wildlife Photography: achieving inclusion of seven photographs in the semi-finals

2006 Solo Exhibition (Photography), Bujumbura, Burundi