Aurora Robson

Infobox Person
name = Aurora Robson


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birth_date = birth date and age|1972|05|09
birth_place = flagicon|Canada Toronto, Canada
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occupation = Artist
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children = Ona

Aurora Robson (born May 9th, 1972 in Toronto, Canada) is a contemporary artist who works with installations, works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, photography, and performance art. Robson has described herself as being primarily a sculptor.

Robson spent her youth primarily in Hawaii where she began her artistic pursuits. The natural forms and cultural tension that she encountered there helped create the foundations for the philosophy behind her work. Robson moved to New York City in 1991 where she studied welding at Apex Technical School and became a NYS certified structural welder. She then entered Columbia University where she studied Visual Arts and Art History under artists Jon Kessler and Tomas Vu-Daniel, and art historians Rosalind E. Krauss and Jan Avgikos. She received her B.A. from Columbia University in 2000. She also occasionally teaches sculptural and structural welding at the Educational Alliance Art School where artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Peter Blume and Louise Nevelson taught.

Exhibitions

*2008 Square Foot Gallery, 2 Person show with Lisa Solomon, Nashville, TN (forthcoming)
*2008 Rice Gallery, Solo show, (large scale installation) Houston, TX (forthcoming)
*2007 The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy & Illusion from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
*2007 Impossibly Familiar, FIT Art Market Graduate Thesis Show, New York, NY
*2007 Wallworks 3, Group show, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA (forthcoming)
*2007 Islip Art Museum Carriage House, Installation project, New York, NY (forthcoming)
*2007 Poietis Gallery, Inaugural Exhibit, Group show, New York, NY (forthcoming)
*2007 Memento-Mori, Group show, The Artists Network, New York, NY (forthcoming)
*2007 Pulse Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, New York, NY
*2007 ArtLA Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
*2006 Pulse Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, Miami, FL
*2006 Art212 Contemporary Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, New York, NY
*2006 Art212, Project Space artist, (awarded solo installation opportunity) New York, NY
*2006 Emergency Arts, Group show, New York, NY
*2006 "The Summertime Show", Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Group show, Chicago, IL
*2006 Mushroom Arts, Group show, New York, NY (catalogue available)
*2006 Eleven Ten Gallery, Group show, Brooklyn, NY
*2006 Pulse Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, New York, NY
*2005 Faculty Exhibit, The Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Group show, New York, NY
*2005 "Resonant Part II", Group show, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
*2005 Spring Combustion, 3 person show, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
*2005 "Wake up, wake up, it's in the morning", Solo show, Richard Levy Gallery, NM
*2005 Mostracolletiva Colorfixation 02, Group show Barone & Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy
*2005 Introduction'02, Group show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
*2005 San Francisco Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
*2004 13, Group Show, Richard Levy Gallery, NM,
*2004 Samson Fine Arts, Group show, New York, NY
*2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Courtesy Richard Levy Gallery, New York, NY
*2004 Makor Gallery, 2 person show, New York, NY
*2004 Judy A. Saslow Gallery, 2 person show, Chicago, IL
*2004 Scope Art Fair, Courtesy Ric hard Levy Gallery
*2004 Open Studio #1, Solo show, Brooklyn, NY
*2004 Re-Surface Showroom, Group show, Brooklyn, NY
*2000 Analogue, Group show, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
*2000 Open Call, Prentis Hall, Group show, Columbia University, NY

External links

* [http://www.aurorarobson.com Aurora Robson's personal website]