| EDUCATION | |
| 1972-1974 | California Institute of the Arts Master of Fine Arts |
| 1971-1972 | California Institute of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| 1970-1971 | University of California at Los Angeles |
| 1968-1970 | California State University at Northridge |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2016 | How Many Heart Beats in a Lifetime?, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2013 | Moment to Moment, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2011 | Treasure Maps, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2009 | Paintings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2007 | Code Paintings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2007 | Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 | The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1984 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1981 | Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1974 | Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2015 | Southern California Abstraction Now, Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA |
| PRETTY RAW: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | |
| 2014 | Toward the Heart of the Matter: Abstracting From Nature, Sturt-Haaga Gallery, Desconso Gardens, Flintridge, CA |
| Curiouser and Curiouser: Work Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Art Division, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2011 | Cries and Whispers, Stan Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2010 | ou-boum, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA |
| 2009 | Everywhere & Nowhere, the Spiritual Temperament in Recent American Art, International Festival of Sacred Arts, New Delhi, India |
| 2008 | Painting in Southern California, The 1980s:Driven to Abstraction II, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA |
| It?s Gouache and Gouache Only, curated by Geoffrey Young, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Some Paintings: The Third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| LA (A Select Survey of Art From Los Angeles), Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA | |
| Emphasis Santa Monica, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2007 | Works On/Of Paper, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA |
| Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions, California institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA | |
| 2006 | 30th Anniversary Exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Off the Wall: Murals, Armory Northwest, Armory Arts Center, Pasadena, CA | |
| Immodesty, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles CA | |
| 2005 | COLA 1996-2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA |
| Los Angeles Printmaking Society 18th National Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA | |
| 2003 | Pressing On, Kent State University, School of Art Gallery, Kent, OH |
| L.A. Post Cool, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2002 | Tinseltown, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA |
| L.A. Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA | |
| 2001 | 25th Anniversary Exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
| Luminous, Ikon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Cake, Pasadena City College Art Gallery | |
| 1998 | L.A. Brastractionists, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| City of Los Angeles (COLA) Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Art At Michael’s, Michael’s Restaurant, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1997 | L.A. New Art/Arte Actual en Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Madrid, Spain |
| Plastered, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA | |
| L.A. New Art/Arte Actual en Los Angeles, Sala de Exposiciones, Cuenca, Spain | |
| My Favorite Femmes, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Distant Bodies, L. A. Art Core, The Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA | |
| XX-Sight, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| Remembrance of Exhibitions Past: 20th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| L.A. Slide, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola-Marymount University | |
| 1996 | $100 Show, Post, Los Angeles, CA |
| Feminist Directions 1970/1996, Sweeny Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, Riverside CA | |
| True. Bliss., Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Blessings and Beginnings, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Teeming, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Love’s Labors Lost , SI.T.E., Los Angeles, CA | |
| Aftershocks, collaborative group print portfolio, Josephine Press, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Aftershocks, Artworks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Transcendental Meditations, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA | |
| Thought Works @ L.A., Art Center, Battle Creek, MI | |
| Thought Works @ L.A., Valdosta College Art Gallery, Valdosta, GA | |
| 1995 | $100 Show, Post, Los Angeles, CA |
| Hodge Podge Lodge, The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Restless Voices: Abstractions from Los Angeles, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY | |
| Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL | |
| 1994 | Surface Tension, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
| Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Selby Gallery of the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL | |
| December, Jerold Burchman Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California | |
| Embraceable You: Current Abstraction, Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho | |
| 1993 | Faculty Exhibition: Department of Art Studio, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Coastal Abstractions, Manhattan Beach Friends of the Fine Arts. Curated by Peter Frank. Catalog. | |
| The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Sue Spaid | |
| 1992 | Aspects of Painting in Los Angeles, Gallery of the College of Creative Studies, U C Santa Barbara |
| A Small Show, Susan Landau Contemporary Art, West Los Angeles, CA | |
| Abstract Paintings, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Coming Unraveled, Otis School of Art and Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Anne Ayres | |
| Coming Unraveled is a part of The Los Angeles Exhibition. | |
| L.A. Xtension, ART LA 92/Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center | |
| Drawing Show, Nomadic Site at Bliss, Pasadena, CA. Curated by Adam Ross. | |
| Los Angeles: Works on Paper, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA | |
| 1991 | Inscapes, Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA |
| Abstract Variations, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1989 | Professor's Choice, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA |
| 1988 | Experience-Reordered, L.A. Abstractions, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
| L.A. Weekly Critics' Picks Exhibit, LA 88 Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair | |
| Registry, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Small Works, Cal Arts Alumni Exhibit, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. | |
| 1986 | Twenty Artists-Los Angeles, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina. |
| Southern California Monoprints: The Singular Image, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Santa Ana, CA. | |
| 1984 | Summer Exhibit, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA. |
| The Cotton Exchange Show, LACE- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. | |
| The Finals, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles. | |
| Environs III: W. Washington Blvd., Art Gallery of the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. | |
| 1983 | Olympiad: Summer 1984, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| At Home, collaborative installation with Miriam Schapiro, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. | |
| 1982 | Faculty Exhibit, Art Gallery, California State University at Fullerton. Fullerton, CA. |
| Art Today, Offices of Welton-Beckett Architects, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Group exhibit, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 1980 | Faculty Exhibit, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. |
| 1979 | Group exhibit, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Color, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Art Exhibition Space, Los Angeles. | |
| Faculty Exhibit, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. | |
| 1978 | Abstract Works on Paper, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1978 | L.A. Painters, Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont Colleges, Claremont CA. |
| Group exhibit, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Exhibition Space, Los Angeles. | |
| 1977 | Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA. |
| 100+, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curated by Robert Smith. | |
| We Were All Here, Art Gallery, California State University at Northridge. Curated by Joanne Julian. Catalog. | |
| 1976 | Los Angeles Women Artists, touring exhibit organized for the State of North Carolina. |
| 24 Southern California Women Artists, Cerritos College, El Cerritos, CA. Curated by Gil Steele | |
| 1975 | Group exhibit, Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalog. |
| Robin Mitchell, John Miller and Dave Thomas, Art Gallery of Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA. | |
| Contemporary Concerns II, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curated by Walter Hopps. | |
| 1974 | Selections from Five Orange County Galleries, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA. C |
| Eleven Young Californians, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles. | |
| 1973 | Robin Mitchell/Jim Oliver, Gallery TJB, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Charles C. Hill |
| Women Artists Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Womanspace Gallery, Los Angeles. | |
| 1972 | Thirteen Artists on Paper, Art Gallery of the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Small Images, Art Gallery of California State University at Los Angeles. Curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels. | |
| New Artists/New Work, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Curated by Laura Lee Woods. | |
| Womanhouse, collaborative project of the Feminist Art Program, California Institute of the Arts | |
| AWARDS & HONORS | |
| 2016 | City of Santa Monica Arts Cultural Affairs Division Project Fellowship |
| 2007 | Finalist for the Eduardo Carrillo Prize for Painting |
| 2006 | California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artist, Mid-Career Award |
| 1997 | City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department Visual Artists Grant |
| 1997 | Cash Award with funds from Lea & Luis Remba (Mixografia Workshop, Inc.) and Jean & Leslie Burg, |
| Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition | |
| 1996 | Anonymous Was a Woman Visual Artists Award |
| 1991 | Course Improvement Development Grant, University of California at Irvine |
| 1991 | University of California at Irvine Career Development Grant |
| 1989 | University of California at Irvine Career Development Grant |
| 1987 | National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship for Painting |
| 1974 | California Institute of the Arts, Full Tuition Scholarship / Graduate Assistant Teaching Stipend |
| 1973 | California Institute of the Arts, Partial Tuition Scholarship |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2015 | Siegel, Katy, “The Heroine Paint” After Frankenthaler, published by Gagosian Gallery |
| Roberta Smith, New York Times, Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World, June 03, 2015 | |
| Smee, Sebastian, Raw Power at Rose Art Museum, Boston Globe, Art Review February 19, 2015 | |
| 2013 | David Pagel, Moment to Moment exhibition review, Los Angeles Times, July 2013 |
| 2010 | Schor, Mira, A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life |
| Miles, Christopher, Robin Mitchell at Craig Krull Gallery, LA Weekly, November 5-11, 2009, page 41. | |
| 2008 | Harvey, Doug, Some Paintings: The Artists in the Third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial, L.A. Weekly, January 11-17, 2008 |
| 2007 | Mallinson, Constance, Robin Mitchell at Jancar Gallery, Art in America, September 2007 |
| Pagel, David, Robin Mitchell at Craig Krull Gallery, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2007, Calendar Section | |
| Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA catalog | |
| Frank, Peter, Still Waters and Restless Currents, L.A. Weekly, August 3-8, 2007, page 82 | |
| 2002 | Duncan, Michael, L.A. Post Cool, catalog essay, San Jose Museum of Art |
| Cooper, Bernard, “In the Raw”, Los Angeles Magazine, December 2002, pp 124-128 | |
| 2001 | Duncan, Michael, The Importance of Being Earnest, catalog essay |
