Abby Robinson

 

Abby Robinson came to New York City for school and never left. After receiving an undergraduate degree in architectural history, she went to art school to study interior design. Instead she wound up a photographer. After completing her M.F.A., she worked for a private investigator, wrote a novel, The Dick and Jane, based on her detective experiences; and began teaching photography at the School of Visual Arts. She simultaneously got itchy feet and started to travel; exposure to different cultures and esthetics made her eyeballs spin. Her current work started with an Asian Cultural Council grant to Vietnam and continued through a Fulbright to India and Sri Lanka, and then on a fellowship from the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies. Her most recent journeys have been in China. She received a Siskind Grant in 2005 and a New York Foundation of the Arts in 2007. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.