EDUCATION
2020-2022 California College of the Arts, M.F.A., Fine Arts
2021 William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar, BlackStar Film Festival
2016-2019 SFAI Public Education
Publishing as an Artistic Practice (Alex Arzt)
Daily Echoes (Izidora Leber)
Memory Narratives: Transdisciplinary Critique Seminar (Izidora Leber)
The Vault: Open-Genre Writing Studio (Genine Lentine)
Video Essay (Izidora Leber)
DePaul University, B.A. Political Science
SOLO EXHIBITION
2027 (Forthcoming) Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
2023 Revival | Trina Michelle Robinson, Media Room at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
2022 Excavation: Past, Present and Future, Museum of the African Diaspora MoAD (a Smithsonian Affiliate) Emerging Artist Program, 2022-2023
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2025
(Forthcoming) Black Gold, For-Site, Fort Point (Presidio), San Francisco, CA
(Forthcoming) Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
2024
Allegedly the worst is behind us, ICA San Jose, California
Home & Away: 3.9 Art Collective The Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco CA
Praxis of Local Knowledge, San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023
Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
Past, Present, and Future: Pink Tea for Women’s Equality, YWCA 150 Anniversary, Berkeley, CA (in partnership with Berekeley Art Center)
Bay Area Now 9, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Dig and Rise, New Works by 2022-2023 Kala Fellowship and Media Arts Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2022
as you summon other worlds, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Assembly 2022: Time and Attention, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s biennial exhibition program, Arlington, VA
you can hear the wind from beneath the floorboards, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2021
Taking Place: Untold Stories of the City, San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UnionDocs Carceral Screens Collaborative Studio
Legacy of Enslaved Mothers, Boone County, Kentucky Public Library / National Park Service Network to Freedom Digital Exhibition and Public Programming
Interstice, The Residency Project, Motor Los Angeles, Los Angeles California
Silence Unseen - CCA Library, Digital Exhibition
2019
Open Book Show 6 – Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
2018
Official Selection – BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition Change of State, Wassaic, NY
Governors Island Art Fair – 11th Annual, NY, NY
Let Me Be A Witness – Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Official Selection – Crested Butte Film Festival, Crested Butte, CO
Official Selection – NewFilmmakers NY, Film Anthology Archives, New York, NY
Official Selection – Queens World Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Official Selection – NewFilmmakers NY , Spring 2018 Screening Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Official Selection – Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2017
What I Like About You - 26th Annual Juried Presentation of New Work, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS/HONORS
2024 SFMOMA SECA Award Finalist
2024 CPW Vision Award for Emerging Photographer Shortlist
2022 Barclay Simpson Award, California College of the Arts
2021 Honorable Mention, All College Honors Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2020 Graduate Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award, California College of the Arts
2018 Queens World Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY - Best Short Short
RESIDENCIES
2025 (Forthcoming) Recology Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA 94109
2022-2023 Kala Art Institute Media Arts Residency, Berkeley, CA
2022 August - Lost and Found Lab/Yale University Beinecke Library, Cos Cob/New Haven, CT
2021 March - Black Space Residency, artist-in-residence at Minnesota Street Project Studios, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
2024 San Francisco Civic Art Collection, SFO Museum
2020 UC Santa Cruz Special Collections Library, Santa Cruz California
ARTIST TALKS / VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2025
(Forthcoming) Artist Talk: Allegedly the worst is behind us, Trina Michelle Robinson, Tricia Rainwater, Matthew Villar Miranda, Hakeem Jefferson, ICA San Jose, California
(Forthcoming) Black Life: Trina Michelle Robinson, Lecture and Workshop, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
(Forthcoming) Artist Talk: Samuel M. Thompson Lecture Series at Monmouth College, Illinois
2024
Artist Talk: Art 380 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, San Francisco State University, CA 2023
2023
Panelist - Roundtable: MyLoan Dinh, Priya Suresh Kambli, and Trina Michelle Robinson, Moderated by Elena Gross, Co-Director, Berkeley Art Center
2022
Storytelling and Choosing the Best Medium for your Message, Page Break Conference, San Francisco
Black Feast: Liberation Through Redaction, Studio Tour & Artist Talk with Trina Michelle Robinson and Black Feast Cafe as part of the YBCA Artist Power Convening at Black Space Residency located in Minnesota Street Project
2021
Panelist - Michigan Freedom Trail Virtual Program: The 1847 Michigan Slave Rescues, Sept. 7, 2021
Keynote speaker - Oregon Heritage Conference - April 29, 2021
2019
Invited panel speaker/screening – Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
Invited speaker/screening – Kentucky Borderlands Conference, Boone County Public Library, Florence, KY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Sebihi, Melika, Cliff Notes, Northern California art picks from Melika Sebihi, Variant West, October 16, 2024
Wilson, Emily, Artists Pull Human Stories Out of the Archives in Affecting San José Show, KQED, October 16, 2024
Hotchkiss, Sarah, SFMOMA Announces 16 Finalists for the SECA Art Award, KQED, January 16, 2024
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Corbin, Mary, Of memories and migration: Trina Michelle Robinson’s deep family excavations, 48 Hills, November 21, 2023
Blue, Max, Filmmaker explores connection between her family history and national Black history, San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 2023
Hernandez, Adrian, Assembly 2022: Time and Attention at Moca Arlington, East City Art Reviews, January 24, 2023
Wilson, Emily, What is the portal for them? Group show at Minnesota Street Project opens doors, December 20, 2022
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Williams, Luke Trina Michelle Robinson Looks to Make Her Mark on the Art World, KQED, December 1, 2022
Wilson, Emily Two Artists’ Quest to Free Their Ancestors, Hyperallergic, November 21, 2022
Blue, Max Explore These 3 San Francisco Art Galleries in October, SF Standard, October 2022
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