15 Facts About Robin Tewes

Robin Tewes's work has been widely discussed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Tema Celeste, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Village Voice.

Robin Tewes has been recognized with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and Painting Award, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, and inclusion in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2016.

Robin Tewes was born and raised in the working-class Richmond Hill, Queens neighborhood.

Robin Tewes was interested in art from an early age and attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, majoring in cartooning.

Robin Tewes earned her MST in Visual Arts from Pace University in 2012.

Robin Tewes has taught at colleges and universities around New York City since 1996, including Parsons School of Design, the Bard College Graduate Program, Hunter College, and Pace University.

Robin Tewes is currently teaching at Buckley School in Manhattan, where she has taught since 2015.

Robin Tewes has a son, Dylan Marcus, who is a sound technology director in New York City.

Robin Tewes's environments became increasingly refined in the 1990s through the influence of Japanese art and minimalists like Agnes Martin.

In other paintings, Robin Tewes decorated rooms with Rorschach-style marks or camouflage, that critics like Artforum's Ingrid Schaffner suggested were metaphors for the home as a screen for projecting primal emotions or "a demilitarized zone" littered with land mines of secrets, lies, and broken promises.

Robin Tewes has since begun a Women in Trouble series, set in domestic and workplace interiors.

Robin Tewes participated in an artist and homeless collaboration, On Our Way Home, at the Henry Street Settlement, a Manhattan social service nonprofit.

Robin Tewes has contributed socially-minded works to numerous exhibitions and benefits focusing on issues including women's reproductive rights, human trafficking, aggression, environmentalism, and the Iraq War.

Robin Tewes has been recognized with awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others.

Robin Tewes has received artist-in-residency awards from the Ucross Foundation, Golden Foundation for the Arts, and Djerassi Artists Residency, among others.