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Julian Robbins is a visual artist whose practice centers around 3D digital creation, printed image, written word, and sculpture, in addition to expanding into media from large-format digital prints to hand-bound artist’s books. Robbins’s work is rooted in aer experiences as a neurodivergent and transgender individual and aer background in linguistics and book conservation, all of which have informed the artist’s interest in language, history, and narrative. Aer gospels communicate subjects including the historical transgender narratives of the early Christian saints known as the “transvestite saints” and modern experiences of digitally-mediated connection and community among gender-variant individuals. Aer work is a digital pilgrimage where both the historical and the hyper-modern serve as guides, investigating marginalized narratives as well as expression, agency, and autonomy in the socially alienated.

Julian Robbins is currently a Graduate Teaching Associate and MFA candidate at the Ohio State University.

contact: Robbins.391@osu.edu

Student Art Portfolio

Education

BA, summa cum laude, Linguistics with a minor in Studio Art

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2022

Grants and Awards

2021, John Fergus Family Fund Scholarship Award for Memorandum

2018, Distinction Award, Morrill Scholarship Program, Ohio State University

Exhibitions

2023, Group Exhibition, First Year MFA Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus OH

2021, Group Exhibition, 29th Annual Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH (Juried by the Ohio State University Art faculty)

2020, Group Exhibition, “Can you see my screen?,” Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus, OH (Juried by the Ohio State University Art faculty)

2020, Group Exhibition, Cloud Crusher, Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus, OH (Juried by the Ohio State University Art faculty)

2019, Group Exhibition, Non-human Intelligence, Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus, OH (Juried by the Ohio State University Art faculty)

2016, Group Exhibition, East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2016, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (“Best in Drawing,” for Witch's Dresser, Juried by the Knoxville Museum of Art Staff)

2016, Group Exhibition, Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Exhibition, Tennessee Arts Academy, Nashville, TN (“Best in Drawing, East Tennessee”)

Commissions

2020, Private Commission, Deacon Blues, Mural, Vibroplex, Knoxville, TN

Work Experience

Internship, rapid prototyping for CRISPR Seed Resurrection

Ken Rinaldo, Columbus, OH

2021

Undergraduate TA, 3D Modeling