Julian Robbins



BIO



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: julianrobbinsart@outlook.com



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Education

MFA, Art & Technology

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2025


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

2025, Group Exhibition, Body As Land | Land as Memory, Blockfort Gallery, Columbus OH


2025, Group Exhibition, Chipped Teeth, OSU Fine Arts Library, Columbus OH


2025, Group Exhibition, Desire Lines, Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH (alt. link)


2023, Group Exhibition, Tethers, Twelfth Avenue Greenhouse, Columbus OH


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


2020, Group Exhibition, “Can you see my screen?,” Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus OH


2020, Group Exhibition, Cloud Crusher, Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus OH (alt. link)


2019, Group Exhibition, Non-human Intelligence, Ohio State University Art & Technology Show, Columbus OH


2016, Group Exhibition, Tennessee’s Best of the Best Student Art Exhibition, Tennessee Arts Academy, Nashville TN


2016, Group Exhibition, East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition 2016, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN


Press

2025, "Transgender People Have Always Been Here: An Interview with Artist Julian Robbins"- Urban Arts Space, Kat Gallaugher (alt. link)


2025, "Columbus students use art to respond to Ohio's transgender bathroom law, Trump policies"- The Columbus Dispatch, Danae King (alt. link)