Kenya (Robinson)

Bio

Select Exhibitions

Twelve Thousand Maniacs!, 2017
Plastic, wood
Dimensions variable

*installed at Pioneerworks in a two-person exhibition called “White Man on a Pedastal,” November 2017

Twelve Thousand Maniacs!, 2017
Plastic, wood
Dimensions variable

*installed at Pioneerworks in a two-person exhibition called “White Man on a Pedastal,” November 2017

Altar, 2017 (detail)
Hand-cast wax candles, glass candle holders, silk flowers,lace, silk flowers, wood, Dragon’s Blood extract
Dimensions variable

If I Were King, 2017
Plastic, AstroTurf, motorized disco ball, foam, security ties, dressmaker pins,
fishing line
Dimensions variable

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If I’d Known You Were Coming, I’d’ve Baked You a Cake, 2018
Plastic resin, paint, wood
11 X 7 inches 

Patriot Games, No 003052021, 2018-2021
Single-channel video
00:05:04



Blue Velvet By Bobby Vinton, 2018
Single channel video
00:02:23

Iván Argote, New York, 2011 & Kenya (Robinson) Color Test, 2018 

*installed at Bortolami Gallery for Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations; Episode 1: Magnification



(from left) Iván Argote, New York, 2011
Kenya (Robinson), Color Test, 2018
Kenya (Robinson), If I’d Known You Were Coming, I’d’ve Baked You a Cake, 2018

Iván Argote, Madrid, 2011

*installed at Bortolami Gallery for Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations; Episode 1: Magnification, January 2018

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NOWHRING(sic)
found plastic sinage (ca. Jan 2020)
8 x 38 inches  
GREATBENEFITS
found plastic sinage (ca. Jan 2020)
8 x 55 inches
INQUIREWITHIN, Each 2020
found plastic sinage (ca. Jan 2020)
8 x 55 inches

Soft Palate, 2016
Cotton batting, spray paint
24 × 18 inches || 61 × 45.7 centimeters

Shawty, I’m the Plug, 2018
Rainbow Booties, extension cord, plastic 
Varying installations

Portrait of The Artist As A Young Woman, 2014
Found digital mugshot of incarcerated American woman sharing the artist’s name, cotton t-shirt

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Paper Rain for Invocation, Proclimation, Manifesto, 2017
Performance
Gibney Dance Center, New York (NY)

Cheeky LaShae Catches the Bouquet, 2014
Installation and performance
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison (ME)

Cheeky LaShae and the Red Bath Mat, 2014
Installation and performance
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison (ME)

Kenya Eats a Cracker, 2011
Sculpture and performance 
The Kictchen, New York (NY)

Kenya Eats a (Big) Cracker, 2015
Installation and performance
Thomas Hunter Project Space at Hunter College, New York (NY)