Robynn Smith

Robynn Smith received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. Robynn grew up in New York and for the past 40 years, has made Santa Cruz, California her home. She is an internationally exhibiting painter and printmaker and Professor Emerita, Monterey Peninsula College. 

Robynn’s works combine many layers of information that combine to both reveal and obscure moments of beauty and horror. The tactile subtleties of carved and printed surfaces merge with embedded and transferred photographic processes which focus and sharpen the impact of the imagery. The resulting works create a surprising visual language that reaches places of tender familiarity, shocking trauma, submerged memory, and subconscious reality. 

Notable solo exhibitions include Monterey Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. She has been represented in juried and invitational group shows on 5 continents. Recent residency fellowships include L’AiR Arts Paris, Islensk Grafik in Iceland and Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts.