Macushla Robinson is faculty in the department of Art and Art History, and Director of the Contemporary Art Galleries, at the University of Connecticut. With a background in museums, she received her doctorate in Politics in 2023. She is the founder of Interstitial Press, and has published widely in exhibition catalogues, book chapters and journal articles.
EXHIBITIONS
Woman, Wearing Ring, Shields Face From Flash
Odette England
29 November 2023 - 8 March 2024
The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs
And all that remained was her beauty
Kim Hoeckele, Shanta Lee, Cheri Magid & Sarah Baskin
September 14 - October 20, 2023
The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Rewriting: The Politics of Care
Katherine Hattam, Victoria Hattam, Ellen Koshland, Danica Knezevic, Macushla Robinson, Shevaun Wright, Elvis Richardson, Gyun Hur
Curated by Macushla Robinson
Bus Projects, Melbourne
6 - 25 November 2021
After you're done
Sarah Sudhoff & Joe Broughton
Co-curated with Andrea Klabanova
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Sep 22 – Nov 12, 2017
Migration of Flora
Drawings and paintings by Jumaadi
April 12 – May 4, 2023
The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs
In the historical present
Daniel Bejar, Sheila Bridges, Benjamin van Buren, Black Lunch Table, Lucia Cuba, Domestic Performance Agency, Nikita Gale, Jonathan Gardenhire, Camilo Godoy, David Hammons, Matthew Jensen, Sue Jeong Ka, Glenn Ligon, Caroline Woolard, Shevaun Wright.
Curated by Anna Harsanyi and Macushla Robinson
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, The Sheila Johnson Design Center, The New School
June - October 2019
See you at the barricades
Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Breadline Posters, VALIE EXPORT, Marco Fusinato, Guerrilla Girls, Richard Hamilton, Sharon Hayes, Thomas Hirschhorn, John Hughes & Peter Kennedy, Mathew Jones, Pat Larter, Lucifoil Poster Collective, Billy Maynard, David McDiarmid, Earthworks Poster Collective, Yasumasa Morimura, Raquel Ormella, Redback Graphix, Redletter Press, Martha Rosler, Truong Singh, Women’s Domestic Needlework Group
The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
30 May – 29 November 2015
The Map and the Territory
A project by Sara Morawetz at the Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut
January 31 – March 23, 2023
The Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Memory is a tough place
American Artist, Renée Cox, Wendy Ewald, Ben Fernandez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Rashid Johnson, Brian Lanker, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, Sable Elyse Smith, Carrie Mae Weems
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila Johnson Design Center, The New School,
June 29 - September 3, 2017
Francis Bacon, Five Decades
Art Gallery of New South Wales
(Assistant curator, curated by Anthony Bond OAM), 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Books - edited volumes and solo projects
Every Rape in the Met Museum. Broadwater, QLD: in·ter·sti·tial press, 2022
Rewriting: The Politics of Care. exh. cat. Broadwater, QLD: in·ter·sti·tial press, 2021
Decameron. Edited by Ben Van Buren and Macushla Robinson. Yonkers: Yonkers International Press, 2020
Book chapters
Nothing Ever Goes Away in Lichtman, Sarah A and Jilly Traganou, Design, Displacement and Migration: Spatial and Material Histories London: Routledge, 2023
Labours of love: women's labour as the culture sector's invisible dark matter in Permanent Recession: A Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance, Onomatopea: Unicum, Netherlands, 2019.
First published in Runway Australian Experimental Art, Issue 32 (re)production, December 2016 : featured on E-Flux Conversations
Selected peer-reviewed articles and conference papers
‘Labouring Under the Sign of the Future’ in Megan Patty (ed.) She Persists: Gender and Protest NGV: Melbourne, Victoria, 2020
David Noonan: A heartfelt familiarity in exh. cat. Natasha Bullock (ed), We used to talk about love AGNSW: Sydney, 2013
Private Realm Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Catalogue entries in exh. cat. Anthony Bond (ed), Francis Bacon: Five Decades AGNSW: Sydney, 2012
The Hidden Histories of Heirlooms: Slavery, Decorative Arts, and the Domestic Labor of Forgetting peer-reviewed paper in Maria Rice Bellamy and Karen Weingarten (eds), Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, No’s. 1-2: Inheritance: An interdisciplinary study of inheritance, considering complications of gender, sexuality, race, and immigration in transgenerational transfers. Spring/Summer, 2020
Francis Bacon’s Gender Trouble Bacon’s Bodies Symposium Art Gallery of NSW, 2013
Selected articles, reviews and opinion
Forthcoming - Blind Obedience
True to the Paradox: An Exhibition for the Centennial of a Contradiction in Public Seminar, August 21, 2019
Living the Past Within the Present: Australian Artists at Performa 15 in Broadsheet 41.5, 2015
In the wake of museul whiteness, presented at Anywhere & Elsewhere 2018: biennial conference in New York November 15–16, 2018 and published in conference proceedings.
Review: It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby Artist Profile Issue 64, October 2023
To One A Century Hence in The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Writing Award brochure, 2016
Nalini Malani: in the shadow of partition in Art Monthly 256 2012/13
Tarnish in Black One Shot (BoS 4.3) ASAP Journal, July 2018
Profile: The Second Isn’t Long Enough: An Interview with Sara Morowetz in Artist Profile Issue 35, 2015
Sharpness of the senses: the subtle politics of Hu Xiaoyuan in ArtAsiaPacific Issue 88 May/June 2013