Kathleen Robbins

Kathleen Robbins (b. 1976) was born in Washington DC and raised in the Mississippi Delta. As a photographer she examines the intersection of memory, grief, and our physical relationship to the natural world. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums including The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, The New Orleans Photo Alliance, The Light Factory Museum of Contemporary Photography & Film, The Weatherspoon Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, The Southeast Museum of Photography, the Society for Contemporary Photography, the Columbia Museum of Art, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Robbins' work has been featured by CNN Photo Blog, Flak Photo, Fraction Magazine, Conscientious, Humble Arts New York, NPR’s Picture Show, and PDN’s Photo of the Day. Her work has been printed in the New York Times, Oxford American, and Garden and Gun. She was part of the 2012 Critical Mass top 50 and recipient of the 2011 PhotoNOLA Review Prize for her project Into the Flatland, which was published as a monograph in 2015.

Robbins earned a BA in Studio Art from Millsaps College and an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. She resides in Columbia, SC, where she is is professor of art, coordinator of the photography program and affiliate faculty of southern studies at the University of South Carolina..