SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA Ten
2024 MK Contemporary, Santa Cruz, CA Selections from the Rydell Fellows
2021 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA It Was A Place Beyond Compare With A Magnetism Like No Other (solo)
2020 Rydell Fellowship, R.Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA music box (the persistence of love and war) (solo)
2019 Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA Rhythm and Return
2017 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Detritus
2016 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA The 45th Parallel (solo)
2016 St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA, Scene/Unseen
2015 Pajaro Valley Art, Watsonville, CA, Freehand: A Drawing Show
2014 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA distance (solo)
2014 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection
2013 USGS, Reston, VA, earth, science, art
2012 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA lakewater2 (solo)
2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Keeping Time (curator Lauren Davies)
2012 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, All You Need Is Love (curator Susan Leask)
2011 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, One Thing Leads to Another (curator Susan O’Malley)
2011 Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Transducere
2010 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA measure (solo)
2010 Galerie Califia, Horažďovíce, Czech Republic, enTrance
2009 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA lakewater (solo)
2007 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Benjamin and Julius (solo)
2006 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA stack2 (solo)
2006 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HA, Reconstructing Memory (curator Aaron Kerner)
2004 Daigo Fukuru Maru Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Collapsing Histories (curator Aaron Kerner)
2004 Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan, Collapsing Histories
2004 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA stack (solo)
2003 Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, Collapsing Histories
2002 Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA, story 1. run (solo)
2001 Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA, grist
2000 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Mirage Gallery, Tokyo, Japan figures and tools (solo)
1998 Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan sensum (solo)
1998 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS
DeWitt Chang Visual Art Source, December 11, 2021 Robin Kandel at Andrea Schwartz
Kenneth Baker Bay Area Visual Arts Picks, March 6, 2014 Robin Kandel: distance
Ben Marks KQED Arts, January 26, 2012 Robin Kandel: Still Waters Run Deep
David Roth SquareCylinder, January 17, 2012 One Thing Leads to Another@ICA
David Roth SquareCylinder, February 9, 2012 Robin Kandel@Andrea Schwartz
Sharon Mizota L.A. Times, July 16, 2010 Robin Kandel at Sherry Frumkin Gallery
Hanna Hannah Artshift, February, 2009 Robin Kandel at Andrea Schwartz
Joanna Szupinska Artweek, April, 2009 Robin Kandel at Andrea Schwartz
Leah Ollman L.A. Times, July 27, 2007 The past speaks to the present Robin Kandel
Peter Frank L.A. Weekly, August 7, 2007 Art Pick: Words and Worlds Gone Mad
Jody Zellen Artweek, October, 2007 Robin Kandel at Sherry Frumkin
Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2008 Kandel at Schwartz
David Buuck Artweek, February, 2004
Collapsing Histories at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
Tom Baker The Daily Yomiuri, July 29, 2004 Indirect views of harsh reality
Tadaaki Matsuko Nikkei Newspaper, August 3, 2004
Art exhibition faces the core (issue) of war, genocide and terrorism
Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2003
A crisscross of meanings in the familiar grid pattern
Sue Fishkoff Coast Weekly, August 2002 Fleeing Shadows
Film and the Holocaust, Aaron Kerner, Continuum, 2011. pp. 253-258
Representing the Catastrophic, Aaron Kerner, Edwin Mellem Press, 2007. pp. 264-267
Reconstructing Memories, catalog University of Hawaii Press, 2006. pp. 36-39
AWARDS
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship 2017
The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2001
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga CA
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara CA
Neiman Marcus
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, BFA
REPRESENTED
2024-1995 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco CA
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