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Robyn Moore

Robyn Moore

Recipient Information

Location

Morehead, Kentucky

Medium

Visual Arts

Year of Award

2027

Grant or Fellowship

Southern Artist Spotlight Grant

Grant Amount

$0

Robyn Moore is a photomedia-based artist living and working in eastern Kentucky, USA. Her work explores how alternative and experimental photographic processes can reveal the unseen worlds and beings around us. Robyn’s research interests include deep time, biosemiotics, geology, paleontology, phenomenology, empathic imagining and the ways in which images can help us facilitate understanding of and solidarity with other forms of life.   

Robyn’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Yerevan Fifth International Print Biennale, the South Australian Museum, Gold Street Studios Workshops and Gallery in Trentham East, Victoria Australia, FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, the Centre for Print Research in Bristol, England, Houston Center for Photography, Soho Photo Gallery, The Halide Project, Texas Woman’s University, The Image Flow Photography Center, Remarque Print Workshop, Manhattan Graphics Center, Washington Printmakers Gallery, The Photographer’s Eye Collective and Gallery in Escondido CA, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati OH, and Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University.   

Robyn’s work won the professional series alternative processes category at the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers and in 2022 her work was selected as a Finalist for the René Carcan International Prize for Printmaking. Additional honors include selection as the 2024 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowship recipient for Kentucky, a Great Meadows Foundation Artist Professional Development Grant, the Uncommon Art Residency Award at the Teton Art Lab, a Juried Residency award at Grand Marais Art Colony, and residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency Program, San Juan National Forest, and Hot Springs National Park.   

Robyn holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts (Photomedia) from Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney (2017) and an MFA in photography and experimental film from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2002). Robyn is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.

Artist Fee: $1,000+
Availability: Available (with some exceptions) 
October 2026 - June 2027

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