Simians. Hand-coated liquid silver gelatin emulsion on paper postcard, tea-toned, varnish. 4 x 5.75 inches, 4 of 35, 2010.
Robyn Moore is a photomedia-based artist living and working in eastern Kentucky. Her work explores how alternative and experimental photographic processes can reveal the unseen worlds, beings and forces 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 holds an MFA in Photography and Experimental Film from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BA in Art History from Virginia Tech. In the fall of 2017 she was awarded the PhD in Visual Arts (Photomedia) from Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, in Sydney, Australia. Her doctoral dissertation Awake in the Woods: Empathic Imagining, Deep Time, and the Archaeology of Animal Life explores how certain visibly material photographic practices can encourage other-oriented perspective taking and, potentially, cultivate new relations to other animals. Robyn is also a recipient of the Commonwealth of Australia’s International Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
Robyn has had her work exhibited widely, including at the South Australian Museum (Adelaide, SA, Australia) and the National Archives of Australia; Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia; FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; the Centre for Print Research in Bristol, England; Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University; Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY; Manhattan Graphics Center; Houston Center for Photography; the Halide Project in Philadelphia, PA; Candela Gallery in Richmond, VA; The Image Flow Photography Center in San Anselmo, CA; Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop in Albuquerque, NM; SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC; Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, OH; Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA; FOTOFOCUS Biennial exhibition at The Carnegie in Covington, KY; the Texas Photographic Society in Johnson City TX; the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel MS; the Meridian Museum of Art in Meridian MS; the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham MA; Harvard University’s ‘Composer in Red Sneakers’ collaborative project series; the Cambridge Art Association in Cambridge MA; the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Ann Arbor International Film Festival; the Humboldt International Film Festival; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been the recipient of numerous artist's residencies, including the Juried Residency award at Grand Marais Art Colony, full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center (VT) and those at Jentel Artist Residency Program in Sheridan, Wyoming and Signal Fire Outpost residency in Portland, Oregon. She served as an artist-in-residence at San Juan National Forest (CO) and Hot Springs National Park (AR). Robyn is also a recipient of the 2024 South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowship for Kentucky, a Great Meadows Foundation Artist Professional Development Grant (2024) and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Photography Award (2006).
Robyn has taught photography and film at numerous academic institutions including Marietta College and Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia. Previously she was an Associate Professor of Photography and Video at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi and Director of the Delta International Film and Video Festival (2005-2011). Currently Robyn is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Art and Design at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.