About Ford Robbins (Downloadable pdf)

Born in San Pedro, California in 1942, Ford Robbins spent most of his early life in Minnesota. After marriage, he and his wife returned to northern California between 1967 and 1969 and lived in Japan from 1969 to 1972, when they returned to Minnesota. In 1988, after raising two children, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mr. Robbins graduated from Lawrence University and the University of Minnesota, with additional study at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has engaged in private photographic studies with Fred Picker, Oliver Gagliani, Bruce Barnbaum, and others. He has been photographing for over thirty years.

Robbins has also studied printmaking with Richard Benson, Jennifer Lynch and Dan Weldon. He assisted Mr. Weldon in teaching solarplate printmaking in Florence, Italy in 2001.

Robbins has exhibited extensively since 1983, most recently at the Miller Museum of Art, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico; Amarillo College, Amarillo, Texas; the Palos Verdes Art Center, Ranchos Palos Verdes, California; the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; the Transit Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York as well as numerous venues in his hometown. He was recently honored by the selection of his work for inclusion in an exhibition of American landscape photography at the United States Embassy, Asunción, Paraguay and the United States Embassy in Muscat, Oman.

In 1997, Mr. Robbins was recognized by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico with the inclusion of his work in the New Mexico State Capitol Art Collection. His work is also included in numerous private, corporate, religious and other public collections, including the permanent collections of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York and San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California.

Mr. Robbins is represented by the Johnsons Galleries of Fine Art & Fiber, Madrid, New Mexico; Chandra Cerrito, Napa, California; Joan Sapiro, Littleton, Colorado; Amsterdam Whitney Int’l Fine Art, New York, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Gallery, San Francisco, California.