Robin Bell

rbellphotography@gmail.com

robinbellphotography.com

Exhibitions

Solo/Featured

“Echo Image,” Spring Street Gallery, Block Island, Rhode Island, 2018, solo show

Rhode Island State Council of the Arts competition, Block Island Airport Gallery, 2017, solo show (juror Catherine Little Bert)

“Where Did You Get That Blue?” Spring Street Gallery, Block Island, Rhode Island, 2017, solo show

“One View, Two Visions,” Spring Street Gallery, Block Island, Rhode Island, 2016, featured artist

Group Show

Los Angeles Center of Photography Sixth Annual Street Photography Competition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, California, 2019, selected exhibiting artist (juror David Gibson, independent curator)

Awards

Winner, Los Angeles Center of Photography International Street Photography Competition, 2019

LACP Street Photography Competition

Winner, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Competition, photography

Rhode Island State Council of the Arts

Bibliography

Block Island Times, 2017, Spring Street Gallery, Gallery Opening

Rhode Island; State Arts Council Announces Winter Shows at T.F. Green and Block Island Airport Galleries, 2017. Council of the Arts Press Release

Education:

Degrees:

New York Hospital Cornell Weill Medical Center, internship and residency

Columbia Presbyterian Medical School, M.D.

Brown University, B.A.

Photography

International Center of Photography, 2016-2019

--Invited member of fine arts tutorial with faculty member Ben Gest, 2020

--Invited tutorial with faculty Ports Bishop, 2021

School of Visual Arts, NYC

--landscape photography with Richard Rothman

Related Work Experience

Executive Board Officer, Spring Street Gallery, a cooperative arts gallery on Block Island, RI. Co-created a community arts outreach program, provided space and support for multiple guest shows for new Block Island artists, instituted a winter arts program for island children, redesigned the space with infrastructure improvements to create venues to show island-based painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and fiber art.

Founder of free community photoshop program for Block Island residents. Created a collaboration with the Block Island Island Library and the On Island Arts Collaborative to provide tuition-free classroom instruction, educational material, practice flash drives and photoshop software on library computers.