ROBIN GREBE

Born: Newark, NJ, 1957

Robin Grebe received her BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA in Ceramics/Glass from the Tyler School of Art, Massachusetts. She has been instructor at Rhode Island School of Design and the Pilchuck School. 

Grebe uses cast glass, ceramic glazes, and transparent enamels to create her monolithic and allegorical human forms.  Originally inspired by Greek cycladic fertility goddesses, Grebe's sculptures seem both fragile and strong. To her, they illustrate the paradoxes of human life.

Grebe's work has been shown in Europe and the United States and can be found in many private and public connections worldwide, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

Selected Museum Exhibitions

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Lyman Allan Museum, New London, CT
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts             
2003 Glass, Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts                                          
1997 Cleveland Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art                                                            
1997   Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art                                                                      
1994 Tell Me a Story, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio                                           
1992 International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Rouen, France                            
1992 Glass from Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art, The Morris Museum, NJ              
1991 World Glass Now ‘91, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan            
1989 History of Glass, Lyman Allan Museum, New London, CT                                    
1988 World Glass Now ’88, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Awards and Publications

2008, 2004 Jurors Award, 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational                         
2001 Glass Art Magazine, ‘The World According to Grebe’                                             
1993, 2000 New England Foundation for the Arts/Regional NEA Grant                        
1993 Glass Magazine, #50, Review                                                                                
April 1990 Neus Glass, ‘Robin Grebe’s Universe’   
1990. Glass Magazine, #39, Review                                                                                
February 1989 Glass Art Magazine, Kiln Cast Glass                                                     
Fall 1998 New Works Magazine, Cover
1987 Ceramics Monthly, Summer                                                                                     

Public Collections

2011 Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI                                                                              
2009 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada                                                
2008 Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida                          
2007 Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA                                                                                     
2007 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL                                            
2006 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA                                                                        
2000 National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA                                                           
1999 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA                                          
1998 Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI                                                                
1993 J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY                                                                    
1991 Detroit Institute of Art, David Jacob Chordorkoff Collection                                 
1987 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY