Rita Robillard, Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, received her MFA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and attended Cooper Union in New York prior to moving west. She has taught at the University of California at Davis, the San Francisco Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Washington State University and Portland State University where she chaired the Department and the MFA program. Her artwork ranges from traditional painting and printmaking to new-genre installations and videos.
And then Again…Rifts on the Forest and Time, 2013 exhibition at the Augen Gallery in Portland was inspired by her artist’s residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. The work was created at the Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and was supported with grants from the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission. Reviewed on-line by Richard Speer, radio interview with Eva Lake on Art Focus KBOO radio and Art in Print 2.15.13.
Robillard’s mixed-media work has been included in over 100 museum and gallery exhibitions, in Santiago, Chile at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; Tokyo; Hangzhou, China; London; and Lacoste, France. Her Fire Lookout Tower video was shown in “How Artists Use Video,” at Artists Talk on Art Panels: On Contemporary Issues in Art, New York. Her work is included in over twenty public collections including the Portland Art Museum, Yale University Library, The National Academy of Art, China; and Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil. Robillard has served on the board of the College Art Association as Chair of the Visual Arts Committee, on the Executive Committee, and on the editorial board of the Art Journal.
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