Benjamin Robinson
Email: benjaminr146 at gmail.com
Website: https://benjaminrobinson44.wixsite.com/benjaminrobinson
Fiction
Exodontia / Meetinghouse Literary Journal (Dartmouth College, USA)
Fairways of The New Salvation / Awakenings Review, (The Awakenings Project, Chicage, USA) 2022
Looter / Sein und Werden (UK) 2020
Approaching Brightness / Vagabonds: Anthology Of The Mad Ones (Weasel Press, USA) 2016
Interregnum / A New Ulster, 2014
The Grind / The Honest Ulsterman, 2014
Black Noise / Gone Lawn 13, 2013
Brackish Water / Paraphilia Magazine, 2013
Endocrine / Suffer Eternal (print anthology, Horrified Press), 2013
The Bridge House / Art from Art (print anthology, Modernist Press), 2011
Gaza Pressé / 3:AM Magazine, 2010
Goodnight, Alfresco / Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts (e-anthology edited by V. Ulea), 2010
The Abandoned City / A capella Zoo (print), 2010
The Death of Orion / 10,000 tons of black ink (USA), 2009
Bookish / Existere Journal of Arts and Literature Vol. 28 Issue 2 (York University, Toronto, Canada), (print), 2009
Beneath a Lifetime of Nodding / Crannóg 20 (print), 2009
The Vending Machine / Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing Vol. 8 (University of Hong Kong), print, 2008
Duchamp's Bones / dandelion 34.1 (University of Calgary, Canada), print, 2008
From Knuckle to Nail / Sein und Werden (UK) print, 2007
The Ice Box / TQRstories (USA) 2007
Hybrid (fiction + autobiography + critical analysis + dialogue + visual art + photography + conceptual sculpture)
Broken Stiles / Shower of Kunst (Online Critical Journal), 2021
In The Line of Fire / *apo-press (Collective Aporia, USA), 2021
Shot One / AMP: Always Electric (Hofstra University, New York, USA), 2020
Leaf Tunnel / The Elephants, 2017
Plunge Pool / Paper Visual Art Journal, 2015
Wind Harp / Colony Literary Magazine, 2014
Gordian Knot / Gorse online, 2014
Garden of Remembrance / Paper Visual Art Journal, 2013
Northward Ho! / Circa Art Magazine online, 2012
Pallet / Puerto del Sol online (New Mexico State University), 2012
Essays
Pious Snuff, Lot’s Wife to Burden’s Eclipse / The Decadent Review, 2022
Pick Up, Dive and Fling / Gorse No. 5 (print), 2016
N2O Vendor / Circa Art Magazine online, 2009
Audio-visual
After Life / The Horizon Magazine (UK)
Double Penetration, Vacant Possession / Ki, online journal overseen by Editorial Board of Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2022
Riser / Sloughing Beast Journal 2021
Triple Sec / Triple Bluff / Requited Journal 2019
Visual Art - publications
Abridged 0 - 92: The Violet Hour
Maintenant 8, 14, 15, 16, 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, USA)
Artist Books
Reformation, 2020 - selected for the Dublin Art Book Fair 2020
Let’s just cut him open (and see what’s inside), 2019 - selected for the Dublin Art Book Fair 2019
Art Criticism 2016 - 2019 all reviews for Circa Art Magazine
Walker and Walker, Nowhere without no(w), IMMA
Brian Maguire, War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings, IMMA
Andrea Calabro, National College of Art and Design Graduate Exhibition
They Call Us The Screamers, TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Galway 2017
Kevin Smith, Dublin Institute of Technology Degree Show
Michael Snow, The Viewing of Six New Work, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
David Crone and John Cronin at the Royal Hibernian Academy
Griselda Pollock ‘Re-thinking the Twentieth Century with Carol Rama and Modernist Artist-Women: Creative Practice as Dissidence in the Feminist Century’, IMMA
Visual Art - Solo Exhibitions
Possession / The Ivy House, Dublin, 2005
Amalgam / Bad Odesloe, Germany, 1997
Amalgam / Wexford Arts Centre, 1996
Visual Art - Group Exhibitions
DISGUST: unhealthy practices / East Window South, Boulder, Colorado, curated by Todd Edward Herman, 2022
Arrival / Waterford Regional Hospital (Healing Arts Trust), 2003
Phoenix Art Trail / Waterford Arts Centre, 2003
Christmas Show / Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, 2002
Eigse Carlow / Open Submission, 1999
Grandstand / South Tipperary Arts Centre, 1999
Fresh / The Engine Room, Belfast, 1997
Awards
2022, Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
2022 Source Photographic Review writing prize
Education
1984 – 1986 Limerick School of Art and Design