Jamel Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of abstract expressionist painting, assemblage, sculpture, installation, poetry, and performance. His work serves as a time stamp of the experiences shaping his own life and creative processes and grounds itself in the use of materials and themes associated with the historic and present grief surrounding the Black experience in America.
Robinson’s works have gained him notoriety throughout the United States and abroad, attracting a variety of prominent collectors, curators, gallerists and institutions, which have led to acquisitions for the permanent collections at the Hudson River Museum in New York and the Bunker Artspace Museum in West Palm Beach.
Robinson was celebrated in the New York Times and CBS News for his solo exhibition, “Beauty from Ashes”, at the Hudson River Museum in New York. This body of work was curated in response to “African American Art in the 20th Century”, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s traveling exhibition of selected works from the permanent collection, which opened at the Hudson River Museum in 2021. Robinson was also the Hudson River Museum’s 2022 Gala Honoree and had June 17th declared as “Jamel Robinson Day” by the Office of the Mayor of the City of Yonkers and the Westchester County Board of Legislators for his work with the museum and the city’s youth. Jamel most recently completed the 2022-23 inaugural tenure at the Long Meadow Art Residency in the Berkshires of Massachusetts where he spent four months creating an extensive body of work including assemblage, abstract paintings and sculpture.
Robinson lives and works in Harlem, New York, where he was born and raised.