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Solo Exhibitions
   
2009 Bendigo Art Gallery, 'Essential Referencing' Recent Works
2002 Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo -` Existence' -Recent Works
2000 Bulle Galleries, Melbourne - Recent Works
1999 Bulle Galleries, Melbourne - Paintings, Sculpture
1998 `Shopfront Installation', View Street, Bendigo 
1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne - Recent Works
1995 Bendigo Art Gallery - Recent Paintings
1994 Bendigo Art Gallery - Intaglio Prints
1993 Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo - Recent Works
1992 Mary Place Gallery,  Sydney - Paintings, Drawings & Prints
1991 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Survey Exhibition 1979 - 1991
1990 Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art - Paintings
1989 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings, Lithographs
1987 Gallery 52, Perth - Paintings, Drawings
1987 Anima Gallery, Adelaide - Paintings, Drawings
1986 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings, Drawings
1984 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings, Drawings
1982 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings
1980 Druckma Press, Melbourne - Lithographs
1977 Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne - Paintings
1977 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings
1974 Realities Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings, Screenprints
1969 Strines Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings
1966 Argus Gallery, Melbourne - Paintings, Woodcuts

Group Exhibitions
   
2007 European Sensibilities, George Baldessin and his Circle, Printmaking in Melbourne during the 1960’s and 1970’s, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
2004 Exhibition 3465 Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria
2004 '10 Regional Artists', Penny School Gallery, Maldon, Victoria
2004 '23 Selected Printmakers', curated by Rona Green, Port Jackson Press, 
Melbourne and Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2002 Korean International Print Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2002 `Why Make Prints', Australian Printmakers, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2001 `Colour' Curated by Professor Jenny Zimmer, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2000-01 Long Distance', Visual Art Staff, La Trobe University,Bendigo, Exhibition. Curated by Sheridan Palmer.Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victorian Regional Galleries, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2000-03 "We are Australian', Westpac Gallery, Melbourne and travelling Nationally and Internationally
2000 Submission for Federation Public Sculpture Award, Bendigo
1998 `Selected Works by Invited Artists', Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1998 'ACAF 6', Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1998 `Works on Paper', Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
1997 'Staff Exhibition', Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
1996 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1996 `Bendigo Gold', La Trobe University Gallery, Bundoora, Melbourne
1995 "9 x 5" Exhibition, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1994 'Staff Exhibition', Department of Art and Design, La Trobe University, Bendigo
1994 'Gallery Artists', Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1993 'Staff Exhibition', Department of Art and Design, La Trobe University, Bendigo
1992 Henri Worland Memorial Print Award, Warrnamboool Art Gallery
1992 'Staff Drawing Exhibition', Fine Art Department, La Trobe University College of Northern Victoria 
1992 ACAF3, Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Bld.,Melbourne
1992 'Final Group Show', Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1992 'A Tribute to Anthony Pryor', Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1992 'Selected Prints', Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1992 '10 Square: Works for Wilderness, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Miniatures:Small Works by Selected Gallery Artists, Realities Gallery
1990 9th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition,, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
1990 'International Master Print Fair', Hotel Intercontinental, Sydney
1990 'Selected Works',Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1990 ACAF2, Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibtion Building, Melbourne
1989 Scotchman's Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
  'The 9" x 5" Exhibition', Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988 'Art LA 88', The 3rd International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA
1988 'Exhibition 1', Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne
1988 ACAF1 First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1988 'A Celebration', Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1988 'Watercolour Australia', Swan Hill Regional Gallery of Contemporary Art
1987 Gallery Artists, Gallery 52, Perth
1986 Melbourne Printmakers' Lithographs, Etchings, Relief prints and Screen  prints by 25 Melbourne Artists, Powell Street Graphics, Geelong Art Gallery
1986 'Visual Spaces', Gallery 52, Perth
1986 'Adelaide Festival of the Arts 1986', Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1985 'Victoria's 150th Birthday', Print Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne 
1984 'Summer Exhibition', Realities Gallery , Melbourne
1983 Print Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Queensland Purchase Art Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1983 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1983 Abstract Art in Australia, RMIT Gallery
1982 '12 Melbourne Printmakers', Oxford University, Oxford, UK and Bayreuth University, Germany
1981 Summer Exhibition, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Andrew and Lilian Pedersen Memorial Prize for Printmaking and Small Sculpture, Queensland Art Gallery
1979 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1978 Western Pacific Print Biennale
1978 `A Tribute to George Baldessin', Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1978 Australian Etchings, National Gallery of Victoria
1977 Travelling Print Exhibition, USA, Canada
1977 'World Print Exhibition '77', Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco USA 
1976 Contemporary Australian Prints, 'Festival of Perth', and exhibited in Tokyo, Japan
1975 The William Angliss Memorial Art Prize, Melbourne
1975 The John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1974 Realist Exhibition, Victorian Regional Galleries
1973 Australian Print Prize
  Corio 5 Star Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1972 Osborne & Polak Gallery,Melbourne
1972 Crouch Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat
1970 Australian Print Prize
1966 Blake Prize, Sydney
1966 Corio 5 Star Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
1963 Australian Print Prize
1962 Mofuseum Modern Art, Melbourne

Collections
  Artbank
  Art Gallery of South Australia
  Australian Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
  Benalla Art Gallery
  Bendigo Art Gallery
  Broken Hill Proprietry Co. Ltd. Collection
  Burnie Art Gallery
  Flinders University, South Australia
  Geelong Gallery
  La Trobe University Art Collection, Melbourne
  La Trobe University, Bendigo
  La Trobe Valley Schools' Art Foundation
  Launceston Art Gallery
  Monash Medical Centre Collection, Melbourne
  Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
  Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
  National Bank of Australia, Melbourne
  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  National University Collection, Canberra
  Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
  Print Council of Australia
  Queensland Art Gallery
  Robert Holmes a Court Collection
  Sussan Corporation Collection,Melbourne
  Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
  Private Collections in Australia and the USA
   

Awards
2000 Visiting Artist, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1999 Outside Study Program, La Trobe University, Bendigo
1983 Queensland Art Gallery, Purchase Prize
1980 Australian Visual Arts Board, Special Projects Grant
1975 Australian Visual Arts Board, Direct Assistance Grant
1975 Australian Visual Arts Board, Special Projects Grant
1974 Geelong Art Gallery, Print Purchase Prize Award

Biblography (Selected)
  McCAUGHEY Patrick   `Inventive vigor in first solo exhibition' The Age, June 1966
  McCAUGHEY Patrick   Exhibition review - Strines Gallery, The Age, 21 May 1969
  LYNN Elwyn   Exhibition review - Strines Gallery, The Bulletin,31 May 1969
  McCULLOCH Alan & Sue  Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Hutchison,1969
  McCULLOCH Alan   `Reacquaintance', The Herald, 21 June 1972
  EAGLE Mary   `Festival breaks through the barriers of form', The Age, June 1978
  MAKIN Jeffrey   `Robinson shifts for the better',The Sun,10 April 1980
  WOOD Lilian   `Directory of Australian Printmakers' Print Council of Australia 1982
  ZIMMER Jenny   `Twelve Melbourne Printmakers', Catalogue Essay 1982
  CARMICHAEL Rod   `Brush with an umpire' The Sun, 16 February 1983
  ZIMMER Jenny 'The Art of Assembling Reminders - John Robinson's Reality', 
ASPECT Art and Literature No. 21 June 1981 and RMIT Exhibition Catalogue, August, 1983
  HOLLOWAY Memory   Realities Print Exhibition, The Age, 30June 1983
  GERMAINE Max   `Artists and Galleries of Australia', Boolarong Publications 1984
  NEYLON John   `Abstract Fidelity', John Robinson Paintings. The Adelaide Review, February, 1987
  HOFFERT Bernard   'The Art of John Robinson', Realities Exhibition Catalogue Essay, November 1988
  HOFFERT Bernard   Art in Diversity, Longman Cheshire 1993
  GRISHIN Sasha   'Australian Printmaking in the 1990's' Craftsman House 1997
  IMPRINT   'Recording John Robinson's Printmaking', Summer 1997, Volume 32, No. 4
  DRURY Nevill   `Images 2 - Contemporary Australian Painting', Craftsman House 1994
  DRURY Nevill   `Images 3 - Contemporary Australian Painting', Craftsman House 1998
  SMITH Ernest   `John Robinson - Recent Works', Realities Exhibition Catalogue Essay, April, 1999