Robin Myrick
Robin Myrick, Slow Translation #3,
Artist Statement
Robin Myrick is a conceptual and experimental artist working in photography, writing and hybrid forms. Her work engages the transitory nature of the mediated moment as expressed through television and film, portraiture and the body, and the rhetoric of identity, politics, consumerism, sports, and disaster. She holds an
MFA in Writing and Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts, and is currently an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas
Education
PhD in Humanities-Aesthetic Studies, University of Texas at Dallas (in progress: 2010-present)
M.F.A. in Writing and Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts (2008)
B.S. in Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin (2003)
Teaching Experience
2011-2013
University of Texas at Dallas – Richardson, Texas
Instructor – Rhetoric 1302
2009-2011
St. Edward’s University – Austin, Texas
Adjunct – Rhetoric and Composition (1301 and 1302) and Writing Center
2008-2009
Northeast Lakeview College – San Antonio, Texas
Adjunct – Basic English II
Art Institute of Austin – Austin, Texas
Adjunct – Developmental Composition
Acton MBA Program in Entrepreneurship, Hardin-Simmons University – Austin, Texas
Writing Coach – Graded the writing component of MBA courses and tutored graduate students
2006-2008
California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, California
Teaching Assistant, School of Critical Studies – Taught/graded the writing section of core BFA foundation courses,
including Latin American Megacities and Contract and Revolution: Introduction to Modern Political Thought
Career Services Instructor, Provost’s Office/Student Affairs – Designed and taught a three-part series on fundraising
for undergraduate and graduate students: Grant Writing Workshop, Grant Writing and the Art of Persuasion, and
Matching Proposals to Funding Prospects
Creative Writing Instructor, CalArts Community Arts Partnership at Hart High School (Newhall, California) –Taught
fiction, poetry, and essay writing to students in grades 9-12
Writing Tutor, School of Critical Studies/Student Affairs – Tutored/mentored CalArts international students and students with
disabilities (undergraduate and graduate)
Scholarships and Awards
Arts and Humanities Graduate Teaching Assistantship/Scholarship – UT Dallas (2011-present)
Viola Hegyl Swisher Award for Criticism – CalArts (2008)
MFA Thesis Grant – CalArts (2008)
Critical Studies Merit Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship – CalArts (2006-2008)
Bernice Milburn Moore Scholarship – UT Austin (2002)
Selected Exhibitions/ Performances/ Readings (2007-present)
Photography (collective and group shows):
Flex-Us 2 – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Ro2 Downtown, Dallas, TX (2013)
Flex-Us – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Ro2 Downtown, Dallas, TX (2012)
A Fraudulent Desire to Exist – Steve Paul Gallery (2012)
Confirm and Deny – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Main Gallery, UT Dallas, Dallas, TX (2011)
Hello! – 14+1, Main Gallery, UT Dallas (2011)
Installation and Performance (interactive art, writing, photo/video):
Bedding (installation/video/performance) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation:, Aurora Glimpse, Dallas, TX (2012)
Feed Bag (installation/performance) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation:, Ro2 Uptown, Dallas, TX (2012)
N’SINK (installation/photo) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Goodyear Retread Plant, Dallas, TX (2012)
From Another Planet (interactive sound piece with McCreature) – Mullholland Drive Concert, Los Angeles CA (2012)
The Ephemeral History of Gelson’s Sunset Boulevard (essay/performance) – Sunset Boulevard Concert,
Los Angeles CA (2011)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) – Collective Show Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA (2011)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) – Su Casa Es Me Teatro, Fronterafest, Austin TX (2010)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) -- Washington Boulevard Concert, Los Angeles CA (2010)
Sleeping in Public (interactive play) – Directed by Lora Zane (USC), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA (2008)
The Murgatroid Cycle (interactive play) – San Fernando Road Concert, Burbank CA (2008)
Smiths is Murder (essay/photo/video) – Undead! Undead! Undead!, Royal Academy of Nuts and Bolts, Betalevel,
Los Angeles, CA (2008)
The ST Module (video/performance) – The Artist as Mad Scientist, Valencia CA (2007)
Writing/Reading:
Stomp Box (fiction) – Griffith Park Storytelling Series, Los Angeles, CA (2012)
Selections from 51st Star, Seeking/Offering, and Savory (poetry) – Eastfield College Literary Festival, Mesquite, TX (2011)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – You May Have Read This Before, book release, Roy and Edna
Disney CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles CA (2009)
Blister Pack (fiction) -- Next Words at REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Take Beechnut (fiction) -- Next Words at Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Savory (poetry, video) – Critical Studies Visiting Artist Series, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA (2008)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – Future Potentials and ExNons, Betalevel, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – Sprawl Reading Series at The Cube, Valencia, CA (2007)
Blister Pack (fiction) – Sprawl Reading Series at The Cube, Valencia, CA (2007)
My Rider (essay) – Sprawl Reading Series at Scoops, Los Angeles, CA (2007)
Publications
Poetry
“19” and “51” from 51st Star and photographs from Show and Tell –Out of Nothing, Volume 5 (j2011)
Excerpt from Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less – You May Have Read This Before (CalArts, 2009)
Excerpt from Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less -- Chronometry (Superchen, 2008)
“Prizewinners” from Savory – Sprawl (2007)
Professional
Promising Practices In Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities (2008) – Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice
(Washington DC) and SafePlace (Austin, TX)
Multidisciplinary Response to Crime Victims with Disabilities (2012) – Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice
(Washington DC) and SafePlace (Austin, TX) *Co-written with Dianne King
Newspaper and magazine features/reviews/interviews (approximately 300 music, film, lifestyle and travel pieces),
published as a staff and freelance journalist from 1987-2006. Publication sources include Austin American- Statesman,
Austin Chronicle, Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Global Luxury Living, Houston City Magazine, Houston Press,
Miami New Times, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Pop Culture Press, and Public News.
Professional Service
Art Editor,Reunion: The Dallas Review (2013)
Professional mentor (2009-2010) – Writer’s CAMP project, The Writer’s Garret, Dallas, TX
Grant writing donor/consultation for a visual artist (2008-2009) – Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, CA
Board of Directors (2006) – Anthropos Arts, Austin, TX
Playwrights’ representative (2004-2006) – ScriptWorks, Austin, Texas
Grant mentor for emerging nonprofits (2003–2005) – Austin Community College Center for Community-Based and
Nonprofit Organizations, Austin, TX
PhD in Humanities-Aesthetic Studies, University of Texas at Dallas (in progress: 2010-present)
M.F.A. in Writing and Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts (2008)
B.S. in Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin (2003)
Teaching Experience
2011-2013
University of Texas at Dallas – Richardson, Texas
Instructor – Rhetoric 1302
2009-2011
St. Edward’s University – Austin, Texas
Adjunct – Rhetoric and Composition (1301 and 1302) and Writing Center
2008-2009
Northeast Lakeview College – San Antonio, Texas
Adjunct – Basic English II
Art Institute of Austin – Austin, Texas
Adjunct – Developmental Composition
Acton MBA Program in Entrepreneurship, Hardin-Simmons University – Austin, Texas
Writing Coach – Graded the writing component of MBA courses and tutored graduate students
2006-2008
California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, California
Teaching Assistant, School of Critical Studies – Taught/graded the writing section of core BFA foundation courses,
including Latin American Megacities and Contract and Revolution: Introduction to Modern Political Thought
Career Services Instructor, Provost’s Office/Student Affairs – Designed and taught a three-part series on fundraising
for undergraduate and graduate students: Grant Writing Workshop, Grant Writing and the Art of Persuasion, and
Matching Proposals to Funding Prospects
Creative Writing Instructor, CalArts Community Arts Partnership at Hart High School (Newhall, California) –Taught
fiction, poetry, and essay writing to students in grades 9-12
Writing Tutor, School of Critical Studies/Student Affairs – Tutored/mentored CalArts international students and students with
disabilities (undergraduate and graduate)
Scholarships and Awards
Arts and Humanities Graduate Teaching Assistantship/Scholarship – UT Dallas (2011-present)
Viola Hegyl Swisher Award for Criticism – CalArts (2008)
MFA Thesis Grant – CalArts (2008)
Critical Studies Merit Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship – CalArts (2006-2008)
Bernice Milburn Moore Scholarship – UT Austin (2002)
Selected Exhibitions/ Performances/ Readings (2007-present)
Photography (collective and group shows):
Flex-Us 2 – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Ro2 Downtown, Dallas, TX (2013)
Flex-Us – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Ro2 Downtown, Dallas, TX (2012)
A Fraudulent Desire to Exist – Steve Paul Gallery (2012)
Confirm and Deny – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Main Gallery, UT Dallas, Dallas, TX (2011)
Hello! – 14+1, Main Gallery, UT Dallas (2011)
Installation and Performance (interactive art, writing, photo/video):
Bedding (installation/video/performance) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation:, Aurora Glimpse, Dallas, TX (2012)
Feed Bag (installation/performance) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation:, Ro2 Uptown, Dallas, TX (2012)
N’SINK (installation/photo) – In Cooperation With Muscle Nation, Goodyear Retread Plant, Dallas, TX (2012)
From Another Planet (interactive sound piece with McCreature) – Mullholland Drive Concert, Los Angeles CA (2012)
The Ephemeral History of Gelson’s Sunset Boulevard (essay/performance) – Sunset Boulevard Concert,
Los Angeles CA (2011)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) – Collective Show Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA (2011)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) – Su Casa Es Me Teatro, Fronterafest, Austin TX (2010)
Town Hall Town Crier (polyvocalic poetry) -- Washington Boulevard Concert, Los Angeles CA (2010)
Sleeping in Public (interactive play) – Directed by Lora Zane (USC), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA (2008)
The Murgatroid Cycle (interactive play) – San Fernando Road Concert, Burbank CA (2008)
Smiths is Murder (essay/photo/video) – Undead! Undead! Undead!, Royal Academy of Nuts and Bolts, Betalevel,
Los Angeles, CA (2008)
The ST Module (video/performance) – The Artist as Mad Scientist, Valencia CA (2007)
Writing/Reading:
Stomp Box (fiction) – Griffith Park Storytelling Series, Los Angeles, CA (2012)
Selections from 51st Star, Seeking/Offering, and Savory (poetry) – Eastfield College Literary Festival, Mesquite, TX (2011)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – You May Have Read This Before, book release, Roy and Edna
Disney CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles CA (2009)
Blister Pack (fiction) -- Next Words at REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Take Beechnut (fiction) -- Next Words at Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Savory (poetry, video) – Critical Studies Visiting Artist Series, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA (2008)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – Future Potentials and ExNons, Betalevel, Los Angeles CA (2008)
Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less (poetry) – Sprawl Reading Series at The Cube, Valencia, CA (2007)
Blister Pack (fiction) – Sprawl Reading Series at The Cube, Valencia, CA (2007)
My Rider (essay) – Sprawl Reading Series at Scoops, Los Angeles, CA (2007)
Publications
Poetry
“19” and “51” from 51st Star and photographs from Show and Tell –Out of Nothing, Volume 5 (j2011)
Excerpt from Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less – You May Have Read This Before (CalArts, 2009)
Excerpt from Our Relationship in 20 Concerts or Less -- Chronometry (Superchen, 2008)
“Prizewinners” from Savory – Sprawl (2007)
Professional
Promising Practices In Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities (2008) – Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice
(Washington DC) and SafePlace (Austin, TX)
Multidisciplinary Response to Crime Victims with Disabilities (2012) – Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice
(Washington DC) and SafePlace (Austin, TX) *Co-written with Dianne King
Newspaper and magazine features/reviews/interviews (approximately 300 music, film, lifestyle and travel pieces),
published as a staff and freelance journalist from 1987-2006. Publication sources include Austin American- Statesman,
Austin Chronicle, Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Global Luxury Living, Houston City Magazine, Houston Press,
Miami New Times, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Pop Culture Press, and Public News.
Professional Service
Art Editor,Reunion: The Dallas Review (2013)
Professional mentor (2009-2010) – Writer’s CAMP project, The Writer’s Garret, Dallas, TX
Grant writing donor/consultation for a visual artist (2008-2009) – Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, CA
Board of Directors (2006) – Anthropos Arts, Austin, TX
Playwrights’ representative (2004-2006) – ScriptWorks, Austin, Texas
Grant mentor for emerging nonprofits (2003–2005) – Austin Community College Center for Community-Based and
Nonprofit Organizations, Austin, TX
