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'''Hilary Robinson''' is a British academic and art theorist. She was granted the 2024 annual Award for Distinction in Femininst Art History by the [[College Art Association]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.collegeart.org/news/2024/03/04/congratulations-to-the-2024-distinguished-awardees/ |website=CollegeArt.org |publisher=College Art Association |access-date=8 April 2024 |title=Congratulations to the 2024 Distinguished Awardees! |date=4 March 2024 }}</ref> She is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at [[Loughborough University]]'s School of Social Sciences and Humanities.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2017/october/expert-on-feminist-art-theory-joins-loughborough/|title=Renowned expert on feminist art theory joins Loughborough University|work=Loughborough University|access-date=2017-11-08|language=en}}</ref> She was Dean of the School of Art and Design and a professor at [[Middlesex University]], and previously served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. Her research focuses on the history, [[feminist art theory|theory]], and practice of [[feminist art]].<ref name="lboro">{{Cite web |url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/social-sciences-humanities/at-a-glance/staff/hilary-robinson/ |title=Robinson, Hilary &#124; School of Social Sciences and Humanities &#124; Loughborough University |access-date=2019-08-16 |archive-date=2019-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816145727/https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/social-sciences-humanities/at-a-glance/staff/hilary-robinson/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Education and career ==<br />
Robinson is the daughter of bookbinder [[Ivor Robinson (craftsman)|Ivor Robinson MBE]] (28 Oct 1924–19 Feb 2014) and Olive Robinson (née Trask)(5 Apr 1929-8 Aug 2023), a teacher. Robinson graduated with a BA Fine Art from [[Newcastle University]]. She then received an MA by thesis in [[Cultural History]] from the [[Royal College of Art]] in London. At the [[University of Leeds]], she obtained her PhD in Art Theory.<ref name="lboro"/><br />
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In 1992 she was appointed Lecturer in the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster (now [[Ulster University]]) [[Belfast]]; she was promoted to Professor of the Politics of Art in 2002 and then to Head of School. In 2005 she became the dean of the College of Fine Arts at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], where she was chosen to be on the board of several museums, including the Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory Museum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Mellon Names Hilary Robinson Dean of Top-Ranked College of Fine Arts |url=https://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050614_robinson.html |website=www.cmu.edu |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref> She returned to England in 2012 to become the dean of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University. She joined Loughborough University's School of Arts, English and Drama in 2017 as Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory.<ref name="lboro"/><br />
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== Selected publications and exhibitions ==<br />
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===Books===<br />
* Robinson, Hilary and Perry, Lara, eds. (2025) Feminisms/Museums/Surveys: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA; Oxford UK. {{ISBN|978-1-119-89758-3}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Feminisms%2FMuseums%2FSurveys%3A+An+Anthology-p-9781119897583|title = Feminisms/Museums/Surveys: An Anthology. &#124; Wiley}}</ref><br />
* Robinson, Hilary and Buszek, Maria Elena, eds. (2019) A Companion to Feminist Art. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA; Oxford UK. {{ISBN|978-1-118-92915-5}} <ref name="CFA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/A+Companion+to+Feminist+Art-p-9781118929155|title = A Companion to Feminist Art &#124; Wiley}}</ref><br />
* Robinson, Hilary, Tobin, Amy, and Gosling, Luci; Reckitt, Hellena, ed. (2018) The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017. Chronicle Books, San Francisco; and Tate Publishing, London. {{ISBN|978-1-4521-6992-7}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/the-art-of-feminism.html|title = The Art of Feminism}}</ref><br />
* Robinson, Hilary, ed. (2015) Feminism-art-theory 1968–2014: an anthology. Wiley Blackwell, Malden MA; Oxford UK. {{ISBN|978-1-118-36060-6}} <ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118360605.html|title=Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 – 2014, 2nd Edition|last=Robinson|first=Hilary|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2015|isbn=978-1-118-36060-6}}</ref><br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2006) Reading art, reading Irigaray: the politics of art by women. I.B. Tauris, London. {{ISBN|978-1-86064-953-0}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary, ed. (2001) Feminism-art-theory : 1968–2000. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. {{ISBN|978-0-631-20849-5}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary, ed. (1987) Visibly Female: Feminism and Art Today - An Anthology. Camden Press, London. {{ISBN|978-0-948491313}}<br />
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===Book sections===<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2021) 'Not White, Not Male, and Not New York: Race, Feminism and Artists in Pittsburgh'. In Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, edited by Sliwinska, Basia, 14–30. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. Part of {{ISBN|978-0-367-27899-1}}, {{OCLC|1191456617}} <br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2020) 'But does it work in theory? Androcentric blind spots and omissions' In Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience edited by Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, Marijke de Valck, 24–38. New York and Abingdon: Routledge Part of {{doi|10.4324/9780429269189-2}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2019) ‘Witness it: Activism, Art, and the Feminist Performative Subject’ in Buszek and Robinson (eds): A Companion to Feminist Art, pp.&nbsp;243–260<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2019) ‘The early work of [[Griselda Pollock]] in the context of developing feminist thinking in art history and criticism.’ In Raluca Bibiri (ed) Griselda Pollock: From Feminism to the Concentrationary and Beyond. Special issue: Images, Imagini, Images Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies n. 7 2017. Iași: Institutul European, Romania, pp.&nbsp;19–50 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.euroinst.ro/titlu.php?id=1625|title = Images, Imagini, Images 7/2017 - BIBIRI, Raluca :: Editura Institutul European Iasi}}</ref><br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2012) Pleasure, painting, politics: the three graces – or: why I like [[Adélaïde Labille-Guiard]]'s Self-Portrait With Two Pupils. In: Artistic Production and the Feminist Theory of Art: New Debates III. Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gastiezko Udalak, Victoria-Gastiez, Spain, pp.&nbsp;306–316. {{ISBN|978-84-96845-43-5}}<br />
* Harley, Alison and James, Stephanie and Reid, Eileen and Reid, Seona and Robinson, Hilary and Watson, Yvonne (2008) The third space: a paradigm for internationalism. In: The Student Experience in Art and Design Higher Education: Drivers for Change. Jill Rogers Associates Ltd, Cambridge, pp.&nbsp;167–187. {{ISBN|0 9547111 7 3}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary and Harley, A. and Reid, E. and Reid, S. and Watson, Y. (2008) The third space: a paradigm for internationalisation. In: The student experience in art and design higher education: drivers for change. Drew, Linda, ed. Jill Rodgers Associates, Cambridge. {{ISBN|978-0-9547111-7-7}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2003) Becoming women: Irigaray, Ireland and visual representation. In: Art, Gender and Nation: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-Figures. Bhreathnach-Lynch, Sheila and Cusack, Tricia, eds. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp.&nbsp;113–127. {{ISBN|978-0-7546-3225-2}}<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2000) Whose beauty? Women, art, and inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's writings. In: Beauty Matters. Brand, Peg Zeglin, ed. Indiana University Press, pp.&nbsp;224–251. {{ISBN|978-0-253-21375-4}}<br />
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===Exhibitions===<br />
* Robinson, Hilary (2012–13) ''Feminist and ...'', Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA<ref>{{cite web|title=Mattress Factory: ActiveArchive|url=http://mattress.org/archive/index.php/Detail/occurrences/298|website=mattress.org|language=en|access-date=4 April 2017|archive-date=4 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404130822/http://mattress.org/archive/index.php/Detail/occurrences/298|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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=== Other academic publications ===<br />
Journal papers and other academic publications can be found on ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3153-3788<br />
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* Women, feminism, and art schools: The UK experience, [[Women's Studies International Forum]] 2021-02-10 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102447<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* Personal website https://www.feminism.art<br />
* ORCID ID and full list of academic publications: {{ORCID|0000-0002-3153-3788}}<br />
* [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff/academic/hilary-robinson/ Hilary Robinson profile page for Loughborough University] <br />
* [http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/view/creators/Robinson=3AHilary=3A=3A.html List of publications Middlesex University Research Repository] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404130457/http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/view/creators/Robinson=3AHilary=3A=3A.html |date=4 April 2017 }}<br />
* [https://lboro.academia.edu/HilaryRobinson Academia.edu listing]<br />
* {{LinkedIn page|in/hilary-robinson-72b7015}}<br />
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