Robin Mandel is an artist working in sculpture, video, and installation. His recent exhibition venues include the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, the List Gallery at Swarthmore College (PA), Currents 2016 in Santa Fe (NM), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids (MI), and the Wassaic Project in New York. He has also exhibited in Portland, Providence, Montreal, Venice, Barcelona, and Jerusalem. He has held residencies at MacDowell, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and has been awarded grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston. His teaching credits include the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Maine College of Art, and Colby College. He is currently an assistant professor of art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
At MacDowell, Mandel began a series of kinetic sculptures based on persistence-of-vision, still-life painting, and early cinema.
