Hilary Robinson Bio

Previously from the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, Robinson taught the History and Theory of Art to studio fine art students. Appointed to direct the school's research in 1998, she then became head of the school in 2002. Robinson led it to achieve the joint highest rating out of the 75 art and design institutions in the United Kingdom. Trained as a painter in the 1970s, Robinson spent many years working as an artist and as a freelance arts administrator, critic and lecturer. Her past employment includes gallery work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Scotland; research and development work for an Art in Public Places agency; and co-authoring The Rough Guide to Venice. In the 1980s she received her M.A. at the Royal College of Art, London, gaining the Allan Lane award for Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Theory; and in the 1990s she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. Robinson's own research is in the field of contemporary art theory. Her first anthology was Visibly Female (1987), and she also published Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2000 (2001), Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: the Politics of Art by Women (2006).

	*Hilary Robinson, Stanley and Marcia Gumberg Dean of the College of Fine Arts*
	Previously from the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, Robinson taught the History and Theory of Art to studio fine art students. Appointed to direct the school's research in 1998, she then became head of the school in 2002. Robinson led it to achieve the joint highest rating out of the 75 art and design institutions in the United Kingdom. Trained as a painter in the 1970s, Robinson spent many years working as an artist and as a freelance arts administrator, critic and lecturer. Her past employment includes gallery work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Scotland; research and development work for an Art in Public Places agency; and co-authoring The Rough Guide to Venice. In the 1980s she received her M.A. at the Royal College of Art, London, gaining the Allan Lane award for Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Theory; and in the 1990s she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. Robinson's own research is in the field of contemporary art theory. Her first anthology was Visibly Female (1987), and she also published Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2000 (2001), Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: the Politics of Art by Women (2006).