Portrait of Yasmine Robinson 2024, photo by Tim Millen ©
Bio.
Yasmine Robinson is a painter based in Belfast. Her abstract work explores materiality, form, and process, engaging with painting’s phenomenological potential. She holds an MA from Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, where she was awarded the Frank Bowling Scholarship, and has exhibited internationally, including at Frieze London, Sim Smith, London and The MAC, Belfast, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge; and Im Labor, Tokyo.
Awards
2025 — Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Project Funding for Individuals
2024 — Waverton Art Prize, Shortlisted
2022 — Ingram Collection Prize, Finalist
2022 — Arts Council of Northern Ireland, SIAP General Arts Award
2022 — Bankley Open, Prize Winner
2018 — Tiffany & Co. Outset Studio Makers Prize
2018 — Frank Bowling Scholarship
2017 — RDS Visual Arts Award
Education
2018 — MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London
2017 — BA Fine Art Painting, Belfast School of Art
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Blink and You’ll Miss It, Room Share 8, London
LAS Gallery, London
2024
Gotten, Katie Lindsay Gallery, Downpatrick
The Waverton Art Prize, Boisdale of Canary Wharf, London
2023
Stellatundra, Sim Smith, London
Frieze London, Outset Corridor Commission
Grit Between My Teeth, Atelier Now, Dublin
Strange Brew, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
Potluck, Solo Exhibition, Coups Contemporary, London
Urgencies, CCA, Derry~Londonderry
New Exits, The MAC, Belfast
2022
Ingram Collection Prize, Unit 1 Gallery, London
Bankley Open, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
[Un]fabricated, D Contemporary, London
2021
Look the Horse in the Mouth, Arcade, Belfast
Mutation Station, Im Labor, Tokyo
2020
Unsheltered as it is, D Contemporary, Mayfair, London
Penumbra, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge
2019
Absinthe, Collective Ending, Spit & Sawdust, London
Young Gods, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2018
Outset Studio Makers Prize, Tiffany & Co. Flagship Store, London
& Another Angle, Maxilla Space, London
Collections
Frank Bowling Private Collection