Born: Newark, NJ, 1957

Robin Grebe received her BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA in Ceramics/Glass from the Tyler School of Art, Massachusetts. She has been instructor at Rhode Island School of Design and the Pilchuck School. 

Grebe uses cast glass, ceramic glazes, and transparent enamels to create her monolithic and allegorical human forms.  Originally inspired by Greek cycladic fertility goddesses, Grebe's sculptures seem both fragile and strong. To her, they illustrate the paradoxes of human life.

Grebe's work has been shown in Europe and the United States and can be found in many private and public connections worldwide, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

Selected Museum Exhibitions

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Lyman Allan Museum, New London, CT
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

Selected Group Exhibitions

Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts   2007

Glass, Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts   2003

Cleveland Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art   1997

Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art,  1997   

Tell Me a Story, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio   1994

International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Rouen, France   1992

Glass from Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art, The Morris Museum, NJ  1992

World Glass Now ‘91, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan   1991

History of Glass, Lyman Allan Museum, New London, CT    1989

World Glass Now ’88, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan 1988

Awards and Publications

            Jurors Award, 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational,  2008, 2004

            Glass Art Magazine, ‘The World According to Grebe’    2001

            New England Foundation for the Arts/Regional NEA Grant  1993, 2000

            Glass Magazine, #50      Review   1993

            Neus Glass, ‘Robin Grebe’s Universe’    April    1990

            Glass Magazine, #39      Review  1990

            Glass Art Magazine, Kiln Cast Glass, February   1989

            New Works Magazine, Cover, Fall    1998

            Ceramics Monthly, Summer    1987

Public Collections

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI   2011

             Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada   2009

            Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida   2008

            Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA    2007

            Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL    2007

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA    2006

National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA    000

            DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1999

            Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI   1998

            J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY    1993

            Detroit Institute of Art, David Jacob Chordorkoff Collection,  1991

            Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY   1987