Robert Tomlinson Friday Night at Green Kill, June 2026
Friday Night at Green Kill is takes place twice amonth every month. June event dates are June 6 7-10 PM and June 19, 7 - 10 PM.
Join Robert Tomlinson at Friday Night at Green Kill, June 6, 7-10 PM and June 19, 7 - 10 PM.
Robert Tomlinson
The series, Disorderly Conduct, is made with ink on silver gelatin prints. Each print is unique. They were created in the Todd Watts darkroom while on residency in Monson, ME., and finished in my Upstate NY studio. They are inspired by the last paintings of Dubuffet and my grandson’s energetic drawings.
This series is part of my ongoing interest in expanding the idea of what a photograph can be… making images not focused on documentation but on personal expression and using an unexpected combination of materials/ mediums.
— Robert Tomlinson
Robert Tomlinson has served as executive director and curator for The San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Gallery One Visual Arts Center and the Oregon Arts Alliance. He has curated and installed over 100 exhibitions and created a gallery for the developmentally disabled. A working artist, Tomlinson has conducted his own studio practice for over 40 years. In 2011 he co-founded 13 Hats, a group of artist and writers that collaborated for two years on a wide range of creative projects and exhibitions. His work has been featured in 35 solo shows and over 60 group exhibitions. Tomlinson has been awarded several artist’s residencies, most recently in 2023 at Monson Arts in Monson, Maine.
Prior to moving to New York in 2016, Tomlinson served on the board for the newly formed, Ash Creek Arts Center in Oregon, which he helped to start. Tomlinson was co-founder & co-editor for the arts & literary quarterly journal, Picture Sentence. He was the “Artist Vision” curator for the Lake Oswego Arts Festival in 2015 and 2016. Tomlinson has hosted two monthly radio shows: Purple House: A Monthly Forum for the Arts, on WGXC and Remarkable People for WIOX. He was also the co-founder & host of the monthly poetry reading at 394 Main St. in Catskill. Until the pandemic, Tomlinson was the director/ curator at the Kaaterskill Gallery for the Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter, NY. He recently retired as the board president/ curator for the Glove Cities Arts Alliance, an arts non-profit he co-founded in 2022.
Selected Solo & Two person Exhibitions
2026 “Take Cover” Babson College Babson Park, MA
2026 “Take Cover” Dairy Barn Gallery Athens, Ohio
2025 “Wonder Wall” (permanent outdoor installation) Gloversville, NY
2025 “Astonish Night” Verdigris Hudson, NY
2024 “World of Possibilities” Karpeles Museum, Gloversville, NY
2024 “Empathy Alley” (permanent outdoor installation), Catskill, NY
2020 “Don’t Blame The Wisteria”, Green Kill, Kingston, NY
2017 “Euphoric Imperial Panorama”, HiLo, Catskill, NY
2016 “Thirteen Selected Drawings”, Catskill Fine Arts, Catskill, NY
2016 “(con)Sequence” Arts East. La Grande OR
2016 “Lost At See ll”, Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR
2015 “Take Cover” Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
2015 “Robert 2: Work & More Work” Cannon Gallery, WOU, Monmouth, OR
2014 “Take Cover”, Project Space, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR
2014 “Ghosts, Fragments, Melodies & Pages”, Lewis-Clark Cultural Center, Lewiston, ID
2014 “Stream” Peninsula College, Pt. Angeles, WA
2013 “The Continents” Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
2012 “Original Weather” Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR
2012 “Original Weather” Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR
2012 “Drawings” Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 “Original Weather” Eastern Washington University Gallery Cheney, WA.
2011 “Pictures and Words” Newport Visual Arts Center Newport, OR.
2011 “Originall Weather” Moses Lake Museum & Art Center Moses Lake, WA.
2011 “Open Spaces” Chandron State College Gallery Chandron, NE.
2010 “Chronicles” Lightbox Gallery Astoria, OR.
2010 “Time Streets” 12 x 16 Gallery Portland, OR.
1987 “Heads & Bodies” Bank of America Gallery San Francisco, CA.
1986 “Paintings & Drawings” Van Straaten Gallery Chicago, Ill.
1986 “Drawings & Monotypes” Art Space Gallery Los Angeles, CA.
1986 “Paintings” Jennifer Pauls Gallery San Francisco, CA.
1985 “Eclectic Passions” Art Space Gallery Los Angeles, CA.
1983 “We Live As We Dream, Alone” Heller Gallery U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, CA.
1982 “Odd Man Out” Academy of Art College San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 “Gratitude” Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
2025 “Where Photography Meets Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
2025 “Inspired By A Book” 25 Main Collective, Cherry Valley, NY
2025 “Fence”, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2025 “Persona”, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Ill.
2025 “Works On Paper” Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Township, NJ
(Juror: Samantha Friedman, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of
Modern Art, NYC.)
2025 “In This Moment” Athens Cultural Arts Center, Athens, NY
2025 “Annual Juried Membership Exhibition”, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2025 “Lust for Rust” Atlantic Gallery, NYC, NY
2025 “2025 International Juried Exhibition”, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2024 “Pop-Up Sculpture” Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Gloversville, NY
2024 “Figurative - Language of the Body” Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
2024 “Industrial Curiosity” Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY
2022 “Art & Text” Chamber of Commerce, Gloversville, NY
2021, 2022, “Art Walk” Gloversville, NY
2019 “Co-Lab” Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
2018 “What Is A Painting?” Kaaterskill Gallery, Hunter, NY
2017 “Inquiry Abstraction” Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR
2017 “Fresh” Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY
2016 “The Coloring Book Project” Push Dot Studio, Portland, OR
2016 “Suddenly Entire” Cannon Gallery of Art, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
2015 “Black & White & Read” Center for Art & History, Lewis Clark College, Lewiston, ID
2015 “Black & White & Read” Cannon Gallery, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
2015 “Subtext” The Art Center, Corvallis, OR
2015 “Local Abstraction...Explorations of Inner and Outer Space”, Art Center, Kendrick, ID
2014 “Visual Narratives” Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2013 “Portrait of a Process” SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 “13 Hats @ 12 x 16 Gallery”, Portland, OR
2012 “Drawings” Rogue Museum and Art Center Medford, OR.
2011 “Welcome To My World” 23 Sandy Gallery Portland, OR.
2011 “Arts Alive-75 Reunion” Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA.
2011 “9th All Around Oregon” The Arts Center Corvalis, WA.
2011 “Photon Extraordinary” Springbox Gallery Portland, OR.
2010 “Small Pleasures” Jacobs Gallery Eugene, OR
2010 “”5th Anniversary Exhibition” 12 x 16 Gallery Portland, OR
2010 “Beyond The Lens” Tubac Center For The Arts Tubac, AZ.
2009 “Urban Matrix” Chandra Cerrito Contemporary Oakland, CA.
2009 “Three Photographers” Lorinda Knight Gallery Spokane, WA.
2008 “Photo Biennial” Whatcom Museum Bellingham, WA.
2004 “Trace” MoCA Luther Burbank Center Santa Rosa, CA.
1989 “New American Talent” juried exhibition Texas Fine Art Association Austin, TX.
1988 “Chain Reaction” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery San Francisco, CA.
1987 “The Artist & The Myth” Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art Monterey, CA.
1987 “Recent Figurative Works” Southern Exposure Gallery San Francisco, CA.
1987 “Natural Affinities” Mills College Art Gallery Oakland, CA.
1986 “All California Biennial” Riverside Art Museum Riverside, CA.
1986 “San Jose Biennial” San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA.
1984 “”Face To Face” Berkeley Art Center” Berkeley, CA.
1983 “Works On Paper” Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara, CA.
1983 “”Festival of the Arts” San Francisco, CA.
1983 “Mark Making” Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA.
1982 “Bay Area Arts” Twin Pines Arts Center Belmont, CA.
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Artist-In-Residence, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2025 Individual Artist Regrant, State of New York via Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
2024 Individual Artist’s Mini Grant Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME
2022 Individual Community Arts Grant, Catskill, New York
2016 Artist-In-Residence, Playa Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2015 Oregon Arts Commission Career Development grant
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Playa Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Prattsville, NY
2012 Project Grant (with 13 Hats) RACC, Portland, OR
2011 “Juror’s choice – Best of Show” “9th All Around Oregon” The Arts Center Corvallis, OR.
2010 Artist-in-Residence Montana Artists Refuge Basin, Mt.
2006 Artist-in-Residence Kala Institute Berkeley, CA.
1987 Pollack/ Krasner Foundation grant NYC, NY
1986 Artist-in-Residence Ragdale Foundation Lake Forest, ILL.
1983 “Juror’s choice – Best of Show” San Francisco Festival of the Arts (Marcia Tucker, juror,
founding Director of the New Museum in NYC)
1982 “Juror’s choice -- Best of Show” “Bay Area Arts” Twin Pines Art Center Belmont, CA.
Friday Night at Green Kill
Starting March 2026, Green Kill invites visual artists to be part of Friday Night at Green Kill, a lively salon-like monthly exhibition program where creativity meets community. Each artist can display one artwork (painting, print, or photograph) up to 30” x 60”. To join, send an image of your piece, a short artist statement, and a participation request to 229greenkill@greenkill.org. If accepted, your work will be featured online and exhibited during first and third Friday events—with up to 15 artists per night. There’s no entry fee, and you can sell your artwork (up to $2,000) with a 30% gallery commission on sales. Come enjoy an evening of art, open mic performances, and good company! Learn more.
