ABOUT
Robin Ward was born in Atlanta, GA. Her enduring art practice was seeded in youth beginning with drawing and painting and rooted in a lifelong fascination with nature. After graduating from UNC, Charlotte, she moved to San Francisco, CA to begin her adult life. She has thrived in various careers in corporate marketing, commercial photography and web design and development. She is currently devoted to her freelance projects as photographer, designer and multimedia artist, now based in Laguna Beach, CA.
She fuses photography, digital compositing, videography and animation as a means to explore themes of transformation, perception and unity. She works concurrently in multiple ongoing series, employing a variety of techniques and tools from a macro lens to a drone.
Ward shares her art in galleries, museums, private collections and corporate spaces. She has received numerous awards in international photography competitions.
AWARDS
2024 Prix de la Photographie de Paris - Honorable Mention
17th International Color Awards, 2024 – Nominee: Abstract & Fine Art
16th International Color Awards, 2023 – Nominee: Aerial
15th International Color Awards, 2022 – Nominee: Aerial & Fine Art
2021 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention: Aerial [ view selections ]
14th International Color Awards, 2021 – Honorable Mention & Nominee: Aerial [ view selections ]
13th International Color Awards, 2020 – Nominee: Fine Art & Architecture
12th International Color Awards, 2019 – Nominee: Fine Art
13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Nominee: Fine Art
11th International Color Awards, 2018 - Honorable Mention: Aerial
12th Black & White Spider Awards - Honorable Mention: Fine Art
2016 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention: Fine Art
10th International Color Awards, 2016 - Honorable Mention: Fine Art
11th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Nominee: Fine Art and Architecture
10th International Color Awards, 2015 - Nominee: Abstract
10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Honorable Mention: Abstract
2014 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention: Abstract
2014 One Shot: One World, International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention
9th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Nominee
2012 International Fine Art Photography Competition: Grand Prix de la Découverte - Jury Award of Merit
2012 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention
2012 Women in Photography International - Top 10
2011 International Photography Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention
2011 COLOR Portfolio Contest B&W + COLOR Magazine - Special Edition - September 2011 - Merit Award
2011 COLOR Single Image Contest COLOR Magazine - Special Edition #13 - May 2011 - Merit Award
2010 International Aperture Awards - Bronze Award: Abstract / Illustrative & Science & Nature
2009 COLOR Portfolio Contest COLOR Magazine - Special Edition #4 - November 2009 - Merit Award
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Members Online Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art
By Degrees: Art and Our Changing Ecology, Huntington Beach Arts Center, April 15 - June 10, 2023
Inaugural Featured Artist, BFree Studio, La Jolla, CA, August 18-September 2, 202
Salon Jane: Present Tense, Center for Photographic Art, February 27 - April 3, 2021
Salon Jane, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, March - June, 2020
Featured Artist, SeeMe, January 13, 2020
Open Source, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, December 12, 2019 - January 4, 2020
Art Takes Miami - See Me, Scope Miami Beach, December 3-8, 2019
Salon Jane: The Ethereal Zone, Monterey Museum of Art, September 20 - November 26, 2018
Annual Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, September 2018 (3rd Place)
Altered Image, FStop Magazine, June-July, 2018
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, January 14 - February 14, 2018
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, December - January, 2018
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, September 14-October 7, 2017
Day Dreamers, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, April 22-May 11, 2017
Awakenings, Green Chalk Contemporary, Carmel, CA, February 10 - 28, 2017
Independent Presence, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ, January 14 - February 25, 2017
Above the Sea (Solo), Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, CA, November 19- January 2, 2017
Dreams, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, November 4- 26, 2016
Independent Presence, Sand City West End Festival, August 25-September 5, 2016
Independent Presence, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA, June 13 - August 8, 2015
The Language of Flowers, Alvarado Gallery, Monterey, CA, January 16 - March 8, 2015
Salon at the Triton: A 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, December 6, 2014 – February 8, 2015
@ MOM The ImageMakers of Monterey, Museum of Monterey, September 12, 2014 - January 2015
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, August 14 - September 6, 2014
Through a Lens, Kellicutt International Photography Show 2014, Half Moon Bay, CA, June 4 – September 7, 2014
TPS 22: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, March 1 - March 31, 2013
Four Corners of the Earth, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT - November 29 - December 23, 2011
Scapes: Land, Sea & City, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - November, 2011
Multiples, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA - September, 2011
Color: The Spice of Light, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Jct., VT - November 16 - December 10, 2010
Carmel Art & Film Festival Photography Exhibit, Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel, CA - October 6 - 30, 2010
Transference of Light, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA - July 2 - August 1, 2010
2009 Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - September 19 - December 4, 2009
Far From Home, Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT - August 18 – September 8, 2009
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Scripps Health Jefferson
Scripps Health La Jolla Tower II
UC Irvine Health
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA Salon Jane Artist Talk - The Ethereal Zone, October 2018
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA Drone Photography with Joel Gambord, Robin Ward and Steve Zmak, February, 2018
Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ. Artist talk: Independent Presence, January 2017
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA Directors Dialogue: In Conversation with Jane Olin, Martha Casanave,
Susan Hyde Greene and Robin Ward, December 2015
PUBLICATIONS
Present Tense, Center for Photographic Art, February 5, 2021
Salon Jane, Rfotofolio, August 18, 2019
Women artists near and far have found a powerful ally in each other. Monterey County Weekly, January 3, 2019
Independent Presence, Green Chalk Contemporary, August 25, 2015
EDUCATION
BA, English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 1997
Weekend Technical Workshops, Brooks Institute of Photography, 2007, 2008
Artist Development Retreats, Center for Photographic Art, 2009, 2012, 2014
AFFILIATIONS
Salon Jane, Collective of Six Fine Art Photographers, 2014 - Present
Center for Photographic Art, Trustee 2010-2016, Member 2007- Present
CERTIFICATION
Part 107 Remote Pilot